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However, Sota Nishijima was still worried that everyone would be slack, so he requested that he still do his job well.

After all, there are only 23 bookstores open now, and there is still a distance from 43, not to mention there are still 4 markets in large regions, which are still blank at all.

Akihara Hiroto looked at the noisy scene, and the corners of his mouth curled up.

For him, everything is going in a good direction.

……

Neither Tokyo Publishing Sales nor Neon Publishing Sales responded to the move of Tsutaya Bookstore to build its own channels.

After all, in terms of business volume, compared with comics or romance, girls' magazines, etc., the market occupied by reasoning publications is too small, only less than 4% of the total business volume of each of them.

So even if they learned that TSUTAYA BOOKS has established a direct sales system, it is estimated that the two major distributors would not pay special attention to it.

After all, Tsutaya Bookstore is not a distributor, and he is not the only one who has established a direct sales business.

At the same time, Jing Fanshe learned some specific information through commercial espionage.

However, after some investigation, Jing Fanshe found that he had nothing to do with the Tsutaya Bookstore.

As a publishing house, although they are in the upstream of the publishing industry chain, they have no direct contact with the bookstores as customers. They can't threaten these bookstores and ask them not to order Akihara Hiroto's works.

If they really want to do this, they will probably be scolded bloody by all the Neon bookstores tomorrow, and they may even be resisted by readers.

As a company that depends on their reputation, they naturally can't be so domineering, otherwise they will only end up in the same end as the original Mandanshe.

On the other side, after everyone left, Hiroto Akihara sat alone in the reception room, holding the sales data of "Snow Country", and began to ponder.

From being shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Prize to now, "Snow Country" has sold a total of more than 40 copies, although it is considered a big seller by traditional literary standards.

But compared with the overwhelming publicity in the outside world, this number is still a bit low.

In fact, he also knows that the reason for such a low price is because of restrictions on shipments to dealers.

In fact, after the sixth edition, each of the two dealers could only get about 1 books in each batch, and when combined one after another, they only gave them less than 10 books.

Therefore, many bookstores across the country cannot buy this book even if they want to order it.

Hiroto Akihara didn't regret it either. If he didn't do this, it wouldn't be so easy to establish direct sales channels with 3500 bookstores so quickly.

In short, the market channel is now gradually established, and it can be regarded as achieving the result I want.

But this matter is not over yet, he has not forgotten that Jing Fanshe is the mastermind behind all these troubles.

When the selection results of the Uemura Award for the book "Train" come out, he will definitely use the second exposure brought by the Uemura Award to kill a wave of the opponent's spirit in the reasoning publication market!

If you want to really change the situation in the publishing industry, you have to start by reasoning about the publication market!

After gaining a firm foothold in the reasoning book market, he will continue to attack Jingfanshe's other publishing fields!

[320.3 Chapter Nineteen Defeat Yourself]

As time went by, thanks to the efforts of everyone in TSUTAYA BOOKS, markets all over the world have achieved good results.

By the end of January, second-hand chain bookstores had been established one after another across the country, perfecting the publishing house's nationwide storage network.

At the same time, with the continuous efforts of the marketing staff led by Hisada Kenichi, more and more bookstores have sent orders.

These bookstore types also range from large to small.

Some are chain bookstore brands, some are large central bookstores, and there are also small independent individual bookstores, with a total of nearly 5000.

Without exception, after hearing that they can order books without paying in advance, they have increased their orders for books.

With a large number of orders, the printing factory under the Tsutaya Bookstore had to work overtime overnight to catch up with the printing batch.

The newly printed books, as soon as they come off the assembly line, are immediately arranged on trucks to be sent to storage points across the country, and are distributed to all bookstores after inventory at the storage point and small batch packaging.

At the time of the final count, everyone in the Tsutaya Bookstore was surprised to find out.

Originally, some old books that were published more than one year ago have gone downhill, and the sales volume of some old books has increased a lot again.

For example, works such as "Death of a Reasoner", "Death by Negligence", and "ZOO" have also received orders for more than 5 to 10 copies.

This made Hiroto Akihara a little puzzled, and even wondered whether the dealer had deliberately played tricks on the channel before.

However, after asking several companies, he found that it was really not the dealer's fault.

One is that Hisada Kenichi and others were too enthusiastic, and kept getting close to various bookstores, and proposed a certain discount for the cumulative order of more than 5000 books.

Therefore, many bookstores increased their orders under the excitement.

Second, as the Uemura Award approaches, more and more newspapers begin to publish related news.As the last candidate to win the award, he naturally also appeared in the newspaper.

Therefore, many readers who have not purchased related reasoning works before have also asked about the works of the bookstore clerk.

As a result, in January, which was supposed to be in the off-season, TSUTAYA Bookstore's overall book volume reached 1 volumes, nearly double that of the same period last year.

After hearing the good news, Akihara Hiroto was completely relieved.

But soon, he fell into a "happy distress".

There are pros and cons to everything. Neon's reasoning market can only buy more than 1000 million copies a year.Even if it squeezes the water again, it will sell an extra 300 million copies.

Therefore, if the current sales volume is used to evaluate this year's market, Jingfanshe is already not worth mentioning.

But what to do next, do you want to publish a new book in the reasoning market?

But even if a new book is published, the biggest competitor seems to be his previous work.

You can't keep playing the game of beating yourself, can you?

Having said that, I have to leave something for other reasoning writers to eat!

Soon, he fell into hard thinking, and the time soon came to February 2, the day before the Uemura Awards ceremony.

As a candidate, Hiroto Akihara received the invitation letter early, and rushed to a high-end restaurant in Kyoto on the same day to participate in an industry gathering organized by the jury.

As an industry gathering, the jury invited a group of veteran writers.

But to be honest, they are all those "familiar faces", just like the Mystery Writers Association held a meeting in another place.

After his presence, many writers on the field showed different views, some were admiring, a little envious, but very few were jealous.

After all, it's only been two and a half years since Akihara Hiroto made his debut, and he's already gained such a great reputation.

And the Uemura Award, the highest award in the reasoning literature world, is almost predetermined to be his.