reborn in america

"Editor-in-Chief, the dealer below said that today's papers are sold out, and asked if there is still stock in the warehouse, and if so, they want all of them." Just as William Smith was frowning, preparing for the new issue of the newspaper Donna knocked on the door, walked in and said, what explosive news should I look for to compete with sales and influence.

"Sold out?" William Skell felt a little baffled. Recently, there was no interesting exclusive news, which led to a long period of stagnation in sales. He was thinking of finding some old friends in Hollywood to get some exclusive explosive news, but the result was not yet. Waiting for him to start, the sales were sold out in less than half a day?It made him feel confused.

The regular subscribers of the California Times are about 3, accounting for the seventh floor of their overall daily sales. There is no way, after all, the reputation of their newspapers is too small, those individual visitors generally will not buy their newspapers on purpose, but will buy those famous ones such as "Los Angeles Times" and "New York Times" that sell millions of copies nationwide Broadsheet.

In terms of quality, they don't have the confidence to compete with each other. The only advantage is that the other party is a national newspaper, facing readers across the country, while the California Times completely serves California readers, so Compared with local readers, the California Times is more down-to-earth, which has won him tens of thousands of readers, but that's all.

Although he has great ambitions to revitalize the newspaper, firstly he doesn't have the money and network to get exclusive explosive news, and secondly, the quality and ability of the staff are average, so it is considered pretty good to be able to keep the current basic market.

"I remember that 1 copies were handed over to the distributor today! Go check if it is missing?" William Smith quickly thought of the reason, because this happened last year, and the [-] copies of the newspaper ended up Only more than [-] copies were sent out, less than half, resulting in a shortage at the dealer.

After Donna heard this, she didn't turn around and leave, because she had already asked about it before she came to report. After all, there was no one who didn't know about such a big accident last year. She replied directly: "I have already asked, our side There was no mistake, it was indeed [-] copies, and the distributor also confirmed that it received [-] copies of the newspaper today."

"Since there is nothing wrong with the delivery, what caused the newspaper to be sold out today?" William Smith frowned, a little confused. What special content.

But now is not the time to think about these things, he must first appease the distributors, after all small and medium newspapers like them are still relatively weak in front of the distributors, unlike the big newspapers with millions of sales, they can deal with the distributors at will , He knocked on the table and said: "First take out the [-] copies that are used as reserves in the warehouse. I think it is roughly enough, and the tone is better. Ask where the content led to the increase in sales?"

"Okay, I'll ask." Donna nodded, inexplicably thinking of the novel "The Witcher" that made him obsessed, but he found that "The Witcher" was listed in the middle of a bunch of advertisements without any advertisements. For the introduction and recommendation, not many people should know about it, so she didn't raise her doubts.

However, the truth is always in the most unlikely possibility. Although only a few customers who came to buy were asked, it was ruled out that they could buy one in the afternoon or even in the evening, except that they were just looking for a refill for small change. A small newspaper that not many people care about, the reasons given are all recommended by friends, saying that the reason is that a good novel was published in the newspaper, or that the novel "The Witcher" was read by a friend and thought it was good, so I bought a new one. Go back and take a closer look or collect it.

"Wizard?" William Smith frowned after knowing the reason. He didn't expect the reason to be this. He remembered that Tolan said that the quality of this novel was average, and he didn't think a science fiction writer could write anything. A good fantasy novel, plus there were so many things to do every day, so I didn't pay more attention to it, and randomly arranged him in a corner, but I didn't expect that it was the reason of this novel that increased the sales.

He dug out the manuscript of the novel that Adam sent to him from the table, put it on the table, picked up the phone and made an internal call, and told the secretary outside not to disturb him for a short time except for important matters.Then open it up and start over carefully.

I don't know how long he looked at it, but he raised his head, rubbed the center of his eyebrows, and sighed softly: "It seems that I was wrong."

The quality of this novel is beyond his imagination. In just three chapters and less than 1 words, after reading it, I feel hearty, especially from the last few thousand words of the first page. The plot is ups and downs, the battle scenes in it are wonderful, with an extremely strong sense of picture, and the way of fighting is also very different from the usual fantasy novels. If Chapter [-] still has the shadow of traditional novels, but in the next two chapters , Adam has completely shown another style that is quite different from the world. Even if he prefers serious novels like him, he can't help but indulge in it, which is enough to show that it is wonderful.

If he can put Adam's name on it, and he can do publicity again, he is sure that relying on the quality of this novel, the sales of their newspaper will definitely have a leap, but it is a pity that Adam did not agree to do this, so He can only regretfully wait until Adam's exclusive interview comes out next week, and make a big publicity.

However, with the accumulation of several issues, it may be more obvious that the increase in newspaper sales is even more obvious. Therefore, although he knows the reason, he does not intend to change the current arrangement. Move it around and put it in a more conspicuous place. Although it is still on the advertisement page of the newspaper, this time it is not buried in other boring advertisements, but a long thick line is drawn at the end to separate the two. In this way, although the position of the page remains unchanged, it enhances the novel's sense of existence. Presumably, more people will pay attention by then, and we will soon know how much effect it can have.

"Notify the editors of the advertising department to come to the meeting room, and the layout needs to be changed." William Skell called his secretary and brought all the editors of the advertising department back to discuss.

Although the real change will be on Wednesday, the layout adjustment involves many places. He needs to coordinate all the influences and try not to offend the advertisers. You must know that they are their pocketbooks. Anyone can offend them, but they can't. He needs to inform the various advertisers of this change in advance and obtain their consent before finalizing the layout, so the time is very tight.

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In the end, because only 11 newspapers were printed on the first day, the final sales volume was fixed at this number. Although it was not the best number this year, but because of the number of prints, this result was already impressive. Satisfied.

The next day, Tom got up early in the morning during the summer vacation. Although his face was still full of sleepiness, in order to be able to see the follow-up plot of "The Witcher" earlier, the customer service was still sleepy and got up from the bed.

He squeaked his shoes, walked out of his room quickly, and saw his mother preparing breakfast in the kitchen, while his father came out of the room in a suit, and was shocked to see Tom's rare early rise.

"Hey! Baby. Is there any special event today?" Mother asked while turning her head while frying bacon.

Tom didn't answer, but opened his mouth and asked, "Has today's newspaper arrived?"

"When did you want to read the newspaper?" The father walked over from behind, looked at his son with sleep marks on his face with some doubts, and asked in puzzlement.

"On the table." Although the mother didn't know the reason, she still answered.

However, Tom had already seen it when he was answering. He quickly walked over, picked up the newspaper and turned to the last page. As a result, the imaginary serialized novel "The Witcher" Chapter 2 did not appear. He frowned, Turned to the first page, and then quickly flipped back page by page.

Seeing his son destroying the newspaper in such a way, the father was a little reluctant, frowning and wanted to snatch it back from him, but when he walked in, he heard Tom rummaging through his mouth, "No, no ,No."

Finally, Tom threw down the newspaper angrily and cursed: "*!"

This was not enough, I saw that he not only threw the newspaper on the ground, but even stomped it down fiercely with his feet, looking very angry.

"Hey, hey! Boy, what happened?" Seeing his son's abnormal behavior, the father asked worriedly.

""The Witcher", damn it, the "Witcher" published yesterday is gone." Tom gasped and muttered after venting.

"Wizard? What are you talking about? I can't understand what you're saying." Father pulled out the chair, sat next to him, and asked, patting him on the shoulder.

Seeing that it happened for a reason and it wasn't a big deal, the worries in his heart were slowly let go. Tom's sudden madness just now shocked him a lot.

"It's a novel, well, it should be called a fantasy novel called "The Witcher". It was published on the last page yesterday, but it's gone today!" After venting the anger caused by getting up and disappointment, Tom also calmed down. Complaining to his father.