Chapter 185: The Dilemma of "New World"

After the "Yan Fei's resignation incident" ended, the editorial department of "New World" fell into chaos.

This confusion is not only due to the decline in magazine sales faced by the suspension of "ys", but also partly due to the lack of the latest issue of "ys", the magazine will have 20 blank pages.

How to choose comics and add 20 pages has become the most urgent problem they need to solve.

Although the magazine has signed a contract with the cartoonist, the cartoonist is also a human being, and there will be illness, hospitalization, and personal affairs. Therefore, editors are often required to urge manuscripts, otherwise the skylight will be opened.

Yan Fei was "resigned" and Li Jiming was also fired. Xiaoli didn't want to embarrass Shen Xin, and she firmly refused to accept it. There was a tendency of "fire me if you have the guts".

There are not many editors in the small magazine, and two of them have already been fired. If Xiaoli continues to be fired, Song Ren will probably come to work in the editorial department in person.

He would never do such a thing.

No one contacted Shen Xin, so the matter was temporarily put on hold.

In addition, because it is a small magazine, in the final analysis, the contract is not as strict as that of a large magazine. At best, it only defines the rights and interests of cartoonists, and some details are not written in the contract. I never thought that "new world" would have such a popular work as "ys".

Faced with this situation, there is really nothing the management can do.

After finally choosing a short cartoon and sending it to the printing factory, Song Ren finally remembered Shen Xin.

Gathering up his courage, he picked up his mobile phone and called Shen Xin, but no one answered.

Song Ren asked Xiaoli about Shen Xin's address, and Xiaoli shook her head repeatedly.

"Except for Sister Yan, no one in the magazine knows where Teacher Shen lives." Seeing Song Ren's hesitant expression, Xiaoli hurriedly "sneaked away", "Sorry, president, I'm going to "Ghost Poses" tomorrow." Take a look at Mr. Zhou."

"Oh... eh... you..."

Song Ren only had time to say three words, and Xiaoli ran into the elevator, while other people in the editorial department bowed their heads deeply, not daring to make a sound.

In desperation, Song Ren could only return to his office depressed.

"Sales drop up to 200,000 copies—"

Song Ren rubbed his forehead, this was his cruel prediction.

For a magazine whose sales have just reached 1.1 million copies, a single-issue drop of 200,000 copies is already a very exaggerated figure, but Song Ren thinks it is acceptable.

On the one hand, the original sales volume of "New World" in a single issue was between 600,000 and 700,000 copies. If this issue can still have 900,000 copies, he can still breathe; on the other hand, if there is no Shen Xin, the magazine It may also be a good sign that the magazine can keep the sales volume of 900,000 copies in a single issue-the sales volume of a magazine cannot be restrained by the popular comics, otherwise, the magazine will never be able to become stronger.

Song Ren's trump card is the release of "Ghost Poses", using "Ghost Poses" to stop the decline.

However, the development of things was completely opposite to his expectations.

The release of "New World" did not cause much waves, and many comic forums only discussed it a little bit.

"Don't buy it, there is no "ys" in this issue."

"Didn't the magazine apologize?"

"What's the use of apologizing? Didn't Teacher Yan still not go back to the magazine?"

"Hehe... everyone,

If you yourself encountered something like Teacher Yan, and you were dumped without doing anything, would you go back to work? "

"Yes, self-esteem is also very important."

"Don't overemphasize your self-esteem until you succeed."

"Mr. Yan is not considered successful? Mr. Shen won the 'Newcomer Award', and Mr. Yan has also put in effort, right?"

"Don't forget, before this, the 'Newcomer Awards' were all from the three major journals, and Mr. Yan is better than the editors of the other three journals."

"Anyway, I won't buy "New World" anymore."

"It's not interesting. Buying such a magazine is not as good as buying "ic future"? The prices of the two magazines are similar."

"But, what about "Ghost Power"? It's also interesting."

"Isn't it enough to pay the bill?"

"Too."

"Upstairs, I don't want to give money to such a disgusting magazine. Slander Teacher Yan, the villain will sue."

"Hearing what you said, I don't want to buy it either..."

...

Zombie Face knocked on the door of the president's office and handed over the latest statistical form to Song Ren.

Song Ren roughly glanced at the statistics table, his hands trembling.

The sales volume of "New World" plummeted by more than 400,000 copies, and the sales volume of a single issue did not exceed 700,000 copies in the end. The single edition of "Ghost Power" barely reached the reprint on the weekend.

This falling speed is more than an avalanche for "new world"? It was an earthquake.

"How is it possible? How is it possible to drop 400,000 copies a week?" Song Ren was sweating on his forehead, looking at the zombie face in front of him with a grim expression, "Is it a statistical error?"

"No. There's a reason it's dropped so much," Zombie Face explained.

"what reason?"

"First, "y's" attracted some domestic readers, and when "y's" terminated its serialization, "new world" lost its appeal to these readers.

"Secondly, under the influence of public opinion, netizens and readers have a negative view of the magazine, and have a sense of rejection of the magazine. Therefore, the sales of the magazine have declined. The evidence is that although the sales of the magazine have decreased, the sales of "ys" have increased Yes. Last week, "ys" sold 200,000 copies."

After Song Ren heard the analysis of the zombie's face, his face turned livid, and his nails dug into the flesh.

That's the end of the matter, there's nothing more to say.

Cut your losses? 600,000 volumes have dropped, how can we reduce it? The sales volume of "New World" this week has been surpassed by "Dreamer"...

hateful.

"Those famous cartoonists... what about their grades?"

"It might be better for you to ask the editorial department about this matter. They know better than me. However, I heard that the results of the few old cartoonists who came recently are not very good."

"Trash... a bunch of trash!" Song Ren angrily smashed the table.

md, what comes here is rotten shrimp and crab! Totally unreliable.

When Zombie Face left the room, Song Ren leaned against the boss chair, feeling powerless.

It's only a little bit close... As long as "New World" has a stable sales volume of one million, it will be a matter of time before it enters the first-tier magazines.

result……

Now all gone.

Suddenly, the phone rang, Song Ren sat up straight and picked up the phone. Seeing that it was the old man's call, his expression immediately became tense.

"Dad...Dad..." Song Ren's voice trembled.

"How is "New World" doing now?"

"Dropped a lot..."

Song Ren looked puzzled, but he didn't tell the truth. The old man had a bad heart and was still in the hospital. If he was irritated, "new world" would really be over.

"Dropped 400,000 copies?" Song Tai asked.

"How do you know?" Song Ren's face paled instantly.

"Trash... trash!" Song Tai scolded angrily, "I asked you to contact Mr. Shen, what did he say?"

"Dad...can't get in touch." Song Ren was about to cry.

"You send a car to pick me up at the airport this afternoon..."

"Eh? No, Dad, aren't you going to have an operation?" Song Ren panicked.

"When I have the operation, the magazine will go bankrupt!" Song Tai said angrily, "I want to discuss a mutually acceptable plan with Mr. Shen!"