Chapter 55 On-Site and Book Purchase

"Teacher, please drink water."

The staff of the bookstore saw that Shen Xin was sweating profusely, and immediately handed over two mineral waters.

Shen Xin frowned slightly, and glanced at the readers who were still in line.

Isn't it the agreed five or six hundred people? Why are there more and more people?

His right hand is sore and swollen. Although he has been painting all the time, this is the first time he has been writing without interruption like today.

The book signing started at 11:00 a.m., and after three or four hours of signing, the number of people queuing up remained unchanged.

Yan Fang, who was staying in the background, couldn't stand it any longer, and said to the shop manager beside him, "Shop manager, don't make readers queue up anymore."

"Eh? It's a big hit right now." The store manager was quite regretful.

"Big fire doesn't work." Yan Yu refused, "The body of the cartoonist is also very important. If you collapse from exhaustion, it will be a loss to the magazine and the bookstore."

The store manager was a little depressed, but what Yan Kun said was true, if Shen Xin collapsed from exhaustion, their bookstore would be in a lot of trouble, so he ordered the clerk to stop customers from queuing up.

Some customers are purely for fun. They don't know much about "Y's". They just think that if they can get a signed book, they can probably show it off in front of their peers. Now that they are not allowed to line up, they don't have the mind to continue. row down.

But more people are readers. When they heard that the readers behind could not line up, they had different expressions. The readers before the cut-off line were secretly glad, while the readers after the cut-off line were depressed.

"Everyone, I'm really sorry. We also know that you deliberately went to Roaming Bookstore just to get Mr. Shen's signature, but Mr. Shen has signed for nearly four hours and is really tired now. If you still choose to buy For the booklet of "Y's", the bookstore decided to give away a poster and a bookmark of "Y's"..."

After hearing the clerk's words, most of the readers expressed their understanding and dispersed one after another.

After Shen Xin signed the last booklet, she leaned against the back of the chair weakly, unable to even lift her right hand.

"It's hard work." Yan Kun handed over a bottle of mineral water with a smile on his face.

"Sigh, Sister Yan, you've made me miserable. I've never been so tired after writing a composition for the college entrance examination." Shen Xin was weak, and took the mineral water with her left hand.

"Of course, how can writing a few words be enough?" Yan Kun said with a smile.

"Then...how many books have I signed?" Shen Xin asked.

"have no idea."

"Eh?"

"Eh, what? I'm not the store manager, and the statistics of the data are done by the store." Yan Yu said.

"That's right." Shen Xin nodded slightly and drank a bottle of mineral water.

After a short rest, the store manager also hurried over, "You two, the result is out."

"How many volumes?"

Shen Xin and Yan Yan asked in unison.

"You two really have a tacit understanding." The store manager said with a smile.

Shen Xin and Yan Yu looked at each other and smiled.

"According to the data obtained so far, as of 4:00 p.m., a total of 1,722 volumes of "Y's" booklets have been sold, of which, Mr. Shen signed 1,392 volumes." The store manager said excitedly.

"Huh? I thought I signed 10,000 copies? My hands are almost broken." Shen Xin put her hands on her forehead, feeling a little frustrated.

"Satisfied? Cartoonists don't just write their names like writers. You also have to draw stick figures. It's not easy to sign so many books." Yan Yan patted Shen Xin on the shoulder and comforted him.

"That's true. In fact, this year's roaming bookstore's book signings are already the second best." The store manager laughed.

Yan Wei nodded slightly. As an editor in the industry, she also has a certain cooperation with roaming bookstore, and she knows a thing or two about related news.

"How many volumes is the number one?" Shen Xin asked curiously.

"The first place... more than 6,300 volumes, a lot of people really came,

The streets outside the bookstore were full of people. ’ the store manager recalled.

"So many?" Shen Xin was shocked, he only signed more than a thousand copies, and his hand was almost useless.

"He didn't draw a simple pen and signed it directly." The store manager said.

"That's a lot. If I can get so many readers, I guess I'll sign them directly, right?" Shen Xin sighed.

"Don't be so greedy, okay? Fourteen hundred volumes is already very high. Besides, this is only the first half year of your career as a professional cartoonist. After that, your grades may be even higher. The other party is a giant. The same existence. So, young man, you are already very powerful." Yan Kun patted Shen Xin on the shoulder and said.

"Who is that person?" Shen Xin was a little curious.

"The winner of this year's best full-length cartoon award, the signature cartoonist of "Comic Futura", Mr. Wang Yunze and his "Dragon King"."

"..."

Shen Xin also knew that he was indeed no match for Wang Yunze right now.

"Okay, that's all for today, thank you manager." Yan Kun waved at the manager.

"Editor Yan, you'd better make some preparations first. I think it may be reprinted." The store manager smiled, "One of the most popular single volumes of Roaming this year, it is impossible not to reprint."

"I hope, but you also know that the magazine has high expectations for this set of books. It originally applied for 100,000 copies of the first edition. In the end, the group of people in the sales department only gave 50,000 copies. Although they understand their difficulties, In case of unsalable sales, all the losses will be borne by the magazine, but even so, I still want to slap them in the face with excellent results." Yan Yu said depressedly.

Shen Xin doesn't know much about sales, but she also knows that the first edition of 50,000 copies is already very high for newcomers. "Faltering" also took a week to digest the sales of 50,000 copies. Moreover, the headquarters of "Y's" is still in the sea of ​​clouds, and the sea of ​​clouds market is really too small compared to Hongchuan.

...

Xi Muzhen was very depressed.

Today is Shen Xin's book signing, but in the end she can only be "trapped" in the classroom.

This is also something that can't be helped, after all, if she skipped class to go to the book sale site and was discovered by Shen Xin, she would definitely be severely criticized.

Sign or something, you can sign when you go home!

But what she wanted was not an autograph, but a first look at the book signing scene.

Hope it's not too cold.

If there are only one or two hundred people, or even dozens of people, will it be too cold... Well, but there are quite a lot of students who are absent from class today. There are about five or six boys and two or three girls. The desk didn't know why he was absent from class, and he didn't even hand in the leave slip.

There are less than fifty students in a class. There were not many students at first, but now it feels even more empty.

So annoying.

Xi Muzhen pouted, transferring all the anger in his heart to the exercises.

The evening self-study started immediately, and just when Xi Muzhen thought he was going to do exercises alone again, there were hurried footsteps outside the door.

Xi Muzhen raised her head in astonishment, and several students rushed into the classroom, including her deskmate, a girl with twin ponytails.

"Why did you go today, Xiaoxia? Didn't you ask for leave?" Xi Muzhen asked puzzled.

"It's too late, so let's be 'lack' first as a respect." Xiao Xia at the same table took out a tissue and wiped the sweat from her forehead.

"What's the rush?" Xi Muzhen was even more puzzled.

Xiao Xia chuckled, and pulled out a book from her bag, "Of course I have to sign it."

Eh?

Xi Muzhen moved his gaze to the manga, and saw two large English letters on the cover——Y’s.

It turned out that I went to Brother Xin's book signing event...