Chapter 179

Facts proved that Yan Chengjing, as the deputy editor-in-chief of "Literature Spring," still had a relatively accurate grasp of the situation of the journal market and public opinion changes.

In the following days, this "The Invisible Guest" by Akiwara Yuto began to usher in different changes in public opinion.

Because this work was published in the form of an extended special issue, the plot direction was already clear at a glance. Whether it was readers or book reviewers, they could intuitively analyze the good and bad of this work.

In the newspaper, the book reviewers who originally criticized Akiwara Yuto for "talent drying up" all stopped making noise. Among them, book reviewers like Xidao Youhui even pretended that they had never said anything bad, and praised the excellence of Akiwara Yuto's work again.

As for the book reviewers who originally supported this work, they took the initiative to attack, their praise was beyond words, and they strongly recommended readers to take a look at this work, calling this work a rare "court school" masterpiece in Nihon in recent years!

People in the academic circle also rarely joined in the fun. Generally speaking, if they are not specifically researching detective literature, these people in the academic circle will not care about detective stories.

But this time it was different. The writing technique of this work by Akiwara Yuto adopted the "memory narrative technique." Such a writing technique is only popular in Europe and America, and is very rare in Nihon itself.

This work by Akiwara Yuto not only adopted such a writing technique, but also wrote it so excellently, in which true and false, one truth after another, the plot constantly reversed, making people dumbfounded.

Therefore, these people in the academic circle praised this work by Akiwara Yuto as a representative work of "Western style and Japanese soul"!

In short, from newspapers and various journals, people from all walks of life expressed extremely high recognition for this work, and some even thought it could go to compete for the Zhi Cun Award!

Under the feedback of public opinion, the reader group was also not small affected.

On the Internet, the number of posts supporting this work completely exceeded the number of posts opposing this work. Some topic starters who originally said they didn't like this work either deleted their posts or changed their way of saying it.

A very small number of posts that were still mocking and sarcastic were directly scolded by people.

In the market, some readers who had originally given up following it also had curious thoughts because of all these changes. Under this mentality, they turned around and went to buy that extended special issue.

After finishing it, they all expressed extremely high recognition!

However, not everyone was happy to see these things happen, just like the editorial departments of other journals and magazines like "Literature Spring," they all began to get nervous!

Originally, the sales of "April Youth" were at most 150,000 copies, a solid industry fourth place, so there was no need to worry about anything.

But I didn't expect that "April Youth" would directly hold back a "big move," and made an extended special issue, which suddenly attracted everyone's attention.

According to the current market trend, it was simply aggressive. Maybe after the sales come out, it will directly pierce some unlucky ghost!

Friday morning, the sales statistics analysis meeting of the "April Youth" editorial department, the atmosphere was quite high.

After the publication of this issue of "April Youth," the results swept away the decadence brought about by Akiwara Yuto's suspension of publication last week, and turned over.

The sales on Monday reached 30,000 copies, the sales on Tuesday reached 35,000 copies, but by Wednesday and Thursday, it instead rose against the trend to 39,000 copies and 41,000 copies.

Generally speaking, after the journal is published, it is often the highest on Monday, and then decreases day by day. But this issue of "April Youth," relying on the word-of-mouth of Akiwara Yuto's work, started a "counterattack" all the way, and instead gradually exerted force later.

Editors like Chief Dacheng and Sujin Xiushu who attended the meeting could see the excitement on their faces one by one—after all, they had invested a lot of energy and financial resources during this period, and finally achieved a quite good result.

And Heben Junyou, who had always opposed taking Akiwara Yuto as the focus of publicity, didn't speak at this time instead. The fact that "April Youth" sales exploded relying on Akiwara Yuto's work had already proved the error of his previous judgment.

Chief Dacheng sat in the main seat, looked around at everyone, then called Sujin Xiushu, and let him report the results of other competitors in the past week.

Sujin Xiushu received the instruction, distributed the documents, and narrated at the same time.

Jingfan Society's "Literature Spring" had been occupied by many channels near universities during this period, and sales had dropped a lot. But the other party also immediately made a countermeasure, increasing cooperation with various school libraries and student unions, so sales did not fall out of 200,000 copies, currently ranking third.

Mantanshe Society's "Tokyo Literature" had been steady and steady during this period, continuing to maintain a large amount of book review layout publicity. Besides that, because there were serialized works by two signature writers, Seto Yuzhi and Zhongtian Qidou, the magazine still had a lot of loyal readers supporting it, and sales were further ahead than before, reaching 260,000 copies, ranking second.

Dongying Society's "Tokyo Youth," because a work announced the end of serialization, lost a part of the reader group. But after all, the reader base was there, and some readers were interested in the new serialization, so sales were still 290,000 copies, maintaining the first position.

As for Mantanshe Society's "New," Sujin Xiushu thought for a moment, and decided not to... This journal, without signature writers and publicity resources, was not even considered cannon fodder now.

After the report was finished, Sujin Xiushu took out another report sent by the statistics force and said: "According to the re-estimation by the statistics force, as of next Monday, the sales of 'April Youth' this week are estimated to reach 190,000 copies."

Hearing this number, the expressions of everyone in the conference room became subtle.

190,000 copies, this number seemed to be only 10,000 copies away from the sales of "Literature Spring" last week.

Having said that, the estimation of the statistics force is not necessarily all accurate, maybe it will be a bit higher?!

In that case, this "April Youth" would be able to surpass "Literature Spring"!

Chief Dacheng coughed and then her expression became serious.

"I will go to find Executive Sanchiao later to see if we can increase publicity additionally. I think as long as we work a little harder, maybe our sales this week can surpass 'Literature Spring'!"

"... Everyone knows, this time in order to be able to issue this special issue, Mr. Akiwara finished the manuscripts for the next few weeks in one week, spending a lot of time and energy! Since that is the case, can we slack off?!"

"Of course not!"

Chief Dacheng stood up and said in a firm and powerful voice.

"I hope everyone will join me, in these two days, to visit nearby bookstores, let them put more 'April Youth' on the display stand! As long as our sales can surpass 'Literature Spring', then the board of directors will definitely pay more attention to us!"

She looked at everyone with meaningful eyes, then bowed deeply, "Please, everyone!"

Everyone in the conference room looked at each other, also stood up together, and bowed their heads.

At this moment, everyone's eyes were bright, and their confidence was also very sufficient.

A gap of 10,000 copies, as long as they can work hard, maybe they can surpass it immediately! As for visiting bookstores, it's just walking a bit more and bowing a few more times!

Success is right in front of them, if they don't work hard again, they really can't justify it!