Chapter 56: Continue to Sell Well!

Akiwara Yuto still underestimated the influence of Japan's third-largest newspaper, "Japan Industry Review." As a newspaper with a circulation as high as 2.72 million, its influence covers the entire Japanese territory.

This also caused the sales of the seventh issue of "New Novel" to be like a wild bison that has broken its reins, almost unstoppable, and skyrocketed in this week's circulation.

After the circulation reached 33,000 copies on Tuesday, it also sold an amazing 30,000 copies on Wednesday. Thursday and Friday heat faded, but also sold 23,000 and 15,000 copies respectively.

The statistics department estimated that the final sales of this week should reach 125,000 copies.

And what is even more surprising is that the sales range of "New Novel" has become wider.

Originally, the main market of "New Novel" was Tokyo and surrounding cities like Yokohama. After this report, "New Novel" opened up a larger channel.

In these days, the distribution bureau of the publishing house has been receiving subscription calls from other cities, including Shikoku, Kyushu, West Japan, Tokai, and Hokkaido.

The types of customers who ordered are also different, not only including bookstores of all sizes in various places and regional distributors, but even individual schools want to subscribe for a long time as reference books for students to learn.

In order to meet the strong market demand, some employees of the distribution bureau had to work overtime day and night, and the printing plant arranged more machines for printing. Many books didn't stay in the warehouse for a few seconds before being transported away by trucks.

The editorial department of "New Novel" was collectively excited. Editor-in-chief Kikuchi Tai held another regular meeting and found that the situation was very optimistic. In this week, not only did the sales of the seventh issue increase greatly, but even many stocks of previous issues were sold out, and even sold outside Tokyo.

This proves a very good sign, that is, the core fan base of "New Novel" is expanding step by step, and began to no longer be limited to the original market.

By the end of the weekend, the statistics department announced the sales, that is, the weekly sales of this issue of "New Novel" reached 125,000 copies, directly exploding the sales of "April Youth" of the Keijiaokan; after all, the latter's sales were just over 120,000 copies.

After this news was announced, many people in the industry couldn't help but lose their voices, and even more book reviewers began to pay attention, further studying "New Novel."

But for the evaluation of "New Novel," people in the industry have different views.

Some people think that "New Novel" can sell well this time, nothing more than holding the thigh of "Japan Industry Review," the quality of the articles inside is still uneven, and future sales will still decline.

Others said that "New Novel" will continue to sell well in the future, may continue to stabilize at over 100,000 copies, and become the fifth-largest literary journal in the novel world.

Amidst the arguments from the outside world, more and more book reviews targeting Akiwara Yuto's works, as well as evaluations of the author, were published in various small and medium newspapers and journals, which made Akiwara Yuto's fame even greater than before.

Akiwara Yuto was crowned with the title of "horror-type genius writer," rather than the second of whoever it was before.

Mantan Society also seized this opportunity, immediately arranged to allocate a sum of funds, began to increase the layout promotion of "New Novel," and increased cooperation with bookstores and other aspects, giving a certain discount on the issuance price.

Coupled with the fact that Miyagawa Yosuke published two more book reviews later, "New Novel" was like sitting on a rocket, and the sales of the subsequent 3 issues continued to advance by leaps and bounds.

The sales of the eighth issue remained at 130,000 copies, the sales of the ninth issue became 135,000 copies, and the sales of the tenth issue exceeded 140,000.

From a small journal with a circulation of less than 30,000 copies to a magazine with a circulation of 140,000 copies, it can almost be said to be a miracle!

After the sales results of these issues came out, even those in the industry who were unwilling to recognize it had to admit that "New Novel" had to a certain extent become the fifth-largest literary journal in the literary world, or from the perspective of sales, it might be called the fourth-largest journal.

Akiwara Yuto didn't pay attention to these disturbances from the outside world. He had been burying his head in the creation of his own work "Negligent Homicide."

He actually saw it very clearly. If he hadn't taken out the works of Otsuichi from another world, "New Novel" would probably still be the original bottom-tier loser, and it would be impossible to talk about selling well.

Serializing until now, the works of Otsuichi he has on hand are not many, only one issue left. He must take out other works as soon as possible to help "New Novel" maintain the current level of sales.

But to be honest, he is also considering whether to give himself a holiday; after all, during this period of time, it has been work except work, and he is not a robot. Why bother to find 996 blessings for himself?

Should I go to Akihabara to walk around, go eat the legendary magic heart omelet rice, but it seems that it is still an electrical street there, right?

He hadn't reached a conclusion yet when he suddenly received a call. After he picked it up, he found it was from Editor-in-chief Kikuchi Tai, who asked with a smile: "Akiwara-sensei, is work still going well recently?"

Akiwara Yuto looked at the manuscript in his hand, thinking it was worrying about his work, and responded: "Editor-in-chief Kikuchi, my manuscript for the next issue has been written. Just let Editor Asano come over to take it later."

"Okay, thank you for your hard work, teacher. In short, still pay attention to your health."

Kikuchi Tai spoke to here, as if remembering something, and said with a smile: "By the way, the publishing house sent a small gift, please sign for it, teacher."

After saying this, he was polite a few more times before hanging up the phone. Akiwara Yuto was a bit confused; he was a bit curious about what kind of gift it was?

At 10 o'clock in the morning, Asano Aiko arrived on time to collect the manuscript. But to Akiwara's surprise, she also brought a stack of envelopes, looking bulging.

She took the manuscript handed by Akiwara, and then handed the envelope to him.

"Akiwara, this is an extra bonus specially approved by the above, Editor-in-chief Kikuchi entrusted me to pass it to you."

Asano Aiko looked at Akiwara Yuto's surprised face and continued to smile and say: "The amount is not much, but there are 2 million yen."

Akiwara Yuto was stunned and suddenly realized that it was indeed a gift, but this gift was not small. 2 million yen is almost equal to the manuscript fee of his 8 articles.

After taking the envelope, he subconsciously weighed it and found that it was indeed heavy.

It seems that because of the recent big sales of "New Novel," Kikuchi Tai was afraid that he would have other thoughts, so he came to give him a reward.

However, he didn't have the intention to leave now, not to mention Asano Aiko, the most important reason, and he now has the possibility of winning the Gold Prize, so there is even less need to leave.

Besides that, compared with the income of future stand-alone books, all current income is just a fraction.

Before this, he had already learned from Asano Aiko that according to the current sales trend, the editorial department is preparing to make his short stories into a library book form, and then publish and print 100,000 copies. Although the pricing has not been determined, the minimum will not be lower than about 2,000 yen.

According to the 10% royalty income of the previous signing contract, he can get about 20 million yen in direct income.

However, the 2 million yen specially sent by Kikuchi Tai is also intentional.

No matter what, this is a lot of money. After all, the economy is not good now, and the funds of the publishing industry are not so abundant.

He stuffed the envelope into the drawer, then looked at Asano Aiko, and said with a smile: "I have received the heart of Editor-in-chief Kikuchi, then Asano, where is the gift you promised me?"

Asano Aiko asked, puzzled: "Gift?"

"Yes, what about the big meal you promised me before?"

Hearing this, Asano Aiko finally understood what he meant and rolled her eyes at him. After all, he had just received a large bonus, and now he was actually looking to sponge a meal off her.

However, she didn't refuse; after all, treating guests to dinner was what she promised before. Besides, she also had her own little thoughts.

Asano, let this dull person see your woman power well! ===== CHAPTER 57 =====