There are a lot of people at Frankfurt Airport. Now is the time for the book fair to be in full swing, but Zhang Chu must take a plane back to Yanjing.

The National Day holiday is about to end, and as a student, he has to return to the campus.

Although this trip was flying back alone, there were quite a few people delivering the plane, and there were only several cars, which was quite intimidating!

As Zhang Chu's agent, Zhou Kang was completely unable to escape from the book fair. Not only did he need to help Ye Shumei continue to sell the copyright of "Da Vinci Code", but he also had to work hard to promote peripheral sales.

Even after such a sensational transaction, the copyrights of the previous books have been loosened. Originally, "Detective Sherlock" and "Pi's Fantasy Drift" have been sold in more than 20 countries, and now more people are asking.

If the new book is excellent enough, the effect of driving the old book is extremely obvious!

Even now those publishing companies that are eager to seek talents have set their sights on Zhang Chu's side that has not been translated into English.

Especially the small countries in the Asian cultural circle, they have been deeply influenced by Chinese culture since ancient times, so it is not difficult to understand. Although publishing companies in small countries such as South Korea, Japan, Thailand, and Vietnam are not outstanding in strength, they have added "Ghost Blows Out the Light" and "Su Shen Ji" to the negotiation list.

At this book fair alone, Hanlin Culture Media has reached more than 40 authorizations, and there are also a large number of potential contracts.

"You pat your butt and return home with ease now. We still have to continue to be busy here." Zhou Kang had no intention of elders to juniors when dealing with Zhang Chu, but regarded him as a peer or even a boss.

"Don't worry, I will definitely give you a vacation after I go back. Think about the bonus, the year-end bonus, and the annual leave. Do you have the motivation all of a sudden?"

Although Ye Shumei is very tired, she is very energetic. "Where is there any time to take a vacation after she goes back? When you come out, everyone in the company will have to work overtime."

In the following publicity, Zhang Chu didn't do much, which made him breathe a little relieved. After all, the crazy typing in September really consumed a lot of energy.

At this time, Gu Xinxue, the editor of Nanhai Publishing Company, also came over to say goodbye to him, "I don't know when the next time I meet, I wish you a good trip."

"Editor Gu, don't curse me. The plane needs to fly against the wind!"

"Okay, okay, my fault." Gu Xinxue admitted his mistake cleanly, "You can post a Weibo post to promote the pre-sale of "Da Vinci Code". Now we have opened the pre-sale channel, and it depends on whether you can break your own record in the end."

The pre-sale of Chinese books has not been long since the rise of pre-sales, and the previous records were maintained by Zhang Chu's own "Ghost Blows Out the Light: The Ancient City of Jingjue".

Before the official release, there were a total of 400,000 copies of the pre-sale volume. This data is actually very good. It is unique in the current physical book sales market!

But now, both Gu Xinxue and external prediction agencies have almost confirmed that "The Da Vinci Code" is as popular as the original "Ghost Blows Out the Light", and it is very likely that Zhang Chu will break his own record in the pre-sale.

The only one who can defeat Zhang Chu is himself!

Now "Ghost Blows Out the Light" has firmly ranked at the top of the Chinese book sales list in 2019. From January 2019 to October, a total of 4.8 million physical books and 3.1 million e-books have been sold, as well as subscriptions from Yuandian Chinese and related channels.

It is really surprising that other writers can earn their money by writing such a big-selling work in their lives, but Zhang Chu actually wrote two books in just one year!

Originally, "Soushen Ji" also had the potential to sell well, but the six volumes were released in a full range of drags down sales, so they could only make a fortune in silence.

Nanhai Publishing Company is worried that the performance in the second half of the year may be worse than the first half of the year, but unexpectedly, Zhang Chu was the time to launch this bestseller.

It is no exaggeration to say that Gu Xinxue believes that even if "The Da Vinci Code" is released on October 10, it is highly likely to win the book sales championship next year.

If "Ghost Blows Out the Light" hadn't had a big lead this year, it would have been really likely to be overturned!

Compared to Gu Xinxue's happiness, Random House editor Blair was much calmer. He walked up to Zhang Chu and hugged him, and said, "You should really ask those travel agencies for naming fees. I already have a premonition that the number of people traveling to Europe around the world will increase sharply this year."

"I hope so. Maybe I can still be with the tourism ambassador of several countries. Blair, I will give you all mine. What is the pre-sale situation in the UK and the US now?"

"It's pretty good. The number of bookings on Amazon's US website has reached 240,000 copies, and there are 90,000 copies in the UK. It's just started pre-sales, and it is expected to increase significantly when it is officially released."

After all, Zhang Chu's popularity in China has reached its peak, but his influence abroad is still relatively weak. It is very unlikely to have this pre-sale number!

By comparing horizontally, you will know that the highly anticipated book "The Legend of Jobs" has received great attention, but it only sold 370,000 copies a week after it was launched in the United States.

Now "The Da Vinci Code" can surpass "The Legend of Jobs" by just pre-sale. Although it has the advantage in subject matter and is attractive most of the time than the biography of characters, it can also be seen.

"It sounds pretty good, maybe it will be on the New York Times bestseller rankings for the first week?"

Zhang Chu has no research on the United States. Perhaps 200,000 to 300,000 copies should be listed!

"Man, don't underestimate yourself too much. The prediction given by Nelson's data is that the sales volume of "Da Vinci Code" can exceed one million in the first week, and this result will be fully at the top of the sales list."

Blair said excitedly, "Do you know? This book has a great possibility to set a record, create history, become the highest first-week sales volume of Asian writers in the United States, and will also be the youngest book sales champion author!"

Hearing this, Zhang Chu couldn't help rolling his eyes. With so many limited words added, it would be almost the same if it could really break the sales in the first week.

The sales of Asian writers in North America have always been poor, and Zhang Chu is a taller person among the short guys.

"How many books do the United States have to sell to break the sales record?"

Zhang Chu just wanted to understand the possibility. Even if this book doesn’t work, then the next book and next book must be tried.

If a person has no dreams, what is the difference between it and a salted fish?

But Blair didn't take care of Zhang Chu's mood at all. He whistled and said relaxedly: "You are still far from it. Now the book sales record in North America is maintained by the last of the "Harry Potter" series by JK Rowling. In 24 hours, the UK and the United States sold a total of 11 million copies, becoming the fastest-selling book in history!"

Zhang Chu always knew that "Harry Potter" was very awesome, with a total sales of about 500 million copies, but he never expected that he could sell tens of millions of copies in 24 hours.

Thinking about how long I have written, I am still working hard to exceed one million in the first week, and the gap is really obvious.

"On the first day of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" sold 2.7 million copies in the UK and 8.3 million copies in the United States. Printers, transporters and retailers around the world were crazy. Among them, the British supermarket Asda sold all the 500,000 copies allocated within 24 hours. If there were more sources of goods, it could sell higher. That was a golden age in the publishing industry!"

Blair saw the madness of Harry Potter fans in London, and thousands of book fans dressed up as characters in magic stories lined up all night in front of the bookstore.

Although I don’t want to admit it, there is still a significant gap between the sales of "Da Vinci Code" and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows".

Of course, the sequels have been very popular, especially since this is the ending of the Harry Potter series. Everyone wants to see how the ending of the little wizard with the lightning logo on his head is.

The sixth part of "Harry Potter" also set a feat of 9 million copies sold in Britain and the United States in 24 hours, but it was broken by the sequel.

This year's stage play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" premiered in the West End of London on July 30, and the script of the same name was released the next day.

It is obviously just a script, but its sales in the United States and Britain in the first week also reached a terrifying 4 million copies, which can be called a big money snatcher!

"Maybe "The Da Vinci Code" is not as explosive as this series of works in the early stage, but the momentum should not be lost to them. Perhaps after readers accept "The Da Vinci Code", "The Angels and the Devil" has the opportunity to challenge the first four million copies of the first week, and the record of the eight million copies of the first day should be frozen."

Zhang Chu really couldn't imagine a future book that could surpass this first-day sales figure. He read the works that never appeared in the system, and there seemed to be no book.

The hot sale of "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" is the result of the right time, place and people. The book market is now sluggish, and it is too difficult to have bug-level works!

The record market is similar. Although Adele emerged, it cannot change the overall decline.

However, Zhang Chu still wanted to give it a try. Even if he failed to challenge the record, it would not be embarrassing!

After saying goodbye to the people who were seeing off, he dragged a small box full of trophy to the airline counter to prepare for check-in.

This time he took a direct flight from Air China, without stopping, but it only took more than nine hours to return to Yanjing.

After entering the waiting room, Zhang Chu felt a little reluctant. Now he fell in love with the days when he didn't have to go to school. He would play whatever he wanted every day and sleep as long as he wanted.

Holiday syndrome finally comes to you, and almost every student has this experience. There are always five days a week that doesn’t want to go to school, from Monday to Friday!

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I just found out today is Monday, and I strongly call on everyone's recommendation votes~
Chapter completed!