Sun Quan was still dealing with a bunch of private messages on QQ when he suddenly received a message from the editor-in-chief.
Hairtail: "It's 12 o'clock, Lao Sun. I have granted you permission to put on shelves. If you refresh the author's backend a few more times, you should be able to see the permissions granted. Come on! I wish you a great success!"
At the end of the message, she also included a smiling emoticon.
Is it 12 o'clock?
Sun Quan subconsciously glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the computer screen. It was 12:07. It was indeed past 12 o'clock.
He smiled, took a deep breath, and stopped replying to private messages from colleagues and readers for the time being. He went to the author's backend, refreshed the page several times, and saw that the book "The Last Wish of the Dead" had been opened for publication and paid chapters could be released.
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Pulling up the saved manuscripts on his computer, he calmly posted chapter after chapter of manuscripts, 10 chapters in one go. The main thing was that he had so many manuscripts saved that he could do as he pleased.
Besides, his book has been updated very quickly since the first day it was published. Four or five chapters are updated every day. Before it was put on the shelves, there were so many updates every day. Today it is put on the shelves. It makes sense not to post a few more chapters.
?
The readers will be disappointed.
As for your comments on the launch?
In fact, as early as in the afternoon, Haiyu notified him that it would be put on the shelves in the early morning, and he wrote a post about it and sent it out.
Counting the ten years he spent writing novels before his rebirth, this is the first time he has written a acceptance speech.
In other words, when he wrote his first work and put it on the shelves, the editor in charge notified him that it was about to be put on the shelves and asked him to write a testimonial about its release and play emotional cards with readers, saying that it would be good for increasing subscriptions.
Later, gradually, although his editor changed every few years, there was no editor anymore to remind him to write a testimonial for the book.
Later, he occasionally saw that some authors did not write a testimonial at all when their works were put on the shelves.
But he had already formed a habit. Although no one reminded him, no one asked him to write a testimonial again.
But every time a new book comes on the shelves, he still habitually writes an article.
Many authors habitually fail when writing their testimonials to gain sympathy.
But he has never mastered the skill of being miserable, or he is not good at being miserable at all.
In contrast, some authors' skills that make them miserable can be said to be over-the-top.
Some people said in their testimonials that they were running out of food and had been eating instant noodles for how many days. Some people said that they had to remit living expenses to their families every month to support their younger brothers or sisters in school. Others said something else. In short, it was very useful.
Arouse the sympathy of book fans.
In this aspect, he, Sun Quan, is not good at it. Now he has become famous. Last month, many people inside and outside the circle were spreading rumors that his company made hundreds of millions of profits a month. Under such circumstances, he was not good at it in the first place.
How could he do so badly when he was so miserable?
Therefore, the acceptance speech he wrote this time did not sell poorly at all.
He really does not need to make a living by selling miserably to earn more royalties. In his acceptance speech this time, he was more about sharing with everyone his journey of writing this book.
For example, where did the inspiration for this book come from? Why did he want to write such a story? What kind of preparations did he make to write this story well? And... some of his own insights and experiences during the process, etc.
wait.
When you have nothing to sell, just talk about writing!
This is what he thought and this is what he wrote.
He did not dare to announce in this acceptance speech that the monthly subscription price for this book would increase by an increasing amount, because he felt a little guilty.
He's really not sure how many people will subscribe to this book once it's on the shelves.
Is it an initial order of 40,000 to 50,000?
Or an initial order of 10,000 units?
It's all possible! And these two different first-order results will create two completely different situations.
For example: If the initial subscription amount is 40,000 to 50,000 yuan, the monthly subscription volume of this book may increase very quickly after it is put on the shelves. It is entirely possible to increase monthly subscriptions by one to two thousand yuan a day, or even more.
But if the first order for this book is only over 10,000... then the growth rate of monthly tickets after it is put on the shelves may be much slower.
So, does he dare to arbitrarily set the rule of adding one update for every monthly ticket?
If there are less rules, his manuscripts will run out if he can't hold on for long. Running out of manuscripts is not the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that if he doesn't change the rules later, he will write every day until he vomits blood.
He couldn't fulfill the rules he set for extra updates.
But if you order too much...
Not only is he unable to inspire everyone to vote monthly, but he may also be ridiculed for overestimating his own abilities and overestimating the popularity of his book.
As a man, he still needs to have some face.
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After the 10 paid chapters were sent out, Sun Quan waited for time to pass and prepared to check the first order data later, while continuing to reply to private messages from colleagues and book fans on QQ.
Not long after, a chat box on QQ suddenly popped up. After a closer look, it was a video request sent by his wife Yuan Shuiqing.
"I really haven't slept yet..."
Sun Quan muttered and connected to the video.
The picture in the video was a bit dark, Yuan Shuiqing probably didn't turn on the lights, and only her blurred face could be seen.
"Has it been put on the shelves?" she asked softly, keeping her voice low probably because she was afraid of waking her daughter.
"Well, I just did it."
Sun Quan continued to reply to an author's private message while chatting with her casually.
"How many first orders have been made?"
she asked again.
"I haven't read it yet, please wait a moment!"
Sun Quan glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the screen and found that 13 minutes had passed since he had just published the paid chapters. He refreshed the author's backend to check the current subscription data of the paid chapters just released.
At this moment, his heartbeat was a little fast and he felt nervous subconsciously.
If the chapter is 13 minutes long, how much first-order data will there be? Based on the 13-minute data, he may be able to roughly estimate the first-order data in 24 hours.
Therefore, the significance of this 13-minute data is extraordinary.
If this data is beautiful enough, his pen name, Sun, may become a new myth after tomorrow.
The myth of the starting point!
Or the myth of the entire Internet literary circle.
As long as the first order number of his book is high enough, as long as the subscription ratio of his book can be around 10 to 1, then from tomorrow onwards, there will definitely be a lot of people in the circle who want to take him to the throne.
Lao Sun) was blown away.
Because with a subscription ratio of 10 to 1, the first order data of his book within 24 hours was not just a matter of breaking the highest record in the industry, but also instantly increasing the original highest record by two or three times.
The more insiders you are, the more you will understand the amazingness of this.
This record is not like a certain hair salon where the number of clients received by a certain lady on a certain day doubled or tripled. That is completely different.
Can you imagine a country's GDP data being two or three times that of the previous year?
The difficulty of doubling or tripling Qidian's first booking record is similar to that.
If the first order number of his book "The Last Wish of the Dead" can reach that level, at least for this year, his Sun Quan, his Xianyu An Lao Sun will be the supreme god in the Internet literary circle.
And, there is no one!
There is no doubt that this is an honor, because if it succeeds, he will be the number one in the industry this year.
Anyone who is the first in a certain industry should be proud of it, right?
But what if the first 24-hour order for his book is only over 10,000?
yes!
The first order of a new book within 24 hours was more than 10,000, which was already a very, very good result, but to Sun Quan, it was nothing special.
For some of the current platinum masters at Qidian, they are not that special.
Because whether it’s him, Sun Quan, or some of the top masters at Qidian, it’s normal for new books to have over 10,000 first-order orders within 24 hours.
Although it can be considered a top-notch result, and it can be said that he is the supreme god, at most he is only one of the supreme gods.
The webpage refreshed successfully...
The subscription data for the chapter "The Last Wish of the Dead" came into Sun Quan's eyes. The moment those data came into his eyes, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated again and his breathing paused for a moment.
VIP Chapter 1, number of subscribers 3886.
VIP Chapter 2, the number of subscribers is 3877.
VIP Chapter 3, number of subscribers 3842.
…
Looking at the chapters, the number of subscribers for each chapter starts with 3, and they all have more than 3,800.
And this... is just 13 minutes of subscription data.
It is very likely that the number of subscribers for these 10 paid chapters exceeded 3,000 just 10 minutes after they were released.
As we all know, Qidian has a boutique channel.
Works that are not high-quality works are not eligible to be included in this channel.
The standard for a quality work is that the chapters have an average of 3,000 subscribers.
In addition, it seems that only the top three new books in the monthly ticket list will be included in the premium channel regardless of the average subscription results.
So the question is, is it easy to achieve the goal of 3,000?
The answer is: one word - difficult!
Two words: difficult!
Three words: quite difficult!
It’s not that Qidian didn’t have that many paying readers, but it was restricted by various other factors.
For example, the standard for high-quality products requires that the average number of subscribers for chapters exceeds 3,000. Pay attention! The standard mentioned here is the average number of subscribers for chapters.
This average subscription is a bit like per capita income.
For example, our country has long had rich people who earn over 100 million yuan a year, and some even earn over 1 billion yuan or 10 billion yuan a year.
But what about per capita income?
No matter how many rich people there are, there will be even more people who have no money. Once everyone's annual income is averaged, the data will be pulled down many times.
The average subscription to a book at Qidian is a bit like that.
Maybe the maximum number of subscribers for a single chapter of a certain book is over 10,000, but the average number of subscribers for a chapter is still less than 3,000.
Sun Quan remembered that after Qidian set the inclusion standards for premium channels, for many years, only about a hundred works could be included in the premium channels each year.
There are about a hundred works that have entered the premium channel. Some of them were recommended to the premium channel because they were ranked among the top three in the monthly new book sales list in the month they were released. Occasionally, there are works with an average subscription of less than 3,000.
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In addition, there are a few works that have been included in premium channels, and their subscription data are generated.
From this, you can imagine how difficult it is to enter the Qidian boutique channel.
You know, the total number of new books published within a year from Qidian should be about 100,000.
Out of about 100,000 new books, only about 100 will meet the inclusion standards of the premium channel. What is the probability?
thousandth?
maybe!
Before his rebirth, Sun Quan had been on the street for more than ten years. Every time he wrote a book, his biggest goal was to meet the inclusion standards of the boutique channel.
He has never written a work that received more than 3,000 first-order orders in 24 hours.
And this time...
His book "Dead Man's Last Wish" had more than 3,800 subscribers, close to 4,000, just 13 minutes after it was put on the shelves!
How high will the subscription data be in 1 hour?
How high will it be after 10 hours?
What about the first order data within 24 hours? It should be no problem to break the record, right?
"What's wrong? Have you seen the number of subscribers? How many are they?"
In the video, Yuan Shuiqing couldn't help but be curious and asked Sun Quan, who was stunned for a while without any other reaction or words. Yuan Shuiqing asked, bringing Sun Quan's thoughts back to reality.
Sun Quan smiled with a complicated mood: "More than 3,800."
In the video, Yuan Shuiqing blinked and looked calm.
After all, she doesn't write online articles, and she doesn't have a very intuitive understanding and feeling of such data.
"Is this data okay?" she asked with concern.
Okay?
Sun Quan laughed, but he didn't like to brag, so he answered modestly, "Well, not bad!"
Yuan Shuiqing breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "It's okay, do you still want to wait? Why don't you go to bed early? Let's watch it when you get up tomorrow?"
Sun Quan shook his head, "No, I'll wait for a while, you go to sleep first! I'll go to sleep later."
Yuan Shuiqing was silent and nodded slightly, "Okay, then I'll go to bed. Don't wait too long. Remember to go to bed early! Go to bed early and get up early."
Sun Quan: "Okay! Good night."
Yuan Shuiqing: "Good night!"
…
When the video ended, Sun Quan pursed his lips, subconsciously reached for the cigarette case, lit a cigarette, his expression was slightly emotional, and he sat there smoking quietly.
His QQ profile picture kept jumping again, probably because a lot of private messages came in.
Just now when he had a video chat with his wife Yuan Shuiqing, he noticed that private messages came in, but he was not in a hurry to reply to those private messages at this time.
13 minutes, more than 3,800 subscribers...
He wanted to quietly savor such an exaggerated achievement for a while.
At this time, he felt at ease, because this data already let him know that the first order of this book in 24 hours would not only be more than 10,000.
The record should be broken.
With more than 3,800 subscriptions in 13 minutes, he estimated that the number in half an hour would be about the same as breaking 6,000. The number of subscribers in one hour would have a high chance of breaking 10,000.
Although the subscription data growth is the fastest in the first hour after it is put on the shelves, the data growth rate after an hour will become lower and lower.
However, according to his experience, the data after 3 hours should be doubled based on the 1-hour data.
To put it simply, within about three hours of his book "Dead Man's Last Wish" being on the shelves, the maximum number of subscribers for a single chapter should have exceeded 20,000.
It should take no more than four hours at most, and it should be stable if it exceeds 20,000.
In the next twenty hours, the number of subscribers will double again to 40,000... It should be no problem, right?