People who often read books at Qidian may have noticed a phenomenon: the new books that Qidian puts on the shelves on the 1st of each month are generally of high quality, and there are very few that are fake.
In addition to the works released on the 1st, a batch of new books will be released in the next few weeks of each month. The quality of these new books will be inferior. In each batch, there will be a few books that have good first-order results. The new book is great.
Therefore, experienced bookworms will subconsciously pay attention to the batch of new books released at the beginning of each month.
Even Internet writers have similar habits. New books released at the beginning of every month are always followed by tens of thousands of writers.
On author forums, there are often people at the beginning of the month who specifically count the first order data for the batch of new books released on the first day of the month. New books released in the following weeks often do not receive this treatment.
As for why the starting point is arranged this way?
Sun Quan feels that the biggest reason is to encourage authors of new books with excellent quality to participate in the monthly competition for new books.
If it is released at the beginning of the month, you can ask book fans for a monthly pass for the whole month. Compared with the batches of new books that will be released in the next few weeks, the first-mover advantage should not be too obvious.
Under such circumstances, most of the authors who have the strength to compete for the new book monthly ticket list will fight with all their strength.
This will ensure fierce competition in the new book monthly ticket list every month, and can also stimulate more book fans to vote for the monthly ticket. These are all things that Qidian likes to see, and can make the website develop better and make more money.
Precisely because the benefits of putting it on the shelves at the beginning of the month are so obvious, many great authors will calculate the release date when they open a new book to ensure that their new book will be on the shelves at the beginning of the month after passing through several recommended spots in the new book period.
Sun Quan is obviously an exception.
Before and after his rebirth, he wrote more than a dozen books, but he never deliberately calculated the time when a new book would be published.
Before his rebirth, he didn't do this because he felt that his strength was limited. He wanted to compete for the new book monthly vote list, but he was unable to do it. The most important thing was that he was a handicapped person at that time and his coding speed was not fast. If he wanted to compete for the new book monthly vote list, he With his strength and hand speed, his hope is slim.
After his rebirth, at first, he still had the same thoughts as before his rebirth, but later, after he felt that his strength and hand speed had greatly improved, he wanted to compete for the monthly ticket list for his new book. Even if it was not released at the beginning of the month, it seemed that it would not have a big impact.
But this month, it's a little different.
Because this month is October every year.
The beginning of October is the National Day, and Qidian has a tradition... to launch a double monthly ticket activity on the National Day every year.
——Every monthly vote cast by a reader will become two.
This event doubles the first-mover advantage of new books released at the beginning of the month.
It becomes exponentially more difficult for new books that are on the shelves in other weeks of this month to compete for the monthly new book list.
Therefore, every October, the competition for the new book monthly ticket list is extremely fierce.
Doesn't it make sense?
New books released in the last three weeks of October are unable to compete in the new book monthly ticket sales list. Why is the competition in the new book monthly ticket list so fierce this month?
At first glance, this logic does not make sense.
But it actually works.
Because some great masters, even platinum masters, will specifically choose this time to release new books at the end of August or early September, calculate the dates, and put them on the shelves in October, just to catch up with the double monthly pass event in October.
With the double monthly pass bonus, if they release new books in October, the number of monthly passes will be very impressive.
A work that originally could only get 5,000 monthly passes may receive 8,000 or even tens of thousands of monthly passes during the double monthly pass event.
A work that could have obtained 10,000 monthly tickets can almost double the effect.
As we all know, a new book that has just been put on the shelves will attract people's attention if the number of monthly tickets is enough, which will indirectly attract more readers to read the book.
For example, this October this year, today is October 9, and the number of monthly votes for Qidian’s new book monthly ticket winner has reached over 12,000.
The second-place book also has more than 8,000 monthly votes.
Even for third place, the number of monthly votes is more than 6,000.
And this number of monthly tickets, in other months when there are no double monthly tickets, is almost the number of monthly tickets for the top three new book monthly tickets on the last day of the month.
In 9 days, I got the monthly pass that should have taken a month to accumulate. This is the benefit of being released in early October.
The specific reasons... the double monthly ticket event is one reason; there are nearly 10 great gods and platinum great gods on the shelves at the same time this month, which is also a reason; another reason is that the excitement on the monthly ticket list this month has attracted countless people who usually do not vote.
Monthly pass habit reader participation.
In previous years...not many people paid attention to the new books that were released on Qidian.com in October and other months.
But this year... is obviously an exception.
Do not believe?
Take a look at what is being chatted about in the keyboard group right now!
Don Tu: "Octopus, great master! Are you panicking today?"
At the end of this statement, there was also a smirking emoji.
Gui Wu: "Zantu, you underestimate the Fish God. Why is he panicking? His new book is firmly at the top of the new book list, and it is the most coveted in the world!"
Wu Zhi: "Let me say it for the Fish God! 'With the sword in hand, ask the world who is the hero!' Hehe."
Smoke and ashes flew everywhere: "You are so boring, you even asked the Fish God such a question, who should the champion be afraid of?"
Tianchan: "Fish God, why don't you come out and say a few words? Today is your highlight moment, haha..."
Octopus: "Brothers! We have no grudges in the past, and we have no grudges these days. We are all brothers. Why are we in such a hurry to fight each other? Please don't be evil!"
Disha: "The Fish God is too humble. No one will criticize you. Don't always think that there are always unscrupulous people who want to harm me. Everyone is envious of you! Hehe."
Baofeng: "Octopus, hug the Fish God and feel sorry for the Fish God for three seconds. These guys upstairs are all enemies. You, the Fish God, are so pitiful!"
Octopus: "Who says it's not? I can see it. You are all watching my joke, brother! You call me the Fish God, but compared to that salted fish, I am nothing but a Fish God!
Don’t look at the fact that my new book has more than 10,000 votes now. It is estimated that once Boss Xianyu’s new book is put on the shelves, it will take at most two or three days to close this gap. My new book is still the champion until now, but there are no tigers and monkeys in the mountains.
It’s just to claim the title of king! Don’t you look at how many of Boss Xianyu’s new books are in your collection now? It’s so cruel!”
Xiaobao: "The Fish God is too humble, but now I just want to ask the Fish God - who are the monkeys you are talking about?"
Ni Long: "Excuse me, I admit that I am one of the monkeys!"
No regrets: "Obviously, I am one of the monkeys!"
Black Devil: "Obviously, I am one of the monkeys 1"
Blood-clothed Swordsman: "Obviously, I am one of the monkeys 2"
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There are many great people in this group.
But the situation in this group at this time is just a microcosm of what many author groups are today.
Today, many authors are paying attention to the release of "This Daddy Is Unusual" because this book has been very popular recently. This book has dominated almost all the lists of new books.
This can't help but remind many colleagues of Xianyu An Laosun's last new book - "The Last Wish of the Dead". Many people still remember that Qidian's current 24-hour first order record is still that "The Last Wish of the Dead".
Therefore, seeing the recent momentum of "This Dad Is Unusual", many authors can't help but wonder: This new book by Xianyu An Laosun will not break Qidian's 24-hour first order record again, right?
This is not what one, two authors think.
At this time, there was a post with the number of replies in the Internet Article Jianghu section of the author forum, hanging high above this section.
The name of this post is: "Now that the market is open, let's bet on whether "This Daddy is Extraordinary" can break a new 24-hour subscription record..."
If you click on this post, you will see what the commenter on the first floor wrote: "The only one who can break the salted fish record is salted fish! So I bet it can!"
Second floor: "Five packs of spicy strips, I bet you can break the record!"
Third floor: "It should be possible! If the news didn't expose the scandal about Xianyu impersonating the chief director before, the record breaking this time should be stable, but now..."
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The replies on this thread have different opinions. Some people think "This Dad Is Extraordinary" can break the record, while many people think it cannot.
But no matter what the opinions of these people are, at least they are interested in expressing their opinions in this post, which shows that they have thought about this issue and are also paying attention to the first order data of this book.
For most writers, as one of the many Qidian writers, they should know who has the highest 24-hour subscription record for Qidian’s new books and which book it is.
Otherwise, you will feel that you are not a professional writer. How can a writer be called a professional if he doesn't even know which book has the highest subscription record on his own website?
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at the same time.
Sun Quan's more than a dozen book fan groups are also extremely lively today. In almost every group, the number of people speaking today is several times or even more than usual.
Many members of the group are fishing for me, Lao Sun, and want to summon him to chat for a few cents.
These people are basically waiting for "This Dad Is Unusual" to be released on the shelves, and many of them are already ready to subscribe, vote monthly, and even give rewards.
Someone else was trying to mess with my old grandson in the group and asked: "Boss, I'm here to pick up the customers! It's going to be on the shelves. Don't you want to tell me the rules for adding more chapters? For example, how many monthly tickets can be used to add a new chapter? Also,
If you reward the leader, how many more chapters will be added?"
Needless to say, as soon as this question was raised, many people in the group echoed the question.
One of the naughty guys even quietly changed his name in the group to "Xianyu Anlaosun", and then came out to speak: "100 monthly votes will add one chapter, and a leader will add 10 chapters!"
As soon as this reply appeared, some careless people in the group believed it.
And he was very surprised and replied: "Wow! Is it real or fake? Is it so affordable? 100 monthly tickets plus one chapter? Boss, how many manuscripts do you have? One million? Or ten million? Are you sure it's real?
Is it the 100 monthly ticket plus an additional chapter? Are you planning to finish the book in one go today?"
Before he sent this reply, several children had already expressed their surprise.
The characters are relatively short, so they can be sent out quickly.
Such as: "Niu Bi! Awesome!"
"So sincere! I have already shed tears of emotion."
"I just counted, there are already more than 500 alliance leaders on the fan list, so today we can see 5,000 chapters added? Isn't it too fierce?"
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But not all the friends in the group were so careless. After a while, the bridge was no longer visible, and only an eye-catching friend appeared, shattering everyone's dreams.
——"Everyone, please note that the one who spoke just now is not Lao Sun. There is a group leader symbol behind Lao Sun's name, but there is no one after the name of the guy just now!"
The truth is convincing, but it also disappoints many friends.
"I'm just telling you! How much did Old Sun drink before he dared to utter such wild words? Doesn't he know how many book fans he has now? 100 monthly tickets plus one chapter? Don't say he is married, even if he arrives
He is still single now, and his hand speed is not enough!"
"How cruel! Why did you tell me the truth so quickly? Why can't you just let me be happy for a while longer?"
"I just had a dream. In the dream, Lao Sun was released today and 5,000 chapters were added. Unfortunately, when I woke up from the dream, I was in a deadlock..."
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In front of the computer, Sun Quan was still typing the second chapter of this morning. As his hands continued to type on the keyboard in front of him with the speed of a single 26, lines of text jumped out of the document on the computer screen.
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His attention remains focused.
Writing online articles for many years has honed his greatest ability—concentration.
Especially when entering the coding state, his attention is almost completely concentrated.
In his concentrated state, he even forgot about the new books being put on the shelves today.
Until he heard a knock on the door. After the knock on the door, Yu Xinxin's voice came from outside the door, "Mr. Sun, it's time to eat! The meal is ready."
Hearing this, Sun Quan stopped his hands and glanced at the time in the lower right corner of the computer screen, which was 11:28.
At this point in time, he suddenly remembered that his new book would be on the shelves after 12 o'clock today.
"You guys eat first! I have something else to do. I will come down to eat later. You eat yours first! No need to wait for me!"
He didn't open the door, but directly raised his voice and replied to the door.
Yu Xinxin didn't dare to persuade him, so she said "oh" and the footsteps gradually faded away.
Sun Quan frowned and thought for a while, wanting to continue coding, but found that he could not regain the previous coding state for a while.
After all, I still have the new book on the shelves today on my mind.
So, after a while, he saved and closed all the documents in front of him, then called up the acceptance speech he had written not long ago, logged into the author's backend, and sent it out.
He wrote this acceptance speech very casually. When he wrote it, he wrote it exactly as he thought.
For example, he wrote this at the beginning:
"Well, it's time to write my speech again. This reminds me of the speech the wedding officiant asked me to give when I got married a few years ago. My mood was so high at that time, especially when I looked at the bride next to me. It felt so good.
I want to skip all the steps before the wedding and go straight to the bridal chamber!
Haha, so when I was writing this acceptance speech, I also wanted to skip these steps and launch it on the shelves right away..."