Six Degrees of Separation Theory: There will be no more than five people between you and any stranger. In other words, you can get to know any stranger through at most five people.
This theory has an alias called "small world theory".
Stuckart had heard of this theory, but she never thought that she would become a participant in it.
The night she read "Flowers for Algernon", she couldn't wait to recommend the book to her best friend Mandy.
While Mandy was reading, her boyfriend Nathan was next to her.
Nathan recommended this book to his good friend James.
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Finally the book found its way onto the desk of the famous movie star Affleck.
Affleck was wrapped in a bathrobe and sat relaxedly on the sofa. He was going to take some time to read the book recommended to him by his agent.
Agent Leon knew that he liked to read science fiction novels, so he often recommended science fiction novels to him. He was very satisfied with the works recommended by Leon in the past few times.
This time it shouldn't disappoint, Affleck thought.
In fact, reliable Leon never disappoints, and this time is no exception.
No, not only was it not disappointing, it was a fucking surprise.
This is definitely a good book. Even though Affleck has read so many science fiction novels, this one is one of the best.
He was eager to know if the writer had other works, but after typing "pvs.zhang" on the search engine, nothing came up.
It's not that there is nothing, it's just an introduction to pvs. pvs represents many things, such as prototype verification systems, polyethylene sulfuric acid...
But there is no information about books, not even the book "Flower for Algernon".
This is simply impossible, he is clearly holding this book in his hand.
He can be sure that even one letter of the name he entered is correct.
Affleck reluctantly entered the title of the book. This time there was some news, but this book didn't even have an encyclopedia. It was all messy news.
He did not give up, and used a translator to translate the title of the book into Chinese, then copied and pasted it into the search bar.
A lot of information came out, all in Chinese, and he couldn't understand it.
However, he still saw something similar to an encyclopedia and found the author's name.
He didn't recognize any of the words "fifth grade vegetative", but it didn't matter. He copied the name and pasted it into the search engine.
This time, a lot of things and books came out, but he didn't know any of them.
"It seems that this author has written many books, but none of them have been translated into English."
Affleck scratched his head, why is China not an English-speaking country?
Although he knew that his idea was a bit ridiculous, he really felt a little regretful.
He was a little disappointed, but this book alone was enough to surprise him.
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Big star Affleck updated his ins and recommended a science fiction novel.
Affleck's fans are not surprised, because this guy recommends novels to others from time to time. Fortunately, Affleck has good taste and the books he recommends are always good.
Over time, some people who are not Affleck's fans will also pay attention to him because of the books he recommends. They do not regard him as a film and television star, but as a person who recommends books.
Because Affleck is very effective in promoting books, some writers' agents often come to him with books written by co-authors, hoping that he can help promote them, but Affleck refused them all.
Because he knows that the reason fans like the books he recommends is entirely because he recommends books without any commercial purpose and always shares his favorite books.
The first printing of the English version of this book was only 100,000 copies, and in order to promote "global distribution", Agitation Literature also distributed the book in other major English-speaking countries in addition to the United States.
As a result, only 40,000 copies of the 100,000 copies will be distributed to the United States.
If Stuckart hadn't gone to Norton's, the largest bookstore in the area, he probably wouldn't have found this book.
There are 40,000 books nationwide, and they were completely sold out in less than half a day after Affleck posted on Instagram.
The book is gone...
A group of people like this suddenly appeared in major bookstores. They came up and asked if they had the book "Flowers for Algernon".
"If you don't have it, hurry up and buy it! You don't want to make money even if you have money?"
There are many grumpy old men in the United States who get mad on the spot when they hear that there are no books in the bookstore.
This has made many bookstore managers very depressed. Isn't this just a scam? Is this book so popular?
However, when they learned that this was a book recommended by Affleck himself, they gave up the idea, and their only thought was to "contact the publisher as soon as possible."
Agitational Literature only has a small office in the United States, and there are only two staff members in it. When the flood of calls came from all over the country, the two staff members were instantly confused.
"No, we don't have any stock here. Do you want to order? How many? Two hundred copies, okay."
"Well, 20,000 copies? Okay, I've written it down."
Those who called, there were second-level booksellers, wholesale markets, and of course more bookstores.
There were two people, one answered the phone and the other was copying the list.
After working for a long time, when they finally had some free time, both of them beat their shoulders and felt tired.
"Brother Li, what do you think is going on? People suddenly come asking for books?"
Brother Li shook his head, "I don't know, it's a good thing anyway, but with so many orders, we can't make the decision privately, we still have to contact the headquarters."
"That won't work now, it's still night over in China."
"Then just wait."
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Li Nan received the news early in the morning. When his American colleagues reported the situation, he was surprised and felt a little lucky this time. Who would have thought that this book would be picked up by the famous Affleck?
"More printing, hurry up, the order is 300,000 copies, right? Then add one million, don't worry, just... add one million first, let the printing factory that cooperates with us be ready at any time, maybe there will be more later
Need to be printed."
Li Nan's order was issued quickly. Fortunately, the printing factory they cooperated with was not very busy recently and there was no need to queue up, so they could renew immediately, otherwise they would have been in a hurry.
And one million copies is enough for them to print for a few days.
After explaining what was going on there, Li Nan walked to the public relations department of the publishing house and found the public relations manager.
In theory, Li Nan, as editor-in-chief, is on the same level as the public relations manager, but he also holds the position of deputy general manager, so he is one step above the public relations manager.
"What do you want from the leader?" Upon learning that Li Nan was coming, Guan Qiang, manager of the public relations department, hurriedly greeted him.
"I can't talk to you, please come over and support the work of your public relations department."