The last American city where Zhang Zhong signed for sales—no, I shouldn’t say that, I should say the last non-Chinese city where Zhang Zhong signed for sales—was New York.
Now, Cupertino has become the second non-Chinese city to host a signature event, and its name will be placed together with New York.
Now a lot of attention is focused on Cupertino, a small city.
Leaders in many other places are also wondering why Cameron was the first to think of this and not them.
Even if their cities do not have such a large proportion of PZ readers, PZ has broken many local book sales records, and these cities have every reason to hold a PZ Day.
Otherwise, Cupertino, a small place, has developed very well in recent years. Look at how many flattering ideas Cameron has in his head.
If you can't eat grapes, you can't call them sour. You can only criticize the people who eat grapes for being shameless.
It’s not that no one has thought about following the trend and having a pz day, but they all know that following the trend is useless. Cupertino’s deeds can no longer be replicated, and it is impossible for pz to go to a second city.
Maybe in the end, he lost his wife and lost his troops, and Zhang Zhong was not attracted, but instead had to endure some abuse and ridicule.
The signature event, originally scheduled for six hours, was eventually extended to nine hours.
But even so, when Zhang Zhong finished signing autographs, there was still a long queue in Cupertino Plaza.
There are at least 10,000 to 20,000 local readers in Cupertino alone, not to mention many people from nearby areas.
If he wants to sign tens of thousands of people, Zhang Zhong may have to stay here for a week.
Zhang Zhong finished signing. Although people were disappointed, they also expressed their understanding. After all, pz was not a robot. He could sign for nine consecutive hours, which moved them very much.
The happiest person today is actually Kane, the owner of a bookstore in the Cupertino area. Although Zhang Zhong’s autograph session is free, many people still flock to the bookstore to buy books.
Some people came without a book and didn’t want to go back to get it, and some just came here because Zhang Zhong came and bought a book to support them.
Kane had already anticipated this, so he had purchased a large number of heavy books in advance to cope with today's flow of people.
After the evening event, Kane and his staff made a rough calculation. They found that a total of more than 40,000 books were sold today. Of course, most of them were Zhang Zhong's books. Except for the new book "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", Zhang Zhong sold more than 40,000 books in total.
Other books are also selling well.
This number sets another record - the record for book sales in Cupertino in a single day.
This number does not seem high, but when you think about the fact that Neon Country, a country with hundreds of millions of people, could not sell so many heavy books in a day, this number seems very scary.
Even now, in states with a small population in the United States, so many heavy books cannot be sold in a day. There may even be some states that cannot sell so many novels in a day.
No one has ever done statistics on how many books a bookstore can sell in a day. Perhaps the Cupertino area bookstore has already broken this record.
Because of this incident, many people later wanted to open bookstores in Cupertino.
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Zhang Zhong spent four days traveling back and forth between the United States and China. It seems that winning people's hearts also comes at a cost.
This time I went to Cupertino. On the one hand, I was really moved. On the other hand, I wanted to win people's hearts and promote my new book.
He doesn't really need publicity for this kind of thing, but it's better than nothing.
And the results of this trip to Cupertino were very good. Just look at the news headlines these days, they are all about him and Cupertino.
The sales volume of "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" is very good, but it suffers from the lack of language options. The first-day sales volume is far behind "The Three-Body Problem", with only more than 10 million copies.
However, affected by the Cupertino incident, the subsequent performance of book sales was good.
When other languages are released later, things will gradually get better.
Although Linde's first-day sales have not been broken so far, Zhang Zhong does not care about this, otherwise "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" would not have been released in two languages first.
If we are ruthless and publish it in dozens of languages, we might be able to break Linde's record in one fell swoop.
After returning to China, things in Cupertino are still fermenting, and Zhang Zhong's name is still at the top of the hot search list these days.
However, on November 19th, Wu Ziyun, who had just sold a painting for more than 70 million yuan not long ago, suddenly became a hot search, and even almost pushed Zhang Zhong down.
The reason why Wu Ziyun is on the hot search is because he painted another painting.
Like Wu Ziyun's previous work, this work also depicts an individual, but the difference is that this time the work does not depict a full face.
The painting looks like a naive little girl who is only a few years old.
The little girl is holding her hands and bending over. Only a little bit of her appearance can be seen. She has long eyelashes and her eyes should be very big. She seems to be smiling.
This painting is still very lifelike, not only the people are very lifelike, but also the exposed corners of the table and the patterns on the floor are clearly visible.
Netizens are all guessing who the little girl in this painting is. Some people speculate that she may be Wu Ziyun's daughter. However, insiders revealed that Wu Ziyunbi does not have a family and does not have a daughter.
But others didn't know it, but Zhang Zhong could tell at a glance that Wu Ziyun was painting Peng Peng.
Moreover, the scene in the painting is exactly when Peng Peng bowed to Wu Ziyun in the private room of the painting boat.
Seeing this painting, Zhang Zhong couldn't help but sigh that Wu Ziyun's memory was so extraordinary. In just that moment, he remembered all the details.
Not to mention the facial expression, the details of the clothes are exactly the same.
Zhang Zhong even wondered if Wu Ziyun had a miniature camera installed in his eyes, otherwise how could he have captured that moment so truly and concretely.
When we met before, Wu Ziyun said that he wanted to give Pengpeng a gift, and it seemed that this was his gift.
Pengpeng gave him a painting, and he returned a painting.
When Zhang Zhong showed the photo to Pengpeng, Pengpeng was still asking: "Did Teacher Wu secretly take a photo of me?"
"This is what Teacher Wu painted stroke by stroke."
When Zhang Zhong told Pengpeng the truth, the girl covered her face in surprise.
I remember that the last time Xu Yuhan searched for Wu Ziyun's paintings and showed them to Peng Peng, this girl didn't think so. But now that it was her on the painting, the situation was completely different. She was instantly frightened by Wu Ziyun's techniques.
Just like a person who has never seen a camera and suddenly sees a photo of himself, the surprise is exactly the same.