"Why does the release of new books take place on working days? Doesn't Zhang Zhong care about sales?"
In the checkout line at the bookstore, a young man couldn't help but complain.
Another person next to him laughed and said, "I'm not saying that I'm forcing you to come in the morning, and then come back to buy it after get off work in the evening."
"Isn't this why I can't wait?"
"If I buy it now, I can only wait until noon to watch it."
"I can't read it at noon. I've been very busy lately. Eating at noon is like a war. I don't even bother to chew the food. What else can I read? I bought this book and went back to read it in the evening."
"You can't see it, why don't you wait until tonight to buy it again..."
Wang Yu laughed unconsciously as he listened to the conversation between the two people. In fact, he has been very busy recently. He could probably rest for less than half an hour after lunch, but he still came to line up for no other reason.
, being able to buy the book and put it on his desk makes him feel at ease.
Most of the people in line were like him, holding a starry sky card in their hands.
The emergence of Star Card has its pros and cons. Of course it is good for readers like them, as they can save dozens of dollars. It is also good for these big bookstores, because points can stimulate people's desire to buy.
But it is really disadvantageous for those small bookstalls, because many small bookstalls have not yet joined the Star Card points system.
On one side are big bookstores where you can get points for buying books, and on the other side are small bookstalls where you can't get points for buying books. Of course, people tend to go to big bookstores to buy books.
However, this situation should gradually change, because many small bookstores have begun to slowly join the Star Sky membership card system.
Setting the sale time on a working day was also proposed by Zhang Zhong.
As soon as this activity of redeeming points for "Clockwork Girl" came out, many people must have rushed to the bookstore to exchange books.
If it is sold on the weekend, Zhang Zhong is worried that too many people will go to redeem new books, which will cause excessive pressure on the bookstore's cash register and affect the normal operation of the bookstore.
Sales on working days can improve this situation as much as possible.
Although there are still some people queuing at the checkout area, the queue is not very long. If it were a weekend, the queue might be several times longer.
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Readers in the United States may not have such good benefits as readers in China.
Star Card has been used in China for a long time, and the number of cooperative bookstores has reached a sufficient number. However, in foreign countries, in most cities, there are only a few large bookstores where you can buy books and accumulate points.
Therefore, if foreign readers don't happen to live near a large bookstore that cooperates with Star Card, they have to go further if they want to earn points.
Redeeming new books is the same as accumulating points, and you also have to go to these cooperative bookstores.
In addition to the inconvenience of accumulating points and redeeming new books, it is also more difficult for foreign readers to obtain points than Chinese readers - and much higher.
First of all, one Huaxia dollar can be exchanged for one point in China, but in the United States, one dollar can only be exchanged for one point.
Many American readers find it unreasonable. After all, one dollar is worth seven yuan. Doesn’t pz take the exchange rate into consideration?
Chinese readers may get fifty, sixty or even seventy or eighty points for buying a book, but American readers can only get more than ten or twenty points for buying a book. They pay more money, but only get
Fewer points.
Not only that, if you want to get points in the United States, there are almost only two ways to buy Zhang Zhong's works and "Zero Zero One" magazine, because many works of their company's authors have not been translated into English.
There is no point-earning system like the Zhiwang Science and Technology Exhibition Hall.
Therefore, it is not easy to accumulate 500 points in the United States, so there are far fewer people who use points to exchange for new books.
Of course, there are also some "opportunistic" people.
Star Sky membership card points are not divided into countries and regions, which means readers with Star Sky membership cards can accumulate points in any country in the world, and then use the points to redeem new books in another country.
For example, Parker, who often goes to China, even helped his friends do "purchasing" work. When he was in China, he used their Star Sky cards to accumulate points, and then after returning to the United States, they used their Star Sky membership cards to redeem new books.
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As an old book fan, Stuckart went to get one as soon as he learned about the existence of the Starry Sky Card.
Fortunately, the Norton bookstore she often goes to has joined the Star Card points system, so she doesn't have to go to other places for the Star Card.
Stuckart is also one of the few American readers who can accumulate 500 points in such a short period of time.
In fact, she basically has all of pz's works, and she has bought them as long as they are translated into English.
But for the sake of points, she bought these books again, and gave them to friends even if she didn't read them, just so that on the day when the new books were released, she could exchange them for a new book with a Star Card with 500 points.
From an economic perspective, she is certainly at a loss.
In exchange for a book, she spent five hundred dollars in vain. The money was enough for her to buy more than twenty copies of "The Wind-Up Girl".
But she herself felt that it was not a loss at all, because she felt that using points to redeem new books was much cooler than using money to buy books directly.
There's nothing she can do about it, she can't resist redeeming points for prizes.
Moreover, when points are redeemed for new books, the receipt given in the bookstore is different from the receipt for ordinary book purchases. It shows that 500 points are deducted.
So after switching to a new book, she took photos and posted them on her social networking site.
See, I am different from you. I redeemed my points for a new book.
Well, that's cool.
After she was satisfied with receiving the envy of many friends, she opened the new book "The Clockwork Girl" which she had spent five hundred dollars to get.
The book is called "The Wind-up Girl", but at the beginning of the novel, no girl appears.
A man named Anderson was walking in the morning market in Bangkok, and he seemed to find something remarkable.
ngaw.
It is a kind of fruit, a red fruit with green hairs.
This word - how to pronounce it?
This somewhat stumped Stuckart.
She has never heard of ngaw fruit.
But seeing the description of ngaw, Stuckart felt a little familiar.
The red fruit has green hairs and is shaped somewhat like a sea anemone. The flesh inside is pale and translucent.
This seems to be... rambutan?
The more I think about her, the more she feels like it.
This is definitely rambutan.
In fact, even if she doesn't know what this fruit is, it won't affect Stuckart's reading, because this is a future world, and it's normal even if something she doesn't know appears.
In particular, she has also read "Yellow Card Man" and "Calorie Man", and already has a preliminary understanding of this world.