Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 97

Local magazines in the North were generally concentrated in major newsstands. Since Wuxia had no channels in the North, it was distributed in major regular bookstores and libraries tied up with the publishing house of Catcher in Song Dynasty. People who read the book wanted to see the next plot, so they rushed to buy Wuxia magazine. Because the Wuxia magazines were sealed in transparent plastic bags, they had to spend money to buy them.

Some read it all at once in the bookstore, some bought the book and read it at home. After reading it, they returned to the bookstore and learned that there was a follow-up in the Wuxia magazine. Some people bought the magazine directly from the bookstore, and some people thought of a newsstand near home. They thought it might be cheaper to buy magazines at the newsstand, but when asked, they didn’t have Wuxia magazine.

“It’s a magazine which has Catcher in the Song Dynasty. They are sold in bookstores.” They had no choice but to go to the bookstore. Sure enough, it was available in the bookstore.

After people at the newsstand heard about the Wuxia magazine, they also asked about it.

In fact, it was not that Wuxia magazine had no sales in the North. It was just because the base camps of martial arts were in Guangshi, Nanshi, and Shanghai, and the markets it radiated were also based in these three places. So its market in the North was very small.

Wuxia declined in the 1990s, top authors were poached, and employees were transferred frequently. The articles in it were not as good as before. The market was compressed, and the magazines could not be sold. Naturally, they did not subscribe to Wuxia Magazine. In addition, there were many magazines with extremely high sales in the Northern Market. That made many readers in the Northern Market completely ignorant of Wuxia.

When there was demand, there was supply. People specifically asked for it at many newsstands and bookstores.

Scenes like this happened in many places in the North.

Jiang Ning thought that the first printing was 100,000, and there should be no need to print more. After all, in the era she lived in later, paper books were greatly affected by electronic books. A book that could have a sales volume of 50,000 was considered a best-seller. Unexpectedly, the serialization of Catcher in Song Dynasty and the advertisements for published books directly raised the sales in the South. One hundred thousand copies were printed, of which half of them were distributed to the southern market. All of a sudden, it was sold out.

Even the publishing house didn’t expect that Catcher in Song Dynasty’s sales would be so good, and they urgently contacted Wang Yong to sign a printing contract with Jiang Ning.

Some publishing houses, after signing a publishing contract and the first printing number with the author, usually sold the book because the author did not understand the market data, and then printed an additional one or two hundred thousand, while the author was kept in the dark. They had no idea that the publishing house was secretly printing the book without informing them.

But the publishing house Director Li chose an in-depth cooperation with them. By working together, they could achieve better results, a win-win situation. Their channel would help Director Li enter the northern market, and their channel would use their magazine influence to help them do business in the South. With the situation, it was impossible for the publishing house to conceal the number of additional printings from Jiang Ning.

They had already started printing before even signing the additional printing contract with Jiang Ning. After Jiang Ning’s contract was signed and sent over, the books were already on the market.

With the popularity of Catcher in Song Dynasty in the North, Wuxia finally successfully entered the northern market.

Director Li found out that Justice Bao had a total of 236 episodes. Before Catcher in Song Dynasty was serialized in Wuxia Magazine, it had been popular on the TV station for quite some time. At the moment, Catcher in Song Dynasty’s serialization in Wuxia Magazine was in its eighth issue. Another two months had passed. According to Justice Bao’s broadcast speed of two episodes a day, he estimated that it would be finished and released by New Year’s Day at most.

By then, the popularity of Justice Bao would inevitably decrease with the release of new TV series.

Although Catcher in Song Dynasty was very popular and had driven the sales of Wuxia, no one could guarantee whether it would still maintain its current popularity after Justice Bao was completed.

As Director Li, who personally did the publicity and planning for Catcher in Song Dynasty, he knew very well that it just took advantage of the popularity of Justice Bao in publicity. Even the characters on the covers were directly painted by painters according to Zhan Zhao’s image.

Director Li had always been worried that the popularity of Catcher in Song Dynasty would decline, and the sales of Wuxia would also decline, and the magazine would be canceled at any time. That was definitely not what he wanted to see.

Their magazine opened in the northern market. Director Li no longer had to worry about the fate of the magazine being canceled. After all, just one northern market alone could increase their sales by at least 500,000 copies a month, and as they continue to expand with the further expansion of the northern market, sales would inevitably increase.

The magazine branch in Tianjin City had also been opened. Due to too many staff transfers in the Guangzhou branch, only Director Li and Editor Bao were the only ones who could really take charge of the overall situation. Editor Bao was also responsible for the magazine editing work. To control the overall content of Wuxia, Director Li could only go to Tianjin City to take charge of the matter, first pull up the team there, and then return to Guangzhou City after recruiting a suitable chief editor and editorial team.

What all that brought to Jiang Ning was tangible income in her bankbook. With that money, she could take her grandfather to see a doctor, and she could also have money to pay taxes when applying for a real estate certificate in Shanghai.

The procedures on the Shanghai Stock Exchange had been completed, and she was just waiting to go to the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau to pay the tax and get the certificate in her hand.

Jiang Ning had no time before, but with the launch of Catcher in Song Dynasty, New Year’s Day was coming soon.

On New Year’s Day, the seniors of high school only had one day off, the sophomores had two days off, and the freshmen had three days off.

She planned to take advantage of the New Year’s Day holiday and ask for another day off from her class teacher to take her grandfather to examine all the chronic and geriatric diseases in his body, get supplements and recuperate when needed. She also wanted to resolve the matter of the real estate certificate. If time permitted, she would also like to go to Guangzhou and visit the clothing and shoe factories there in person, and then negotiate with them about purchasing goods and quickly fill the store there.

Because she had never gone home, she was still not sure whether the ranger’s work ends on New Year’s Day or not. If it ends on New Year’s Day, after bringing her grandpa back from Shanghai she would just let Grandpa stay in Wucheng. She decided to rent the storefront, pay money for it and lay out the goods, just waiting for her grandpa. Even if Grandpa Jiang wanted to go back, with such an investment he had to stay.

It felt like she was kidnapping him, but there was no other way.