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"The data for the first day sales of 'Ghost Blows Out the Light: The Ancient City' has been released, a staggering number - 530,000. In this world, the definition of a bestseller is cumulative sales of 500,000 copies, and 'Ghost Blows Out the Light: The Ancient City' reached this record on its first day."
Even "The Sherlock Holmes Collection", which was jointly recommended by hundreds of celebrities before, only had three days with one million views, and didn't have such a big fanfare.
To know that "The Ghost Blows the Lamp: The Ancient City of Preciousness" was released without much publicity, just posting messages on a few websites, can actually cause such a big stir, this is crazy!!
Wang Ni's strategy is correct. With Su Rui Chen's three-year comeback work, this brand is more powerful than any publicity, so it would be a waste to put resources into this again, and it would be better to use these resources on another book instead.
When the sales figures were announced, they were questioned by countless media outlets, after all, the sales figures were too astonishing. Then, various digging and debunking warriors jumped out, wanting to expose the conspiracy of Xanadu Culture Communication Co., Ltd.'s hype. However, the final investigation results showed that all the data was true, which not only shocked the publishing industry but also the news industry, focusing all attention on this book.
There are experts who have made a detailed interpretation of this data, saying that the popularity of "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp: The Mysterious Ancient City" is inevitable. Su Shiying originally wrote three books with very good word-of-mouth and sales: "The Sherlock Holmes Collection", "The Flood", and "Murder on the Orient Express". It can be said that he had reached the peak, but at this time, Su Shiying chose to read books and went into hiding for three years. During these three years, fans of his previous works finished reading those books and were eager to see new works from the author. The three-year wait can be seen as a form of "hunger marketing", which is why it was able to achieve such a sensational effect.
The interpretation is roughly the same, "Ghost Blows Out the Light" can be sold like crazy just because of Su Rensheng's brand.
In fact, Su Yuechen himself is indeed a reason, but these data analysts also missed a crucial point, that is, the content and novelty of the book "Ghost Blows Out the Light: The Mysterious Ancient City" are also very good.
Humans light candles, ghosts blow out lamps!
"The Grave Robbers' Chronicles" swept the world with its various tomb raiding terms.
If you asked someone casually before what is zongzi?
Undoubtedly, he will answer that it is a food made from glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves and cooked, which everyone eats during the Dragon Boat Festival. It is said to be in memory of Qu Yuan who drowned himself in a river, also known as jiao mi. This is something that everyone knows. However, things are different now. If you ask a young fellow, he may counter-question you "Is it sweet zongzi or meat zongzi, or big zongzi?"
If you haven't watched "The Ghost Blows Out the Light", you might look confused and answer "Of course, it's cured meat zongzi."
If you answer like this, congratulations, you may also be told: it's really scary to have no culture.
In the Ghost Blows Out the Lamp, the word "zongzi" specifically refers to a corpse that has undergone "corpse change". A big zongzi refers to a corpse with many valuable things on it, a dry zongzi is a corpse that only has a pile of white bones left, and a meat zongzi is a corpse with many valuable things on it.
It's imaginable that after reading "Ghost Blows Out the Light", classmates would eat zongzi bought from outside or wrapped by their own family during this year's Dragon Boat Festival, and suddenly recall the explanation of zongzi in the book. Would they feel nauseous and spit it out?
Tomb raiding is not called tomb raiding, but rather "reversal of the pot", or "exhumation". This is similar to how people who write on the internet are referred to as "writers" by themselves, while outsiders call them "authors". The various unheard-of burial methods such as "earth pit coffin", "bronze outer coffin", "vertical burial pit", and "box tomb", as well as the different feng shui layouts, including those mentioned in the book like "Nine Dragon Jade Lotus", "Two Dragons Absorbing Pearl", and "Twelve Dragon Pillars Piercing the Earth", may seem childish and disorganized to professionals in the field of feng shui, but are actually very attractive to ordinary people.
These seemingly professional tomb-raiding terms have left readers enchanted and unable to put them down.
This has a significant impact, for example, a classmate who has read "Ghost Blows Out the Light" asked the history teacher: "Teacher, did the Jingjue Ancient Country really exist in history? Is it true that there is a Ghost Cave Clan? Did they really discover the legendary ghost cave connecting to hell? Are there really Corpse Xiang Magic Lotus guarding their tombs?"
The history teacher was driven crazy by this question from students, what the hell are these questions!!!!
He did know that Jiegu was one of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions, but what was the Guidong tribe? And what about the legend of the Ghost Cave connecting to the depths of hell?
Being a teacher is difficult, being a history teacher is even more difficult, and being a history teacher who has students that like to read "Ghost Blows Out the Light" and ask questions left and right is even more challenging!
The original author of "Ghost Blows Out the Light", Tian Xia Ba Chang, once publicly said that everything in the book is fake, but even so, there are not a few readers who take some things in the book as true, this is what is called using falsehood to confuse truth.
For some of the things mentioned in "Ghost Blows Out the Light", many people have searched for them on ancient books and online!
Another advantage of this book is that it describes various rules and taboos related to tomb raiding.
The rooster crows, the lamp goes out, and no one touches the gold.
Is there another tomb chamber that can be entered only once?
When meeting fellow practitioners, one should not harm them but rather protect each other, and those who came first should take the lead.
Things stolen from the tomb cannot be called underworld utensils, but only Ming utensils. Also, when stealing tombs, it is not possible to say that the coffin has been opened, but rather that an official position and wealth have been obtained, because in the graveyard, both coffins and underworld are linguistic taboos, etc.
What's the impression of grave robbers in people's minds? Dirty (always digging in the dirt, of course, dirty) chaotic (same reason as above) immoral (digging up people's ancestral graves, of course, no morals) and so on. All are very bad words. But after watching "The Grave Robbers' Chronicles", this shameful profession has actually been written with so many twists and turns, this is completely a rhythm to whitewash grave robbing!!!
Anyway, if you ask people who have read "Ghost Blows Out the Light" now, most of them will say so?
Mysterious (doing things late at night is indeed mysterious enough) Knowledgeable (in terms of dragon vein and antique appraisal, it can surpass ordinary professors). In contrast to the front and back attitude towards grave robbers, a conclusion can be drawn: "The Grave Robbers' Chronicles" has been very successful in whitewashing.
When readers open "Ghost Blows Out the Light", it's as if they've opened a treasure trove, with one treasure after another appearing before their eyes.
Mysterious and extraordinary, as if Medusa, an absolute queen who cannot be gazed at directly...
The tyrant frog that should have gone extinct during the Ice Age...
A legendary bottomless pit connecting to the other side of the Earth...
The essential book for murder, arson, and robbery - "Sixteen-character Yin-yang Fengshui Technique"
The legendary nine-storeyed tower of the Demon King's mausoleum...
Wait, these things that ordinary people can't get in touch with have appeared in the book, and as the protagonist Hu Bayi unfolds before the reader's eyes, this is undoubtedly a thrilling thing!!!
The first day's sales were 530,000 copies, and the second day not only didn't decrease but actually increased by several tens of thousands to reach 580,000 copies. This is completely the rhythm of daily sales breaking six million!
Just as these media were making such estimates, the sales figures for the third day came out ——
6.5 million! Directly breaking through 6 million.
In three days, the cumulative sales exceeded 1.5 million copies. Such sales in a week are still acceptable. To know that Su Rensheng's first work "Journey to the West" has sold only 1.7 million copies so far, which is a very good data. However, the sales of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" in three days have already broken through the cumulative sales of "Journey to the West" in three years.
Three days shattered three years, it's so against heaven, it's creating a miracle!
"The Ghost Blows Out the Light" was on sale for three days, and it was completely a withered and dried-up look. The same period of listing or listing in a few days faced such an array, and there was no resistance at all.
"The Ghost Blows Out the Light" is clearly not as good as Sherlock Holmes, but its sales have surprisingly surpassed those of Sherlock Holmes. Wang Shan's mind was elsewhere, "The Ghost Blows Out the Light" had impressive sales, but for this die-hard Holmes fan, it wasn't something to be excited about.
"The Ghost Blows Out the Light" can't be compared to "Sherlock Holmes" overall, but it's more in line with market demand. Wang Ni explained coldly, "Sherlock Holmes" indeed set a high standard for detective novels, but its writing style and tone are all Western-style, if it were sold in Western countries it would sell extremely well, but domestically being able to achieve this level of sales is already thanks to Xiao Chen's fame. Most authors become famous through their works, but Su Yue Chen uses his fame to make his works more famous, turning it around.
"When will 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' be released in the West!" Wang Shan really wanted to see the scene where Holmes wreaks havoc in the West.
"The time has not yet come..."
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"The Storm of Ghost Blowing Lamp" swept across both the real world and the internet, those who had published books were secretly regretting their bad luck for encountering Su Shi Chen, with sales dropping by at least 20%, while those who hadn't published yet were relieved, feeling lucky, then quickly postponed the release date of their own books by several weeks.
Of course, there are also some new authors who don't believe in this and insist on putting their books on the market. The result is naturally predictable, being crushed to the point of nothingness.
Even with a significant amount of promotional resources provided by the publisher, sales for three days were only a few hundred copies, and the total for the three days did not even reach one thousand copies.
This scene is just like the year 1997 on Earth, when that big ship was unstoppable, raking in $1.8 billion and 14 nominations, taking home 11 Oscars, with no other film able to shake it at all. Today in 2016, Su Renshan's "Ghost Blows Out the Light" is like a small version of that big ship, because only domestically, who outside of China knows Su Renshan?
Actually, it's hard to say, but some people should still recognize her, because Jenny helped translate "The Sherlock Holmes Collection" which brought in a lot of popularity for her!!
Whether in reality or online, I was shocked by this work!
"Su Da's products must be of high quality!" — Lin
"It's been three years, it's been three years!! Su Da finally had a burst of conscience and created another masterpiece after 'Hong Huang'." - Sashou G
"The upstairs is wrong, it's another masterpiece after 'The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'." —— Youlan Mingfu
"You're all wrong, it's obviously another classic after 'Murder on the Orient Express'!" — Bai Laoshu Kaka
Alright, the above "White Mouse Card" "Soshandeng's Love Letter" and "Ghostly Blue Hell" three book friends fully interpreted the differences between Fu Mi, Hong Mi and Fast Train Mi.
There is a place on the internet called Douban where people review books and movies. "Ghost Blows Out the Light" has an 8.2 rating, with over 10,000 book friends reviewing it in just three days.
Full marks are ten points, according to the division of Douban, books with more than 7.3 points are good books, and books with scores above 9 points on the entire Douban can be counted on one hand, of course, Chu Xing's "Future Science" is among them.
There are numerous comments on "The Ghost Blows Out the Light" on Douban, and in just three days, many long and short reviews have emerged.
One of them is called "Ghost Blows the Lamp, God Plays Tricks" and has the most comments... (Please search for 5du5, updated faster!)