in2ebook Chapter 258 Weekly Report
Chapter 258 Weekly Report
Once the two reviewers have unanimously approved it, the reviewed album will be sent to the game space's printing factory for mass production. This process will only take about three days, but Lin Chuyi does not plan to put all the books in this series on the shelves at once.
She plans to publish books quarterly, with the first three volumes to be exhibited at the opening ceremony, the middle three volumes to be published three months later, the last four volumes to be published half a year later, and finally a series display to increase the attention of this series of books in this way.
This is what Lin Chuyi planned and did, but she did not hold out much hope for this kind of professional book to sell well, because there are few people who would pay attention to this kind of knowledge, and even fewer people who can spend money to buy such books.
However, Lin Chuyi believes that as the reputation of Wanjuanshu spreads, more and more people will know that it collects professional books in various fields. By then, it will definitely attract a group of people who are truly interested in these books. Only then will these books come into play.
Precisely because he clearly understood this, Lin Chuyi was not too worried about the sales figures of the professional books he had written.
She was more worried about the novel she was writing, which is what people now often call a script.
She was not very confident whether the books she wrote could capture the hearts of the public and sell well.
Although Lin Chuyi thought that her writing was not bad, this was her first time writing a storybook. It was also her first time to show her writing to the world for people to judge. It would be a lie to say that she was not nervous.
But no matter how worried and anxious Lin Chuyi was, the opening day of Wanjuanshu was getting closer day by day.
The opening date of Wanjuan Bookstore was set on the first day of the twelfth lunar month. On the opening day, Yuan Qizi had someone put up an extra-large billboard in front of the door of Wanjuan Bookstore.
The bulletin board is filled with various precautions after entering the store, such as not making loud noises in the store, not eating in the store, not damaging property in the store, etc.
Yuan Qizi also picked out four little beggars of similar height from among his men. After cleaning them, he dressed them up as servants and asked them to distribute the first issue of the weekly newspaper for free to passers-by at the door of the store.
Before finalizing the first issue of Wanjuanshu's weekly report, Yuan Qizi scrapped more than twenty weekly report layouts and screened thousands of news items.
In order to ensure the accuracy of the events published in the newspaper, Yuan Qizi's subordinates almost ran themselves ragged. After finally confirming the information to be published in the weekly newspaper, Yuan Qizi immediately went to find someone to customize the printing templates and the paper for printing the fonts.
Yuan Qizi lost a lot of weight after personally completing the entire process from screening information to forming the weekly report. He did not complain to Lin Chuyi about the hard work, but Lin Chuyi could see from his state how hard and difficult it was for him during this period. Fortunately, God rewards those who work hard, and Yuan Qizi finally managed to chew the hard nut of the weekly report.
On the front of the weekly there were four big characters written "Lanzhou Weekly". Directly below "Lanzhou Weekly" there was a line of small characters, which marked "the first issue" and "the first day of the twelfth lunar month of the fifteenth year of Zhengxin".
The front page of the weekly report contains all the news, big and small, that have occurred in Lanzhou during the past week. The news occupies different sizes of pages depending on its influence.
In addition to news, there is a palm-sized area in the lower right corner of the front of the weekly newspaper for Wanjuanshu to solicit articles online, indicating that Wanjuanshu accepts news submissions from the public. Once the content of the submission is verified and adopted, it will be published in the new issue of the weekly newspaper. The first contributor will receive a reward of 200 coins.
On the back of the weekly newspaper, three-quarters of the page is occupied by serial novels, one novel and two short stories, and the remaining quarter of the area is reserved for advertising.
The first advertisement of the weekly newspaper was naturally reserved for promoting its own bookstore. On the advertisement it was written that during the first three days of Wanjuanshu's opening, all books in the store would be sold at a 20% discount. At the same time, the store would launch a borrowing service. Customers only needed to pay ten cents to borrow books in the store for one day (until closing time of the day). A batch of books would be updated every seven days, including but not limited to the Four Books and Five Classics, classics, history, biographies, travel notes, etc. Each book was limited to two copies, and was on a first-come, first-served basis.
The weekly newspaper launched by Wanjuanshu is updated every seven days. One copy costs two cents. 1000 copies will be distributed for free in the first phase of the opening event. The serialized stories in the newspaper are sold in full in the store. If you need them, you can come to the store and buy them yourself.
At the end of the advertisement, the store address of Wanjuan Books was written, and there was even a mini picture of Wanjuan Bookstore next to it.
At the bottom it says advertising space is sought. If you need cooperation, you can go to Wanjuan Bookstore for a face-to-face interview.
When the Wanjuanshu weekly newspaper is unfolded, it is as big as the window paper at home, and it is snow-white. It is free and worth a try. Even if there is no reader in the family, taking it home to paste on the walls is a good choice. Therefore, no matter whether it is a curious passerby or a passerby, basically no one will refuse the free weekly newspaper.
The scholars looked at things differently from passers-by. Their focus was on the thousands of books that could be borrowed. They happily took the weekly newspaper to share the good news with their classmates and friends.
The reason why they were so excited was that paper was expensive in that era, and books were even more expensive. If you wanted to buy a book, the cheapest one would cost several hundred coins, and the more expensive ones would cost several taels of silver. Now this newly opened bookstore actually had a borrowing service. You only had to spend ten coins to read any book in the store. This was really great news.
Even though the scope of reading is limited, the price will return to ten cents per hour after the event date. But even if it returns to the original price, for them, borrowing books is still more cost-effective than buying them directly.
There are many books on the first floor of Wanjuanshu, including all the books needed for the imperial examination. Although the number of books is limited, if they join other classmates who are not well-off, prepare pens and ink, wait in advance, go in and borrow books immediately after the store opens, copy down the contents of the books in the reading area, and then exchange the copies with each other, wouldn't they be able to save a lot of money on buying books?
Moreover, the first floor of the Wanjuanshu contains not only the Four Books and Five Classics used for the imperial examinations, but also many other books. By spending only a small amount of copper coins, you can read various books that you have never read before and broaden your horizons.
Such a good thing is not only attractive to students like them who are short of money, but also to those students from well-off families. After all, not everyone is willing to spend a lot of money to collect a large number of "useless" books.