Chapter 149: All acquaintances
With the experience of sweeping goods for the first time, Jiang Qi started the sweeping mode in the banquet hall.
New authors are not considered and there is no ready stock.
Big publishers don’t think much about it, because city-limited exclusives are too expensive. But not every big publisher only sells city-limited exclusives. Big haircuts that are made step by step from small publishers have one advantage, and they have many.
Jiang Qi saw a stall with a large poster and three stalls on top, and saw a leaflet full of discounts.
There are 13 boxes in 3 cities, and all books are discounted. The more you buy, the greater the discount. Jiang Qi used a calculator to calculate. If he buys all 13 boxes, the average price is only 254, which is very expensive.
discount.
But it’s a pity that this is a publisher with a decent scale. 2 of the 13 box sets are already available in Jiang Qi’s store. Looking at the names of the remaining 11 Jiang Qi’s books, some of them look like Happy Tears books.
It meets his requirements for scanning goods.
There are only three books with names that look like horror books, and maybe two emotional books. But Jiang Qi has higher requirements for emotional books than horror books. When he buys horror books, he is not afraid of getting a bad one, as long as the writing is not so bad that he cannot read it.
He dares to buy whatever goes down.
I can't help it, who told the store to have such conditions?
Other stores that open horror books have to work hard on lighting, props, and NPCs to create an atmosphere. Stores like Yan Huaiyou who have the conditions have also built a special horror evidence collection corridor covered with light-absorbing paint and a special secret passage for horror books.
It's considered a huge investment.
Jiang Qi doesn't need to buy these things. There are real Gumantong in the store, and Lili is enough for the horror book.
Lili has no way to create something out of nothing within the confines of a non-horror doll house, cannot make the wall suddenly bleed, nor can she make blood stains and writing suddenly disappear, but she can control existing things at will.
For example, let a piece of white cloth fly like a float, let the room door suddenly lock, let the lights flicker on and off, and let the pen suddenly start writing on the paper.
These are enough for ordinary horror books. If every horror book from Galaxy Script Club was as scary as a real haunted house, the script shop would become a legend in City D.
Jiang Qi has the confidence to buy horror books indiscriminately, but he doesn’t have the confidence to buy emotional books indiscriminately.
Although Liu Lan can change the script, the scope of the change is very limited. This can be seen from "Time Cinema", no matter how she changes it, it doesn't seem to work.
She can only change the process, but cannot change the core of a book.
Although Jiang Qi has never played any emotional novels, he has read a lot of them and knows that emotional novels are very demanding in terms of writing and plot.
You still have to be cautious when buying emotional books. Buying a bunch of bad books and going back to the store to open them will only destroy the customer favorability that you have finally accumulated.
Jiang Qi stared at the book on the flyer with some confusion.
There was no one at this booth, but there was a small sign. The sign said: 1103 is opening books, welcome ob.
Jiang Qi decided to go over and have a look.
When Jiang Qi arrived, a lot of people gathered around 1103. Six of the playbooks held A4 papers in their hands for easy identification, and the remaining seven onlookers couldn't tell whether they were discovering or watching the store.
One of the gamers is an acquaintance, Jiang Jun.
Jiang Jun was a little surprised to see Jiang Qi coming, and smiled at Jiang Qi as a greeting without saying a word, because now there was a performance in the room.
1103 is a suite with a large space. When the lights dimmed, a young girl wearing a costume, full makeup and headdress suddenly appeared out of nowhere, which shocked Jiang Qi.
Accompanied by the eerie BGM, the woman quietly walked to the center and started singing babblingly.
Jiang Qi:……
So unpleasant to hear.
There is a saying that this girl is very careful in her appearance, but she deliberately pinches her throat to imitate the opera, and sings in a babbling voice that he cannot hear the words clearly. It is really unpleasant to hear.
Singing opera is not something you can sing just by practicing.
The simple girl only sang for more than three minutes, and she probably wouldn't be able to continue singing if the time ran out. After singing, she performed a one-man show that Jiang Qi couldn't understand because he didn't know the previous plot at all, and then came out again
There was a handsome guy dressed as a nobleman from the Republic of China, and the two of them performed another part before the performance ended.
Everyone in the room applauded enthusiastically.
Emotional book?
Jiang Qi felt that this episode should be over soon, so he decided to stay and watch the follow-up.
After the entire book was finished, Jiang Qi took the A4 paper handed to him by Jiang Jun and briefly read the content and writing style. A group of people began to praise how good this book was. Several stores began to sign the letter of intent. The publishers also promoted the previous books.
In the old version, Jiang Qi roughly understood the plot.
I finally know what this book is called.
"Rouge Blood"
This is a horror book set in the Republic of China. It tells a cliché love ghost story about a little opera singer who fell in love with a noble prince, and then was beaten to death and turned into a vicious ghost.
The writing is good, much better than "Psychic School 3", no wonder Dare City has limited sales.
Jiang Jun also signed the letter of intent, but she seemed unwilling to stay. After signing the letter of intent, she left without saying anything, and Jiang Qi quickly followed.
It would be great if Jiang Jun wants to buy a new copy of this book. The leaflet clearly states that the discount will be greater if you buy a new copy than the old copy.
"Boss Jiang is interested in this book?" Jiang Jun asked.
Jiang Qi shook his head very honestly: "I just came here to take a look, mainly because I want to buy the ones on the flyer."
Jiang Jun took the flyer and looked at it: "These are all books that were published before it was released. These are all old books from a few years ago. It may be a bit outdated if you open them now."
Scripts are updated very quickly. Unless the quality of the script itself is very high, it will soon be eliminated by the market.
"What about these horror books?"
"These are okay, but don't buy "The Wraith"."
"Sister Najun, are you interested in today's book?"
Jiang Jun shook his head: "I'm not very interested. If the person named Zhen wants to compete with me, I will let him. The writing is actually okay, but I feel that as a horror book, the horror part is a bit weak and the love part is too heavy."
"I don't think I'm very good at acting. Singing is really difficult for the people in my store. If you sing well, it's a highlight, but if you sing poorly, it's a disaster."
"Indeed." Jiang Qi nodded in agreement. The moment the opera singer opened her mouth, he almost couldn't help but put on a mask of pain.
Seeing that Jiang Jun had no intention to buy it, Jiang Qi went back to the publisher to buy a boxed copy.
"Rouge Blood" was released by two men and one woman. When Jiang Qi turned back, one of the male publishers was smoking at the door. Seeing Jiang Qi coming back, he quickly greeted him enthusiastically.
This time Jiang Qi had experience, so he opened his mouth and said: "Are all the boxes in stock?"
"Yes, of course."
Jiang Qi directly places an order, adds WeChat, transfers money, and sends the store name and delivery address in one step.
Just when Jiang Qi was about to find a third distributor, the publisher of "Horror. Dollhouse" sent him a message, telling him that the bus for the evening was ready and would be in room 701 at 7 o'clock.
It took Jiang Qi more than four hours to buy 10 copies. It was already 6:30 and only half an hour before 7 o'clock. It was impossible to find a third publisher. Finding a place to fill his stomach was the main thing.
Jiang Qi left the exhibition hotel and found a small shop to eat rice bowl. While eating, he received a WeChat message from Jiang Jun.
Jiang Jun gave him a list of names and told him that if he wanted to buy boxed books in bulk, he could give priority to these books. She couldn't remember most of the names of these books, so Jiang Qi needed to find them by himself.
This list was a great help to Jiang Qi. He quickly replied with a thank you and began to read the list carefully.
Since Jiang Jun didn't know that Jiang Qi only wanted to buy emotional books and horror books, the proportion of these two types of books in this list was not very heavy.
By the time Jiang Qi finished studying the list and finished eating the rice bowl, it was already 6:55. Jiang Qi, who was worried that he would be late for the first time on the bus, hurried to the hotel.
Then he met another acquaintance at the door of 701.
The publishing lady of "Occult School 3".
What a coincidence.
It was such a big exhibition, with thousands of stores and hundreds of distributors. Jiang Qi could count the number of people he knew on two hands, so he bumped into two acquaintances in one day.
"Boss Jiang." The publishing lady was also surprised to see Jiang Qi, "Have you made an appointment for a bus parking space on the 7th floor? Which room is it?"
Jiang Qi pointed to 701: "This is the room."
The publishing girl was even more surprised: "What a coincidence, I also made an appointment on this bus. I originally made an appointment for the bus this afternoon, but the afternoon bus was not full."
Jiang Qi thought what a coincidence and asked: "Does your publisher also book buses from other publishers?"
"I'm not a serious publisher. We mainly run a script store. In addition to selling copies at the Autumn Exhibition, we also need to buy copies. If we can't buy new copies at the Autumn Exhibition, won't we cut off the copies during the winter vacation?" the publishing girl said with a smile,
"It's already 7 o'clock. Let's not talk outside. Let's talk inside."
The two of them entered the room together.
Room 701 is also an ordinary single room, with a small area and no other partitions except the toilet. You can see how many people are in the room at a glance.
Jiang Qi saw another acquaintance at a glance.
An acquaintance who shocked him.
The acquaintance was equally shocked when he saw Jiang Qi. The two looked at each other, one eye dodges, the other pursues him.
Others in the room quickly noticed something was wrong between the two.
The distribution girl was stunned and secretly wondered if she could eat a huge melon.
The publishing lady thought so, and even felt a little excited in her heart.
Great, after running a script store for so long, I can finally get my first taste of it on site.
Jiang Qi looked at the acquaintance sitting opposite him on the bed.
"coincidence."
"sister."
Chapter completed!