Chapter 16: Internet Phenomenon
Chapter 16: Internet Phenomenon
Morning, two days later at school.
“Finally finished.”
Xia Ping sat in his seat and stretched his waist. After three days of constant hard work, he finally finished writing this 500,000-word novel.
And in these three days he was not only writing novels, but also constantly creating hype on the Internet; stirring up topics everywhere and making his novels appear in the eyes of countless netizens.
The result was very successful. Almost all large forums and post bars were discussing his novel, and even his novel’s name was also a popular search keyword. He didn’t know how many readers had brought his novel.
Ding!
At this moment, a communication connection request rang on Xia Ping’s mobile phone. He looked at sender’s name, Meng Fei who was his editor in charge, and clicked to connect.
The figure of a middle-aged man immediately appeared in front of his retina. The current virtual projection technology was extremely advanced. It could be projected outside or projected directed to the retina through a chip, so that it could be hidden from others.
“Teacher Black Hearted Wolf.”
Meng Fei’s expression was extremely excited as if he was almost unable to suppress his excitement: “Your novel is already on fire, do you know how big of a hit it is?”
He couldn’t believe what happened in these three days. Although he was very optimistic about Xia Ping’s novel, the real effect would only be known after being recommended.
But who would have thought that before Penguin Novels even started promoting Xia Ping’s novel, the entire Internet was suddenly all talking it.
The click count was steadily increasing and even the number of reader reviews were rising like a rocket. Even the most popular novel on the entire Penguin Novel Network couldn’t compare to this new book.
Before he thought there was something wrong with the website data, but after investigation by the technical department, he found that there was no problem and everything was normal.
Although he didn’t know why such a thing happened, Meng Fei was absolutely certain that this novel was already on the verge of being an internet phenomenon.
“Oh.”
Xia Ping said lightly. Of course, he knew how widespread the topic of his novels were on the Internet, because he was the black hand behind it. He was the one who caused such topics to spring up, so naturally he wouldn’t be surprised.
“Teacher Black Hearted Wolf.”
Seeing Xia Ping’s calm expression, Meng Fei was a little surprised, and immediately said, “Didn’t you see your author’s account? Your novel’s sales record has already exploded and it has even broken the sales records of many novels on Penguin Novels Network. These are the manifestations of a phenomenal work.”
Because it was an erotic novel, only readers over the age of twelve could read it. So it had been on sale since the first chapter, and there were no free public chapters at all.
Because of this, it was a work that was on the shelves from the beginning.
“Author’s account?!”
Xia Ping blinked. During these three days he was busy writing novels and uploading chapters.
Therefore, he did not pay attention to his account.
“Hurry up and take a look.” Meng Fei urged.
After listening, Xia Ping opened his own account and immediately numerous notification messages popped up.
“Congratulations to the author, Black Hearted Wolf, for selling a thousand copies, one million clicks, and ten thousand favorites.”
“Congratulations to the author, Black Hearted Wolf, for selling 10,000 copies, 10 million clicks, and 100,000 favorites.”
“Congratulations to the author, Black Hearted Wolf, for selling 30,000 copies, 30 million clicks, and 300,000 favorites.”
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At the end,
Xia Ping saw that his novel had been sold for 223,565 times, and even the number of collections reached more than two million, with over 100 million clicks!
“Teacher Blackheart Wolf, did you see it? Three days, only three days! I haven’t even started any recommendation. There are already more than 200,000 copies sold. This is really unbelievable.” Meng Fei was very excited. He had been in the industry for more than ten years and had never seen such an anomaly.
What does it mean to sell more than 200,000 full copies? It means that more than 200,000 people had bought every single chapter of this novel.
It was equivalent to selling more than 200,000 physical books in three days!
According to the price of 0.55 federal dollars per thousand character for novels on the Internet, this 500,000 word novel was priced at 25 federal dollars.
That is to say, in three days sales reached more than five million federal dollars and after the website takes its cut, Xia Ping could get at least two million federal dollars.
And this was just from three days of sales. When the website starts getting recommended, even more readers would come to buy it over time.
“This, this!” Xia Ping finally knew why editor Meng Fei was so excited.
In just three days, he had sold more than five million federal dollars, and he personally earned more than two million in income. Anyone who saw this number would be excited.
You must know that his dad was a city manager, a government official, and his monthly salary was 6,000 federal dollars. He was already regarded as the middle class of this society.
But even so, if you wanted to earn more than two million yuan, it would take 20 to 30 years. But now, in three days Xia Ping had earned such an income, which was equivalent to his father’s 30 years of struggle. It was a bit scary.
Even though Xia Ping knew that writing novels could make money, he didn’t expect it to be so powerful. It was completely beyond his imagination.
“Teacher Black Hearted Wolf.”
Meng Fei said excitedly: “This is just the beginning. If our website promotes this novel vigorously, it will have no problem selling ten million copies. This year it definitely will be the most popular novel in Yanhuang.”
Even on Earth, books with ten million sales were considered extremely popular.
Of course, in the case of Yanhuang Star, which had a population of more than 30 billion and almost no piracy, there were some books that had sold more than one billion, and sales of tens of millions were just barely popular level.
However, for the category of erotic novels, the sales volume of tens of millions was already phenomenal. Even for a master novelist like Jia Zhiwei, the total sales volume of all his books were only over 100 million.
“Selling millions of copies?!”
Xia Ping couldn’t help squeezing his fists, his eyes a little excited.
Selling 10 million copies means the sales amount reached 250 million federal dollars from which he would get 125 million.
“Sure enough, knowledge is the world’s greatest wealth and it is priceless.”