Rebirth of the Super Landlord

When Su Zhen received Aikman's call, they were visiting Dali, where birds were singing and flowers were fragrant, and they were experiencing the strong Dai customs. After answering the phone, he spoke to Liu Ru and took Rachel back to Los Angeles.

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The next morning, the plane landed at Los Angeles International Airport. Aikman had been waiting for a long time. As soon as he got on the car, Su Zhen asked, "How is the situation now? How is the sales of the novel?"

"BOSS, your novel is popular, it's completely popular. The first batch of 100,000 printed copies was sold out within a week of being put on the shelves. Now everyone is talking about Twilight and SU," Aikman said excitedly,

At the same time, he handed Su Zhen a stack of newspapers. "Now dealers and bookstores across the United States are calling the publishing house every day to request purchases. Now the second batch of 300,000 copies we have printed has all been booked. I have already

We have contacted several printing houses and are preparing to continue to expand the printing scale, and directly print an additional 1 million copies in the third batch."

Su Zhen flipped through the newspapers. There were newspapers from the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and other media. The front pages were basically comments about Twilight.

There are lingering emotional entanglements, twists and turns of adventure, magnificent and bizarre imaginations, vivid descriptions of scenes, thrilling reading pleasure, and warm comfort that touches the soul. ——The New York Times is full of love, hate, and hatred.

It is full of tension, yet elegant and delicate like Jane Austen, reaching the extreme of romantic novels. If it were not confirmed by the publisher, it would be difficult to imagine that such delicate emotions could be written by a male author.——

Los Angeles Times

Realistic, subtle, concise and easy to read, the "Twilight" series will make readers deeply immersed in it. - "School Library Monthly"

The British have Harry Potter, we have Twilight.—Wall Street Journal

The Twilight Saga, another masterpiece that is favored and appreciated by young readers after Harry Potter - "USA Today"

After reading a few reviews, Su Zhen handed the magazine to the curious Rachel next to him and asked Aikman, "How is the overseas distribution going?"

"There are already dealers in many European countries who are negotiating, and due to Twilight's popularity, the current negotiations are very beneficial to us." Aikman replied.

"Well, there's no need to worry about this. Twilight's sales are booming now. They should be the ones who are anxious. The overseas distribution rights must not be sold cheaply." Su Zhen doesn't want overseas copyrights to be sold cheaply, especially European copyrights. Europeans have plenty of them.

money.

"BOSS, should we go to the hotel or the publishing house first?" Aikman asked.

"Let's go to the publishing house first." Su Zhen thought it was still early and had eaten breakfast on the plane, so he thought about going to the publishing house first.

In this way, Aikman drove Su Zhen all the way to the publishing house located in the south of Los Angeles. Although Su Zhen was the owner of this publishing house, this was his first time walking here.

The publishing house is not in an ordinary office building, but in a very ordinary two-story American-style villa. If it hadn't been for a sign at the door that said Sequoia Press, you wouldn't know it was a publishing house.

Walking into the publishing house, hey, this working environment is really good. The indoor environment is similar to an ordinary home environment, except that all the rooms have been converted into offices, and there are coffee machines and drink machines.

Aikman introduced the big boss Su Zhen to all employees, and also explained that Su Zhen was SU, the author of The Twilight Saga.

A lot of foreigners looked at Su Zhen, the boss and author, with curiosity. They didn't expect him to be such an inconspicuous oriental boy.

But then Su Zhen announced that everyone’s bonuses would be doubled this quarter, which immediately received cheers from all members of the publishing house.

Su Zhen then followed Aikman into his office, and Aikman asked Su Zhen to show him all the income and expenditure reports since he took over the publishing house.

Su Zhen looked through it. Basically, excluding some initial expenses for the acquisition, there were no major expenses. The price of the first volume of Twilight was set at US$15. As the first batch of 100,000 copies of the novel was sold out,

, excluding miscellaneous costs such as printing and the share given to the publishing house, of course the publishing house belongs to Su Zhen. In other words, just calculating the author's sales share has brought Su Zhen hundreds of thousands of dollars in income. Su Zhen

I believe that the final sales volume should reach several million copies, which means a profit of nearly ten million US dollars. Moreover, there will be three sequels, and the profit will be considerable.

In this way, Su Zhen and Aikman exchanged some details about the release of Twilight, while Rachel listened on the side and made some comments from time to time.

While they were talking, a staff member from the publishing house knocked on the office door.

"Come in." Aikman saw a young staff member coming in carrying a big box. "What is that?"

"These are letters sent by some readers recently. There are about hundreds of them, all addressed to the author," the staff member replied.

Su Zhen was also a little surprised. He didn't expect to receive so many letters from readers so quickly. Although he wrote books in his previous life, he was just a busy online writer. Even if there were readers, they would just post in the book review area.

This is the first time in my life that I have submitted an opinion and received a letter from a reader.

At Su Zhen's signal, the staff put the carton on the desk and left. However, although Su Zhen was a little surprised, he did not rush to open the letter because he knew that although most of it must be

Supporters send in compliments, but there are certainly many who come to criticize. After all, he spent several years on literary websites in his previous life, and basically has a certain understanding of the readership. He once divided readers into several categories based on his own ideas.

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The first group is naturally the die-hard supporters. This type of readers often post some praises in the book review area. The monthly tickets, rewards and recommendations for books mainly come from this group of readers.

The second part is purely recreational readers. If you write well and suit their taste, they will buy your book and read it. If they don’t like it, they will not read it. But they rarely care about the reviews of the book.

If you read something, you will basically not read the relevant comments. Even if you have read the content, you will not care who the author is. However, this group of people is indeed the largest in number.

The third group is very rational readers. They like to read books, but they will make reasonable suggestions for some unreasonable aspects in the books. This group of readers is generally very popular with the author, because the suggestions of such readers may not be completely correct.

, but it will bring many new ideas to the author.

Finally, there is the unreasonable and vexatious type. This group of readers read the book with gusto, while at the same time hurling all kinds of abuse at the author, but they cannot say that they are ugly. The most unacceptable thing is that the book is a pirated version.

Although Su Zhen was not very interested in these letters, Rachel on the other side was very curious and excited.

Su Zhen looked at Rachel who was extremely curious and smiled, "If you want to see it, take it and see it."

Rachel cheered when she was allowed to hold a large box of letters aside and started reading.

After watching for a while, Rachel teased Su Zhen, "BOSS, there are many beautiful girls here showing love to you, and they even brought photos with them." Then she showed Su Zhen some photos of the girls.

Su Zhen looked at them and saw that most of them were 15-16 year old girls. He counterattacked, "They are all little girls. They want nothing. If they have nothing to look at, they are not as attractive to me as Rachel."

Rachel showed no sign of weakness, "Really, but why do I feel that you, Boss, are not interested in me?" She puffed up her chest as she spoke.

Su Zhen was immediately dazzled by the turbulent waves. He coughed dryly and was defeated, but he was roaring in his heart that sooner or later, you, the little devil, would be dealt with.

After talking about business, Su Zhen and Rachel took a tour of the entire publishing house under the leadership of Aikman, and then Su Zhen took Rachel and left.

Su Zhen, who was in a big mood, asked Aikman to book a hotel in the evening, hold a celebration dinner in the evening, and invite all employees of the publishing house to attend. As soon as this news was announced, the employees of the publishing house cheered again.