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He felt that the other party was out of his mind.

The current Akihara Yuto is no longer the fledgling rookie at the beginning, and behind him is the two "backers" of the Mystery Writers Association and the Burakumin political group.

In other words, the other party is simply a "hedgehog"!

Although it is small in size, anyone who touches it will be stabbed.

Now Mantanshe has managed to pull out the "thorn" that was pierced, so why bother to provoke the other party again!

After hearing this reprimand, the female white-collar worker was stunned.

She was a little "panic" for a while, and she didn't know how to respond.

It took a little more time for her to react, and she immediately bowed deeply and apologized.

"Sorry! It was my negligence, please forgive me!"

Because Mantansha has made personnel adjustments to the literary periodicals, she was transferred to "Tokyo Literature" recently, and she doesn't know much about some taboos in this area.

She didn't expect that she would be reprimanded by her superiors for such a simple proposal.

Matsushima and Hiro ignored his subordinate, but were thinking about countermeasures.

It seems that I have to find the newly appointed head of the department and ask for more approval of the publicity budget and layout.

He picked up the book again, looked at the line "Akihara Yuto" in "April Youth" in his hand, and said to himself.

"Teacher Akihara, this time, let's have a showdown!"

[Chapter 172.171 first-day sales released]

I noticed that "April Youth" began to serialize Akihara Hiroto's works, not only Mandansha's "Tokyo Literature".

Soon, other competitors also noticed and paid attention to it.

As far as the publishing industry is concerned, the name Akihara Hiroto has become famous recently. After all, the other party not only won the award, but also had a series of disputes with Mandansha.

So as soon as the news spread, they all became vigilant, judging that "April Youth" was likely to "make a comeback", and even wanted to challenge their status.

The editorial departments of these magazines will naturally not agree. After all, the current literary and art periodical publishing market is in decline as a whole, and it is only one who can kill a competitor.

It was hard to see that the sales volume of "April Youth" fell to only 7 copies, and it was about to fall and give up the market, so how could it allow the other party to breathe.

All of a sudden, major magazines are increasing their budget applications for advertising. While increasing the number of pages in newspapers, they even pay attention to some channels that are not cost-effective, such as radio and television.

Mandansha's "Tokyo Literature" pays the most attention to Hiroto Akihara. With the application of Kazuhiro Matsushima, the number of advertising pages has increased from 5 to 7, and they are all influential newspapers.

At the same time, they increased the emphasis on the works of two door writers, Seto Tamae and Nakata Kaito, in the promotion, which made book reviewers say a lot of good things.

Jingfanshe's "Spring of Literature" followed closely. Apart from stabilizing the existing page propaganda, it strengthened the cooperation with universities.

A decision was even passed to increase rebates to bookstores at many bookstores near schools.

Toei's "Tokyo Youth" has the slowest response, but this magazine has the highest sales volume, so the cash flow is also the healthiest.

So for the possible threat of "April Youth", they just announced that a new work has started to be serialized.

In any case, all of a sudden, the entire literature and art periodical circle began to become tense: each magazine took out its own weapons one after another, those with money were throwing money at them, those without money were increasing their channels, and they looked like they were ready to start.

After hearing these rumors, Akihara Hiroto couldn't help becoming a little excited.

After all, it is very interesting to be able to compete on the same stage with writers from other magazines.

Yesterday, when the new issue of "April Youth" started to go on sale, the editor in Dacheng called. The lecture hall had already allocated an additional 3000 million yen in publicity costs, and arranged to increase publicity in several newspapers.

However, now that all magazines are increasing their publicity, how much publicity effect "April Youth" can play can only be said separately.

So what can really support sales is the quality of the serialized works.

Thinking of this, Hiroto Akihara subconsciously looked at the position of the door.

Having said that, the first-day sales of "April Youth" should have been released, why hasn't there been a phone call yet?

Just when he was wondering, the phone rang.He immediately stood up, walked towards the entrance downstairs, and answered the phone.

Oshiro Toshika's voice came from the microphone.

"Teacher Akihara, the sales data on the first day has been calculated. Because of the good publicity, the sales volume on the first day yesterday was about 2 copies. It is expected that by the end of this week, the sales volume will exceed 7 copies."

Her voice was very happy. In her opinion, inviting Akihara Hiroto to join "April Youth" on the condition of giving up part of the benefits this time was undoubtedly the correct decision that could not be more correct.

The name Akihara Hiroto, which has frequently appeared in newspapers recently, has attracted the interest of many people.

If you change the writer, even if it is a more experienced "old man" in the literary world, it is estimated that this effect will not be achieved.

No, it should definitely not achieve this effect!

So after learning about the sales volume on the first day, she directly skipped Hideki Awazu and called Hiroto Akihara herself, hoping to cheer him up after knowing the results.

But she didn't know that Akihara Hiroto was not as happy as she thought after hearing the result.

In Akihara Hiroto's view, although the sales data on the first day looks good, it is actually only average.

After all, the other three major publishing houses have launched a series of "offensives". If this continues, the effect of advertisements and book reviews will only become worse and worse.

Because readers have "aesthetic fatigue", in the case of repeated bombing, it is impossible to buy the corresponding book after seeing a book review.

In addition, the reader base of the other three journals is already large. The least one now has a weekly sales volume of more than 20 copies, let alone the most, with a weekly sales volume of 30 copies!

On the other hand, "April Youth", after announcing its new serialization, its weekly sales volume has only increased from the original 7 copies to an estimated 10 copies.

There is still a big gap with the other three!

Hiroto Akihara thought for a while, and said into the microphone: "Editor Oshiro, are there other channels to increase sales?"

Oshiro Torika thought that Akihara Hiroto would be happy, but he didn't expect to hear such a reply.

She thought about it for a while, then asked puzzledly, "Teacher Qiuyuan, are you dissatisfied?"

In today's fiercely competitive literary periodical market, just announcing the other party's serialized news in the magazine can increase 3 volumes.

This number does not seem like much, but it is 15% of the original sales volume, which can definitely be regarded as a great joy—if this continues, the sales volume of "April Youth" will definitely be able to gradually return to the level of about [-] copies .

Therefore, she really didn't understand why Yuuto Akihara was dissatisfied.

However, after hearing Oshiro's editor-in-chief's doubts, Akihara Yuto immediately reacted, and said in cooperation: "No, I am quite satisfied, just want to know the follow-up actions of the editorial department."

I and "April Youth" are just a cooperative relationship, so don't worry too much about it.

Otherwise, the other party may think that he wants to intervene in affairs.