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Barnes \u0026 Noble Bookstore.

It has a history of 115 years and is the largest brick-and-mortar bookstore chain in the United States and the second largest online bookstore.

As of the middle of 1998, there were 352 bookstores owned by major universities in the United States; 450 community bookstores; as for the commercial bookstores in major cities, the number was as high as 1,000. America's largest bookstore chain.

On August 3, when its main stores opened, a large influx of customers came to buy books.

"Do you have any Harry Potter books?"

A young man in his 20s asked a bookstore shopping guide.

"Yes, right there."

The shopping guide agreed and pointed to the large recommended column bookshelf in the most prominent position at the entrance of the bookstore.

good guy!

Thousands of books of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" are neatly placed on the large recommendation column bookshelf.

"Wow~ that's quite a lot." The 20-year-old exclaimed.

Afterwards, many of the customers who entered the bookstore in turn came for the Harry Potter books.

They paid for it.

"This placement is really conspicuous, you can see it as soon as you enter the hall." A middle-aged man sighed.

"Of course."

An old woman in her 50s echoed: "Don't forget, this is a book that Dylan personally wrote and recommended."

Another girl smiled and said, "It can be placed on a large recommended bookshelf. Not much else to say, Jin Shuguang Publishing House must have spent a lot of money."

In fact, it does.

Barnes \u0026 Noble, as the largest brick-and-mortar bookstore chain in the United States, has countless publishers competing for the main recommended shelf of its major bookstores every day. Jin Shuguang Publishing House was able to win this main recommendation position, of course, it paid a lot of money.

"Bring me a copy of Harry Potter."

"I heard Dylan loves it, so I'll buy one and see it."

"Well, I just watched it for a while, and I think it's really good."

A lot of people around customers who bought books started talking about it. Of course, as time goes by bit by bit, more and more people come to buy Harry Potter.

In just one hour, 370 Harry Potter books were sold at the Barnes \u0026 Noble Bookstore in the Los Angeles Heights shopping plaza alone.

This sales figure is definitely not low!

You must know that in 1993, after the movie "Jurassic Park" was released, its novels of the same name were also released for the second time. Of course, it was also arranged in the main recommendation position of Barnes \u0026 Noble. At the Barnes \u0026 Noble Bookstore in the Los Angeles Heights shopping plaza, only 420 books are sold in an hour.

Yes, the current sales of the first Harry Potter movie are lower than that of Jurassic Park.

Don't forget, however, that this was sales without the release of the Harry Potter movie.

......

Portland, the capital of Oregon.

At the entrance of the famous bookstore Powell's City of Books, there are dozens of people lining up at this moment, and they are customers who came to buy "Harry Potter".

Many people started complaining constantly!

"Damn Powell's Book City, they didn't have enough "Harry Potter"?!"

"Yeah, I never imagined that as the largest bookstore in Oregon, Powell's Bookstore would be able to ignore Dylan's influence."

"Dude, I just learned that Demi Moore, the owner of Powell's Book City, is Dylan's nemesis. How could he have enough "Harry Potter"?"

"It is so,

But I believe that no capitalist will have a hard time with money. "

In fact, they guessed right!

The manager of the Portland branch of Powell's Book City is calling his boss right now.

"Boss, we didn't prepare enough books for "Harry Potter". The 500 books we prepared were all sold out in less than 2 hours. Now there are more than 70 people queuing outside the bookstore."

The manager was sweating all over.

My boss and Dylan are mortal enemies, so I didn't prepare so many "Harry Potter" books in advance.

Of course, there is also no lack of wanting to please their own boss.

"You idiot!"

On the phone, Demi Moore, the owner of Powell's Book City, scolded: "It's true that Dylan and I are mortal enemies, but we don't have any hatred with money, why don't you prepare more? What are you calling me now? , clean and call the publishing house!"

"Yes yes yes~" the manager responded repeatedly.

"What are you still doing? Hurry up and solve it. If you can't solve it, you will resign and leave, idiot!" The roar came from the phone again.

......

Jin Shuguang Publishing Group.

At this moment, everyone in the operations department of the publishing group is very busy, constantly answering calls from all over the United States.

"Barnes \u0026 Noble's 3 branches in Auckland, need 2,000 copies of Harry Potter? But sorry, we don't have that much stock now, and 1,500 copies today is the limit."

"Sparrow Bookstore, you need 1,200 copies. No, no, no, not that many. I can only give you 800 copies. Yes, we are old friends, yes, but it is difficult for me to do it now. You have to be considerate of me, man."

"White Diamond Bookstore, 900 copies."

"Xunxun Bookstore, 2000 copies."

"Snow White and the Prince's House, 1400 copies, coming soon!"

...

In just one day, the first 500,000 books of "Harry Potter" were all sold out.

When Zucker saw the report, he immediately instructed: "Alexander, tell Ms. Hassan, the publisher, to print and distribute Harry Potter with all their strength, and give me at least 2 million copies within a week."

"Uh...boss, will it be too much?" Alexander hesitated.

His hesitation was justified. The reason he was able to sell 500,000 books on the first day was due to Dylan's influence, not the quality of "Harry Potter" itself.

As far as Alexander got the news, Jobs alone bought 5,000 copies of "Harry Potter" at one time.

Don't ask why!

Because Jobs is Dylan's loyal little brother!

Jobs would never have bought a Harry Potter book if Dylan hadn't written the preface to Harry Potter and personally recommended it.

"Boss, after all, our "Harry Potter" has not yet started to be filmed. Tomorrow's sales will definitely drop. 200 copies is a bit too much." Alexander said solemnly.

For his words, the tenant smiled indifferently.

The subordinates questioned Zucker's decision, which was the privilege that Zucker gave Alexander, because Zucker himself had some deficiencies and needed others to make up for it.

Of course, if Zucker decides, then there is only one way to go.

"Go ahead. Don't underestimate our "Harry Potter", let alone 2 million copies. Believe it or not, after the movie is released, it can sell tens of millions of copies!" Zhu Kelang laughed.

"......"

Alexander of course did not believe it, but he was still shocked.

Can Harry Potter sell millions of copies?

real or fake? !

In fact, as of 2020, the "Harry Potter" series of books have sold 390 million copies of genuine books worldwide, second only to "Mao Language" and "Bible".

Of course, mainly because of the results of film and television and the operation of Time Warner!

In the history of the original time and space, "Harry Potter" was first issued by a small British publishing house, and the effect was not very good.

In 3 months, less than 1,000 copies were sold.

However, with the introduction of Times China, it took less than 40 days to sell 3.9 million copies in the United States around the world.

The advantages of the media group are obvious!

Golden Dawn Entertainment Group, even if it is far inferior to Time Warner Group, but thanks to Zhu Ke's efforts, no other place dares to say that only in the book distribution market in the United States, Zhu Ke dares to fight with Time Warner.

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