Chapter 228 February

Time flies by, and a few days go by in a flash.

In mid-February, the first volume of the Sword Art Online novel was officially released.

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Early in the morning, a group of novel fans in Longguo got up early.

It's okay in small towns, but in major first-tier cities, the scenes are magnificent.

There are almost queues in front of major bookstores, and there are many cosplay enthusiasts among these queues.

Black Swordsman Kirito, Flash Asuna, Liz, Argo, Silica

Although these character peripherals that have been sold on the market are expensive, costing thousands or tens of thousands of yuan per set, there are still rich men and women who buy them without blinking. They can obviously ask others to help them buy the first volume of the Sword Art Online novel, but they have to cosplay themselves and queue up with everyone to let the fans of Sword Art Online see their cosplay costumes.

This is their hobby and their love for this work.

"I heard that the first volume of this work includes two bonus novels about Yuki."

"It's a pity that the old thief Yuanqing has no heart and let this character die so early. To be honest, I think Yuki is the best and most touching character in this novel, except for Asuna."

"A girl with social phobia, trapped in a terrifying game like SAO, carefully planned her life for survival, but eventually fell in the journey of teaming up with Kirito. What makes me most sad is that the last look before her death was looking at Kirito and dying with a smile."

"Teacher Yuanqing understands fans, so the first volume of the novel is more "

"When the second and third volumes of the novel are released, will you add some plots about Kirito's grandfather and Asuna teaming up to conquer the boss level in the early stage? This novel is good to read, but the level strategy battle is too vague. The blue-eyed demon is okay, but most of the levels don't mention the bosses guarding the levels."

"What I hope to see more is that Mr. Gensei adds more honeymoon cohabitation plots of Asuna and Kirito in the subsequent novels. Although, those things are quite vulgar, but I am a vulgar person! I love to read them."

"Me too.

"We are all vulgar people. ”

“Hehehe”

During the queue, although these Sword Art Online fans didn’t know each other, they also started to talk familiarly.

As for those other book clubs, such as Xingkong and Qingze novels, although they have not read the serialized novels of Sword Art Online, this novel is so popular that many people came to buy tickets after the single volume was released. Just in the queue, they also felt the atmosphere of Sword Art Online in the Dragon Country novel circle.

It’s really popular, and the fans are very sticky.

In the bookstore, from the entrance to the back, it is full of Kirito and Asuna’s promotional posters.

There are also various small gifts at the cashier, such as Asuna pendants and key chains as gifts for consumers who buy single volumes.

TV stations, under the arrangement of Liuli Book Club, today is also a number of TV stations The news and talk shows on multiple TV programs promoted the release of the Sword Art Online single volume.

In some cities, even the bus bodies and subway platforms are full of promotional posters for the Sword Art Online single volume.

As for the industry, in the ten days from the release of the first volume of Sword Art Online in mid-February to the end of the month, no popular novel had a single volume release plan.

Everyone tacitly gave this period of time to Sword Art Online to avoid a conflict that would affect the sales of the novel and the promotion of the single volume release.

After all, Xia Yan's appeal in the two-dimensional industry is obvious to all.

Now, everyone in the novel industry is paying attention to what sales data can be achieved in the first week of the first volume of Sword Art Online?

For several consecutive days, the sales of Sword Art Online single volumes in major bookstores in Longguo were very rapid, with almost every single volume selling at a high price. Tianshudian had to contact distributors to replenish the stock.

And readers also gave positive reviews to the two novels of Xing added to the single volume.

In this case, many fans also relaxed their minds.

A week later.

The sales data of the first volume of Sword Art Online was released.

Five million and three thousand copies

This is the result of the statistics after Liuli Bookstore and distributors connected at the fastest speed.

When Liuli Bookstore disclosed this data in the afternoon of that day, there was an uproar in the Longguo novel world.

In fact, the first week sales of more than five million copies are not too exaggerated.

What is exaggerated is that this is the first week sales after the first volume of this work was released.

A work will definitely become more and more popular as it is serialized over time. For a truly phenomenal popular novel, the single volume will be released. The first week sales exceeded 5 million, and even 6 million copies.

But such data generally does not appear when the first volume of a work is released.

Just like the parallel world One Piece comic single volume, in an island country with a population of 100 million, the better-selling volumes can have a first week sales of 1.7 to 8 million copies, but some comic volumes with poor sales have a first week sales of hundreds of thousands of copies.

It is ridiculous that the first volume of a novel like Sword Art Online has such data.

When this novel is longer and more popular, and the single volume is released at that time, wouldn’t it be amazing?

Anyway, just in terms of the first week sales of the first volume of a novel, Sword Art Online has been the record holder in the Dragon Country novel industry for nearly seven years.

In the afternoon of that day, all major two-dimensional websites and media outlets in Dragon Kingdom made column reports on the matter.

[Sword Art Online, the second novel after the end of the golden age of the two-dimensional world, the first volume of the stand-alone book sold more than five million copies in its first week of release. 】

[A novel about a game has set off a new revolution in the Dragon Kingdom light novel industry. The first volume of Sword Art Online sold more than five million copies in its first week. What profound impact will this have on the industry? 】

[Thanks to the expansion of the popularity of Sword Art Online, game-themed novels have sprung up in the Ryukoku light novel industry. 】

[Sales volume of the first single volume exceeded five million copies in its first week, and Sword Art Online broke the seven-year record. 】

[The sales volume of the third comic book volume of Initial D exceeded 5 million copies in the first week. The sales volume of the first volume novel of Sword Art Online exceeded 5 million copies in the first week. Yuan Qing... is a person who makes practitioners in the Dragon Kingdom two-dimensional industry feel... Desperate, true genius. 】

The next day, under the praise of the entire Dragon Kingdom media, Liuli Publishing House specially held a celebration banquet for the incredible sales figures of the first volume of Sword Art Online.

On this day, many employees from the book club’s agent department, editorial department, and operations department were invited to the scene.

As for Xia Yan, it can be said that he has been cooperating with Liuli Bookstore for almost two years. This is the first time he has met so many people from this company.

Dressed in a black formal suit and with a tall and slender figure, Xia Yan is the absolute protagonist at a banquet.

Many people gathered around him.

"Teacher Yuanqing, let me toast you."

"Teacher Yuanqing, come and have a drink."

"Teacher Yuanqing, how do you write novels? Do you have any tips that you can share with others? My son also likes novels, and I want to train him in this direction."

"Congratulations to Mr. Genkiyo, the sales volume of Sword Art Online is astonishing. The average sales volume of the single volume of the novel is very likely to exceed the 20 million average volume figure."

Although Xia Yan didn't like drinking at the party, he still couldn't avoid it completely. When the banquet was over, he was driven to Xia Yan's residence by an employee of the company in a daze.

The time is already one o'clock in the morning.

Xia Yan dragged his exhausted body back home. At this time, the three friends of the opposite sex at home had already fallen asleep.

Xia Yan originally wanted to go and rest directly, but his sharp eyes saw a bowl of soup on the table.

When he got closer, he saw a note posted by Tang Yin on the table.

[I know that you are going to attend the celebration banquet of Liuli Book Club, so you will probably drink less when you come back. This is a hangover soup. If you see it, drink it. I guarantee that you will not vomit or feel uncomfortable tonight, and sleep until dawn! 】

Xia Yan was silent for a moment, then smiled.

Lift the soup and drink it all in one gulp.

The taste in my mouth is really unpleasant, but I feel a little moved.

After all, Xia Yan has seldom felt this since his father died a few years ago. After all, no one would suddenly be nice to him like this.

The middle of February flew by and it was late.

The plot of the Sword Art Online novel is also serialized to the point where the true identity of Yui, the child picked up by Kirito and Asuna, is revealed.

"Yui is the human intelligence program of the SAO game system". Due to the generation of human emotions, she materialized into the image of a little girl. She lost her memory and wandered in the game, and was picked up by the two protagonists.

But because she was finally detected by the system as abnormal data, she will be eliminated soon.

As the protagonist, Kirito can only separate his daughter Yui's body and program data before she is completely eliminated by the system as a foreign object, and turn her into a game prop in the game.

Let her sleep in it.

this plot

Sword Art Online novel fans who have been enjoying it for more than a month are a little bit tortured.

After all, when Yui's plot was serialized in the past few weeks, many readers took part in it and really felt that they had such a lovely daughter.

However.

Just like Xing, while the novel made her the most lovable, it ruthlessly gave her a not-so-good fate.

After this chapter was serialized, fans naturally made a fuss for several days, demanding that Xia Yan resurrect Yui immediately in the next plot.

However, fans continued to complain, and their support for Sword Art Online has not dropped at all. The number of readers' votes for this chapter of the novel has also approached the 3.8 million mark.

By this time, the number of readers' votes for Crimson Abyss, a novel that once competed with Sword Art Online for the first place in the journal, had dropped to over one million.

Its die-hard fans are in rebellion.

Of course, this rebellion does not mean that fans stop reading the novel, but that the best novel in Liuli Journal in their minds has changed from Crimson Abyss to Sword Art Online.

So all the votes were absorbed by Sword Art Online.

As for the sales volume of each issue of Liuli Journal, it also increased by 500,000 copies in this month, reaching 14.5 million copies.

When the popularity of Sword Art Online is rising and the single volume is selling out, the sales of Liuli Journal are also rising simultaneously. Everyone in the novel world knows what this data represents.

All the promotional resources invested by Liuli Publishing House in the early stages of the Sword Art Online novel have now paid off.

This novel is no longer relying on "Liu Li Journal" to expand its influence, but is using the popularity of its own works to feed back and carry Liuli Journal forward.

February is over and March is coming.

Another day of poor updating, but after checking the backend, the total update volume is more than 150,000 words in the 25 days of this month, which means the average number of words updated per day is still more than 6,000 words. Sometimes the update volume is more than 5,000, and sometimes it is 7,000 or 8,000. On average, the update volume is still up to standard. I don't think I'm lazy.