This "Sword God Asks the Sky" is a typical old-fashioned cool novel about a loser breaking off an engagement.
The story is about the protagonist Ye Liuyun, a famous young genius in his family. He became famous for his amazing talent before he even reached the age of twenty.
However, he did not know when his cultivation started to decline, and gradually he was ridiculed by the servants and brothers and sisters in the side branches of the family. He was also called a good-for-nothing and was abandoned by the family.
Later, he faced the humiliation of being broken off by his fiancée. After years of oppression and humiliation, the protagonist could no longer bear it. He wrote a letter of divorce on the spot and uttered the most classic line, "Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west. Don't bully the young and poor!"
From then on, the destiny of heaven and earth belonged to the protagonist himself. From then on, he had endless adventures and moved step by step to the top of the world.
After a certain novel about broken engagement became popular, there were many copycat works, many of which had similar plots. This one was the one that Xu Nanxing chose, and it had pretty good results.
Anyway, readers of this era have not read this kind of thing yet, so Xu Nanxing planned to publish it first to see readers' feedback, and even left the recipient's address and email address at the end.
(E-mail was invented by Autumn Tomlinson in the United States in 1971.)
Readers were also specifically asked what kind of novels they wanted to read, whether it was romance novels, martial arts novels, fantasy novels or Western magic novels, and they could write to the newspaper.
The newspaper will use readers' letters to vote on the types of novels to be published next.
Readers are also welcome to submit their works, or write their own novels and send them to the newspaper. The selected novels will not only be published in the newspaper, but will also receive a lot of royalties!
In fact, Xu Nanxing did not expect to receive any novel manuscripts in the early days of the newspaper. After all, manuscripts in this era were accepted in full text, and only manuscripts from more well-known authors would be accepted in batches based on their actual situation!
The newspaper had only been published for a few days, and the effect was not very obvious. After all, the novel had only been serialized for a few chapters, and had not yet entered the climax of the first paragraph, so it was not enough to attract a large number of readers.
Fortunately, later online novels all focus on the "golden three chapters". There is no preface or excessive foreshadowing at the beginning, which makes it very easy to attract readers to read. As long as it is serialized for a period of time and the first batch of readers are satisfied, it will get better and better later!
Xu Nanxing knew that the sales of the first few issues of the newspaper would definitely not be high, but he still asked Xu Yanchen to print 5,000 copies of the newspaper every day, although only more than 2,000 copies were sold in the first few days.
This is because many readers read the newspaper themselves during the day and thought it was good, so they recommended it to people around them. In addition, the pictures printed on the newspaper are indeed beautiful, so so many copies were sold one after another by the evening.
Of course, due to its lack of fame, more people have not discovered this newly launched newspaper, let alone know that it contains many interesting novels and stories.
There is no way around it. There are not many promotion platforms now, so we can only rely on word of mouth to accumulate slowly!
Xu Nanxing was not worried when he heard that nearly 3,000 newspapers were not sold every day. Instead, he thought that it was okay to sell more than 2,000 copies right after the launch.
Although there were no platforms for promotion such as Weibo, Instagram, and short videos in this era, Xu Nanxing thought of another platform, which is - the radio station!
Anyone who has watched short videos must have seen the short video of a little boy wearing a hat who likes parkour and is often chased relentlessly by security guards at the train station!
The dubbing of the video is the first part of a novel, but when it comes to the exciting part, which is the paid part, the novel suddenly comes to an end!
At this time, you need to go to the novel platform and pay to watch it!
This form is called novel tweet!
And this is what Xu Nanxing intends to do.
She directly spent money to buy a certain radio time slot for a month, and asked the host to read the novel part of "Sword God Asks the Sky". Then, at the end, she explained that the novel was serialized in "Star Daily". Readers who like this novel are welcome to buy it and read it!
Of course, the novel manuscript Xu Nanxing gave to the radio station only contained the part up to the climax. If you want to read the rest, you have to buy her newspaper regularly!
Isn’t this just a modified form of broadcast tweeting?
I also took the opportunity to place an advertisement in the newspaper!
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