Chapter 0030: Scorn from the Chat Group
Versailles Tricolor Workshop: I envy you all, so ambitious. I can only just lie flat now. No recommendation again next week.
I Want to Be a God: Big shot, what more recommendations do you need? You're already in the 'Premium' category, with over 3,000 average subscriptions and an income of seven or eight thousand a month! That's truly enviable.
Versailles Tricolor Workshop: Writing is such a drag. What can this little income even do? I'm thinking of just dropping my novel. I really envy you guys, so young and ambitious. As for me, I can only be a dead fish, with no recommendations. But my income is more than just seven or eight thousand now. Last month wasn't much, but with the full attendance bonus and channel fees, it was 11,000 total.
Just Starting Newbie: Great Tricolor! Hugging your thigh! I admire Great Tricolor the most!
Transforming into a Female Star: Great Tricolor, please recommend my chapter! Great God Tricolor! Please have mercy on this lowly author!
Kowtowing to Big Shots is My Dream: Great God Tricolor, the eternal god! I worship you! A monthly income of over ten thousand! You'll be deified soon!!
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Watching the crowd of sycophants fawn over Versailles Tricolor Workshop, Li Bin couldn't help but shake his head. These people, for a practically useless chapter recommendation, would throw away all their dignity.
Li Bin knew this person. Versailles Tricolor Workshop was a new author in the group. His first book had gotten great recommendations and decent results, reaching over two thousand subscriptions on its first day on the shelves. Back then, this guy was insufferably arrogant in the group, acting like he was king of the world, constantly showing off and being very annoying.
However, his skill was the real deal.
In an author's group, subscriptions are king.
As long as your subscription count is high, even your farts smell like perfume. Anything you say is treated as a profound truth.
But if a struggling author accidentally offended a big shot, they would immediately be swarmed and flamed by a pack of lackeys.
Cute and Adherent Sui Feng: Excuse me, everyone. I have a question. I put my book on the shelves the day before yesterday, and my average subscription is only 500 so far. Is there any point in continuing? Should I just drop it?
Just then, a newcomer suddenly asked a question in the group.
Versailles Tricolor Workshop: Only 500 average subscriptions? How many on the first day? How many followers?
Kowtowing to Big Shots is My Dream: Those numbers are pretty bad. With 500 average subscriptions, you'd probably only make two or three thousand a month including the full attendance bonus. If it were me, I'd definitely drop it.
Cute and Adherent Sui Feng: I failed the second round of the new book's promotion, so I had to write without any recommendations until I hit 200,000 words to get on the shelves. I have over 4,000 followers now, and only 480 subscriptions in the first 24 hours.
Versailles Tricolor Workshop: Your data is absolute trash. What's the point of continuing this book? I almost dropped mine when my first-day subscriptions were only a little over 2,000. If my editor hadn't persuaded me to keep writing, I would have dropped it long ago. With results as terrible as yours, what's the point? Drop it early and find peace.
A Struggling Author with Only 200 Average Subs: Don't ask. The answer is always to drop it.
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Watching Versailles Tricolor Workshop, who had only written one book and gotten into the 'Premium' category out of sheer luck, mock and scorn the newcomer while also misleading him into dropping his book, Li Bin really couldn't stand it anymore.
Over 4,000 followers for 500 average subscriptions? This book's performance wasn't just not bad, it was actually excellent!
If he kept writing, getting into the 'Premium' category was only a matter of time.
When Li Bin's own book first went on the shelves, his first-day subscriptions were only 250. He had wanted to drop it too, but a few loyal readers kept encouraging and comforting him, so he gritted his teeth and persevered.
Unexpectedly, by the time he reached 500,000 words, his average subscriptions had shot up to over 3,000, and he was directly promoted to the 'Premium' category!
So, based on Li Bin's experience, if this Cute and Adherent Sui Feng could just hang in there, his results would definitely not be bad.
Li Bin hesitated for a moment, but in the end, he couldn't hold back. He typed a reply:
Human Nature is Evil at Birth: @Cute and Adherent Sui Feng Your book's follower-to-subscription ratio is excellent. You have a good chance of getting into the 'Premium' category. Keep writing! Once you get a recommendation, you'll take off. Keep it up!
Human Nature is Evil at Birth was Li Bin's pen name.
Just Starting Newbie: ???? Such terrible subscriptions, and you're saying he can get into 'Premium'? Do you think it's that easy to get into 'Premium'? Can any Tom, Dick, or Harry get in?
Versailles Tricolor Workshop: Pretending to know what you're talking about. You, a little newbie, stop misleading people! Getting into 'Premium'? You're really dreaming! Is the 'Premium' category something you can just get into so easily? I had over 2,000 first-day subscriptions and wrote for two months before they gave me the 'Premium' tag!
Emperor Ha: Yo, isn't this the Human Nature is Evil at Birth who had three openings rejected in a row by the great author Da Peng and can't even get a contract? You can't even get signed, and you are here trying to guide a veteran author who's already on the shelves? Great Tricolor already said his book is no good. Who do you think you are?
Little Newbie in the Group: Pfft!~~~ Rejected three times in a row... That's impressive! You really can't even get a contract?
King of Salted Fish: Why don't you figure out how to get a contract first before you come chat? What qualifications do you have to be here advising others?
Leftover Porridge: Hey, that's not right? If he can't even get a contract, how did he get into our signed authors' group? Get the editor to kick him out. He's just an eyesore here!
Cute and Adherent Sui Feng: Can't even get a contract? And I thought you were some big shot... Tsk tsk, interesting...
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