Chapter 215

In the early morning, the sky is light and the breeze is refreshing. At this time, the bazaar in Elroy is busy. Most of them are vendors who rush to transport goods to prepare for the next rush.

Huntington Williams was sitting on the simple cart and driving slowly. He sniffed and couldn't stand the rotten smell of seafood, meat, vegetables and fruits in the vegetable market. He glanced carefully at everyone passing by. When he saw the sneaky people, he raised the whip in his hand to warn them.

He is a bookseller. He buys books from the publishing house at a lower price, and then resells them to other bookstores to earn the difference. He is a kind of businessman.

Generally speaking, bookstores not directly under the publishing house will purchase books at a 60% discount, while Book carriers can purchase books at a 50% discount or a lower price, and then sell them to bookstores. In other words, they are salesmen belonging to a third party. It's no exaggeration to have a keen sense of business and the ability to read words. If no bookstores are willing to buy a large number of books that Huntington bought from publishers, it will only be rotten in the hands of the book carriers themselves, or sell them at a very low price.

In general, the book carrier is a high-risk, but also has a good return career, do not need to travel between several cities like a businessman.

With the development of the times, there are many fewer Book carriers in Elroy. First, there are too many risks. Second, many regular publishing houses have set up departments to contact with bookstores. They will take the initiative to contact major bookstores before publishing. The only thing the book carriers can do is to relieve the pressure of some newly established or small-scale publishing houses.

Huntington Williams is also an experienced Book Runner. He has been engaged in the book transportation industry for at least 20 years. At the peak of his life, he even bought a beautiful house in the city center. However, the goddess of luck did not always favor him. He lost almost all his property in a gamble, which was also related to the books he was carrying. At the beginning, he received internal information from Leonard press and bought a large number of wild roses written by Kathy, the second son of the Elroy family.

Huntington knew that it would be Kathy who won the essay, and it was no surprise that Leonard publishing house would hold wild rose.

To say the least, even if the quality of wild rose is extremely poor and the content is mediocre, the author's identity and the intention of the publishing house alone are doomed to make this work a best-selling novel in Elroy. Huntington himself has read the novel and thinks that it is not bad. However, the gamble that he should win has made Huntington even lose the house he bought with ten years of hard work.

Huntington had a big appetite and bought a lot of wild rose novels in stock. At the beginning, they sold well, but at that time, he was greedy and wanted to sell them at a higher price for some time. The room where wild rose was stored was like a pile of gold and silver.

Half a month later, when he smelled something bad, it was too late. Leonard's Publishing House declared bankruptcy overnight. The wild rose became a book that no one wanted to buy. He went around and sold it at half the purchase price.

The house he had worked hard to buy for more than ten years was gone. He fell from a respectable person to a poor class and could only rent in a shabby old house. The main culprits of all this were Harvey Adrian, the author of the books he was carrying, and the count of Monte Cristo.

Huntington didn't have any dissatisfaction. He was convinced that he lost. The book carrier or businessman was essentially a gamble that needed skills. At that time, he was blinded by his interests and couldn't tolerate any works other than wild rose. Until he reopened count of Monte Cristo and watched the phantom of count of Monte Cristo in the square, all his complaints disappeared.

He had many opportunities to turn back, but he didn't grasp them once.

Now, Huntington has gambled everything on Harvey. The book pulled by this carriage is a picture book, a comic book, a collection of paintings, which he bought with his life savings and borrowed money? Or a novel? Huntington doesn't know how to define these commodities, but there is no doubt that there is a huge space to try them, with the same risks.

"It costs five barons a copy!"!? This is crazy! no way! Definitely not! Who would pay eight barons for a book, my God! It's not a necessity. Can it keep people from eating and drinking for a week? " After listening to Huntington's offer, the bookseller looked at him like an idiot, spitted and waved him away impatiently.

Huntington, smiling and nodding, drove the carriage to find a second bookstore. The bookseller should not offend the bookstore.

As the bookseller said, although Harvey is very famous among the young people today, who but the noble would be willing to spend eight barons to buy a book? It is exorbitantly expensive, several times or even ten times the price of ordinary books. Huntington bought from Planck at four barons a book, when he was suspected by his companions that he was crazy because his head was full of water.

The risk is too high! It's too high for ordinary book carriers to bear. If they win, they can make a lot of money. If they lose, they are likely to lose.

Huntington drove his carriage around Elroy all day. The horse was tired and didn't want to go any more after feeding him some hay and carrots. He had no choice but to pull the rope to drive the horse back. At the end of the day, most Bookstore owners were particularly excited when they heard that it was Harvey Adrian's new work. Then they saw that the title of the book was "ice and snow", and then they saw that the high price of the book made them lose and let him leave with a cold face.

Ice and snow? Isn't it a fairy tale that came out a few days ago? What's the value of stories written for children? What's more, the novels of "strange fate of ice and snow" have been passed down. You can buy one from the bookseller at a price dozens of times lower. Why buy the hardcover version when you know the content of the novel?

Huntington came down from the carriage. His wrinkled face was not very good-looking. He sat on the carriage in a daze for a long time before sighing. He slowly moved the books behind the bookshelf into the house and worked for nearly an hour. He was paralyzed and rested. All the books were wrapped in oil paper. He didn't have to worry about books getting damp and so on.

These are just the parts he dragged out for sale. He still has a lot of stock in his room.

Huntington ran all over the city of Elroy and asked more than half of the bookstores, but none of them wanted to buy them.

Is his decision really wrong?

"No bookstore is willing to purchase goods from itself. Are you old enough to walk into a dead end? All the experience I have accumulated and all the savings I have accumulated in my life are all wasted because of my impulse. "

Huntington felt confused. He sat in front of the oil lamp and took a picture book named "strange fate of ice and snow". When he read the cartoon, the paper was very strange. It felt like greasy paper, and every picture was colored. It was a work of art by the painter.

There are more than 200 beautiful illustrations in a book. From Huntington's point of view, the picture book comic of "ice and snow" is definitely worth the money. It can only be said that it should not appear here, but in cities where a large number of residents can eat.