Chapter 9: A Publishing Company (1)
Chapter 9: A Publishing Company (1)
Chapter 2 hit the market like a divine event.
A total of 4,000 copies were printed. An additional 1,000 copies of Chapter 1 were re-released alongside it.
Within a week—Every single one sold out.
Bookstores ran dry. Street vendors were mobbed. Guards had to be stationed outside merchant stalls just to keep order.
Nobles bought multiple copies—not because they needed them, but because they wanted to show off.
"I have the first AND second Chapter in hardcover," one lady bragged at a tea party. "Oh, I had mine gold-leafed," another sneered."My cousin had it framed," one baron said smugly.
It wasn't just literature anymore. It was status.
But it wasn't only nobles.
Rich peasants, rising merchants, even city officials—people who had never spent a gold on anything but land or livestock—were fighting to get a copy.
In some towns, entire villages pooled their money just to buy a single copy for everyone to read together in the square.