1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 600

After September, the weather in Yanjing is getting cooler and cooler, and the coolness in the morning and evening makes people feel happy.

It's almost autumn, which is the most charming season in Yanjing.

After the scorching heat, the time stuck in the office every day is not so hard to bear.

Lin Weimin stacked the reviewed manuscripts neatly in a corner of his desk. This batch of manuscripts were all ready to be printed and published in October. Among them were not only those published by the Chinese Literature Society, but also by the Tongwen Society.

He came to the Tongwen Press with the manuscript in his hand. The publishing house now has eight editors, divided into two editorial offices, one is the editorial office of martial arts literature, and the other is the editorial office of "Kyushu Heroes".

No matter how crowded the office is, there must be green dill.

It has been nearly a month since the second issue of "Kyushu Heroes" was launched, and the circulation has exceeded the 160 million mark.

The circulation of a publication is not the same as the sales volume. It means that it has been purchased but not sold. Anyway, no bookstore has reported that the publication cannot be sold, so it takes only one month for these circulations to be converted into sales.

These few days, Yu Hua and the others are busy with the third issue of the magazine, and the printing factory has already sent it to print today, so the editorial department can relax for a few days.

The sales volume of two consecutive issues exceeded one million copies, and the sales volume increased significantly. According to this trend, the sales volume of breaking 200 million copies is the matter of these two issues.

Therefore, after communicating with Lin Weimin, Yu Hua set the first print of the third issue of "Kyushu Heroes" at 150 million copies.

It's a pretty big step!
Seeing Lin Weimin coming, Yu Hua, who was talking to his editor Hu Kan, stood up. Before Lin Weimin could speak first, he took out a pile of letters.

"Mr. Lin, take a look, these are all letters written by readers to 'Xiao Zhuanfeng' during this period. "No. [-] in the World" has been published for two issues, and it is becoming more and more popular."

Lin Weimin took the letter and looked at it, "It's a good thing for readers to write letters. I will forward these letters to 'Little Zhuanfeng' later."

He asked Yu Hua again, "Did you forget the advertisement for Huang Ying's collection?"

"How can you forget such a big thing?" Yu Hua said with a smile.

Tongwen News Agency obtained the publishing rights of the works of several famous Hong Kong martial arts masters, and Lin Weimin arranged the publication sequence of Huang Ying and Liang Yusheng's works.

Liang Yusheng's works, like Jin Yong's, are published in the form of a collection of works as a set of books, and the progress is more than halfway.

Huang Ying's works are slightly different from the previous method. Most of his works are series-based, so Tongwen Press also conducts series review and publication in the form of series.

In more than a month, the editorial office completed the editing and review work of the "Shen Shengyi" series and "The Change of the Silkworm". These two series are the most famous works among all Huang Ying's works. At the same time, the "Shen Shengyi" series is also the series with the most content among all Huang Ying's works, which is almost equal to more than one-third of the words in all his works.

After completing these two series, the editing and review progress of Huang Ying's works has almost reached half.

Book publishing also needs to be done in a rhythmic manner. It is impossible for Tongwen Press to wait for all the works of the two writers to be edited and reviewed before publishing them together. The 34 volumes of the "Shen Shengyi" series and "The Change of Heavenly Silkworm" series, with a word count of about 750 million words, will be published first in October.

With "Kyushu Heroes" as my own brother who has sold millions of copies, one is a martial arts novel, and the other is a martial arts novel publication. It would be a pity not to run a wave of marketing advertisements.

"Xuegang, what do you think is the appropriate number of first prints for Huang Ying's series?"

The novel will be published in more than half a month, and the subscription work has just begun. Lin Weimin asked Li Xuegang just to discuss with him.

Li Xuegang thought for a moment, and said: "Huang Ying is not well-known in the mainland, and the only work in his work is "The Change of the Silkworm". Because the TV series adaptation has a certain audience in the mainland, I think the first printing of [-] copies is enough. Of course, this has to be seen for a period of time. If the order quantity is high, you can raise the expectation a little bit."

"Well, the number should be about the same."

"Mr. Lin!" Li Xuegang called Lin Weimin suddenly.

"what happened?"

"Xiao Zhuanfeng's "No. 15 in the World" has finished publishing this issue of [-] words, which is enough to issue a single volume. Look..."

Lin Weimin was a little surprised by Li Xuegang's subjective initiative. He thought for a while and said: "Take it easy, don't worry about this matter, the influence of "No. [-] in the World" is still not big enough."

Li Xuegang nodded, "Okay, then wait a little longer."

In the afternoon, Lin Weimin received a call from Liang Fengyi from Xiangjiang.

At the end of last year, the Guowen Society introduced her three works. At that time, the publicity was huge. After more than half a year since the novel was published, the total sales volume of the three novels has exceeded 50 copies, with [-] to [-] copies of each novel being reviewed. This figure is quite outstanding among the books published by the Guowen Society every year.

So a few months ago, Guowen Society introduced two works by Liang Fengyi, which have been on the market for more than two months, and the sales volume is still good.

Although Lin Weimin's novels can easily sell millions of copies in the mainland, except for the peak sales period of one or two years after the publication of the works, most of his works sell hundreds of thousands of copies every year. This is still a writer with top appeal like him.

If the author's charisma is average, but the works are well received, the normal annual sales of 20 copies are also blocked.

Even the works of many famous authors may not sell more than six figures when they are published. The sales volume of quite a few authors' works is basically between [-] and [-] copies.

In addition, there are still a large number of unknown works whose sales volume is in the range of several thousand copies. It cannot be said that publishing houses lose money by publishing these works, but it is also difficult to make money.

Therefore, it is not easy for Liang Fengyi's works to reach the sales volume of [-] to [-] copies in just over half a year.

With the popularity of several works in the Mainland, the name of Liang Fengyi, a Hong Kong writer, is very famous in the Mainland literary circles.

She called Lin Weimin today to announce her happiness.

In the past two years, her works have been welcomed not only in the mainland, but also in Xiangjiang.

Liang Fengyi is a very business-minded person. She is not willing to work for a publishing house, so she just established her own publishing house not long ago, called "Qin+Yuan". This name represents her attitude towards life and work.

Liang Fengyi's approach is not uncommon in the Xiangjiang literary circle, and many writers with business minds will do it.

For example, Jin Yong found that his martial arts novels could attract readers and established Ming Pao. Huang Yulang achieved Xiangjiang's comic empire with his comics, and Huang Yi also established a publishing house to publish his own works.

The Guowen Society is the No. [-] publishing house in the mainland literature circle. A good relationship with them may provide her with a lot of convenience. That's why Liang Fengyi called Lin Weimin after the publishing house was established.

After some congratulations, Liang Fengyi got down to business again, which was also the main purpose of her call this time.

Since the beginning of this year, she has created a series of works such as "Flower Banner" and "Last Night's Long Wind", which have just been published in Xiangjiang. This time, she called Lin Weimin to recommend her own works.

After listening to Liang Fengyi's words, Lin Weimin couldn't help laughing.

"Ms. Liang, our publishing house was supposed to look for you, but I didn't expect you to come here first. It was a mistake in my work. Of course, there is no problem with the introduction of your works. I will immediately arrange someone to connect with you, and strive to publish them as soon as possible."

In the Mainland, the group of writers has played the role of the spiritual mentors of the people for quite a long time.

But this is not the case in Xiangjiang, where there is no respect for "scholars" and "scholars" in the mainland since ancient times, so the status of writers has always been low.

Therefore, there are very few Xiangjiang writers who create out of love for literature.

Of course, this has a lot to do with the fact that the colonial government of Xiangjiang did not support the development of Chinese literature in the early years.

Therefore, if you want to make a living with your pen in Xiangjiang, the first thing you think about is not the ideological and literary quality of the works, but what ordinary people like to read.

Under such an atmosphere and influence, it is difficult for even those very few writers with literary ideals to persevere.

During the Anti-Japanese War, Xu Xu became famous with the novel "Ghost Love", which was beautiful and moving. Later, he published "Wind Xiao Xiao", which became very popular.

But after moving to Xiangjiang, Xu Xu wasted several years and only wrote "Journey to the Rivers and Lakes", which is considered vulgar by readers.

In the 60s, he completed the novel "Four Sisters", which simply became the taste of popular novels.

There are many writers like Xu Xu whose styles have been changed by the commercialized city of Xiangjiang, and there is only one reason for these people to make changes.

Forced to make ends meet!

Compared with these writers, Liang Fengyi, who has a clear positioning from the beginning, is undoubtedly a successful one.Coupled with her creative efficiency and business acumen, it is difficult not to make a fortune.

Liang Fengyi's works are best-selling works in the mainland, and there are also previous cooperations, plus the relevant departments behind the support, the Guowen Society naturally has no reason to reject Liang.

The Guowen Society is more willing to promote Liang Fengyi, a female writer from Hong Kong. This is not only due to the reasons of the relevant departments, but also because Liang Fengyi's popularity in the mainland is only good for the Guowen Society, and has no harm.

Nowadays, there are only a few publishing houses that are qualified to publish literary works in Xiangjiang and Wandao. To make Liang Fengyi famous is equivalent to giving a sample to many writers in Xiangjiang and Wandao who have the potential to cooperate.

In recent years, the literary exchanges between the three places across the Taiwan Strait have become closer and closer. It is also a great thing for the Guowen Society to have more authors and works resources from Xiangjiang and Wandao.

After talking about continuing to publish books, Lin Weimin said: "Ms. Liang, you also know that your works have been welcomed by quite a few readers in the Mainland for more than half a year, and you have made a lot of contributions to helping readers understand the customs of Xiangjiang. Everyone is very curious about you, a female writer in Xiangjiang. If you have time, it is not convenient for you to come to our Mainland to hold a few signings. In addition, our Chinese Literature Society would like to hold a seminar on your works."

Leung Fung Yee was overjoyed when she heard the news, whether it was signing sales or holding seminars on her works, the goal was to expand her popularity and influence in the mainland.

This kind of thing is a win-win cooperation for herself, the publisher and the distributor, so she agreed without hesitation.

"After the [-]th, I will spare half a month to go to the mainland to cooperate with your work." Liang Fengyi said.

"Okay, then it's settled." Lin Weimin said.

(End of this chapter)