1980 My Literary Era

Chapter 67
"Contemporary-Spy War Special" is a fresh attempt for "Contemporary", and it is also fresh for domestic readers and newspaper circles.

More than a dozen outstanding writers from the Institute of Literary Studies of the National Association of Literary and Art Circles created with the same theme and the same core of the drama. Anyone who reads it will have to say something new.

On the third day after the release of the album, there were discussions about the album in the local newspapers in Yanjing, and the "Yanjing Daily" published a review article "This is a beneficial attempt".

"In the past, our literary creation always focused on ideological and literariness, and it was very easy to ignore the fundamentals of literary creation, that is, text and techniques.

Technology is close to Tao, this is the words left to us by our ancestors.Before any art reaches a certain threshold, it is the superposition and accumulation of technology.

This brave attempt by the editorial department of "Contemporary" broke the comfort zone of writers, and also allowed readers and many literature lovers to have a glimpse of the truth of literary creation.

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With the appearance of this review article, there are more and more comments on the album of "Contemporary".

There are many praises, but criticism is also indispensable. The focus of criticism is the similarity of content and the suspicion of showing off skills.

Among them is Lin Weimin, who has written "Latent" before and now "The Cliff". It is a mistake in itself.

There were even letters from radical readers who denounced Lin Weimin as a "royalty thief", who wrote the same story twice and had the face to post it to a magazine.
In the editorial department, Lin Weimin was in charge of opening letters. He couldn't laugh or cry when he saw this letter from a reader.

Xiao Yao at the side glanced at the content of this letter, and within half a day, Lin Weimin's name of "the manuscript fee thief" spread all over the back building, and then the front building.

This letter and this nickname have also become a joke in the Guowen Society for a long time.

The comments from the outside world are turbulent, and it does not affect the sales of the "Contemporary" spy war album. On the contrary, because of the criticism and praise from everyone, the sales of this album have been rising steadily.

Within a week, 30 copies of the magazine were sold out, and bookstores and post offices all over the world called to request additional printing. The readers were so enthusiastic.

Meng Weizai and Qin Chaoyang spent two days collecting data reported by bookstores and post offices around the world, and finally sent an astonishing number to the agency.

"30 volumes?" Wei Junyi looked at the summed up figures, her eyes filled with disbelief.

"Old Meng, are you kidding me? Your last issue's sales volume was only a little over 30 copies. Now add 30 copies to 30 copies, and that's 60 copies."

The expression on Meng Weizai's face was both excited and apprehensive, "The data are all based on the summary of newspapers from various places. We added a little margin, but it's not much, and there will definitely be no big discrepancies."

Seeing Meng Weizai's determination, Wei Junyi sighed: "My God! You guys really put a David star in "Contemporary"!"

After all, she couldn't sit still, "No, I have to tell Wen Jing."

She dragged Meng Weizai to the office of the president Yan Wenjing, and learned that the sales volume of this issue of "Contemporary" had almost doubled, and Yan Wenjing was also very relieved.

The agency has already decided to revise "Contemporary" next year, and the sudden increase in sales of this issue is definitely great news for next year's revision.

In the 80s, it was not uncommon for best-selling magazines to sell millions of copies per issue, but those were popular literature magazines.

For example, "Legend of the Ancient Times", which was launched in 1981, achieved a circulation of 5 million copies in just five years, setting a record for the number one circulation of national literary periodicals that year.There is also "Story Club", a must-read book on the train back then, and each issue will sell more than one million copies. "Popular Movies" once set a record of 278 million copies in a single issue in the 80s.

Compared with the above-mentioned magazines that have been loved by readers all the year round, "Contemporary" has a background of mainstream literature, and it does not have the ability to communicate with the trendy mass media. At its peak in the mid-80s, it only reached 50 copies in a single issue achievement.

But no one thought that with the release of just one album, "Contemporary" would push up the sales by nearly [-]% in one fell swoop.

In the early 80s, new magazines and newspapers were born every day across the country. This was the time when the sales of various domestic magazines and newspapers soared.

There are also many mainstream literary magazines and periodicals with a monthly sales of more than 10 copies. "Harvest" is considered the highest sales volume, and this year's sales have just exceeded 50 copies.

At this time, when people talk about mainstream literary magazines and periodicals, they always put "October", "Contemporary", "Zhongshan", and "Flower City" together, and put them together. Known as the "Four Famous Dans".

However, when "Harvest" was mentioned, it was placed in the only position, which shows the status of "Harvest" in the Chinese literary world at this time.

Compared with "Harvest", which has been published for more than 30 years, "Contemporary", which has been established for just over a year, is inferior in every aspect, but "Contemporary" broke their relationship with "Harvest" with a single album. "'s sales gap.

Yan Wenjing was not dissatisfied with "Harvest", but seeing that "Contemporary" broke the sales volume of "Harvest", a mainstream literary magazine, in just one year, he couldn't help but feel happy and waved his hand.

"Reprint! Just take 30 copies!"

After this surge in sales, Yan Wenjing and Wei Junyi are also full of confidence in the revision of "Contemporary" next year, and encouraged Meng Weizai: "Old Meng, this year you have a good end, and strive to achieve greater glory next year! "

"Definitely! Definitely!" Meng Weizai said cheerfully.

The sales volume of the magazine is good. As the head of the editorial department, he not only has a good face, but also speaks hard.

Now, he can straighten his back and say that "Contemporary" has lived up to the hard work of the Guowen Society for more than a year, and it has become a success!

Guowenshe has its own printing factory, and the printing efficiency is very fast. It took less than three days for the 30 magazines to be sent to all parts of the country.

The soaring sales volume of the "Contemporary" album made the editorial department rejoice. The two leaders, Meng Weizai and Qin Chaoyang, praised Lin Weimin in front of everyone, and conveyed the news to the president Yan Wenjing and the president. Editor Wei Junyi's praise of Lin Weimin made colleagues look enviously at Lin Weimin.

This kid has been in the industry for less than two months, and he hadn't even entered the editorial department of "Contemporary" when planning this album.

How enviable!

(End of this chapter)