"Abandoned by the times?"

Silicon Valley, inside a newly built office building.

Jeff Bezos looked at the computer and let out a soft sigh.

I have to say that what the best-selling author described is very picturesque.

The death of the paladin at the end even reminded him of a scene from World War II in his middle school history books.

"The valiant knights of Poland, wielding swords, rushed to Adrian's tank corps without hesitation?"

"There is really a sense of the vicissitudes of the times when the veterans are withering!"

At that moment, his assistant knocked on the door and walked in.

"Mr. Bezos, this is the data you want. ”

After handing the documents to the chairman, he began to report on the situation.

"At present, except for Random House, the number of physical books with entertainment and popular literature of the other five major publishing houses has decreased by 40% year-on-year. ”

And the sales data shows that since its establishment, the profits of the five major publishing houses have decreased by 60% in this regard. ”

Bezos took the sales data and looked at it, nodding slightly.

As he expected, the development of online literature has greatly impacted the physical book publishing industry of popular literature.

"After all, books are so expensive, and most of them have spare money to buy computers if they can afford to buy them for leisure. ”

And with the creation of famous writers such as Stephen King and Neil Gaiman, it will surely bring a large number of fans to the website. ”

"The turmoil caused by the best-selling author some time ago, as well as the popularity of the movie, have brought more users. ”

To be honest, Bezos feels a little regretful about spending all of his energy competing with eBay during that time.

After experiencing a money burning war and various subsidies, both websites are a little unsustainable.

But until now, the number of users is still comparable.

The only thing Amazon is a little better than eBay is in terms of exclusive books.

Of course, what Bezos regrets is not that he didn't have the Viacom Group to fight the best-selling author.

He is just eyeing the high profits of professional books such as textbooks and reference books with more rigid demand and wider users.

Bezos took the information and the documents given to him by his assistant and made a comparison.

"The development of online literature is too fast, and the cake that best-selling author has moved is a little too big. ”

Therefore, the matter of the previous incident should be just the beginning.

"In the future, there will be more fierce conflicts between traditional media and traditional media. Bezos took a sip of his coffee and made his own judgment.

"So what are we going to do? are we on the side of the traditional media?" the assistant asked after a pause.

But that Asian-American bestselling author is very popular in Silicon Valley. ”

Larry Elson, Mr. Wozniak and others have also publicly praised each other. ”

"Amazon... Why stand on the side of the traditional media and arouse the disgust of his peers?" Bezos looked at his assistant with the eyes of a caring fool.

"What we have to do is to use all kinds of means to expand the scale of the two sides and delay their time and attention when there is a conflict between the two sides. ”

"During this period, Amazon wanted to publicize the real power figures of the five major publishing houses and obtain the online monopoly rights of reference books. ”

"If they have been in direct contact with well-known scholars, experts, etc., it is not impossible for us to publish these reference books exclusively. ”

"But why would those people abandon the publishing house with which they have a long-standing relationship and hand over the books to us for publication?" the assistant asked.

"High royalties, of course!" Bezos replied categorically: "We can even subsidize the low price when users buy books from Amazon." ”

"Remember, we're an internet business. He looked at this young man who was deliberately cultivating, and his voice was slightly stern, "Losing money is never a big problem, as long as you can get users." ”

"But... And there was no loss. The assistant muttered.

"Ahem," Bezos coughed lightly, "that site... Something offbeat. ”

"Anyway..."He glanced at what he had just seen, and slowly spoke: "The bookstore should be abandoned by the times!"

Then, Bezos whispered: "There are five major publishing houses..."

"Wang, if you can resist the attack of the big media group for a long time. ”

"Amazon, then, doesn't mind being the artillery and sending these old diehards where they need to go. ”

......

Wang gradually didn't know that he had a relationship with him, and now the bald man who is engaged in e-commerce has so much ambition.

In addition, they are also looking for opportunities to use themselves as objects to attract artillery fire.

He's riding in a car to HBO's office building to discuss Prison Break.

"King Arthur has just been updated, and it has set a record for the fastest revenue of more than $10,000 per chapter since the site was founded. ”

What does this mean?

It shows that his popularity is high, and readers are quite buying it.

"Then, we have to take this opportunity to launch "Prison Break" with HBO as soon as possible. ”

This work is different from the previous feminine "Prison Break" and the masculine "Prison Break: Special Forces".

Its main goal is to have a relatively small number of LGBT people.

Well, plus certain people who are very interested in the fashion industry.

"In short, the subscription prospects of this TV series are really not optimistic. ”

"With the help of this heat, I can pit one by one. Wang gradually whispered.

He is not particularly worried about whether this will consume his reputation.

If after subscribing, you find that it doesn't meet your taste, many people just don't renew it.

And under the premise of political correctness, openly speaking out that discriminates against the LGBT community means that the person will die socially.

Soon, the latest Cadillac off-road stopped under HBO's office building.

"Mr. Wang, welcome very much. HBO's director kindly stretched out his hands.

"Uhh

"Why did you come out to greet you yourself?"

"Hehe, first of all, congratulations on the movie adapted from your work, which was a big hit at the box office. The old white man said with a smile.

"Secondly, we must always give the masters of the fashion industry some space to be alone. ”

After all, those two have always been soft-spoken and graceful in front of outsiders. ”

"Uhh

"Is it a sponsorship fee?" he asked.

"Hmm. HBO Director nodded, "Do you know which way to get the highest bid in the auction industry?"

"That's blind shooting. Without waiting for the king to respond, he replied to himself.

"You never know how many dollars the rich will spend to get something they love. ”

"And people in the fashion industry still seem to be very rich. ”