On July 1, "Axial Age Theory" set a big success in online and offline sales.

On July 10, 300,000 copies were reprinted and put on sale, with 80,000 copies online and 220,000 copies offline.

The People's Literature Publishing House was faced with this eye-popping sales, and everyone was stupid and at a loss for a while.

After all, it's just academic.

After all, it's just a new author's work.

An academic work breaks the record for the fastest sell-out, which has never happened in the Chinese book market.

Originally, they thought that if they printed another 300,000 copies, they would be able to basically feed the market, but they never expected that these 300,000 copies would be digested in an instant when they were thrown into the market!

What a market appeal this is!

At the meeting, everyone discussed for a long time, and after listening to a wide range of opinions, the president waved his hand: "Then print another 300,000 copies!"

Print another 300,000 copies! Supervise the printing house, focus on printing, and work overtime!

On July 18th, fresh books with the smell of printing presses were shipped to bookstores across the country in batches, and this time they were no longer on the shelves at the same time, according to local conditions.

As a result, Tianjin City arrived on the 18th and sold out on the 18th!

Spring City arrives on the 19th, and the 19th is sold out!

Peony City arrived on the 20th and sold out on the same day!

The goods arrived at the end of work on the evening of the 20th in Shanghai, and a bookstore temporarily opened for a small area, and it was sold out that night!

......

300,000 books, sold out again.

The president of the People's Literature Publishing House waved his hand again and printed another 500,000 copies!

Sales of these 500,000 copies have finally slowed down, but 400,000 were still sold by July 31.

Within a month of the new book being put on the shelves, it was reprinted three times, with a cumulative sales volume of 1.1 million copies, and the brilliant sales record made the publishing industry jaw-dropping!

He Wenjun, the president of Sanlian Publishing House, looked out the window with his hands behind his back, and Li Yiru's home was in the south outside the window, as if he could see it.

"This is the best-selling work in the last 20 years, and I never expected that it would be an academic work that would revive the publishing industry. This is definitely breaking the laws of the market!"

The vice president nodded and said, "Yes, 1.1 million copies are sold in a month, which is so unbelievable that I can't even figure it out." If you follow the current trend, there is a certain chance that the book will exceed 2 million sales by the end of the year!

"Axial Age Theory" is indeed an excellent academic work, but the sales are too scary!"

He Wenjun sighed: "Actually, the other side of the frightening sales volume also shows that we are not a big country of reading?"

With the population base of our country, our book industry should be better.

But this is not the topic we want to talk about today, what we want to study is how to snatch the signing right of Li Yiru's next book!"

The vice president thought about it: "My opinion is that I will personally talk about it, and we must sign Li Yiru's signing right for the next book at all costs." ”

"Agreed, but it's not appropriate for you to go!"

The vice president smiled: "Nothing inappropriate, Corporal Lixian!"

"I mean, I'm going to talk about it myself!"

The vice president was silent for a while, and he did it for a long time, because he felt that his weight was too small!

Li Yiru's next book was planned to be prepared before September and launched in October, but seeing the explosion of sales of "Axial Age Theory", Li Yiru decided to postpone the plan for the next book.

After the value of "Axial Age Theory" is fully revealed, the next book will be launched and promoted, which is a very market-oriented operation.

However, the signing right of the next book has attracted the attention of countless publishers after the new book exploded.

Since mid-July, publishers have been approaching me one after another.

On August 3rd, Li Yiru was not only in contact with domestic publishing houses, but even foreign publishing houses.

In the living room of Li's house, a middle-aged woman with blond hair and blue eyes is talking to Li Yiru about the overseas copyright of "Axial Age Theory".

The woman's name was Alice, and she was a representative of Academic Press.

Alice made an offer, 10% copyright. For this copyright, Li Yiru can only express regret.

Alice translated: "Ms. Alice said that this is already the highest offer for a domestic writer, and she does not understand why you have rejected so decisively. ”

Li Yiru smiled, he knew in his heart that the American publishing industry is especially good at packaging authors. He already thought of his English version of the book: a phenomenal work that sold more than one million dollars in a single month, and an academic masterpiece by an 18-year-old young man......

Then I had to find a certain university scholar to write a preface and blow it through. After being packaged by foreigners, the English version of this book must not be bad!

After all, foreigners also have a curiosity mentality, and seeing that the blow is so powerful, it is estimated that there will always be a group of people who will be attracted.

And the monthly sales exceeded one million, which is a legend in any country in the world!

Lawyer Wu on the side said: "Overseas copyright, our royalty of less than 15% is not considered, sorry. ”

Alice Translation: "What? You know, this is really the greatest sincerity we can show, we not only have to pay 10% of Mr. Li's royalty, but also pay the translator's royalty, and we have to bear the risk of sales failure!"

"Translators' royalties?" Li Yiru smiled, "My book doesn't need to be translated by others." ”

"What? But foreigners can't read Chinese!"

"I mean, I translate it into English myself. ”

Alice was taken aback, and then smiled: "I know that Mr. Li is very good at English, but translating Chinese to English is not as simple as the college entrance examination, it involves the grammar habits of Americans, and translation is a very time-consuming and extremely professional thing." ”

Li Yiru thought for a while: "Give me a week, you will come back in a week, and it is not too late to make a decision." ”

Alice maintained a friendly attitude, but when she left Li Yi's Confucian door, she straightened her face and said: "This young man is too idealistic, the translation work is very professional, and it is very time-consuming, a week to personally translate into the English version, my God, how is it possible?"

The translation requirements for English are extremely high, and it is not a translation of the test-taking essay.

This young man is floating in your Mandarin dialect!"

The Chinese translator is not good to say anything next to him, he also feels that this matter is unrealistic, and he also thinks that after the explosion of the new book, Li Yiru is a little floating.

Translate a book in a week, not to mention Li Yiru, even a great translator can't do it.

The Chinese translator can only watch the foreign woman complain, and really has no chance to help Li Yiru explain.

That night, when Li Yiru was carefully translating the book "Axial Age Theory" at home, the Chinese translator called, on behalf of his private position, suggested that Li Yiru hand over the translation rights of the book to professionals, as for the 10% royalty, the translation said that it was indeed the remuneration of domestic first-line authors by American publishing houses, considering various factors such as translators, it was unrealistic.

Li Yiru smiled and expressed his kindness to the translator's friendly reminder, no matter how much he said, he couldn't explain it, so he relied on the translation.

The matter of translating works, Chinese to English and English to Chinese, Li Yiru has done it in his previous life.

There was nothing to brag about, and at that time, I did this purely to introduce foreign literature to the country, or to promote domestic works to the world.

He was already engaged in related work when he was in graduate school, so he is basically familiar with the work he used to do now.

Moreover, the theory of the Axial Age was born in the West in his previous life, and Li Yiru was the first to come into contact with the Theory of the Axial Age, and he also read a number of books such as the English version.

Therefore, the fact that he personally translated his work "Theory of the Axial Age" is particularly reliable.

From the point of view of pure text translation, he is definitely no worse than other translators because of his special linguistic talent, the fact that the English version of the book is stored in his mind, and the experience he has in his previous life.

In terms of understanding the theory of the Axial Age, what translator understands this theory better than the original author?

Many translators translate works that go against the meaning of the original text, but Li Yiru does not have this trouble.

Therefore, no matter from which point of view, Li Yiru's personal translation of "The Theory of the Axial Age" is the most reliable and feasible.

But Li Yiru can only be misunderstood by everyone at present, after all, he has no time to explain how he was in his previous life, after all, in the eyes of the public, he is still a student who scored 149 points in English in the college entrance examination, which is far from the word translator.

Therefore, in the face of everyone's misunderstanding, Li Yiru could only work hard and pretend to be a grandson for the time being.

A week later, Li Yiru called Alice, and Alice arrived as promised.

She was still so professional, shook hands with Li Yiru, and looked at Li Yiru quietly: "Mr. Li, I don't know how your translation work is?

Before Li Yiru took out the English version of "Axial Age Theory" from the drawer, Alice didn't expect that Li Yiru could really complete this difficult work independently.

Regardless of how well it is translated, at least the book lies quietly on the coffee table, which makes Alice a little admired.

The printing and binding of the English version is very formal, which was done by Li Yiru in trouble with the publishing house, and Li Yiru translated this work, in fact, it only took 5 days.

There are a total of 5 books on the coffee table.

Alice and other three foreign friends each picked up three books, and the translator and the Chinese staff picked up the other two, and everyone sat on the sofa and silently flipped through them.

Alice was quickly captivated by the text, and after four or five pages in a row, she suddenly realized that she had forgotten her job of doing her job: evaluating the translation.

She can't read the original Chinese, and she doesn't know whether the English translation is accurate or not, but she doesn't return any grammatical errors or common sense errors of American culture in the translation, and from the perspective of an ordinary reader, she can't find any fault!

Several other foreigners also looked at each other and nodded secretly.

The translator looked very seriously, and he studied the author's handwritten translation line by line against the original Chinese version, and his face was full of amazement, incredulity, and confusion at this time.

If you can't figure it out in translation, even if you can't understand Chinese studies, why are even translated works so awesome?

After a while, the translator put down the translation and subconsciously blurted out: "Awesome!"

Alice: "What?"

Li Yiru: "Part of the body structure of an animal!"

Translation: "This translation is too good!" ）

Alice was confused, how could two people's interpretations of this word be so different?

Seeing that the time was ripe, Mr. Wu struck while the iron was hot: "Our appeal is that we will not consider the royalty below 20%. ”

Alice was stunned, and said a lot, and the translator chose the key points to translate briefly: "Didn't you say 15% royalties before, why did the price increase again?"

Lawyer Wu: "Because we were in charge of the translation, it went up by 5%. ”

"You're too ruthless, aren't you?" Ms. Alice said, we have to think about it again, please give us a few days, can we take this book?"

"Absolutely. Li Yiru nodded, he had already submitted for registration.

Alice took the translation of the book for the purpose of asking a team of professionals to verify that it was as flawless as the translator said!

She always felt that the translation was a little biased towards Li Yiru, after all, the translator was Chinese, and it was reasonable to favor Li Yiru.

Especially about the translation of "niubi", Li Yiru and the translator blurted out two meanings at the same time that were completely unrelated, and she was a little puzzled at the time.

Bringing the book back to the U.S. in person, the team of professionals conducted an urgent verification and finally discovered that the book was not flawless.

Any translation, no matter who translates it, will have certain problems, even if it is written in the native language, it needs to be proofread by a professional after the manuscript is completed, which is normal, let alone translation.

Alice looked at the 5 problems that appeared in this translation, and the whole person was like an electric shock!

On page 15, line 3, instead of "," should be used, but ".";

Page 53, line 15, in the strict sense of the word, should not be used in the past continuous tense.

Page 108, line 9, compared to the original book, missing words.

......

There are only 5 inconsequential problems in the whole translation, which can be called an excellent translation in the whole field of translation.

If you carefully investigate the books on the market normally, there will generally be far more than 8 problems, even if they have been proofread by many people!

And Li Yiru completed the translation work independently within a week, and no one has proofread it yet!

An 18-year-old high school graduate who has completed the translation of his work in such a short period of time is simply amazing and incomprehensible, right?

Alice directly booked a ticket and flew to the capital. She thinks the 20% royalty is too exaggerated, and they are still willing to give the 15% royalty.

This day is August 20th, Li's mother is packing Li Yiru's luggage, and he has decided to prepare to fly to Shanghai City.

On August 28, Fudan University opened, and Li Yiru decided to go ahead of schedule.

Unlike other candidates from other places, other candidates can only stay in hotels if they go in advance, but Li Yiru, people have a home in Shanghai City!

More than one home, currently in Shanghai City, Li Yiru owns 3 mansions, fully practicing the principle of three holes of cunning rabbits.

All three properties are located in the heart of Shanghai City.

In addition to these 3 mansions, Li Yiru bought all the remaining funds for gold.

This is all hard currency, real estate in the short term can not see investment benefits, because the housing prices in the Shanghai market have reached a temporary ceiling, maybe in the next ten years, housing prices will rise significantly.

As for gold, Li Yiru earned it steadily, he bought it when gold was historically low, and normally speaking, gold is one of the most reliable ways to maintain value.

Li Yiru does not seek to increase his value, but he just wants to avoid shrinking wealth.

Flying with him to Shanghai City, in addition to his parents, there was also Ma Jian.

Ma Jian was successfully admitted to China Normal University, which also gave Li Yiru the opportunity to go to China Normal University to see beautiful women.

Everything has been settled, in Li Yiru's class, there are a total of 3 students who have been admitted to key universities, and the other students are either undergraduates or junior colleges, and some repeat their studies for another year. Of course, there are a few people who have dropped out of school to start business.

For every student, a new life is about to begin.

Mama Li was packing her luggage, Ma Jian was helping on the side, and listened carefully to the discussion in the living room.

It wasn't until He Wenjun of Sanlian Publishing House finally blurted out the three words "I agree" that Ma Jian got up and looked at the people shaking hands with each other in the living room, he was very surprised.

Because, in the past 30 years in the Chinese publishing industry, the highest royalty was born - 25%!

Li Yiru broke the 20% royalty record of the king of Chinese fairy tales and became the author with the highest royalty in China in the past 30 years!