The original positioning of The Sun, and the public's perception of it, was a comprehensive newspaper that was biased towards gossip and nonsense, which neither Huo Yaowen nor Evans could change.

After all, the Sun has been established for more than ten years, and if there is a sudden big change and changes to a more professional news newspaper like the "Times", not only will readers not be able to accept it for a while, but I am afraid that the staff of the newspaper will also be very surprised.

The decision to buy The Sun was made because Fok believed that Universal Newspaper needed such an "unscrupulous" newspaper, just like Hong Kong's Huazi Daily and Oriental Daily.

"The sales of Financial Daily and Financial Weekly are so high?"

After reading the document in his hand, Huo Yaowen looked at Evans with some surprise.

Financial Daily sells 700,000 copies a day!

The weekly sales of Finance Weekly exceeded 200,000 copies last week!

Together, these two figures seem to be less than the sales of "The Sun" in one day, but you must know that before Huo Yaowen acquired the Financial Daily, it was a second-rate small newspaper, and its daily sales were only 100,000 copies.

In just three years, it has risen to 700,000!

This greatly surprised Huo Yaowen's expectations.

"This is last week's daily sales, and it should be up now. ”

Evans was surprised by the boss, and said with a smile: "Editor-in-Chief Huang has always been very strict with the content selection of financial daily and financial weekly, so newspapers and weekly magazines have always maintained a high level of financial and economic articles, which may not be incomprehensible to the general public, but they are very helpful to those people in London Financial Street." ”

Since the end of Huo Yaowen's serialized "Currency War" three years ago, the sales of "Financial Daily" have actually dropped a lot, and the newly launched "Financial Weekly", although relying on the gimmick of the financial wealth list, there has not been much change in sales, but these lists cannot be updated every day, and it is only a matter of time before sales fall.

Seeing this, Huang Junyu reformed newspapers and weekly magazines, hired professional financial experts and economics doctors, wrote some high-level articles, and positioned newspapers and weekly magazines among the readership of the elite.

This positioning may reduce the number of general readers, because they are afraid to take an interest in these articles, or to put it bluntly, they do not understand the more specialized content.

But there were gains and losses, and he lost ordinary readers, but he suddenly won the favor of the group of people engaged in the financial industry in London's financial street, and not only that, but also raised the pressure of newspapers and weekly magazines at once.

Nowadays, in the eyes of Londoners, the professionalism and authority of the London Financial Daily can be compared with the old newspapers such as The Times and the Daily Mail.

After listening to Evans's words, Huo Yaowen was very surprised, he never expected that Huang Junyu would be able to find the most suitable position for "Financial Daily" so quickly.

"Knock Knock"

At that moment, there was a knock on the office door.

Evans shouted "Come in," only to see his secretary walk in with Litt.

Seeing someone coming, Huo Yaowen frowned and asked, "Why are you here?"

"BOSS, you're finally willing to come out. Rito shrugged his shoulders and sat down, and said, "I've called you a few times since you came to England." ”

Huo Yaowen said helplessly: "Didn't I say I would go to you in the afternoon?"

"I know, I was waiting for you to come with black tea at the company, but I just received news not long ago that you were shortlisted for the 1976 Booker Prize for Best Feature-length Literary Works, and the organizing committee invited you to attend the award ceremony next month, and I heard that BOSS has a good chance of winning your award." ”

"Booker Prize, what kind of award is this?" Huo Yaowen raised his eyebrows, he had never heard of any Booker Prize.

"This is a separate literary award set up by the British book industry in 1969 in order to break the influence of foreign book awards, and only original English authors from the United Kingdom, Ireland and Commonwealth countries are eligible to be shortlisted, in order to resist the encroachment of new forms of entertainment such as television on the literary market. ”

Huo Yaowen frowned and said, "But I'm not a British citizen, so I can also be selected?"

"Hong Kong Island currently belongs to the British Commonwealth, so BOSS you are eligible to be shortlisted for the Booker Prize. ”

"Forget it, I'm not very interested in competing for awards right now, and I don't even know if my book was shortlisted, could it be Harry Potter 3, which I published last year?"

Huo Yaowen couldn't imagine that his book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, which he had never heard of, he didn't write many books in the past two years, except for "Jurassic Park", it was also "Harry Potter 3", could it be that this award was a children's book award?

"No, it's the boss you wrote "Game of Thrones" before, this book is very well-known in the UK, and many people think that if the follow-up continues to maintain the level of the first part, it will inevitably open up a new magical serious literature. ”

"That seems to be a book I wrote three years ago, right? By the way, Evans, have you heard of this Booker Prize?" Huo Yaowen looked at Evans on the side.

Evans shook his head and said, "No, I've never heard of a Booker Award, this is the first time I've heard of it, but I've heard of Booker Foods." ”

"Forget it. Huo Yaowen shook his head, he didn't really want to participate in this award.

Seeing that the boss didn't care, he thought about it and didn't continue, to be honest, if he hadn't checked this award before coming, he wouldn't have heard of the Booker Award at all, and it didn't seem necessary to participate or not.

But if it's the Hugo Prize, or the Nobel Prize for Literature, or even the Pulitzer Prize in the United States, or the Goncourt Prize in France, that's a different matter.

In fact, this Booker Prize is still very well-known in later generations, and is considered the highest award in the contemporary English language world, and it is also one of the most influential literary awards in the world literary circle.

It's just that this award has only been started for a few years, and although many of the award-winning authors are quite well-known, they are only limited to a small number of people. This time, Huo Yaowen's works were shortlisted, in fact, they were specially selected by the organizing committee to expand the popularity of the award.

After all, the purpose of the Booker Prize is to increase the influence of "serious literature" in the public, and although "Game of Thrones" is very good, it is not yet in the ranks of serious literature.

"Since you're here, I have time left to go to your place, which is the written "Game of Thrones 2" and "Harry Potter 4". Huo Yaowen took out a thick stack of manuscripts from his briefcase.

"Harry Potter 4" Huo Yaowen only took about two months to write, but "Game of Thrones 2" took him more than two years to write.

On the one hand, because Harry Potter has a small number of words, and the plot has watched movies for reference, it can be said that it is handy to write, but "Game of Thrones 2" is different, the story is complicated, not to mention, even the TV series is filmed in the clouds, and I don't care to watch it seriously, I'm afraid that the general audience only remembers the undressed Dragon Mother.

Game of Thrones 2: Clash of Kings

Harry Potter 4: Goblet of Fire

"Oh my God, boss, you've got great news for me!"

Seeing the manuscripts of the two books, Litu is simply happy at the moment!

The boss who was originally a high-output boss, since he got married and had children, his output has decreased, and he writes some new ones from time to time, which makes Lito, who is also Huo Yaowen's manager, very distressed!

With the development of these years, it can bring him hundreds of thousands of pounds or even more wealth every year, but compared to the share of Huo Yaowen's manager, this money is almost a small amount of money!

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