The award given out is the water that was spilled, and it is not easy to take it back, Zhang Chu can only accept it in full.

"Congratulations, you have won another heavyweight award, which shows that those people abroad are very optimistic about your potential and think that you can win the Nobel Prize in Literature in the future. ”

On the phone, Gu Xinxue congratulated him sincerely, and he only learned about the ownership of this year's Kafka Literary Prize after reading the news.

The more awards an author wins, the happier the publisher is, and that's the best way to get the word.

Zhang Chu leaned against the glass door of the balcony and looked at the bright lights outside the window, shook his head and said: "Who can say for sure what will happen in the future, Nobel is too difficult." Random House is much more active than you, and they have helped me with public relations to win so many awards, and you have to make a strong effort in China!"

Any award must be properly PR and the judges or judges must be made aware of the presence of such an author or such a book.

Obviously, the Booker Prize, the Goncourt Prize, the Kafka Literary Prize, and the National Library Prize have all been broken one after another, but almost none of those literary awards in China have his name.

Gu Xinxue smiled wryly, "Actually, you should know very well that the better your book sells in China, the less hope you have of winning the award, and those judges will not let your work win the award easily." ”

Every literary award advertises openness, fairness, and justice, but in fact, the unspoken rules are very obvious, for example, the Contradictory Literature Award claims to be a retirement home for writers, specifically pushing up those writers who have long been eligible for the Mao Award.

Although the works of these writers are not up to standard, he has written good works in the past, and maybe he will be able to win higher awards in the future! If he is not done first, if he wins the Nobel Prize like Mo Yan, it will make the Chinese literary world lose face!

It's just that in this way, what exactly the Mao Dun Literature Award is selecting makes people feel extremely confused.

It is said that it is a selection of declared works, but these declared works are not excellent works. It can be said that it is a historical achievement of a certain writer, but the person who made the excellent rules did not implement it into a rule, but only evolved into an unspoken rule.

After many years of daughter-in-law becoming a mother-in-law, so many writers in China are queuing, from jet-black hair to snow-white hair!

Everyone knows that there are cats in the selection of these literary awards, but ordinary people can't come up with reliable rescues. If you say that there is no cat, I'm afraid no one will believe it.

An extremely bold poet once spoke in Weibo, saying that the Lu Xun Literature Award can be bought with money, and many Lu Prize winners are bought with money, and some are planned. Running for awards is a major event in the life of writers in the writers' association system!

Literary awards at home and abroad are actually similar in nature, but those foreign awards do not exclude works from selling well, and even that is a plus.

However, the domestic judges will regard the best-selling works as a deduction item, and the more best-selling works seem to lack literary and humanistic care, there is a kind of discrimination that wants to cover up.

Therefore, although Zhang Chu's works are constantly praised in China, they have never won well-known literary awards, and the slightly famous one is the Jingdong Literature Award.

Although this award is not very famous, it represents the attitude of Jingdong Books, a large bookstore, and there is a full reward of 200,000 yuan.

If he is willing to go to these circles to carry out activities, he may be able to slowly win a few awards, but the key is that Zhang Chu hardly mixes with any writer's circle, and he is weak!

Gu Xinxue felt silence, he said to his mobile phone: "Don't talk about these things, you are a winner in life now, and it is too late for the judges to envy you." ”

"I said, Gu Bian, you shouldn't have called me specifically to make me feel stuffy, right?"

Every time I think of these domestic literary awards, I feel congested, Zhang Chu has forgotten about it, but it has been mentioned again.

"Ahem, I'm here to tell you the accurate sales in the first half of this year, after more than half a month of our statistics, your book sales in the first half of the year are almost 30% more than the same period last year, the increase is very gratifying!"

Of course, it is easy for Nanhai Publishing Company to count shipments, and it only needs to confirm with the warehouse, but now that they are counting sales, they need to have a detailed understanding at each wholesale and retail end, so as to get accurate figures.

Zhang Chu was not much surprised when he heard this increase, although in the first half of this year, he posted several works that may not be so popular, but the popularity is higher than last year, and the number of works has also increased a little, and the total sales growth should be.

"Can you give me an exact number, how many copies of my book sold in the first half of the year?"

Gu Xinxue looked at the freshly baked data in his hand and said with a smile: "It's a total of 21 million copies, I can't imagine it!"

"Hahaha, I can't imagine that the second half of the year will be more than the first half. ”

"Then you have to work hard to write, now our colleagues in the proofreading room are complaining about you, saying that there are more rare words in your latest volume of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: Yunnan Worm Valley", and there are many typos, and their workload has increased a lot. ”

When the circulation of physical books was large, the physical book was generally the first to be published, but now it is only after the online serialization that the publishing company uses part of the serialized content to publish the physical book.

Zhang Chudu was already writing about Kunlun Shrine, and Nanhai Publishing Company had just started proofreading the Southern Yunnan Worm Valley.

"Alas, after all, this needs to be serialized on the Internet, and it has to be updated every day, although I have checked it several times, but there will always be fish that slip through the net. The intensity of the update is relatively large, and it is not as detailed as usual. ”

There must be gains and losses, after the update speed becomes faster, the quality will decline accordingly, Zhang Chu's content has not slipped, but it is a little lacking in other aspects.

In half a year, more than 20 million books have been sold in China alone, which is definitely a proud achievement, so that latecomers can't catch up at all!

The sales of "Norwegian Wood" and "In the Name of the People" have climbed to the 3 million level, and his old books "Farewell My Concubine" and "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" have ushered in a super-large-scale leap driven by the movie of the same name, contributing a lot of sales.

At the same time, the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy and "The Da Vinci Code" are the backbone, emptying readers' wallets.

Recently, Zhang Chu's behavior of serializing the "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" series on the Internet has made the rest of the publishing companies breathe a sigh of relief, and they have moved the books produced by their companies to this gap period, wanting to take advantage of Zhang Chu's absence to send them out quickly.

They would rather fight in all directions than confront Zhang Chu!

The last books released to the public are "The Lord of the Rings 2: The Two Towers" and "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King", and there is still a month or two before the next "Ghost Blows the Lantern: Yunnan Worm Valley" is released.

There are no tigers in the mountains, monkeys are overlords, and Zhang Chu has to end this chaotic era of the publishing industry!