Gu Xinxue looked at the figures published on the official website of the General Administration of Press and Publication and smiled from ear to ear, counting the pre-sale of 2.08 million copies on the first day, continuing to greatly refresh the first-day sales record of Chinese books!

The main reason is that the pre-sale is too powerful, and I am afraid that such a pre-sale will be difficult to replicate in the next book, it is completely a coincidence, and all the favorable factors converge at this moment.

This is not only the result of the dedication of Nanhai Publishing Company, if there is no hundreds of millions of prepaid manuscript fees from Random House to brush a wave of presence at home and abroad, if there is no hot report on the book fair, if there is no various news and hot searches arranged, it is obviously impossible to reach such a bullish point!

"Every time I see Zhang Chu's sales figures, I have to be excited for a long time, he is completely against the market!"

His colleague Shi Zhiguo was also shocked by this unparalleled figure, and the non-fantasy works, non-sequel works, were stunned to overcome a series of unfavorable factors and sell so many copies in China.

"Thank you so much for the last time, "Decryption" has been bought by Random House for the English copyright, although the price is not comparable to Zhang Chu, but it is quite good. ”

There are actually quite a few excellent ones in China, but they all lack a channel for selling abroad.

If Gu Xinxue hadn't introduced Blair to Shi Zhiguo, I'm afraid that "Decryption" would have to go home full of regrets like many other works!

Gu Xinxue shook his head and said, "I'm just introducing it, it's useless, if that book is not good enough, the people at Random House will definitely not buy it." Lao Shi, let's pay more attention to similar works recently, "The Da Vinci Code" is in front of the jade, and it will definitely be able to bring suspense, reasoning, and thriller to the classification. ”

"You can't say this, now every publishing company is vigorously collecting these types of manuscripts, and in the past, it was a problem for the authors of this sub-category to have enough food and clothing, but now they have become hot goods!"

No one is a fool, and after "Ghost Blows the Lantern" came out, a series of tomb robbers who followed the trend also achieved commercial success.

Even if the evaluation is average or even bad, it can't stand the love of the market, and readers will eat that!

Tomb robbing is not only infinitely beautiful on the Internet, but there are also many works of slightly better quality to meet readers through physical objects.

Now Zhang Chu does not take the usual path, and puts the eyes of the Chinese people in fantasy, fantasy, fairytale, and love on suspense reasoning.

"The Da Vinci Code" eats meat, and the rest of the people who follow the trend can drink some soup, and the requirements are not high.

Gu Xinxue was originally in charge of the publication of this genre, and Zhang Chu revitalized this genre with several books one after another, and even the sales of the rest of the writers under him increased!

"Probably because Zhang Chuyang was blinded, and now I feel that I am far behind when I look at other people's contributions. You see, I don't even know which book to sign lately, and it's so well written that it will set off the rest of the people. ”

Shi Zhiguo said enviously: "You don't know the blessing in the blessing, who doesn't know that you are Zhang Chu's editor, you must have received a lot of manuscripts in your hands!"

Now that "The Da Vinci Code" has just been released, it is too late for those editors to get the writers under them to follow suit and imitate it, after all, it is not possible to analyze the various elements and plot structures in it.

Therefore, the writers who have just finished writing this subject have become fragrant and sweet, and the publishing companies are all undisciplined, and they have a strong ability to rub the heat.

They plan to wait for the momentum of "The Da Vinci Code" to weaken a little before they start announcing the new book plan, at least as far as Xinxue knows, several publishing companies have changed their names, regardless of whether the content and the title will not be inconsistent!

There are many cases of selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, such as "The Last Knight", "The Mystery of the Holy Grail", and "The Fog of Dunhuang", "Confucian Suspicion", which is known as the Chinese Da Vinci code.

It's not so much that these are following the trend, but rather that they are clearly taking advantage.

The success of any fire book is inseparable from this situation, and the above situation is considered to be a little higher in terms of temperance value.

Some publishing companies don't have a bottom line at all, and they will imitate the title or even the cover of the book to carry out the copycat to the end!

For example, the recent popular "A Brief History of Mankind" has encountered the biggest crisis, which was originally the work of Israeli writer Yuval, but it was touched by domestic publishers, and the name is also "A Brief History of Mankind".

It's just that the subtitle is different, the subtitle of the genuine version is "From Animals to God", and the copycat version is "We humans over the years".

About this book, a large number of complaints appeared on platforms such as Douban and Amazon, and countless readers were victimized, and the score of the copycat version on Douban was as low as 2.5 points, and many readers commented that they bought a fake book!

Fake books, follow-up books, and copycat books are nothing new in China. In particular, copycat masterpieces have been a common phenomenon in the book publishing industry for a long time.

After the whirlwind of every well-known bestseller blows, there is always a large number of books wrapped in the same concept one after another, taking advantage of the popularity of the best-selling concept to make a lot of money. This kind of book either follows the trendy concept, or follows the trendy topic, or follows the trendy plot, or follows the trendy protagonist, or follows the trendy book title.

Now Nanhai Publishing Company and Hanlin Culture Media are monitoring similar titles and covers very tightly, and many of them have been rubbing the popularity of ghost blowing lamps before, such as "Ghost Lights Out", "Ghost Blowing Wax", and "Ghost Lighting Lights", which are beyond reproach, and at first glance they seem to be somewhat similar.

But in addition, there are also works that directly put the ghost blowing lantern on the title of the book, "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: The Yellow River Ghost Coffin", "Ghost Blowing the Lamp: Xiangxi Divine Gu", the publishers of these works have all been sued in court!

I didn't send a lawyer's letter at all, and I just sued first, and then I said it, which was regarded as an example of killing chickens and monkeys.

In this way, there are still a lot fewer people who make a fuss directly on the title of the book, and most of them are changed to one or two words or homophonic words, so that there is no infringement at the legal level.

Now "The Da Vinci Code" is estimated to encounter similar things, so Gu Xinxue feels very tired.

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"I really didn't expect that I would also be poached at a high price one day. ”

Wang Longhua looked at the QQ message on the computer screen and said to himself.

He used to be a middle school teacher, but because he didn't like the teachers in the office fighting like Zhen Huan's harem for an advanced place, he simply resigned and wrote books at home!

Focusing on suspense reasoning, he has accumulated a lot of works over the years, but most of them are tepid.

Let's talk about hitting the streets, it seems that it can still sell more than 100,000 copies, so that it will not be poor and destitute.

Let's talk about the fire, I feel that there are still a few breaths of air, and I have only a small number of readers after almost ten years of writing, and most of his works have not been heard!

In the first half of this year, the sales momentum of "The Man in the Mirror in the Night" is quite good, and the horror and suspense has sold nearly 200,000 copies, which is the highest-selling work in recent years.

Now he starts to prepare for the creation of new books after taking a little rest, he is not a god, he does not have the capital to take a break for a year or two before publishing a new book, and he is still counting on buying a school district house by writing books!

Originally, he planned to write a grotesque story, but after seeing "The Da Vinci Code", he was rejected by his own editor, and now he is asked to write a similar work, and the title of the book is specified - "The Code of the Riverside Scene at Qingming Festival".

The Qingming Riverside Picture is one of the top ten famous paintings in China, vividly recording the urban appearance of Tokyo, the capital city of the Northern Song Dynasty, in the more than five meters long picture scroll depicts a huge number of people and livestock, as well as cars, sedan chairs, large and small boats, houses and bridges and so on.

In fact, there has always been speculation about this painting, and now with the promotion of the Da Vinci Code, Wang Longhua's editors feel that this is a good entry point!

But Wang Longhua himself is a little resistant, which is inconsistent with his writing style.

He is indeed very envious that Zhang Chu can achieve such high achievements at home and abroad at a young age, and his works are still really excellent and readable, and this rush to follow other people's works is not beneficial to his writing career.

So after thinking about it carefully, he rejected the subject matter given by the editor, and the editor turned around and handed over the subject matter of the new book to another writer who signed a contract.

It is precisely because of this that Wang Longhua plans to change publishing companies, and he may ruin himself under such a short-sighted editor.

But what he didn't expect was that before the new book was written, another publishing company would start digging into the corner!

This time, Wang Longhua hoped that he could create more freely and not accept any proposition composition, and the editors of the Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House readily agreed, they just took a fancy to Wang Longhua's ability.

"Actually, I'm a bit hypocritical, if I don't want to follow Zhang Chu, it must be fake, after all, the discount of 100 million is too big. But I think it's still up to me to write it, for example, in the case of a new book, I'll imitate the structure of "Leonardo da Vinci", which is reversal and subversion. ”

"No problem, if you have specific ideas, you can talk to me about them, and we will discuss them together. ”

"I have two ideas and don't know which one to write. One is about Darwin, in which Darwin has wholesaled the theory of evolution from the elders of the indigenous tribes, and the title of the book is tentatively called "Darwin's Conspiracy". The other is about Sherlock Holmes, where Conan Doyle has hidden a treasure in his famous Sherlock Holmes series that can be discovered!"

"I'm interested in Darwin's book, and he's well-known abroad, and if he writes it, he might be able to sell the rights. Can you elaborate on that?"

Wang Longhua is not afraid that the other party will steal the ideas in his head, he has actually registered his name and outline at the Copyright Office to avoid disputes.

So after recalling it in his mind, he began to type in the general content, this book actually has almost nothing to do with "The Da Vinci Code", the only thing is the book type, based on historical suspense!

It's not so much a trend as an opportunity for inspiration.

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The author is resurrected in a state full of bacteria, and today he continues to break out in three more nine thousand words!

Unconsciously, it's time for the college entrance examination again, if there are college entrance examination candidates, I wish you the college entrance examination can explode like Zhang Chu, soaring by dozens of points~~