Chapter 15 Online Literature
Ouyang Ke arranged a new residence for Shaogong in a small courtyard, the son and daughter of the head of the family are all working in Shanghai, and the old couple retired and thought that the house was empty, so they rented it out. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info happened to be very close to the bar, and it was just a matter of turning an alley, so Ouyang Ke rented it.
And Shao Gong and Meng Xiangting arrived here, the old couple became their nannies, the old man cleaned the yard and looked at the door or something, and his wife was responsible for the hygiene in the room and three meals a day, rented their yard and found them a job, the old couple was happy in their hearts.
Of course, the main house is the main house, and there are two partial houses, Shaogong lives in the left room, and Meng Xiangting lives in the right room. When they arrived, Li Yong sent them in directly, and the old couple in the house had already packed everything up, and then went to rest.
Shao Gong is very happy with this place, especially the printer in his house is almost 90% new, and the computer is also networked, which is really good, and the days of writing scripts with his hands are gone forever. In his original residence, apart from some unwashed rags, there was nothing else of value, and even the passbook and ID card he carried with him.
It's Meng Xiangting, she has a lot of belongings in her original residence, but the environment here is quiet, the room is clean, much better than where she originally lived, as long as she moves her belongings over, she has nothing to miss there.
Seeing that the two of them were quite satisfied with this new place of residence, Li Yong said to Shaogong: "You are satisfied with this place, if there is anything else you need, tell my brother, we will do our best to rectify it." Looking at everything in the room, Shao Gong turned on the computer and said without replying: "There is nothing dissatisfied, this place is simply wonderful." Please tell Brother Ke, just say that I like it very much here, especially the computer, it is so much to my liking, it is just timely rain!!"
"Then I'll go back, the food store across the alley is owned by my brother, and I can go there and pick up whatever I need. β
After that, Li Yong walked towards the door, and when he was about to step out of the threshold, he suddenly turned around and said: "Shaogong, do you know why Brother Ke values you so much?" Facing this question, Shaogong wanted to ask for a long time: "This is also what I want to know, although I am talented, but there are more talented singers in the capital, I don't believe that a talented singer will be so promoted by the boss." So Brother Yong, please make it clear that the kid is not a person who knows how to repay his kindness. β
"Sure enough. Li Yong said: "Brother Ke has always wanted to enter the entertainment industry, but there is no way to get in. And you are the one who can help Ke Ge. Also, Brother Ke asked me to tell you, don't be too polite to your brother in the future, what do you want to do, he will fully support you, whether it is in terms of connections or financial resources, as long as it is helpful to you, just use it. β
Faced with this frank answer, Shao Gong said with a straight face: "I do have some ideas, but now they are just some ideas, and when I have an actual need, I will go to Brother Ke for help." Please tell Brother Ke, as long as I am Shaogong, he will definitely be able to enter the entertainment industry, I promise. β
"Alright, I'm leaving. β
Li Yong waved goodbye to him, and then went to Meng Xiangting, asking her to say that if she had something, she would treat it as if it was her home, and if she needed it, she would go to the shop opposite the alley to take it casually.
Meng Xiangting nodded and thanked him, and Li Yong walked out of the house, walked out of the main gate, and walked away. Looking at Shaogong's room, Meng Xiangting went in to take a look, and saw that he was fiddling with the computer, so he couldn't help but sit on the side and said: "I'm still playing when I'm injured, I'm not afraid that the injury will get worse!"
"I haven't played a game, and I don't have a game right now. There is nothing I like to listen to except old songs. As for the videos, except for F4's "Meteor Garden", they are all not liked to watch. What's more, I don't have a cold in "Meteor Garden", that's not the tone I like. Hearing him say that, Meng Xiangting leaned over to take a look, and saw that he clicked on the Xilu website and registered a network number, and the screen name was actually his real name "Ouyang Shaogong".
"How can there be a person like you, people's screen names are called the ends of the world, clouds and mist people or something, it's better for you to just call your real name. Meng Xiangting was a little puzzled and said: "Most of the people on this website are posting on the forum, and if you want to find someone to chat, go to QQ!"
"I'm not looking for someone to talk to, I'm here to earn popularity. β
Shao Gong smiled, where did Meng Xiangting know his plans, when he was suffering from not being able to become famous, Shao Gong had to find ways to make himself famous. Although he is already famous in Sanyuanli, this is only a small county, and the most advantageous way to gain higher popularity at the moment is the Internet. And the only thing that can bring him benefits in the future is the novel website at the moment.
In fact, the novel website of Huaxia Internet Literature was launched quite early.
The earliest online bookstores appeared after 1997, and the free space provided by companies such as NetEase provided a material basis for the development of the initial book station. In that era of private Internet use, many netizens who liked to read books opened their own personal websites.
Then, in March 1998, the "City of Literature" was launched, and the number of page views on the site exceeded 1 million in the first month of its existence, and the number of email subscribers reached 10,000. On July 10, 1998, "Book Road" was officially launched, and the daily number of visits to the homepage on that day has exceeded 10,000, and the mailing list has reached 5,000 subscribers in just three months since it was opened in January 1999.
Although the initial online book sites were mainly reprinted, the awareness of the copyright of the original author was weak. Some websites enrich the content of the website by scanning physical books such as martial arts and romance onto the Internet, while more websites are reprinted directly from other websites. In this case, the content of each station is much the same.
During this period, serialized works such as "Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", "Star Wars Heroes", "Weishilu", and "The Legend of Enma" became the killer tools for various book stations to attract readers.
At that time, many new readers were exposed to the Internet in order to catch up with Huang Yi's "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", "because it was serialized, only one volume was published in Hong Kong a month, and the Internet naturally became the best way to get a sneak peek." Which station uploads quickly, which station sweeps the school with high quality, which book station can attract more readers.
In the early book stations, Crouching Tiger Ju's proofreading reputation was the best, and the proofreading of its included works was exquisite, and it became the first choice for netizens to include it for a while. While sweeping the physical book of the school, Crouching Tiger House also serialized original works such as style and water dragon chant on the website. It can be said that in terms of the quality of the works alone, Crouching Tiger House should be the best online book station in that era. However, due to the small overall number of works in the collection, the traffic of the website is not always comparable to that of those that are integrated in the book market. On the contrary, it adopted the Crouching Tiger Ju Sweep version of the Golden Book House, relying on its massive works and detailed classification, it became one of the top ten most influential personal sites in mainland China, and won the runner-up in the 98 personal homepage competition.
At that time, the Internet was still dominated by portals, and readers found that most of the new literary websites were accessed through portals such as Yahoo, or through friendly links between sites. Links are almost the only way for many sites to acquire new members.
In this environment, Golden Book House has taken advantage of the first-mover advantage to firmly occupy the position of the leader of the online book station. It is known as "reading online and not knowing the golden bookstore, and it is in vain to call it a net worm". With the development of the website, Golden Book House noticed the problem that "the proportion of online original works is not enough, and the importance of book reviews is not enough", and set up a column of "Netizen Originality" and began to cultivate online originality.
It can be said that judging from the monopoly position of the Golden Book House at that time, as long as it does not make too many mistakes in its development, it is difficult for other online book sites to threaten it. However, the intervention of capital has changed the trajectory of fate.
In December 1999, Doremi Chinese acquired 16 of the top 20 personal websites in NetEase's personal website ranking for 4 million yuan. Including the Golden Book House, China Football Network, Haikuo Sky Download, Xiaolin Guangji and other well-known domestic websites.
After the acquisition of the Golden Book House, out of copyright considerations, it did not dare to be too free to plagiarize and copy in operation, and many readable works could not be included in it, but there were not many originals, resulting in the gradual loss of readers, and the initiative to give up the hegemony of the online book site. Almost at the same time as the acquisition of Golden Book House, Boku was established in Silicon Valley in the United States and engaged in large-scale recruitment in the capital. From a well-known book newspaper in China, the newborn Boku poached more than a dozen editors and reporters in one fell swoop, many of whom were still the backbone personnel of the newspaper, which caused a lot of shock to the entire publishing industry at that time.
With the support of U.S. industrial capital rather than venture capital, and the presence of senior book industry figures, Boku's future was once favored by the industry. At the beginning of the business, Boku's series of promotional activities were also dizzying: first, it carried out overwhelming advertising in major media, and then cooperated with Huaxia Youth Publishing House, Peking University and other units to launch activities such as "Walking the Yellow River" and "Dunhuang Tour", creating a big momentum, and then in addition to acquiring a large number of electronic copyrights of works, in the name of cultivating China's "Stephen King", signed contracts with a large number of writers such as Wang Shuo and Chen Cun. It can be said that in order to expand its popularity and website views, Boku has indeed put a lot of thought into it.
However, the spirit of paid downloading and paid reading advocated by Boku is incompatible in this era of Internet hegemony where free has become the common rule. Piracy is rampant, and its most important upstream resource β thousands of e-books signed with almost all of the famous Chinese writers, authors, and scholars β has not been exploited at all. In addition, the network conditions at that time were not available, the number of Internet users was small, the network speed was slow and expensive, and there were no convenient payment conditions.
After the first investment, the investor refuses to make additional investment on the grounds that the profit model is unrealistic. Shao Gong knew that Boku would go out of business by the end of this year at the most, announcing the failure of China's first ebook charging attempt. Because it's not two years later, two years later, when there are more authors of original novels and fresh novels come out, people will be willing to pay for books. And now, in this era where you spend money to watch it and watch it for free elsewhere, if you dare to collect money, it is definitely tantamount to looking for death.
With the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2000, most of the free space disappeared, and earlier personal websites were shut down, and the BBS in the West Continent became a new center of online fantasy literature through its relatively low price, and many famous book sites in later generations started here.
Even the later Longkong and the starting point started from here. Now that he can access the Internet, and in such an era with the Internet, how can he miss it. Especially the starting point of those who have not yet established the Fantasy Literature Association in the Western Continent, he Shaogong has to seize this opportunity to create his team first.
Click on the original fantasy literature section, Shao Gong created a title: "Zhuolu" - followed by the introduction of the novel: The young proton Chiyou and the bodyguards Xing Tian and Feng Bo, Yushi and other friends mingled in Zhuolu City, met the monster and the ghost, and met the princess - Yunjin. The ideals and persistence of the teenagers galloped in Zhuolu City, but they were defeated by reality. Chiyou, who lost his friend and brother, finally lost Yunjin, and the boy's anger burned the entire Zhuolu City......
This is followed by the prologue, in which Chiyou Shaojun and his beautiful goblin sit on the bank of the river. Chiyou had become a madman, and he looked at Zhulu, and the female goblin looked at him, and she put her arms around the madman's neck. Sit and watch the flowing water and sing a graceful song.
They have already assembled an army, and they will attack Zhuolu in the morning.
However, the text swished, and at the beginning of the text, the field of Zhuolu was shrouded in a hazy drizzle, and a boy surnamed Jiang leaned out from under the eaves and used his mouth to catch the rain dripping from the tilesβthe child's name was Chiyou. Many years later, he will grow into a demon who destroys humanity.
The rain was cold and smelly of earth. Chi You vomited a few times, retracted his body, as if he couldn't stand the clammy and cold wind, and shivered slightly. One of his hands was hidden in his back, and his palms were covered with cold sweat. He hid a rusty kitchen knife there, the handle of which looked like it was about to be pinched out of the water.
He's letting off steam......
Shao Gong's fingers are constantly tapping on the keyboard, and its speed is no different from blind typing. Watching the words that seemed to be endowed with emotions being knocked out, Meng Xiangting was already stunned, especially the words, which were like flowing clouds and water, and like poetry. Brings her into a world of history and fantasy.
And the reason why Shao Gong chose "Zhuo Lu" from his brain to start is mainly because he likes this to be a fantasy historical campus story, because now the most students who read books on the Internet are mainly idle and have nothing to do, especially college students. Originally, "The Boy Here" was the most suitable, but it was linked to copyright, so in order to avoid trouble in the future, he had to choose this "Zhuolu" to write.
Because "Zhuolu" of that year, as soon as it was published, it reached the peak of fantasy with its almost imperial posture, which is a rare amazing work that can easily move between atmosphere and delicacy!
Of course, almost all of the people who read novels on the Internet now come for fantasy and magic, and they can't go up without marking the popularity of fantasy, which is also one of Shaogong's purposes.
At this moment, not only is he writing novels to earn popularity, but also other original creators. As for money, now is not the time to make money, as long as the characters behind Ouyang Ke ask him for the script of the second part of "Liu Laogen", he will not be short of funds. And when online novels can make money, he believes that his company is already running, and there is no need to make money from novels.
Looking at those words, Meng Xiangting seemed to be fascinated, and she was already intoxicated by the world narrated by the words. And Shao Gong, who didn't realize the passage of time at all, became more and more excited the more he wrote, and his hand on the keyboard became faster and faster, until he wrote the fifth chapter, when the ghost appeared, he looked at the watch hanging on the wall, it was already more than two o'clock in the night, and then he yawned with his hand over his mouth, and urged: "Sister Meng, it's too late, let's watch it again at noon! I have an appointment in the morning, and there is a director waiting for me!"
When he said this, Meng Xiangting realized the word "sleepy", rubbed her eyes and exclaimed: "It seems that you are not only talented in writing lyrics and songs, but also talented in writing stories? With that, she stretched out her arms and got up and went back to her house.