Chapter 97: Attacking Yang Tinghe
Yang Tinghe is a director of the Shuchuan Writers Association and a visiting professor of the Department of Literature of Shunan University. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Although info is not a best-selling author, he also considers himself a literati, and he has a lot of criticism of which best-selling books are love-loved, and he belongs to the traditional school of writers.
In the past two years, because of the popularity of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Yang Tinghe wasted a lot of time and wrote a book about the Three Kingdoms period, I don't know if it was out of modesty or something else, he named the book "The Biography of the Three Kingdoms", he had very high expectations for this book, and even felt that this would be a model of his life, but now he is in trouble!
"Lao Yang, now we have printed 100,000 copies of books, but after reading our books, the bookstores are not very interested, and the whole country has only ordered less than 20,000 copies, and there are still 80,000 books left in the warehouse. Jiao, the president of Shunan Literature and Art Publishing House, poured bitter water on Yang Tinghe.
Yang Tinghe and Shunan Literature and Art Publishing House have been cooperating for many years, this time Yang Tinghe's "Three Kingdoms Biography" after the completion of the draft contacted Jiao Fang, Jiao Fang felt that the book was very marketable after reading it, so he signed it, after more than a month of proofreading and typesetting, it began to be printed, and the first issue was directly printed 100,000 copies.
Yang Tinghe's previous eight books sold no less than 100,000 copies of a single book, and the first issue of Shunan Literature and Art Publishing House printed 100,000 copies on the one hand, it was full of confidence in Yang Tinghe, and on the other hand, it was also because this could reduce the cost to a minimum, but I didn't expect that the low suppliers and suppliers were not optimistic about the sales of this book after reading "The Biography of the Three Kingdoms", and each family also purchased dozens of copies of the meaning, resulting in the first batch of 100,000 copies still being stranded in the warehouse by more than 80,000 copies.
As the president of Shunan Literature and Art Publishing House, Jiao Fang was anxious as you can imagine, so he could only come to Yang Tinghe to discuss countermeasures.
"Impossible!" Yang Tinghe was a little incredulous, "Don't they know that this is my book?"
Although Yang Tinghe is not a best-selling author, some people like his books very much, just like He Jiong makes a super bad movie, and the box office can still have hundreds of millions, after all, the signboard is here! Not to mention that Yang Tinghe is confident in "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms", even if it is not well written, it will not make the suppliers and suppliers so unoptimistic.
"I specifically asked the reason, and they said that there was a video lecture called "Tang and Song Songs of the Three Kingdoms" on the Internet, and let me watch it myself. Jiao Fang glanced at Yang Tinghe, and said with a different color, "Old Yang, I went to see it, and many of the views in this video are very conflicting with the views in your book." ”
"There is a conflict of views?" Yang Tinghe frowned slightly, a little incomprehensible, "It's normal to have different academic views!"
Yang Tinghe can't understand how different views can affect sales?
"Anyway, Lao Yang, you should take the time to take a look, hey~" Jiao Fang sighed, "I made an appointment with Manager Chen of Xinhua Books for dinner, I hope Xinhua Books can order a little more, Lao Yang, you can think of a way to go back, if all these books are backlogged in the warehouse, we will lose all our money, and I, the president, will be the end!"
After Jiao Fang said goodbye, Yang Tinghe hurriedly turned on the computer and found "Three Kingdoms of the Tang and Song Dynasties" and watched it. Yang Tinghe had to be anxious, a person lives a lifetime is nothing more than the word fame and fortune, books cannot be sold, and his royalties are small, this is a loss of "profit"! Of course, the loss of "profit" is a small matter, he is a visiting professor of Shunan University, and the director of the Provincial Writers' Association spent two years to write a book that only sold less than 20,000 copies, and he will not want to mix in this circle in the future, this "face" must not be lost!
"A bunch of nonsense! A bunch of nonsense!" After watching the first episode, Yang Tinghe's old face turned red, and he didn't know whether he was angry or ashamed.
Writing the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang must be an unavoidable character, Yang Tinghe also devoted dozens of pages to comment on Zhuge Liang's life in "The Biography of the Three Kingdoms", which naturally has some allusions to prove his point of view, and the familiar allusions to the empty city plan are naturally the key arguments, but this young man named Tang and Song Dynasty was ashamed to say that the "empty city plan" is fictional, isn't this a naked slap in the face!
Of course, the point is not that Tang Song said that the "empty city plan" was fake, the point is that after Yang Tinghe read Tang Song's explanation, he actually believed it, doesn't this admit that his writing is full of mistakes and omissions! Looking at the number of clicks and views of this video, more than 13 million, Yang Tinghe almost didn't faint!
"Tang and Song Songs" has been out of four episodes, because Liu Tianle helped to promote it before, coupled with the penguin pop-up news, this video has received a lot of attention, plus Tang and Song are indeed very exciting, "Tang and Song Songs" has the glory of "Hundred Lectures" in the previous life, the clicks of the first four episodes have exceeded 10 million records, and the number of subscriptions has exceeded 6 million, and the results achieved far exceed the expectations of the video!
What should I do? Yang Tinghe finally understood why the supply and marketing society was not optimistic about the sales of "The Legend of the Three Kingdoms", and finally understood what the strange expression on Jiao Fang's face when he left!
"How should this be good!" Yang Tinghe hurriedly turned around, "Could this Tang and Song Dynasty be deliberately targeting me?"
If the Three Kingdoms of the Tang and Song dynasties were produced during Yang Tinghe's creation of "The Biography of the Three Kingdoms", Yang Tinghe would definitely not make such a mistake, even if it was issued in the review and typesetting stage, Yang Tinghe could also revise it in time, but the problem is that now that 100,000 copies of the book have been printed and the wood has been completed, it is completely impossible to change it!
Whether it sells or not is a problem, but now there is an even bigger problem, and that is that the book has very obvious and low-level academic errors, and if it is officially released, it will inevitably leave people with a handle!
If it's just a small problem, you can ask the publishing house to revise it, but now the problem is very serious, basically the framework of the whole book has to be overturned and restarted, the cost of 100,000 books is not low, Yang Tinghe can't afford such a big financial compensation!
Yang Tinghe is a person who chases fame and fortune, and now that fame and fortune are in conflict, he can only choose one of the two with difficulty, obviously it is impossible for him to bear the economic losses of the publishing house!
"A young man who has not dried up knows what the Three Kingdoms are, this is deliberately against me!" The anxious Yang Tinghe was annoyed and angry, of course, he would not find the reason in himself, but attributed all the mistakes to Tang Song.
"By the way, the milk smell hasn't dried yet!" Yang Tinghe's eyes lit up, and he thought of a good idea.
"Recently, there is a commentary on the Internet about the Three Kingdoms is very popular, I took a special look at it under the introduction of a friend, some of the views are simply bullshit, today's young people really don't know what to say, in order to be famous, do everything to make a show, academics are not your tools for show, for this kind of grandstanding young people, I only hope you don't pollute the purity of the academic world!" Yang Tinghe fired directly on Weibo!