Web novels?

The web novel has captured a lot of foreigners. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Looking at a series of readers' messages in "wuxiaworld", Huang Yifan was excited.

Even if he was born as an online novel author, he didn't expect that the online article would have a tall day at this time.

Yes.

This feeling is very wonderful for Huang Yifan.

Think about why I used to promote online articles desperately, and why I always wanted to push online articles into the mainstream.

This is not because, in fact, online articles are not mainstream at all, and online articles have not been recognized by everyone.

It wasn't until Huang Yifan's years of hard work that a series of works were adapted into film and television dramas, and the online article was gradually recognized by many people. But this kind of recognition, people still think that online literature cannot be compared with traditional literature, at least in a high level.

However, just when people have always thought that online articles are just leisure and entertainment to read books, and they are just works that cannot be put on the stage, online articles have one day gone out of China and rushed to the world.

"Hurry up and update, author."

"Three chapters a day is not enough to read at all, it is better to translate ten chapters a day."

"10 chapters are also read at once, and it's best to update 100 chapters a day."

Looking at these messages, Huang Yifan was not shocked and felt a sense of pride.

This is the online article I wrote back then.

This is a novel that I didn't copy at all, and it was all my own word-by-word novel.

If you say the greatest work you have written in this world, it is probably this one.

Although many people have been complaining about the name of this novel before.

Although now, many people have always thought that this novel is too routine and completely thoughtless.

But no matter what, this work has done many things that traditional domestic literature and genre literature can't do in a lifetime.

even, did something that even the "Zhuzi Classics" that he copied could not do.

You see, the popularity of those readers' comments is completely greater than their interest in reading famous books.

"Brother Ren, where are you now, I want to talk to you."

Almost subconsciously, Huang Yifan saw the value of online novels entering the global market.

He found a genre of work that broke into the global literary market.

This type is the web article.

Although Huang Yifan never thought about it before, now, the online article is full of infinite vitality.

……

Three days later, Huang Yifan went to the United States again.

But this time I went to the United States not to do anything else, just to see "let me go".

"Dabai, oh my God, you're really here."

Seeing Huang Yifan's arrival, Ren Xing looked very happy: "Come, I'll take you to drink." ”

"Just drink."

Huang Yifan shook his head: "I want to see your studio." ”

"What studio?"

"Didn't you start the website of the martial arts world?"

"Well, yes, but I don't have a studio, and this website is right in my home. However, speaking of Wuxiaworld, yesterday's traffic increased by 30%, and I estimate that the average daily IP of my website's traffic may exceed 50,000 by the end of the year. ”

"Home, oh, then take me to your house."

I think that "let me go" is just a personal nature, and it is completely just a hobby to translate novels. After being a little surprised, Huang Yifan followed "Let Me Go" to his home. While walking, I also chatted with Huang Yifan, and from time to time said that European and American people were watching some interesting stories about "Sword Breaking and Covering the Sky".

"Dabai, you don't know, your novel is so cool that the sword breaks through the sky, looking at their messages, it's cooler than me watching the rivers and lakes."

"I was wondering if I could translate one more web novel when I had time. I haven't had much time lately, though. Maybe in the second half of the year, I will translate another one. ”

In just half an hour, Ren Xing took Huang Yifan home.

"You say, you're going to translate another web novel in the second half of the year?"

Looking at the small office at the home of "Let Me Go", Huang Yifan asked, "Why don't you translate now." ”

"Well, I want to too. However, the translation work is really time-consuming. And, I still have to work. ”

"Why don't you think of translation as your job and wuxiaworld as your career?"

"Uh......"

Ren Wuxing smiled bitterly: "Dabai, although I also want to translate a few more novels." However, as you know, Wuxiaworld is just a website that allows everyone to read novels for free, and if I keep doing this side of the website, I'm afraid I won't even be able to survive. ”

"No, no, it's just the beginning."

Huang Yifan shook his head and said, "Brother Ren, I don't know if you know the development history?" ”

"There are some solutions, but I don't know much about them."

"Let me tell you, more than ten years ago, it was also a free website, and it didn't cost money to read novels on it. However, after the introduction of the VIP reading system, Chinese online literature has grown by leaps and bounds and has become a spectacle. Now your Wuxiaworld is also a free website, although the traffic is not particularly high. But, have you ever thought about it. When one online article after another is translated, what kind of height will Wuxiaworld reach? ”

"This?"

Ren Wuxing pressed his head, and to be honest, he really didn't think about it.

He just likes to read novels.

If he didn't like it, he wouldn't have translated the works written by Huang Yifan.

However, he just likes it, even if it is translation, it is just a hobby, and he does not think about it deeply.

"You're saying that our wuxiaworld can be the starting point for foreign versions?"

"Absolutely."

Huang Yifan nodded.

"However, I can only translate one or two novels at most, and I can't translate any more. And there are so many novels that readers have to read, it is impossible to read only one of my translations. ”

"So, I think, you need to find more translators."

"Well, that's a good idea, I know a lot of friends who are interested in this."

"Brother Ren, it's not an interest, what I want to say is that you should consider specialization now, you should not be looking for an amateur translator, nor a translator who relies purely on interest, you are looking for a professional translator."

"However, professional translators need a lot of money, and I can't give them them."

"Don't worry."

Huang Yifan took out a bank card and said, "Brother Ren, this is $10 million in start-up capital." In the beginning, we were able to build a huge team of translators. Of course, the $10 million is not only for translators, but also for the management, maintenance, and operation of the website. ”

"Dabai, are you really so optimistic about this website?"

$10 million.

Such a large amount of money, let me do it, I was also frightened.

"Yes."

Huang Yifan nodded.

Originally, he didn't have that idea at all.

Originally, he was still thinking about how to really turn online articles into the mainstream.

But after a lot of hard work, Huang Yifan knows that it will take at least a few decades for online articles to become mainstream.

Just like it took decades for martial arts to become mainstream.

But the translation of "Sword Breaking the Sky" he wrote a few years ago in Wuxiaworld gave Huang Yifan inspiration.

If online articles can attract domestic people, why can't they attract foreign people?

Why do you keep only staring at domestic mainstream literature?

Why don't you open your eyes to the global market?

Before seeing "Let Me Go", Huang Yifan has carefully studied the readers in the wuxiaworld forum in the past few days. Although Huang Yifan knows that these readers are all foreigners. Their thoughts, their culture, are completely different from the culture of the East. But why do they read their own "Sword Breaks the Sky" with relish?

The answer may not be clear to many.

But to say it, it's actually quite simple.

Oriental culture may not be understood by many people in Europe and the United States, but the world is interconnected. Although there are various differences between Eastern and Western cultures, there are many similarities in these differences. Just as the purpose of people's existence is what it is, in fact, whether it is the East or the West, it is for the realization of self-worth.

Why a series of Marvel hero movies in the United States in the past life have impacted the world over and over again is not how well these movies are made, nor how well the storylines of these movies are written. It's that these movies are actually about finding self-worth and realizing their dreams.

Spider-Man, Batman, Superman, Hulk...... Isn't it all about achieving your dreams?

And when the audience is watching them realize their dreams and realize their values, they are also eager to realize their dreams in their hearts.

This is placed in the novel, and that is the sense of substitution.

People will substitute themselves into the world of the novel and imagine that they are the main characters in it.

However, looking at a series of classic works in China for more than 5,000 years, although they are all written classics, they are not able to let readers substitute them well. Not to mention some contemporary traditional realistic works, the sadistic index in them makes readers can't bear to look at it directly. While they are also of great value, there is no doubt that they fail to resonate with readers.

However, online novels are precisely an accident in Chinese literature.

Almost all domestic online novels, they are centered on the protagonist and truly complete the realization of their personal value.

For family, friendship, and love...... Or do nothing, only for the improvement of their own strength, only for themselves to stand on top of the world. But, whatever the purpose of these things, they are deeply appealing to every reader.

And when such a plot appears in the eyes of these foreigners, it is simply a rhythm that conquers them every minute.

Take a look at some of the comments in the review area of the Sword Breaker Book Review Area, if you don't know that these are all foreign readers, what is the difference between them and domestic readers.

In the same way, if the sword can attract so many foreigners, can't other online novels?

Yes.

Absolutely.

Huang Yifan has been studying philosophy in great depth recently.

In this understanding of the world, under the guidance of the philosophical thought of the ancestor of all learning, Huang Yifan has seen it. It won't take long for Chinese online articles to truly conquer the world like Hollywood blockbusters.

What we need to do now is to translate the web novel abroad as much as possible.

"But, Dabai, I'm just a lover of novels, and I'm only an amateur translator. When it comes to managing a website, there isn't much talent for how to run a website. ”

Ren Xing still said with some worry.

"Don't worry, Brother Ren, you can't be born with anything. Besides, online novels are also a new thing abroad. Don't say you don't know, some other business elites don't understand either. I believe that in the next few years, you will be a great professional manager. ”

Huang Yifan encouraged "let me do it" and said: "Besides, Brother Ren, look at your screen name, let me do it, hehe, if you don't even have this confidence, then what is it called." ”

"Dabai, thank you, I will do my best to run this website well."

With Huang Yifan's encouragement, let me go, his eyes became firm.

"That's it, I'll go back to China, and I'll leave the rest to you."

……

In the future, Huang Yifan is teaching, and at the same time, he is also silently paying attention to the wuxiaworld website.

After getting the first $10 million in funds, Ren Bank immediately summoned nearly 50 professional translators. Moreover, the 50 contracted translators did not pay them for the translation fee in the form of how much a word was, but used a share. In other words, how much money can be earned by the translator for how much money the translated work can be sold.

This is actually the same as the author of the starting point writing a novel, except that the author of the starting point writes, and the translator only translates.

Although there weren't too many professional translators signing up with Wuxiaworld at the beginning, they thought that this way of signing up was simply treating them as free translators, and the works they translated would not make any money at all. After all, they also know that Chinese works have always been difficult to win the likes of Europeans and Americans, and they don't read Chinese novels very much.

However, when some people tried to upload their translated Chinese online texts to the Wuxiaworld website, countless European and American readers subscribed to the tipping fee, but those translators were blushing.

In an instant, the professional translators who had been waiting and watching signed contracts with Wuxiaworld one after another.

This move also made Huang Yifan more affirm the management ability of "let me do it".

$10 million may seem like a lot of start-up capital, but $10 million is a drizzle for an internet site. If an effective translation mechanism is not activated, I am afraid that the translation fees for these professional translators will be paid in a while, let alone the operation of the website. The "Let Me Go" model adopts the starting point share contract model, which not only reduces the cost of the website, but also recruits more excellent editors from all over the world.

In addition, after receiving $10 million in start-up funding, Ren Bank quickly launched global rights in various languages.

The French version of wuxiaworld.

The German version of wuxiaworld.

Wuxiaworld in Spanish.

Japanese wuxiaworld.

The reason for this is that "let me go" hopes that in addition to the English-speaking region, he can also enter all countries in the world.

Everything is going well because there are no competitors. Because no other peers have recognized the development of this industry, and because no one has thought about what kind of atmosphere China's online novels can become. After the professional commercial operation of Wuxiaworld, a large number of online novels have been uploaded to the Wuxiaworld platform for everyone around the world to read, under the help of translators from all over the world.

Chinese online novels began to conquer the world. (To be continued.) )