Chapter 585 - Speak with Sales (Asking for Tickets and Subscriptions)
"Charlotte's Web" is in full swing to gather translators to translate the English version, and the Penguin Publishing Group, which is responsible for the sale of the English version, is also an old friend of Lin Han. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
They have been working together since Lin Han's first novel, and both parties have benefited a lot, so they really want to keep this relationship going!
Except for the English version, the rest of the novels are also planned, and the earlier the work is released, the sooner it will occupy the sales highland.
In fact, there are many different editions of each of Lin Han's novels, and the Chinese Simplified Chinese genre alone includes the cheapest paperback editions, slightly better hardcover editions, as well as collector's editions and limited editions for binding purposes, as well as bilingual editions in Chinese and English.
Generally speaking, how many tens of thousands of copies a book has sold is the total sales, most of which are in paperback, after all, few people spend money on expensive editions!
The book, which officially went on sale in March, is now available for pre-sale 10 days in advance, which is undoubtedly the most eye-catching thing.
People are curious whether this fairy tale will create Lin Han's cross-border miracle or become Waterloo, everything is based on sales!
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In the movie studio, Lin Han was wearing headphones and was looking intently at the hundreds of hours of shooting materials on the display screen in front of him, sometimes there were more than 20 versions of the same plot shooting materials for the same scene.
He had to choose the most suitable and comfortable one in these versions, and edit it with the closest connection to the front and back, and try not to have any goofs.
Lin Han didn't expect that he would spend so much time on the "Matrix" series of movies, he actually wanted to make the rest of the movies very much!
There must be a beginning and an end to doing things, and the death of the water in your head must also be done by yourself.
However, film is never something that can be done by one person, and there are already many employees in the studio, who are responsible for film color grading, subtitling, sound effects, visual effects editing, computer animation, digital compositing, background and character scanning, 3D artist coordination, file management, and more!
In fact, there are more staff on the shooting site, more than a dozen makeup artists are hired, and there are special effects makeup, and big productions are more than small productions in these aspects.
When "The Matrix" was released before, the production crew list at the end of the film was played for a full five minutes, which was not at the same level as the small fight of "Immortality".
"Well, when is it going to be big!"
Lin Han couldn't help but sigh, he was already dazzled by the materials, and he urgently needed to rest.
Yan Hong, who came in with a cup of coffee, couldn't help but say after hearing the boss's complaints: "Boss, "The Matrix 3" will not be released until at least ten or nine months later, you can take it easy." ”
Lin Han took a sip of coffee, he got up from his chair, and replied, "Finish it early and relax early, I need to take a break, are there any activities for me to participate in recently?"
Yan Hong, as Lin Han's assistant, immediately reported: "There are a lot of activities, such as tree planting activities, this one is very suitable for you. ”
"Why am I more suitable to participate in tree planting, is my personal image more suitable for public welfare?" Lin Han couldn't help laughing, he felt quite good about himself.
After messing with Lin Han for a long time, Yan Hong also knew that his boss was usually very talkative, and there was no generation gap, so he complained very dryly: "It's not, it's mainly because boss, your novels have sold too much, and these physical books are made by cutting down trees to make paper." There have been environmentalists who have been unhappy with you before, so participating in a tree planting event is a great option for you!"
For this reason, Lin Han really has no room for refutation.
Among his sales of more than 50 million copies in China, these are the sales of physical books, and the sales of electronic versions are calculated separately!
How many copies of 50 million books have been printed?
So much print will inevitably consume a lot of resources, and more than 20 trees need to be cut down to produce one ton of paper, while one ton of paper can print 20,000 sheets of A4 paper.
Any book is hundreds of pages, which means that a ton of paper can't print a hundred books, so you can imagine how many tree resources Lin Han's works have consumed in the past few years.
To produce one ton of cultural paper, it takes more than 20 trees aged 20-40 years, 100 tons of clean water, 600 kilowatt-hours of electricity, 1.2 tons of coal and 300 kilograms of chemical raw materials, and 300 tons of high-concentration sewage......
Lin Han usually didn't think about this aspect at all, he thought that the trees used for printing were the kind of fast-growing forests, which could be grown and cut down in a few years.
Although green reading and e-reading are being advocated now, paper physical book reading has begun to slowly recover after a significant decline in the previous few years!
"In the future, our foundation may have one more project, invest in afforestation, otherwise our conscience will not be able to afford it. ”
Imagine when you are curled up on a comfortable table and chair, sipping tea by the fire, using a new paper version of a new book that you recently bought online or at Xinhua Bookstore, and someone reminds you how many trees and how many resources the book is made of.
However, the green reading advocated by some environmentalists has not been echoed by writers, who ask readers to borrow books from the library as much as possible, or buy a book and pass it on to each other.
This greatly harms the interests of writers, if everyone rents books and borrows books to read, who will buy books?
Wouldn't writers be able to live if they couldn't even sell books?
Even Lin Han can't risk the world's condemnation to call on readers not to buy books, let's rent, borrow, and buy electronic copies.
This is an industrial chain, and it is not something he can decide alone!
Therefore, Lin Han can only do it himself and plant more trees.
After all, fast-growing forests are not a good thing, although the short-term economic benefits of fast-growing forests are very good, but in the long run, they destroy the ecology and drain the fertility of the land.
After several rounds of fast-growing forests were planted, the surrounding environment was all destroyed, which was called a matter of cutting off children and grandchildren by industry insiders!
For a while, Yan Hong didn't expect the topic to be so serious, they all knew about these things before, but they subconsciously ignored them, feeling that it was none of their business.
"Help me take over this activity, and communicate with those electronic channels to try to get their best recommendation, even if you give up a little benefit. ”
Lin Han can't do much, he would rather make less money, and hope that he will not become the object of condemnation!
Now that the pre-sale of "Charlotte's Web" has just begun, the pre-orders for the paperback edition have skyrocketed, and there is no sign of stopping.
How many trees will be cut down as a result? Lin Han didn't want to think about it anymore, he didn't come to the world as a Holy Father, just do what he could do!