Chapter 57 Small Bookstores and Bookstalls
The so-called "assembly line creation", as the name suggests, is to layer the original novel written by one person into several paragraphs. Then, different people write different paragraphs, and finally they are connecting!
This is something that Su Jin has long considered, and this kind of creation has appeared in later generations. He is a product of the commercialization of fiction, which once flourished! Many novels are produced on the assembly line!
The earliest application of online novels should be the working group of Haichang University in 04. At that time, dozens of college students launched 10 novels of more than one million words in a month under the pseudonym of Haichang University! Its creation efficiency is so high and the speed is so fast that it shocks the Internet world!
And the most famous should be the "Heartbeat Fantasy Series" launched by the Chinese publishing group Oriental Publishing Center, which adopts this creative method. This set of books is planned to be published in the early stage, with a total of 100 books published in advance, and 12 books will be released every quarter, and they will be signed under the unified name "Fire Sky Car". "Fire Sky Car" is a pen name shared by nearly 50 authors, including curators Huang Lu and Liu Wen.
In fact, the assembly line creation system has long been widely used! Many classics in foreign comics, film and television are the products of the assembly line. And the most standardized application in domestic assembly line creation is the creation of scripts!
On the TV screen, there are already a number of works born from the "assembly line script" such as "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo", "Spring Splendid Pig Bajie", "Iron Tooth Bronze Tooth Ji Xiaolan" and so on.
In fact, there are different opinions about the appearance of assembly line creation in the previous life, and for some traditional experts and scholars, the emergence of assembly line creation has undoubtedly been the biggest resistance from them! It's not creation at all, it's production!
For emerging online authors, as Huang Lu and Liu Wen said, the simple pursuit of "good-looking stories" is certainly suspected of being overly commercialized, but "good-looking stories" is indeed the basis for realizing all other functions - "No matter how educational works are, if children don't like to watch them, it is equal to zero." Huang Lu said.
In Su Jin's view, if this kind of creation of the assembly line is used in some best-selling novels with hundreds of thousands of words or more than 200,000 words, or some works with strong surnames, it is undoubtedly looking for death! Dozens of authors, the collision of different ideas is enough to make this novel go straight to the trash!
But if it's used in a multi-million-word web novel, you might as well give it a try! There is the most essential difference between online novels and traditional novels, that is, many online novels are not for people to read, they are just products for entertainment. Fast food culture!
There are not many requirements for readers of this kind of novel, one must be interesting, and the other must be updated quickly! To do these two points, the foundation of an online god book will come out!
What continuous surnames, what overall setting is reasonable, what protagonists have to be the same before and after the surname, these are all negligible! In fact, when readers read hundreds of thousands of words, they have long forgotten what the novel was talking about in the early stage! Even if there are some general impressions, few people will pursue the rigor of a web novel!
However, in the field of later generations, this way of creation has still been abandoned, and it cannot be said that there is none, at least not the mainstream! For this point, Su Jin's feeling is that the creative mode of the assembly line will eventually cause hard damage to the quality of the novel!
In the case of millions of web novels in later generations, the competition is extremely fierce. The slightest gap can cause the reader to slip away! However, in the current period when online novels are still relatively poor, and readers have low requirements for online novels, the creation of assembly lines is not impossible to try!
Moreover, in Su Jin's view, if it is a work created by a team that is truly perfect, it may not be comparable to the works of those great gods in later generations. But compared to some first-class works, it's still not a problem!
"Fat brother, I think our next marketing strategy is going to have a change!" After explaining the significance of assembly line creation to Mr. Fat, Su Jin looked at Mr. Fat seriously and said.
Mr. Fat was still immersed in shock at this time, after all, the plan proposed by Su Jin was too much of a test of his endurance! Fat is always a businessman! There is no doubt about it! But he is a businessman in the cultural circle! So in a sense, it doesn't seem wrong that he is a man of culture!
A cultural person is just how commercial, but there is always a trace of purity! Fat can always understand what Su Jin means! After all, he is a business elite! But because he could understand, he knew the consequences of doing so!
Undoubtedly! This is likely to bring further opportunities for the development of publishing houses! But this will undoubtedly greatly stimulate those traditional scholars, and there has been overwhelming criticism and scolding in front of his eyes!
He almost had a premonition that he would become a street rat in the cultural world! Should you do that? One side is fame, and the other side is profit. For the name? For profit? "Alas! Since ancient times, you can't have both fish and bear's paws! Mr. Fat sighed in his heart.
Looking at Su Jin's resolute expression, he knew that Su Jin should have made a decision! "That's it, so be it! Anyway, I'm also a private publishing house, and since I've already embarked on this path, what more reputation do I need! The fat boss was heartbroken, raised his head and said to Su Jin, "How to change?" ”
"The works created by the assembly line, even if I try to control them, it is impossible to produce any high-quality products! The only thing I can do is for them to come up with as many popular themes as possible! But it is probably unrealistic for readers to buy these books! After all, few people will buy a book that he just reads and throws it aside, and it is not certain that he will finish reading the book!
So, I think our next sales in regular bookstores should be relatively bleak! In this case, I think we should turn our attention to some small bookstores or bookstalls on the street! Su Jin said leisurely.
"Rent a book stall? Small bookstore? "Fat is always a little puzzled, as a rising star in the publishing industry, he really hasn't paid much attention to these places! After all, his general development channels are some regular big bookstores!
Like these small bookstores, renting a bookstall in his consciousness can almost be the same as some retailers! They rarely buy genuine books, and they don't buy too much at a time, most of the time it's just one copy, and they don't add more than a few dozen copies! Do they serve any purpose?
"That's right, it's them!" Su Jin said decisively! Su Jin, who has personally experienced the overall development process of online novels, certainly knows how important these humble small bookstores and bookstalls have played in the development of online novels!
It can be said that in the early days, when the Internet was not popular enough, the earliest readers relied on these small bookstores and rental bookstalls to get in touch with online novels! It's just that at that time, these small bookstores and bookstalls were all imported novels pirated from Taiwan!
Su Jin didn't pay attention to these small bookstores and bookstalls. But after he thought about the idea of assembly line creation, he suddenly thought, can he organize these small bookstores and rental bookstalls into a whole?
Although the individuals of these small bookstores and bookstalls are small, they are really not small on the whole! And the main thing is that they have a great influence on some students, teenagers!
After all, the spending power of this group mainly depends on the support of parents, and they have no spending power! It's hard to imagine that parents will still buy web novels for themselves!
So most of the time they go to small bookstores, book stalls and book stalls to rent books! At least Su Jin didn't do it at the beginning!
"Uh, well, since you're so insistent, I'll have someone contact them!" Seeing Su Jin's affirmative look, Mr. Fat was suspicious. Fortunately, after such a long period of cooperation, Mr. Fat still trusts Su Jin's judgment.
"Don't worry, I'm pretty sure about it!" Compared with the gains and losses of the fat president, Su Jin is confident!
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