"Lin Yuquan's new book "Wild Story" sold more than 450,000 copies on the first day of its release."

This is the headline of the entertainment section of the newspaper published by the "Kyoto Daily" on the morning of September 16, and the number is of course provided by Shuguang Publishing House, which is different from the situation in the United States, because the major domestic media do not have such bestseller lists, so there is no corresponding channel resource to know the sales of the novel, and it can only be provided by the guò publishing house. It will only make the publisher and the author laugh at it.

mentioned in the report: "In North America in two weeks to sell 465,000 copies, the first novel "Wild Story" directed by Lin Yuquan, who created a miracle of zào Chinese novels, was sold in China yesterday, and only sold 450,000 copies on the first day, with amazing sales, according to the number jù, "Wild Story" was first sold on Taobao at 0:00 a.m. on September 15, and its sales exceeded 90,000 copies before 7 a.m., and as of 24 o'clock last night, a total of 191023 copies were sold on Taobao."

Not only "Kyoto Daily", but also large media such as "Jinglang Daily", "Sohu.com", "Nanfang Daily", "Shixun Bao", "**" and other large media received the data provided by Shuguang Publishing House, and after the major media reports, the amazing sales of "Wild Story" quickly set off an uproar.

In today's country, the average book sales are only about 10,000 copies, and if you can sell 100,000 copies, you can already be considered a bestseller, and even in some small and medium-sized publishing houses, you can sell 3-50,000 copies and you can already enjoy the treatment of best-selling authors. But the sales of "Wild Story" in just one day far exceeded the standards of these so-called bestsellers. And according to the current trend. It is only a matter of time before the sales of "Wild Legends" exceed 1 million, and it is only a short period of time.

What is the concept of 1 million, that is the domestic super bestseller, the year-end book sales ranking in the top few can only reach the amazing number, every year can reach such a number of books can reach such sales, such as "Details Determine Success or Failure", Yi Zhongtian "Three Kingdoms", "Yu Dan (Analects) Experience", "Who Moved My Cheese", "Da Vinci Code", "Tibetan Mastiff", "Wolf Totem", "Harry Potter" series, "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", "Phantom City", "Summer Solstice Has Not Arrived", "Sadness Flows into a River", There are almost a handful of books in this category.

But none of these super-best-selling books in China can reach or even close to the level of "Wild Story" on the first day, and I have to say the horror of "Wild Record" again. With a terrifying figure of 450,000, it set a new record for the first day of book sales in China.

In response to this phenomenon, the media, critics, and well-known writers have also expressed their opinions in various forms, including waving flags, admiring, criticizing, and disdainful.

""Wild Chronicles" has landed strongly, are you ready to buy it?" Rongcheng Business Daily.

"Lin Yuquan, synonymous with miracles, after the movie, he once again conquered the field of fiction." Qilu Daily.

"Behind the amazing sales is the fan economy, and "Wild Story" may trigger a new round of celebrity book craze." Kyoto Evening News.

"The Wild Tale has set a new sales record, I don't know whether it is happy or sad, and it may give bad hints to the writers. Fame is the key to sales and affects the environment of literary creation. "Writers' Guild.

"I don't have much to say. This is naked money-making, and a real writer doesn't do that. "A well-known literary writer.

The vast majority of media, critics and even writers just analyze and comment on the sales itself, talking about it, making people dazzled and not knowing who to choose, but people who really have a heart will not do this, because reason gives them reason to believe that "Wild Story" is definitely not a celebrity novel that only relies on Lin Yuquan's fans to buy it, look at the comments of major media and book critics in North America, it is not just a novel that is touted as long as you give money, and "Wild Story" The second week of sales in North America is a clear example of the sustained increase in the first week, so they went into the bookstore to buy back "Wild Stories", and after reading it carefully, they expressed their opinions in the book review without reservation.

""The Wild Story", China's first epic fantasy masterpiece in the true sense, if anyone thinks that this is just a simple fan novel, it can only prove that he has not read the book at all, and such people, especially writers, are not qualified to make their so-called comments."

"I didn't expect it to be an easy book to make money, but when I actually opened this book, I was still shocked because it was so well written, and I think every reader who loves it shouldn't miss it."

"Well, genius has always been objective, in the past our focus has always been on Guo Jingming and Han Han, the two leading young writers, and now it's time to withdraw our eyes from them, obviously there is a more brilliant character here, he is a director, but at the same time a writer Lin Yuquan."

""Savage" is definitely worth watching, I raise my hands and feet to recommend it."

These freshly crafted and meticulous book reviews immediately attracted attention, and some people who were otherwise hesitant or didn't know who to believe became interested in "Savage" after reading it carefully.

But the biggest storm did not come from the media, book critics, and writers, but from those readers and fans who bought the novel. The storm began.

September 15 was Saturday, and on Sunday, "Wild Story" sold another 120,000 copies, and when a week passed, "Wild Story" sales had reached a staggering 1.26 million copies, once again setting a domestic novel sales record, and what was even more terrifying was that its sales momentum was still overwhelming. It didn't go down much. If there are no surprises. Breaking through the sales of 2 million copies is really only a matter of time before "Wild Stories" is born.

Previously, with the help of the influence of the Hundred Pulpits, "Yu Dan's Analects > Experience" has sold 2.3 million copies since the book was launched in November last year, and as of February 5 this year, it is almost a miracle that such an astonishing sales volume of popular books has reached in such a short period of time. Originally, everyone was shocked, but now in the face of the horror sales momentum of "Wild Story". But it doesn't seem to be anything.

And during this period, the people who originally criticized and criticized Lin Yuquan and "The Wild Story" all disappeared, which is normal, the people who are qualified to speak in the media are all well-known people, no one is stupid, the quality of "The Wild Story" is there, it is clear at a glance, as long as the people who have seen it will naturally not jump out stupidly.

Excellent quality is always the first factor in the best-selling of books, and after two weeks of sales, "Wild Legends", which sold a total of 465,000 copies in the first two weeks, achieved the feat of selling more than one million copies. It ranks among the best-selling novels of the year, with a total of 1,017,000 copies currently sold. And Stephanie. Mel's "Lunar Eclipse" is even more extensive, with a total of 1.236 million copies sold so far, almost the same as "Wild Stories" in the last two weeks.

There is no doubt that Little Bear Press, which has published two novels that have sold more than one million copies, has since become the biggest dark horse among the publishing houses in North America this year. Haggis is even more ambitious and ready to take advantage of this opportunity to create more best-selling novels.

The amazing sales of novels and the lively discussion of the media and book critics did not have much impact on Lin Yuquan's life except that he was in a better mood, and the motion capture shooting of "Wild Story" in the Stone Street studio was carried out step by step every day, although many actors who had not been exposed to motion capture were deeply affected by the motion capture shooting equipment at the beginning, and could not devote themselves to the performance with full concentration, but after a few days of adaptation, they were becoming more and more handy.

"Cut, Finney, your body movements just now are not in place, figure it out for yourself and the others rest." After Lin Yuquan confessed, he got up from the viewfinder, came to a corner of the set, took out the mobile phone in his pocket, pressed the display screen, and immediately saw the display of the two missed calls on it.

"Hello, Lao Ma, I was making a movie just now, so I didn't answer your call, is there something wrong? If it's a general matter, you and the board of directors make a decision. ”

"Oh, it's me who is wrong, I forgot that you have a time difference between New Zealand and our country, of course it is not an ordinary matter, the company's listing hearing date has come out, due to the listing of new shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in October, our listing hearing will be postponed to October 4." A hearty voice sounded on the phone, if it is an Internet person and a media person, you must be surprised to see the person on the other side of the phone, because this person is the founder and helmsman of Alibaba, who is now in the limelight.

What is the most important news in the domestic financial and Internet circles, of course, Alibaba is about to be listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, since Ma Yun announced to employees at the company's annual meeting in July the start of the company's B2B Hong Kong Stock Exchange listing process, the news about Alibaba's listing has immediately become a hot topic reported by major media technology and financial pages, many media, such as Xinglang, Sohu and other portals have opened up a special column for Alibaba's listing, tracking Alibaba's listing dynamics throughout the process.

No way, who made Alibaba one of the most popular Internet companies in China today? In addition, Alibaba's listing is the largest IPO financing scale of a domestic Internet company, and it is expected to raise up to HK $7.8 billion.

Prior to this, the highest listed domestic Internet company is Tencent, which was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 04, the IPO financing amount was only 1.55 billion Hong Kong dollars, followed by Focus Media's 172 million US dollars, Shanda Network's 152 million US dollars, Baidu's 109 million US dollars, and other such as Sohu and Wangsheng Technology's IPO financing is almost between 50 million and 80 million US dollars, and the total amount of their financing is not as high as Alibaba's expected financing.

According to the estimated financing amount, once Alibaba completes the listing, the market value of the B2B company alone will reach 7 billion US dollars, plus Taobao, Alipay and other business sectors, it will become a giant in the domestic Internet industry. Witness the birth of an internet giant. Naturally, Alibaba's every move to go public has attracted much attention.

Meanwhile. According to the expected market value of the listing, as long as the listing is successful, there will be many millionaires and multimillionaires among the employees within Alibaba, and founders such as Jack Ma will be among the billionaires.

"Oh. The time is still quite fast, and there are no problems with the hearing. Lin Yuquan smiled.

"No, we're ready, don't worry about that." Ma Yun smiled confidently.

"Okay, after the hearing, how did you arrange the roadshow?" Lin Yuquan nodded and asked.

"We have already discussed with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, and we expect to start a roadshow in Hong Kong and then go to the United States from mid-October, and we have also negotiated cooperation with the five basic investors we have introduced. AIG, ICBC, Wu Guangzheng, Guo Henian, Sun Hung Kai Kwok Bingxiang, and the Guo family will invest a total of $145 million to buy shares, right. Mr. Gou will also subscribe for $100 million through Guò's Foxconn. Ma Yun said calmly.

"Did Terry Gou subscribe for $100 million in shares alone? Is this a bit too much, after all, several other basic investors who are still above him have only subscribed for a total of $145 million. Lin Yuquan shook his head contemplatively.

"How much do you think is appropriate? In fact, in this regard, we also have internal controversy, the other five basic investors have been determined, and Guo Taiming has not been completely determined, but only a preliminary intention. Ma Yun said.

"With the exception of Yahoo, I think these important institutional investors should try to keep their share in the same place, and not too much of a difference." Lin Yuquan thought for a while.

"Okay, I understand, I will give you feedback to the shareholders meeting, in fact, I have the same opinion as you, I think Guo Taiming's subscription of about $35 million in shares should be an appropriate proportion."

"Indeed, at $35 million, I support your decision." Lin Yuquan nodded: "By the way, must the identity of my shareholder be announced on the prospectus?" ”

"Of course, you are the largest shareholder of the company, Yuquan, you are worried about the impact of wealth exposure!" Jack Ma said with a smile in his words.

"Well, you know that my identity is a director, no more domestically than in the United States, in the United States, George. Lucas and Steven. Spielberg is a director worth billions of dollars, but in China, a director with such a huge fortune will definitely cause an uproar. Lin Yuquan said helplessly, in fact, if he could, he wanted to be an invisible rich man, not that his wealth could not be seen, but nothing else, mainly after his net worth was exposed, media reporters would definitely pounce on him like annoying flies, buzzing around him all day long, so that his private life was completely disrupted.

However, he himself knows that this is impossible, although there are many invisible rich people in China, but listed companies must disclose the shareholder equity structure, once the company is listed, it is naturally difficult to be invisible.

"Also, your identity is a little different from ours, originally your attention is high, once Alibaba is listed, it is estimated that for a long time, your side will not be clean, but even if you don't directly announce your name, only announce the overseas companies controlled by you, presumably the media will quickly find out the relationship with you, it is better to take the initiative.

In fact, I don't think you have to worry too much about Yuquan, now it's no secret that you're worth billions, Alibaba's listing is just to make your wealth more and more transparent, after spending two or three months of crazy initial listing, people's mood will soon calm down, after all, whether it's 3 billion, 5 billion, or 10 billion, in the eyes of ordinary people, this is just a number. Ma Yun said slowly.

"Well, that's all there is to it." Lin Yuquan sighed and said, anyway, his wealth is not unsightly, and it is a big deal to try to keep a low profile in the next few months after listing.

"Heh, don't worry, it's fine." Jack Ma smiled.

After talking to Ma Yun on the phone, he temporarily put aside the troubles of going public, and Lin Yuquan continued to devote himself to the filming of "Wild Story".

Another week has passed, and with excellent quality and good reputation, "Wild Days" still maintains a strong sales momentum in the mainland and North America, and in the mainland, the sales of "Wild Wild" this week fell by only 32%, with a total of 820,000 copies sold in a week, and it took only two weeks to break through the 2 million sales mark, with a cumulative sales of 2.08 million copies. In North America, 130,000 copies were sold in a single week, bringing the total to 1.15 million copies.

In a blink of an eye, the end of September has passed, and the time has come to another year's seven-day National Day holiday, which is slightly different from the box office in October abroad.

In the same period last year, Lin Yuquan's "Painted Skin" and Cheng Long's "Baby Plan" were jointly released, creating the highest-grossing National Day file of the year, and although the films in this period this year are slightly inferior in terms of attention, the absolute number of new films is a lot more, and each one is quite powerful.

Among them, there are five new films released on a larger scale, which are co-directed by Xu Ke, Lin Lingdong, and Du Qifeng, and "Iron Triangle", which brings together Gu Tianle, Sun Honglei, and Ren Dahua, and "The Second in the World" directed by young director Feng Chao, starring Zhang Mo, Wang Jinsong, and Huang Xiaolei. Directed by Kvazik, Bernal. Fasi, Frederick. The French action comedy film "Taxi Express 4" starring Di Fenso, adapted from the original book by Japanese cartoonist Yumiko Suzuki, directed by Korean director Kim Yong-hwa, and starring Korean stars Kim Ah-jung, Joo Jin-mo, and Park Hyun-jung, the Korean comedy film "The Ugly Girl Turns Over", as well as the most watched of the five newly released films "Painted Wall".

Everyone's eyes naturally fell on the last "Painted Wall", this dawning film production, directed by Chen Jiashang, brought together Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, Liu Ye, Liu Yifei, Jiang Yan and other magical blockbusters, with an investment of up to 120 million yuan, is one of the most important Chinese blockbusters this year alongside "Cast a Name", "Assembly Number", and "Lust Caution".

Who will win the championship with 5 new films? This is not a suspenseful question at all, even if "The Painted Wall" is very badly filmed, the title of weekly box office champion cannot fall to other movies, Chen Kaige's much-criticized "Wuji" is a good example.

All everyone cares about is what kind of box office "Painted Wall" can achieve, whether it can reproduce the box office prosperity of last year's National Day file, and whether it can become the sixth film to break 100 million at the box office this year. (To be continued......)

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