In August 2013, Little Partner Publishing Group held the first World Light Novel Award in Beijing. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info this big award, but the small partner group has paid a lot of money - 50 million US dollars!

It is not only used for the preparation and prize money of the big award, but also for the publication and marketing of the award-winning works. 50 million is definitely a very large number in the small market of the market, and smashing into the light novel market is more like a meteorite smashing into a small pond, which is enough to smash anyone in the small pond to overflow!

Light novels originated in Japan, and strictly speaking, what exactly a light novel is has always been controversial. It is not like martial arts, romance, science fiction, history, war and other genre novels, and the subject matter is clearly defined. Because, a novel of any kind of theme can be claimed to be a light novel.

In essence, light novels are born in a way that distinguishes them from traditional literature. In traditional Japanese literature at that time, the threshold for soliciting manuscripts was very high, and the contributors were required to have solid literary skills, which killed the thoughts of the vast majority of contributors.

Light novels appeared in order to lower the threshold. Encourage some amateurs who have no experience in literary creation to submit their works that do not quite meet the standards of traditional literature.

With the development of time, light novels have gradually developed some two-dimensional styles, integrating with comics, animation, games and other cultures, and gradually, light novels have also formed certain characteristics. For example, light novels are composed of novel authors and illustrators, and not only need to have novel content, but also some character settings, and illustrators need to make illustrations, so that readers can better understand the appearance and characteristics of the characters.

Since light novels are illustrated, it saves a lot of effort in adapting manga, anime, and games in the future. Because, the popular light novel, whether its character design satisfies readers. It's also easy to find out by gathering feedback from readers. In the future, novels adapted from manga, anime, and games can be created based on the illustration characters based on the principles of light novels.

To put it simply. Light novels can serve as an over-the-top product between manga and fiction, enriching the genre of the fiction market. It is also an important part of the two-dimensional industry.

The current two-dimensional cultural market, the scale is not to be underestimated, the small partner company naturally wants to step into this market and become the leader of this market, then, the light novel must be the field that the small partner company wants to get involved in.

This year's Light Novel Awards are not only for submissions in China. Moreover, Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States and other countries. There are divisions for submission contests.

The top 10 in each national competition will be set up, with a maximum prize of 500,000 US dollars and a minimum of 50,000 US dollars.

The world is divided into five competition areas, and a total of 50 award-winning light novel writers have been produced.

After the awards, they were all qualified to sign a contract. Subsequently, the novel will not only be published in its native language market, but also rely on the translation team of the partner to translate the work into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, English, French, German and other national languages for global publication.

If global publishing can sell well. Then, soon the partners will package it into a world-class IP! Subsequent adaptations of anime, film and television, and games followed.

"There are many different interpretations of what kind of fiction a light novel is. For me, light novels, which are novels for young people, have a certain fashionable value, are in line with the current trend, and are popular with young people, they can all be called light novels. Wang Qinian spoke at the opening ceremony of the awards, "It is not just a Japanese light novel of the moment. Of course, the light of the day is outstanding. However, this is the case. It is clear that light novels cannot become world-class influential literature. So, I think. Light novels all over the world should be developed, regardless of borders, further innovated, and broke through the shackles of traditional light novels! In the past, light novels appeared in Japan, that is, they were eclectic and published novels by some business writers who were not eye-catching in traditional literature, and this theme never entered the stream, and gradually began to have a place. It developed its own style and also had some commercial success. Now, the little friend is ready to introduce light novels and expand them into world-class light novels......"

At the scene, there was fierce applause!

"My little friend is really a behemoth, and his tentacles stretch out to one field after another. Even if you take out a small part of your strength, it makes people feel like a great enemy. At the scene, Watanabe, an editor of a Japanese light novel publishing house, sighed.

"Mr. Watanabe, you are no longer the editor of the deneki library, but the deputy editor-in-chief of our little friend's light novel division." An executive, who is also Japanese, said solemnly.

"yes!" Watanabe smiled, "After being a small editor for 20 years, I can actually become a deputy editor-in-chief after changing jobs." Am I going to make a little achievement and make the people who look down on me stunned. ”

"It's also a good thing to break the dominance of the Kadokawa family!"

"Yes, the hateful Kadokawa Bookstore has monopolized the Japanese light novel market, and except for a few works that are good-looking, other works have become more and more homogeneous over the years."

"Light novels are almost a year is not as good as a year, and one session is not as good as a year."

In fact, there are a lot of Japanese employees at present, mainly focusing on manga, animation, music, games, and so on. As long as there is talent, the small partner group will break the national boundary restrictions, break the class, break the strict hierarchy, and Corporal Lixian will invite foreign talents over.

For example, Japan has accumulated a strong advantage in the ACG two-dimensional field, and China needs to make many years of efforts to challenge in this field. But in fact, there is indeed a shortcut -- to constantly dig up senior Japanese talents and gradually narrow the gap!

At that time, Samsung sent a large number of employees to work in Japan, mainly to learn technology, after working in Japan for a few years, after learning a little something, they began to resign and leave, and returned to Samsung's factory with the skills they learned. In this way, employees continue to act as technical spies and learn some Japanese product production techniques, and Samsung began to follow the trend and plagiarize.

In addition, relatively high-level technology is difficult to steal, and Samsung has taken the initiative to poach Japanese engineers. In the sixties and seventies, the most important job of Samsung's executives in Japan was to make friends with Japanese technicians, eat and drink with them every day, and constantly give gifts to win over. After a little bit of poaching, many core technologies have gradually been mastered by South Korea's Samsung Group. Relying on this means, Samsung soon completed the counterattack. Of course, Japanese companies such as Sony, even if they have fought countless lawsuits with Samsung and scolded it for decades as a thief, are useless. The unscrupulous Samsung succeeded little by little, while the stolen Sony and other companies are declining day by day.

In fact, if a latecomer wants to surpass his predecessors in any field, talent is the key!

If you don't have a large number of senior talents, even if you have money, you don't know how to spend money reasonably to achieve your goal.

The small partner is currently laying out the two-dimensional industry, and what he does is - poaching! Many senior employees in Japan, regardless of whether they are geniuses or not, as long as they have a certain amount of experience, will be poached with high salaries. When people are dug up, so are skills and experience. (To be continued.) )