Chapter 236: Terrifying Sales of 330,000 Copies!
For children's literature magazines or publishing houses, He Yun also knew about Modu's "Juvenile Literature and Art" and Kyoto's "Children's Literature", but before, he had never exchanged letters with these two publishing houses, and the only time he had intersected was to mail a book manuscript to Li Yan.
However, that time he also sent it in Li Yan's name and address.
Now, since it is not the wrong letter, there are only two possibilities, one is what Li Yan told us, and the other is that the "Juvenile Literature and Art" magazine learned it from another publishing house.
"Could it be the Modu People's Fine Arts Publishing House?"
He Yun muttered secretly, but he took the letter and fell into deep thought.
"Forget it, no matter which way it is, it doesn't matter to me, I'd better reply to them as soon as possible!" After a while, He Yun muttered again, put the letter aside, and began to write a reply to the "Juvenile Literature and Art" magazine.
It was only about ten minutes, and a short reply was written, He Yun folded the letter, but suddenly remembered something.
"Wait..... My manuscript seems to be at home? It looks like I have to go home, and I haven't been back for months, so I might as well take this opportunity to go back. ”
After making a decision, he immediately looked at the class schedule posted on the wall in front of the desk, and after preliminarily confirming the time of going back, he turned back to Deng Chengjun and said, "Teacher Deng, I have to go home the day after tomorrow, do you have anything you need me to come over?" ”
"No need, I don't have anything, you can ask Mr. Chen later, I remember he seems to have said that some winter clothes need to come over a little.
Deng Chengjun waved his hand and replied.
"Okay! I'll ask him later! He Yun nodded.
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Although there is a lot of controversy in the archaeological community about the "Archaeological Notes: The Tomb of King Lang on the Night", this does not prevent some people from liking it.
Especially some students, young workers, and many young people who go to work.
After all, compared to those serious literature, this kind of watchability is very large.
Mystery, adventure, excitement, fantasy, and a variety of elements are intertwined together, so that the whole article, almost in one go, many people after reading it, they are still unsatisfied, and have written readers' letters to the "Story Club", hoping that the "Story Club" can publish more similar ones.
Some people even think that the fantasy and bizarre section of "Story Club" could be expanded to publish more similar stories.
For those young people who have literary dreams, the young author "Man Jianghong" is undoubtedly a role model for everyone.
It is said that the power of example is endless, and this is not wrong at all.
No, just recently, the editorial department of "Story Club" has received a lot of submissions, waiting for the editors to take a look at it, ho! Good guys, forty percent of the submissions are "adventure exploration" themes.
Even many submission letters directly based on the article "Archaeological Notes: The Tomb of King Lang on the Night" as a template and imitated one.
This can't help but make the review editors shake their heads again and again.
However, even so, the editorial department of "Story Club" still received a lot of excellent manuscripts, although most of them did not reach the level of He Yun's article, but He Wei, as the editor-in-chief, was still very happy.
Of course, compared with the editor-in-chief He Wei, editor Xiao Shiyuan and the old editor Lu Zhan are actually more happy, because this means that the "Fantasy and Strange Talks" column will not be withdrawn, but will continue to be run, which is a great affirmation for them.
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On this day, the editorial room of "Story Club".
Several editors sat around and discussed some of the suggestions in "Letters from Readers".
In particular, this suggestion to add space to the "Fantasy Talk" column has made some editors feel a little uncomfortable.
After all, this may lead to the reduction of the layout of the columns and sections for which you are responsible.
"Editor-in-chief, my opinion is not to change for the time being, although the article written by Man Jianghong this time has achieved obvious results, but we can't disrupt the original layout because of this......."
"Lao Liu, you can't say that, our "Story Club" is not a serious literary magazine, what we need is sales, if the sales are high, can't we also send a little more bonuses? Everyone said no. Before the old editor with reading glasses could finish speaking, a slightly younger editor retorted directly.
As soon as the young editor's words came out, the other young editors present also nodded their heads in agreement.
After the reform and opening up, the importance of money has naturally become more and more obvious, and many people with iron rice bowls have seen that people in the coastal areas and special zones have made a lot of money.
In fact, this phenomenon is not only in magazines, but also in other fields, whether it is a worker working in a factory or a farmer at home, they all have higher requirements for their own lives.
"Editor Zhang, how do you know about the bonus? We're a magazine, and we can't ....... what we publish."
"What can't you do? Isn't this kind of literature a work of literature? Or is it not allowed by law? All of the above require us to break the shackles of ideology and make our magazine a magazine that the masses of the people like to see, and since the masses of the people like it, we naturally have to keep up with the masses of the people.....
Well, that's true, but in fact, the young editor was purely a change of concept.
However, none of this matters, because after all, it is the editor-in-chief He Wei and the leader in charge of the magazine who make the decision.
Especially He Wei, as the editor-in-chief of "Story Club", his vote is crucial.
Therefore, at this moment, when everyone was arguing, they turned their attention to He Wei, who was sitting on the main seat, and another leader in charge of the magazine.
"Director Liao, ....... you said about this?" He Wei saw that everyone else was looking at him, and couldn't help but look at Director Liao, the leader in charge who was sitting next to him.
But this Director Liao smiled, immediately waved his hand and said: "Editor-in-Chief He, you are the editor-in-chief of the magazine, and the management of the "Story Club" is up to you, and our leaders in charge will not interfere in principle, and this is also the requirement of the superior leaders. ”
When these words fell, Editor-in-Chief He just wanted to speak, and suddenly, the door of the editorial room was pushed open, Xiao Shiyuan walked in at this time, he held a stack of readers' letters in his hand, and sat down in his seat.
"Editor-in-chief, this is a letter from readers in the past few days, I just sorted it out, most of them are in favor of publishing more works of this kind, and I just got a data here, you can take a look."
"Data? What data? He Wei was stunned and asked.
"It is the data that urged the printing of this issue of "Story Club", and I estimated that there are at least 100,000 copies."
"What? 100,000 copies? So much? Hearing Xiao Shiyuan's words, the others couldn't help but gasp.
Previously, they had already printed an additional number of copies on the basis of the original number of copies, and after calculating it, there were already 150,000 copies, and if another 100,000 copies were printed, wouldn't this issue of "Story Club" be able to sell 250,000 copies?
"Editor-in-chief, there is another good news, I have just received telegrams from the railway bureaus in various places, they all said that they want to order more "Story Clubs" to be placed at the train station, I counted it, and the number has increased by 20,000 copies compared with the previous agreement." "Twenty thousand? Isn't that 80,000 copies, and 330,000 if it were anything else....."