Chapter 116 The Influence of Farewell My Concubine
When asking them to sign, Lin Weimin found that almost everyone took out a copy of People's Literature which published Farewell My Concubine.
"You all like Farewell My Concubine?" he asked.
"Yeah." The girls nodded frantically.
Lin Weimin thought so too. Among all the novels he had written before, Farewell My Concubine was probably the most suitable for the taste of girls of this age.
Things like BL have always been the favorite of fujoshi, even though it is the 1980s now.
"Teacher Lin, I also like "The Death of Euler."" A little girl added.
Lin Weimin nodded and said, "This boy is teachable."
The teacher has written so many novels, and you only talk about "Farewell My Concubine", which is somewhat disrespectful to the teacher.
After signing, the girls were overjoyed and put the books into their schoolbags with great care.
Yao Shuhua looked at Lin Weimin cautiously and made another request, "Teacher Lin, can you take a photo with us?"
Lin Weimin was stunned for a moment and was about to ask if you have a camera, but then he thought, who can I ask if they don’t have one?
It turns out that no matter what year it is, star chasers are never short of money.
These days a camera can easily cost hundreds of dollars, which is simply out of the reach of ordinary people.
Do you think the consumption level of a family that spends 500 yuan to buy a TV and a family that spends 500 yuan to buy a camera is the same?
The camera was taken out, and the four girls first took a photo with Lin Weimin one by one, and then prepared to take another photo with Lin Weimin.
At this time everyone was in a dilemma. Everyone came to take pictures, but who should take the pictures?
Yao Shuhua waved to her sister Yao Shuzhi, "Sister, take a picture for us!"
Yao Shuzhi, who had transformed herself into a tool, took the camera expressionlessly and took a group photo of the group.
The girls happily took photos together, feeling that everything was perfect and couldn't help but smile foolishly.
"Teacher Lin, I'll send the photos to you after they're developed."
Lin Weimin suspected that they just wanted to take the opportunity to meet him again.
Yao Shuzhi said, "That's enough. Now that the people have seen us, we've signed our names, and we've taken photos, let's go back."
The girls achieved their goal, their thoughts became clear, and they nodded repeatedly.
But when leaving, he did not forget to look back every few steps to admire Teacher Lin for the last time.
"Come and play again!" Lin Weimin waved goodbye to the girls, earning a cold stare from Yao Shuzhi.
After she came back from sending the people away, Lin Weimin smiled and said, "I was wondering why you disliked me so much these past two days? So this is the problem?"
Yao Shuzhi snorted coldly: "This girl dared to skip school and come to see you today, it's really outrageous!"
"Then why don't you punish her? Comrade Xiao Yao, what you are doing now is called aiding and abetting the evil!"
"snort!"
Liu Yin said, "Look! Weimin has become a movie star now, and there are even little girls coming here just to see him."
"Weimin should be considered a literary idol now!" Zhu Changsheng said with a smile.
Rong Shihui shook his head and said, "Young girls nowadays..."
In the afternoon, Lin Weimin ran to the editorial office of People's Literature in the front building.
"Teacher Xie, how is the readers' questionnaire going?"
The deadline for the questionnaire is one month after People's Literature is on the market, and today is the last day of the month.
"It's almost there, it's almost there!" Xie Mingqing said impatiently.
The editorial staff have been working hard on this new questionnaire. You should know that the sales volume of each issue of People's Literature is now stable at more than 500,000 copies.
In the 1980s, readers were very enthusiastic about writing letters to magazines, not to mention the fact that they conducted questionnaires, which put readers in a superior position.
In just one month, People's Literature received more than 20,000 questionnaires.
Just to sort out these questionnaires every day requires a dedicated person to do this. And this month, not only are there questionnaires, but there are also many more letters from readers than in previous periods, most of which are about the novel Farewell My Concubine.
Seeing that everyone was very busy, Lin Weimin went up to help for a while. When it was almost time to get off work, the editorial department finally sorted out the ratings of all the works published in the April issue of People's Literature.
On a simple blackboard, the 14 works in this issue are arranged in order, all written with chalk. Each work is followed by a score, which is summarized by the editors of the editorial department from more than 23,000 readers' questionnaires.
Among them, "Farewell My Concubine" was far ahead of other works with a high score of 9.4 points, which was 1.3 points higher than the second place of 8.1 points, which was a cliff-like lead.
Looking at the ratings on the blackboard, the editors all smiled with satisfaction.
Although it is tiring to organize these readers' questionnaires, they are also very rewarding.
With these ratings, editors have the most intuitive understanding of the quality of the works published in each issue, rather than relying solely on media reviews and a few readers' letters as before.
Such a method plays a very important role in helping the editorial department control the quality of works published in future publications.
"Farewell My Concubine is really well-known!" Xie Mingqing exclaimed.
"A horse that leaves the dust behind!"
Everyone was impressed by the love that Farewell My Concubine has received from readers. Xie Mingqing added: "The love of readers is directly reflected in the sales volume. In just one month, the April issue has already sold 500,000 copies."
How much can a good work help increase the sales of a publication?
In 1979, Harvest was re-published. The second issue published the important work of writer Cong Weixi, Magnolias under the Great Wall. The sales of this issue of Harvest soared from the level of tens of thousands at the time of the re-publication to hundreds of thousands. With the help of Harvest, the reputation of "Great Wall Literature" spread like wildfire.
Lin Weimin's "Farewell My Concubine" now embodies this kind of influence.
Since its resumption of publication, the sales of People's Literature have been steadily increasing, and it is normal for each issue to sell 10,000 or 20,000 more copies. In the past, the sales of the magazine at this time should be around 400,000 copies. The situation like the April issue selling 100,000 more copies than usual in one month has never happened in People's Literature so far.
This is just one month, and a large-scale literary magazine like People's Literature has a very obvious long-tail effect in sales. Old editors like Xie Mingqing are very experienced, and at this rate, it should not be a problem for this issue of People's Literature to sell more than 700,000 or 800,000 copies.
Especially before "Farewell My Concubine" was published as a single volume, readers who wanted to get a glimpse of this novel could only go through "People's Literature", which forced everyone to buy this issue of the magazine.
Xie Mingqing had a hunch that the final sales of this issue of "People's Literature" might surprise everyone.
(End of this chapter)
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