Chapter 593 This person deserves to die!!!
If it were in the past, Lin Weimin would definitely have to go on a business trip to Hong Kong by himself.
But he is now the editor-in-chief of Guowen Publishing House and the president and editor-in-chief of Tongwen Publishing House. He is too busy to spare any time.
He brought the foreign exchange promised to Li Xuegang to the company the next day, which was 6,000 Hong Kong dollars. In addition, Li Xuegang would provide him with a subsidy of 100 Hong Kong dollars per day during his business trip, which was enough for him to use for his trip to Hong Kong.
Two days later, Li Xuegang set off for Hong Kong, leaving three kittens in Tongwen Society.
As soon as he left, the feedback on the first issue of "Jiuzhou Heroes" came back.
Yu Hua excitedly went to Lin Weimin's office and said, "Teacher Lin, bookstores all over the country are running out of stock. Please ask us to print more books immediately."
“Is there a summary of subscription data?”
"Yes." Yu Hua quickly handed over a piece of paper with the exclusive sales data of Xinhua Bookstores in various places. "This is the result of the compilation over the past two days. Nearly 300,000 copies."
"Three hundred thousand copies? That's a lot?"
Yu Hua grinned, "Yes, no one would have thought of that. The bookstore called and said that readers have given very good reviews to "Nine Provinces Heroes", especially our headline work "Number One Under Heaven", which has received rave reviews. Many readers went to the bookstore specifically to buy it after hearing recommendations from others."
Lin Weimin was very pleased after hearing this, "Okay, once the word-of-mouth effect is formed, we won't have to worry about the sales of our publications."
"It is because you have foresight and strictly control the quality of headlines that readers like you so much."
"Don't give me that shit! Xue Gang isn't here, so you should contact the printing factory right away. Print an extra 400,000 copies, maybe? It's only been three days and we've already received such a high number of subscriptions. Printing more will give us more time."
"Okay, I'll arrange it right away!"
Yu Hua passed away in high spirits, and Lin Weimin was also very happy sitting in the office.
He was very confident in "Nine Provinces Heroes". This publication was the result of nearly half a year's hard work by the editorial department. Several editors harassed almost all the well-known martial arts novelists in the country for this purpose. He himself also personally took the lead and put on a pseudonym to write a book "The World's Number One".
But what he didn't expect was that the first issue would be loved by so many readers just a few days after it was released.
Tongwen Press is a subsidiary of Guowen Press, so the distribution of "Nine Provinces Heroes" was also handed over to Xinhua Bookstore, and normally the books are shipped according to the number of subscriptions.
But sometimes publishing houses estimate the popularity of a book or publication and will print a little more to ensure that they don't get flustered and make mistakes later due to the book or publication being too popular. However, this situation only applies to popular books or publications.
Only a few days after the release of "Heroes of Kyushu", the number of secondary subscriptions from Xinhua Bookstore reached nearly 300,000 copies. This was definitely a hit, so Lin Weimin naturally dared to let the printing factory run at full capacity.
Within half a day after Xinhua Bookstore reported the second subscription number for "Heroes of Kyushu", the number of subscriptions became common knowledge in the Guowen Publishing House.
Less than a week after the publication, the bookstores ordered another 300,000 copies before the first 100,000 copies were sold out. How could this happen?
Anyway, there has never been such an exaggerated number in the history of Guowenshe.
It is true that each issue of Contemporary Magazine can sell one to two million copies, but that is the result of years of hard work. It took more than ten years to stabilize this sales volume, and in the past two years, it has occasionally gone on a roller coaster ride and declined.
Compared with "Contemporary", the rise of "Heroes of Kyushu" can be described as rapid.
This is the inaugural issue!
According to the current situation, I am afraid that 500,000 copies will not be enough. If there can be a third subscription within a month, no matter how much the third subscription is, then there is no doubt that the sales of each issue of "Nine Provinces Heroes" after the third issue will exceed one million.
For any publication that survives, the sales of its first issue must be the lowest in history. The sales of some publications in their heyday may be ten or eight times that of the first issue. "Jiuzhou Heroes" had such a momentum when it was first published, it was not difficult to break one million in three issues.
This is not something we imagined out of thin air, but rather a summary based on years of experience.
Tongwen Press was established only half a year ago, and it is amazing that "Jiuzhou Heroes" as their first publication has achieved such results as soon as it was released.
This originally inconspicuous sub-brand club once again impressed its colleagues in the Chinese Literature Society.
Lin Weimin no longer needed to worry about the sales of "Heroes of Kyushu", and he temporarily focused his energy on the work of the National Literature Publishing House.
Colleagues from the editorial office sent us the final manuscripts of several books, including two novels by Liang Fengyi.
The introduction of three works including "Drunken Red Dust", "The Oiran Robbery" and "The Dream of the Rich Family" was a success, and Guowen Publishing House decided to introduce other works of Liang Fengyi.
There is also a sample book of "Cultural Journey". This month, Yu Qiuyu just resigned from his position as the president of Shanghai Theatre Academy.
Yu Qiuyu is a very prestigious scholar in the Shanghai theater circle and also the president of the Shanghai Theater Academy. He resigned several times before the higher authorities were forced to agree.
As soon as the news of his resignation came out, it caused an uproar in the Shanghai literary circles.
In the domestic literary and art circles, it is extremely rare for a cultural official of Yu Qiuyu's level to resign on his own initiative, not to mention that he was determined to resign despite repeated obstructions from higher authorities.
When Lin Weimin learned of his resignation, he immediately urged the editorial office to rush out the sample copy of "Cultural Journey" and print and sell it as soon as possible. This would at least generate some popularity.
So after a pile of manuscripts and sample books were sent to him, Lin Weimin first looked at the sample book of "Cultural Journey", and then immediately asked the printing factory to print it as soon as possible.
This was the first time that Yu Qiuyu published a collection of essays. He had some fame in the Shanghai cultural circle, but not in the domestic literary circle, so the first print run of "Cultural Journey" was not large, only 20,000 copies.
Lin Weimin had foresight, but his colleagues at Guowen Press did not. He also did not want to appear too radical, as he could always print more copies later!
A few days later, Li Xuegang, who had been on a business trip to Hong Kong, returned to Tongwen Society. As soon as he met everyone, he gave everyone some small gifts.
Hearing that "Nine Provinces Heroes" had been on the market for a few days and the bookstore had ordered another 300,000 copies, Li Xuegang shouted in surprise and chatted with everyone for a while before running to report to Lin Weimin.
His main mission in going to Hong Kong this time was to sign a publishing contract with Liang Yusheng. Liang Yusheng had long since stopped writing, and Tongwen Publishing House wanted to publish a collection of his works. Because of the hot sales of Jin Yong's collection of works, Liang Yusheng had no objection.
The only dissatisfaction is that Tongwen Publishing House is not as famous as Guowen Publishing House. He and Jin Yong were once rivals in the martial arts novel circle of Hong Kong. Now Jin Yong's collection of works is published by Guowen Publishing House, while his own collection of works can only be published by its subordinate subsidiary. It is normal for him to be dissatisfied.
But Lin Weimin had already solved this problem when he was communicating with Liang Yusheng on the phone.
It was very simple. The royalty share was one percentage point higher than Jin Yong's, so the old man agreed immediately.
So, besides loving money, intellectuals also care more about face.
In addition to the publishing contract for Liang Yusheng's collection of works, this time Li Xuegang also met the writer that Lin Weimin asked him to meet with the introduction of Liu Yichang.
Among the four writers, Nangong Bo is the oldest and became famous the earliest. He started writing in the early 1990s and is known for his historical novels. He has published more than 60 novel collections and other works in his lifetime. Li Xuegang did not meet him when he went to Hong Kong this time, because Nangong Bo was invited by Taiwan Island University to give lectures there in recent years.
Among the remaining three writers, Wen Ruian became famous the earliest. In the early 1970s, he became a celebrity in Hong Kong martial arts novel circles with the "Four Famous Detectives Shocking Kanto" series. In the past 20 years, he has been producing works continuously, digging holes but not burying them, including the "Four Famous Detectives" series, "White-robed Fang Zhenmei" series, "Today's Heroes" series, "Commoner Divine Appearance" series, "Heroes of China" series, "Female Detective" series, "Ranger Nalan" series...
In a word, this guy deserves to die!!!
This time, Li Xuegang did meet Wen Ruian, but he was a very smart man and only gave the publishing rights of the "Commoner Divine Physiognomist" series to Tongwen Publishing House.
The quality of the "Commoner Divine Physician" series is above average among Wen Ruian's works. It is a good achievement for Li Xuegang to obtain the publishing rights of this series of works.
Huang Ying is the youngest of the four writers. He became famous for writing for Gu Long and later worked for Asia Television. The "Zombie Series" familiar to many people in later generations was created by him when he was at Asia Television.
Because Huang Ying wrote for Gu Long in his early years, his creative style is somewhat similar to Gu Long's. Some people who like him think that his talent is even better than Gu Long's. His famous works include "Six Horror Records" series, "Chen Shengyi" series, "Heavenly Silkworm Change" series, etc.
It was only when Li Xuegang went to Hong Kong this time that he found out that Huang Ying had already been diagnosed with cancer. When he heard that a mainland publishing house wanted to introduce his works, Huang Ying immediately agreed.
All his works were packaged and published with only one requirement: the royalties must be paid as soon as possible. He was waiting for the money to save his life!
The last one is Huang Yi, who became famous the latest, publishing his first work in 1988. His writing style is different from traditional martial arts novels, so his reputation in the Hong Kong martial arts novel circle is a bit polarized.
In the past two years, he went to Lantau Island to live in seclusion and concentrate on his creation. This year, he established his own publishing house to publish his own works.
When Huang Yi heard that a mainland publishing house wanted to introduce his works, he was overjoyed and agreed immediately.
Among the four writers, Nangong Bo was not seen, Wen Ruian's novel got a series, and Huang Ying and Huang Yi's works were all won. Li Xuegang's trip was a brilliant achievement.
Of course, this time he only went there to discuss the intention, and he would have to come back for instructions before he could finally confirm the signing of the contract.
After listening to Li Xuegang's report, Lin Weimin's face was full of smiles. He praised him a few times and then said, "But there is a problem here. Some of the content in Huang Ying and Huang Yi's works is too explicit. You must be careful when reviewing them. Get their consent first. If the content is inconvenient to modify, it will not be published. If they are willing to modify it themselves, they can do it themselves. If they are not willing to modify it themselves, you can write it for them."
Li Xuegang nodded, "I understand."
"Okay. You've been out for more than a week. Don't go to work today. Take a rest for half a day and come back tomorrow." Lin Weimin said with a smile.
Li Xuegang laughed immediately. Working under Teacher Lin was stressful, but it was also very comfortable because he was especially caring.
After Li Xuegang left, Lin Weimin also showed a smile on his face.
With this achievement, coupled with the success of "Nine Provinces Heroes", Tongwenshe's basic foundation for the next few years will be as solid as a rock.
(End of this chapter)
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