Chapter 252, "Harry Potter" on sale(1/2)
A few days later.
June 1st International Children's Day.
Carp flags can be seen flying on the roofs all over the island country, whether it is a metropolis like Kyoto or a relatively poor mountain town on Hokkaido.
Fish leaping on the dragon gate is the deepest expectation of Oriental people for their children.
Ye Kai drove on the road along the lake, thinking about whether to post a Weibo post to the new book?
Today is the time for Harry Potter to be released in the UK. Ye Kai was still a little nervous, and he wanted to let Chinese readers know about their new book news as soon as possible.
I was also afraid that they would not understand why they wanted to write a foreign novel.
There is a popular music list on NetEase Cloud in the car, which mostly contains English songs, and occasionally you can hear Japanese and Chinese songs.
Now he can understand it, it's great.
"Forget it, let's talk about it when the book becomes popular." Ye Kai muttered.
After all, I'm not so confident.
He has not had such in-depth understanding of European culture. After writing this book, Ye Kai has never dared to open a new book, just to read the response after Harry Potter was released.
However, it is not good for readers who don’t tell anything about the new book.
So Ye Kai was going to give them a little information so that he would not be dug up in the end and blamed him for not telling them anything.
As for what readers want to see...
Then there is nothing to do.
If the sales volume of this book in Europe is good, the publisher will naturally ask Ye Kai to discuss the translation into Chinese and send it to China. If the sales are not good...
That's not good.
Ye Kai had already thought it through. If this book doesn't work, it means that he does not have the strength and experience of writing foreign novels. I will continue to train in China for a few years.
Let’s talk about the trip a few days ago.
After leaving Hokkaido, Ye Kai stayed in Kyoto and lived in a hotel next to Shibuya Crossing Street. You can see the most crowded intersection in the world by sitting on the balcony.
Every day when you go to and from get off work, you will welcome a surging crowd from all directions, with at most more than 3,000 people passing through the intersection at the same time, which is definitely a scenery on the journey.
This is also the location where Resident Evil is filmed in the island country.
Yesterday, Ye Kai also took a helicopter to fly over Kyoto and saw the real steel jungle.
Or the sea of steel.
He had known that Kyoto was very big, but he could never feel it when he lived there. He felt that it was no different from other cities.
But you will only find it when you fly in the sky.
No matter what direction you look in, you can only see the house.
There are countless tall buildings that have no boundaries at all, as if they are a modern ocean. After all, nearly 40 million people live in Kyoto, which is almost twice that of Yanjing, China.
Everything Kyoto saw was built after the end of World War II, when the local area was bombed into ruins by American missiles. Now Kyoto was rebuilt on the ruins.
The pilot was full of pride when he said it all.
In addition to being shocked, Ye Kai suddenly thought that the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in his country was a small fishing village decades ago, but now it has become an international city?
So I no longer think that the Kyoto metropolitan area is amazing.
After visiting Kyoto by helicopter, Ye Kai continued to walk south and drove through Honshu.
On the other side of the lake is the famous Mount Fuji.
But I don’t know if the season is wrong. The peak of Mount Fuji was covered by clouds and mist. I could only see some snowy mountainsides and a forest on the ground.
All this did not affect Ye Kai any and did not stop.
The place where he left Kyoto was not Mount Fuji, but an extremely ancient mountain road. He wanted to take this mountain road from Kyoto to the capital of the island country hundreds of years ago.
Peaceful Beijing
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U.K.
British people love reading books in particular. Whether in roadside cafes, fast food restaurants, on the subway or on the train, you can see British people holding books.
This tone, this style is very high, very high.
Therefore, British books are very expensive, which is not unreasonable, because demand determines the market.
In the Stanfords bookstore, Ye Kai's book is placed in the most conspicuous place, and you can see it almost as soon as you enter the door. There are also huge publicity posters on the exterior wall of the bookstore.
Logically speaking, Ye Kai's books do not have such great influence.
Especially in this famous bookstore.
Stanfords has two stores in London and Bristol, England. This store is near Covent Garden. Its store is very eye-catching and belongs to a flagship store. It was first built in 1901.
This is the largest travel-themed bookstore in the world.
The owner of the bookstore is very old, but he still likes traveling very much and knows that Ye Kai is the person.
It is not rare for a traveler, nor is it rare for a photographer.
But when an excellent photographer becomes a traveler, it is not a simple photo to bring people who like to see outside scenery but cannot travel far.
Every piece of Ye Kai’s work on Weibo is a carefully selected fine product.
Some time ago, Ye Kai posted a Weibo post in the island country, which contained several photography works of snow scenes. Among them, the boss especially liked the photo taken by people.
So after learning that "Harry Potter" was a book created by Ye Kai, he gave Ye Kai the best treatment.
Generally, internationally renowned writers release new books and place them directly in the bookstore. In addition, they are all best-selling books of the season.
Many people who specialize in buying books in bookstores can see the neat new books placed on the shelves at a glance.
“Who wrote it?”
Erin, who was wandering around the shop, picked up the book.
KAI YE?
This name style... Oriental? China is still an island country.
Books from island countries can often be seen in Europe and the United States, but books by Chinese authors are not popular in Europe and the United States, let alone in the golden position of bookstores.
From the title and cover of the book, Erin could vaguely guess the style of the book.
Mysterious magic.
After all, the name of this book is called the Mysterious Magic Stone.
And reading the title of the book, this is a series of novels.
She was not going to buy it, a European magic novel written by an oriental man. Can she read it? However, after discovering that this is a series of novels, perhaps the bookstore gave this book such a high evaluation.
So Erin walked towards the cashier with the book.
Apart from this bookstore, other bookstores do not have such good sales. First of all, this book has not been opened, and people cannot see the early plot of this book.
I don't know if this book is good or not.
What’s important is that books are very expensive, and many people think that spending this money is not worth it, because they have not seen any publicity about this book before, which indirectly leads to many people thinking that this is a floppy book.
About three blocks from Stanfords Bookstore, Mr. Harvey also bought the book as a Children's Day gift for his daughter.
Different places and different people walked out of the bookstore with "Harry Potter", whether they read it themselves or gave it to their daughter.
I always have to see if this book is exciting or not.
So many people tear open the packaging on the subway or in the park and open the "Harry Potter".
The boy who survived the disaster.
The Dursleys, who live at No. 4 Livervet Road, always proudly said that they were very regular families. They were never related to mysterious and strange things because they did not believe in those evil ways.
Mr. Vernon Deszha works as a supervisor in a company called Growning, which produces drilling rigs. He is tall and burly, and he is so fat that he has almost no neck...
A cat that can only become a human.
People wearing green cloaks appeared on the streets in broad daylight, meteor showers all over the UK, and owls in the streets...
All of this seemed to have some magic that attracted Erin's mind, forcing her to keep turning the pages and even forget everything around her.
The atmosphere created by the author is too mysterious. Erin wants to find something about magic in every word in the book, but the real world in the book does not know that there is any such thing as magic.
This means that everything about magic has been concealed?
When I saw Harry finally being borrowed from a narrow and spider-filled cupboard, Erin finally breathed a sigh of relief. She never wanted to see Harry continue to live with an ugly and stupid relative.
Is the mysterious magical world about to unfold?
She looked up at the bright lights of the subway, and her spirit was still immersed in the world of novels until the subway she saw was running.
This is almost at the end of the station, which is more than 7 stations that I want to get off the subway.
My God!
To be continued...