Chapter 302: Phenomenal Writer
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The overall pre-sale of the "Three-Body Problem" series is as high as 760,000 copies. If it is concentrated in one book, it will break the pre-sale record. However, this result will be divided by two books and one complete collection, so I can only sigh.
But no one can deny that "Three-Body Problem" will be the seed player of the 2018 annual sales champion. The pre-sales are impressive and the first-day sales are very popular. As long as the reputation can be the same as "Three-Body Problem 1", it will not be a problem to maintain a long-term sales!
The great masters who have dominated the list for a long time finally felt pressured, especially those writers who are about to publish books this year. They don’t want to see the newcomer Lin Han so fast.
There is still someone on the sales list last year that can hold him back. Who will be here this year?
Perhaps it would be useless for anyone to come. Lin Han’s two desperate films could not reduce his sales. Perhaps only Lin Han himself could defeat him!
"Dark Forest" sold 110,000 copies on the first day, and did not include pre-sales or sales of e-books of up to 110,000 copies. This result is better than "Death Eternal Life", because everyone has to read books in order, and they will not suddenly come to see the finale and then watch the middle, although there are indeed such people.
God blocks the gods and Buddha blocks the Buddhas. On New Year's Day, Lin Han occupies the top two positions in the sales list without any suspense, and the complete collection of "Three-Body Problem" is proudly ranked fifth. In addition, "Jurassic Park" which is still on the list, he occupies four positions alone!
After this sales ranking picture was screenshot by Lin Han’s fans, it quickly spread on the Internet. Even some news reports quoted this picture, science fiction is on the rise!
According to incomplete statistics, under the leadership of Lin Han, more and more new authors have joined the sci-fi writing army, and there are also many other authors who have crossed the border. This gradually growing cake has been seen by more and more people.
Perhaps Lin Han also set a record that no one can surpass for the time being. Since the release of "I, Robot" on New Year's Day last year, he has books on the top ten best-selling list for the whole year!
Whenever his book sales start to fall, the news of the new book will stimulate a wave of rise again, and then the new book will take over another book when it is launched, without any interruption in the middle.
Other writers are not so diligent in publishing books. One book a year is considered a model worker in the minds of readers. There are not many writers like Lin Han who work hard.
Even if other writers have a very popular novel, it is not so easy to maintain the top ten on the fiercely competitive sales list. The top ten on the weekly list are basically novels that have sold over 300,000 copies!
Nowadays, the domestic literary atmosphere is strong. Whether it is serious literature or popular literature, almost new works are on the market every day, and various works are being sold in hot sales. Maintaining the top ten for a month is already difficult for best-selling writers. It is impossible to imagine that they can only last for a year.
So when Lin Han's record was reported by the media, people truly saw the shock brought by Lin Han. In the past year, Lin Han's cumulative sales have exceeded 10 million copies, which is the fastest writer in history to exceed 10 million sales!
It took two years for the last person who completed the cumulative sales of tens of millions. Lin Han directly shortened it to one year, and his overseas sales performance has not yet been calculated. Everyone knows that Lin Han's works are particularly popular around the world.
Zhou Pingping, the author of Xinhua Daily Telegraph, wrote a report specifically for Lin Han with the title "Phenomenon Writer".
As a daily newspaper published by Xinhua News Agency, Xinhua Daily Telegraph mainly uses comprehensive news written by Xinhua News Agency plans, and is known for a large number of fresh facts and sharp public opinion supervision reports. It is a new and mainstream newspaper at the central level and has extraordinary influence. This marks that Lin Han has entered the mainstream society and is no longer a niche literature.
"Literature is only good or bad, there is no purity or impurity, serious or not."
Zhou Pingping wrote in the article: "In the hearts of many people, there seems to be a wall between popular literature and serious literature. Popular literature is difficult to be valuable, and serious literature is difficult to have readers. Therefore, those who write popular literature are despised as writers, and are mostly sensationalists. Although they make a lot of money, they rarely have real talents and knowledge. However, those who write serious literature are respected as writers. Although they occupy the mainstream and can be condescending, they are inevitably too high and too low to be too short of money.
If we follow this logic, the wall between popular literature and serious literature seems to be the market.
In people's understanding, whenever they see certain types of literary books selling well, they will abandon them like a piece of cake and regard literature as a niche entertainment. This has also made best-selling literature and best-selling writers gradually become derogatory words.
However, Lin Han believes that the publishing and reading of the entire society are becoming more and more diverse, and readers can freely choose literary works that they are interested in reading based on their needs, accumulation and cultural level. There is no need to distinguish which one is Yangchun Baixue and which one is Xialibaren.
And this young man who talks about it is a phenomenal writer in the past year!”
A writer has many works, long sales time, and a large sales volume. He has super bestsellers or "born big books". With these factors, he can become a phenomenal writer.
However, such people do not appear every year. Usually one will only appear in a few years. Both the market and readers need to prepare.
What is a "born great book"?
For example, after Lin Han became popular now, he would post a Weibo post casually, even if there was only one period or one picture, there might be thousands of people commenting below.
For example, Haruki Murakami wanted to publish a book in Japan, even if there was only one word or even one word in the book, he could just print his name on the cover, and maybe 100,000 copies were sold in Japan.
Such books are called "naturally big books", which means they are born with this amount!
"The secret of Lin Han becoming a phenomenal writer is not only in his bestsellers, but in every book!"
This report really made Lin Han popular in the literary circle. Not every writer is qualified to write a special article on "Xinhua Daily Telegraph". Moreover, as for Lin Han, he has no worries about sales, no shortage of awards, and high popularity. He is a veritable phenomenon writer.
What's more, the China Association of Popular Science Writers also intends to shape Lin Han as a benchmark. The average age of their association members has reached their fifties. If there is no new force to join, the association will probably reach its end in ten or twenty years.
It’s not that they don’t want to attract science fiction writers to the association, but that they really cannot support the walls. They adhere to the principle of preferring nothing but being too bad, and cannot let these people ruin the reputation of the association.
Chapter completed!