Chapter 474: Creating a Legend
Can Lin Han’s book sales be used to guess?
Accompanied by these doubts, "Hipberry" has entered the official market with anticipation. You can tell whether it is a mule or a horse that can be pulled out!
If its pre-sale results are real, then the subsequent sales will never be too low. The market is like a mirror of demons, and the water-filled book will eventually show its true form.
At the same time, the "People" magazine, which had been specially rushing to Yanjing to interview Lin Han, was late. Lin Han appeared in this world-famous magazine as the cover character. Jamie gave him the title "Americans' favorite Chinese writer"!
This is not the first time that Lin Han has appeared on the cover of an international magazine. Even the most difficult time to appear on Time magazine has been taken down. Although "People" is happy, it is not surprising.
However, it is indispensable for media reprinting and reporting, because unlike Time magazine, the cover of People magazine never seems to have a pure Chinese person on the cover of People magazine!
Those who can shoot the cover of "People" magazine are all top Hollywood stars. What they need is popularity, not status in the world, and whether a person is famous or not is the only measure.
Due to the lack of top Chinese stars in Hollywood, there is no achievements in this area. Unexpectedly, the marginal people in the entertainment industry will fill this gap!
Many domestic actors, actresses, actresses, queens, and queens have not achieved success. Lin Han seemed to have taken the film quietly, and no news was revealed in the middle.
If any celebrity can be on the cover of "People" magazine that symbolizes popularity, it would have to go with the flow and post more news without hype. How could he be as calm as Lin Han!
On this day, not only the literary peers were jealous of Lin Han, but even the transcendent celebrities in the entertainment industry were very sorry, believing that Lin Han had ruined such a good opportunity.
This news quickly spread in entertainment gossip news and was directly published by many authoritative media as news headlines. The exposure rate was so high that many people who didn't care much about the news knew that Lin Han continued to explore in unfamiliar fields!
A book writer who has been stealing the limelight from others for a long time is simply a matter of collapse of the agency companies and not allowing their own artists to attract fans. He finally wanted to buy some water army to create momentum, but he just met Lin Han, and he couldn't even cry.
Even if you use the navy, you can’t get rid of Lin Han’s popularity. You feel that the money has been wasted!
"People" magazine is actually a vane of the entertainment industry's status. Gossip magazines around the world are paying attention to it. You should know that every move of Hollywood stars is influential around the world. Now Lin Han is also stepping in with one foot.
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In New York, USA, Scarlett, who works in a trading company in Manhattan, bought a book called "People" at a newsstand at the subway entrance. This is her favorite entertainment magazine. It is more suitable for office workers like her than many random gossip newspapers. At least they will not be looked down on.
But the cover of this issue puzzled her. In the past, every issue was Hollywood's top superstars, such as Brad Pitt, Prince William and Princess Kate, Sandra Brock or the new generation of Taylor Swift, Adele, Justin Bieber and others. Why is this a young yellow-skinned Asian man in front of me?
Scarlett looked at the cover in the elevator and said to himself: "Did I buy a fake magazine?"
In the not-so-crowded elevator, several strangers also looked at the cover of the magazine when they heard this, and no one seemed to recognize the man.
Just as he was about to be late, Scarlett hurried to her desk, threw "People" magazine aside, and got busy first!
At this time, her manager Bruce passed by in a suit, looked at Lin Han on the cover, and said, "Hi, sweetheart, you also like to read Lin's novels. He is simply amazing!"
Scarlett was confused. Because of the relatively loose working environment, she often joked with Bruce, and the relationship between superiors and subordinates was very harmonious. "NO! I don't know this guy at all, and I don't even understand why he appeared in "People" magazine!"
"Wait a minute, then why do you want to buy it?" Bruce is a new Lin Han fan. At this time, he took the initiative to popularize science: "He is the best science fiction writer in China. You should really read his novels. It is very well written. Even our president is reading his novels."
"But I don't like science fiction novels. I'll wait for him to write love novels one day." Scarlett remembered after hearing Bruce's words. It turned out that he knew that this young Asian handsome guy was just putting his book in his husband's study?
Even because I want to read Lin Han's novel, my husband forgot every week's unshakable date day. As soon as I speak, I am talking about the magical inception and other things. Scarlett suddenly realized that no wonder this guy was on the cover. He also contributed his sales. He is indeed the favorite Chinese writer of Americans!
Bruce was a little itchy, and he smiled. He picked up the "People" magazine in front of him and flipped it out, "Since you don't like him, then lend me the magazine first to see how it is? I will return it to you in five minutes."
"Take it, you guys all like his books, are they that good-looking?"
"No doubt, if you read his book seriously, you will also like it. I recommend you to read "Bouquets for Algeron", which is the most suitable science fiction novel for women to read!"
Scarlett wrote down this name carefully and planned to go back and search in his study. Maybe he could find this book.
"People" magazine can rank among the top ten in the United States, which is a very impressive number. In other words, millions of readers have seen the cover of Lin Han and read his interview!
As long as there are a very small number of people who can be attracted, it will be worth it to accept this interview in a foreign country.
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"Haiberian" is on sale and "People" magazine is on the cover. Lin Han firmly attracted attention from all directions and also gave back the shock!
If you will be on the top of the mountain and see the small mountains, it is now the most appropriate portrayal of Lin Han.
Even if the first day of the release is Saturday, there is almost no suspense about the sales champion this week. The pre-sale volume of "Hipberry" is there. In addition, the first day of Saturday is 320,000 copies and 250,000 copies on the weekend, which turns its total sales from zero to 2.15 million copies!
In just two days, the novel whose plot was completely exposed has increased sales due to reputation. The plots in it can be seen, and all of them have been tested by netizens and book reviewers.
Even those who are hesitant have made their choices at this time. They will start serialization in August and end in September, and will be published again at the end of September. There is enough time to filter fans and readers!
Now Lin Han has not deliberately pursued any first-week sales records or first-month sales records. If you really want to break the record, you should set the sales time on October 1st, so that the whole month will be the complete.
Although the sales of 300,000 yuan this day seem to be quite large, considering that there are so many bookstores across the country, on average, each bookstore actually sells not many novels!
Let’s not talk about other bookstores, there are more than 15,000 Xinhua Bookstores across the country. As long as there are Xinhua Bookstores, you can see Lin Han’s science fiction novels, and even the Chinese version of "Haiberian" is sold in overseas branches.
Some overseas Chinese can buy Lin Han’s Chinese novels in Flushing, Brooklyn, San Diego, New Jersey and even London, because the overseas expansion of Xinhua Bookstore is slowly opening up!
The most famous Chinese books overseas are classics, and of course Lin Han is the rest. This is a business card issued by Xinhua Bookstore, which uses Lin Han's novels to attract local Chinese and foreigners.
It is said that it is the cold winter for physical publishing, but Lin Han's sales of each book are slowly increasing. From hundreds of thousands of volumes to over one million, we have to celebrate it. To date, pre-sales are more than one million.
Many best-selling writers are facing a trend of decline in sales. Lin Han has reached the peak of best-selling writers, but his curve is still slowly rising, as if this is not his limit!
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"Damn, I seriously doubt that we are not in the same dimension, why are the overall environment falling, and he alone rises."
Meng Yun, a writer who took the physical publishing route, complained in the writer group that physical publishing has become increasingly difficult these days. If it weren't for the fact that the adaptation rights could be sold, many writers would have been frustrated.
Another writer who wrote official novels, Chen Kai also sighed, "Don't compare with him, otherwise you will be so depressed that you want to die. Official novels are not easy to sell now, so I might as well write chicken soup novels. Look at the recent new book list. In addition to Lin Han's science fiction, chicken soup novels occupy almost half of the market!"
Meng Yun looked at the screenshots thrown by Chen Kai. Of course, the first one was "Haiberian", and the second one was "When your talent still can't support your dream", "What you call stability is just a waste of life", "How to become a very powerful person", "Hey, thirty years old", "Who has never been hurt all over, and who has never been confused and confused".
Half of the best-selling new books are inspirational chicken soup, and the proportion of literary books has been declining. If Lin Han's "Haiberian" and "Resident Evil" saved some face, the literary world would have been lost!
A popular saying on the Internet, "Chicken soup is poor for three generations, and inspiration is ruining a lifetime." However, the popularity of this type of book sales does show that they can meet the needs of some readers, be close to the lives of young people, and grasp the hot spots of society. Even if they cannot strengthen the muscles and bones, they can still enjoy the body and mind.
In the past, writers in the literary world often despised Lin Han to align with sales, but now they have to classify him as their own, which can also ensure that the champion of the best-selling list of new books is literary works!
Fortunately, in e-books, literary works are almost out of the way, and readers of e-books focus more on leisure reading than drinking chicken soup.
By directly comparing the annual sales list, Lin Han's advantages are even more obvious. The best-selling novels in this year for nearly ten months are still dominated by long-term sales books like "Inception", and previous chicken soup articles or IP craze books are missing.
Although many IP books can be sold well with the release of movies, TV series or online dramas, the duration of hot sales is relatively limited. From a long-term perspective, the sales of these short-term best-selling books are still inferior to those of long-term literary books!
Among the top ten works on the annual list, several novels of Lin Han have appeared strongly. Now this book "Haiberian" also has the momentum to hit the rankings. Who made "Pilgrimage", which ranked tenth in the annual list, only had a total sales of 4.1 million.
Now "Haiberian" is more than two million, and there are still three months left, so it should not be difficult to catch up. After all, the reputation of this book is far better than other novels, and it is expected to achieve a decisive victory at the last moment!
New writers can grasp the current hot topics and readers' preferences and create super best-selling works, but traditional writers seem to be a little unacceptable to the market. They cannot grasp the changes in the times and readers' reading habits.
Now is the worst era for literary works, but it is the best era for science fiction literature. The readers' knowledge level has been greatly improved, and their acceptance ability has made a completely different progress from the past few decades!
The older generation of intellectuals, middle-aged and powerful, energetic young people, and even students in the school, are all readers of Lin Han, and the progress of science fiction literature can even be seen with the naked eye.
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After the official sales start, "Haiberian" can finally open a comment on Douban Reading. On the first day of the opening of this entry, the surging fans were squeezed in.
When the Weibo post was serialized, many people wanted to score or write short reviews. Now they can finally realize this small wish.
Many people even copied the book reviews I wrote before and posted them to the long review area of this novel. As a result, some people impersonated and pasted the book reviews written by others to their own names, and did not even write the source of the author clearly, which caused several disputes!
Douban scores reached 9.5 for the first time, with 38,000 people participating in the score, of which 75% were given to five stars, and only 0.1% were given to one star.
Many black men want to give negative reviews, but they are reluctant to spend money, because Douban Reading now allows evaluations based on the actual codes at the end of each book!
Even the electronic version purchased has a world-wide unique code, which cannot be reused after use. It can not only be used to ensure the authenticity of the score, but also to prevent theft.
Only those who have read novels are qualified to evaluate. Whether they give negative reviews or positive reviews, at least they are people who have actually read them. No one will directly give negative reviews if they dislike the title of the book or hate the author. That is a very irresponsible manifestation!
"This is a famous space opera, the most vast and magnificent interstellar epic, full of real and credible stories of characters facing difficult moral choices: the end of the world is coming, and wars are everywhere in the universe. Seven pilgrims who went to the tomb of time on the planet Heberian shared their past stories on the way. The book consists of six different stories, which tell the connection with the shriek behind them, reveal the history that has happened on the earth for seven centuries, and reveal the relationship between the shriek and the future of mankind, and send billions of years of cosmic masterpieces!"
The introduction of this work looks very fascinating. The plot and text after Lin Han's overhaul have reached a higher level, and the connection between each story is closer, so many people plan to wait until they read it again.
They want to know what changes have been made with the modified works and the modified works before, even so, it is amazing enough!
On the author's profile, Lin Han was ashamed of the achievements listed by Douban Reading. What swept the world's science fiction awards, won the Hugo Award, won the Best Script Award for the Venice Film Festival, and the cumulative global sales of over 30 million copies. These made people who have never paid attention to Lin Han stunned. There are such awesome people in China?
What is the concept of 30 million books? I am afraid that there are several Mount Everest as high as it accumulates!
The thinking cat commented: "The individual epic forms an epic of the universe, which is amazing!"
Ju Miyu gave "Haiberian" five stars, "In the flow of time and against the flow of time, it tells all the known and unknown stories that humans can tell. Thanks to Teacher Lin for giving such an incredible novel!"
"The story is amazing, the most important thing is its magnificent and profound language quality and writing style. It has written science fiction novels into literary works. Next time we won't win the science fiction award, and support Teacher Lin to win the literature award!"
"It must be five stars. The story of the priest shocked me to sleep all night, the story of the scholar made me cry, and the story of the consul was a light narrative that contained infinite sacrifice, courage, determination, and the final plot reversal in zero accidents was the finishing touch. It corresponded to the beginning of the book, and successfully connected all six stories together, creating such an immortal work!"
"You are all so awesome. Anyway, I only have a few words to describe after reading it. It's so good-looking, so awesome, so brain-burning!"
"Great science fiction novels, literary classics that will be passed down forever!"
Five-star praises appeared in the entry, and "Haiberian" used its extraordinary charm to attract these readers with picky tastes!
Good reputation is accompanied by good sales. Perhaps the market sluggish caused by the lack of good books in the first month or two, and the accumulated power suddenly exploded when it came to "Haiberian".
It was obviously Monday when the sales of novels fell, but it stubbornly stabilized its sales at 180,000 copies, and on Tuesday it rose to 200,000 copies. In the following days, good news came from major cities across the country, and sales in the second week exceeded 1.51 million copies!
In two weeks, the Chinese version of "Hipberry" actually sold 3.66 million copies, which was actually just 9 days and 7 days of pre-sale!
This achievement is obviously extremely excellent. Even when the book market is at its peak, it is not easy to reach this number, not to mention that the current environment is not good.
Chapter completed!