Chapter 587 Book the annual championship
In a primary school in Haidian District, Yanjing, when the solemn national anthem resounds on the playground and when the bright five-star red flag rises, the weekly morning meeting begins.
Elementary school students were wearing thick clothes, red scarves tied around their necks, and were arranged in a regular manner according to the class unit under the guidance of teachers.
The wind in March was still a little cold. When the leader spoke on the stage, the students below couldn't help but whispering!
Zhou Chen sucked his nose. He was an ordinary student in the third grade of elementary school. After seeing the head teacher walking towards the front, he turned his head to the friend beside him and said, "Kuikui, do you see that "Charlotte's Net"?"
Han Likui shook his head and asked in a low voice: "What's the matter, is it a new cartoon?"
"No!" A fat guy in the front row of the two couldn't help but turn his head and said, "My father bought me a book, this book is so beautiful!"
"I asked my mother to tell me, but I don't recognize some of the words on it. It would be great if there was a pinyin. It would be too troublesome to translate the dictionary."
Children in the third grade know not many words. Although Lin Han has made great avoidances when he was using words to describe words, he is still somewhat beyond the scope.
Renmin University Press is indeed making a phonetic version of the book. After all, readers of "Charlotte's Net" are mainly children, and they need such a version even more, but they have not yet made it!
A little beauty with a braid frowned and reminded her: "Zhou Chen, don't talk casually, otherwise I'll tell Teacher Gao!"
"Squad leader, have you read this book? I think you have never read it." Han Likui was not afraid of making small reports. His uncle was the leader of the school. Every time he made a mistake, he was just a few simple words.
"Anyway, you must be quiet when the principal speaks."
"A little bit, you are still talking, why do you want us to be quiet?" Zhou Chen made a face.
After returning to the classroom after the flag-raising ceremony, many students in the class surrounded them. They wanted to know what "Charlotte's Net" was talking about, but they were unwilling to fall behind.
The delicate little boy who was so young and wearing glasses took out his chocolate, and handed it to the little fat man and said, "Brother Fat, I'll give you this to eat. Can you tell me this story? I want to hear it too."
A few little guys around the desk also followed suit and took out all the snacks from their schoolbags.
Xiaopang didn't expect that he would receive so many delicious foods. He put them all into his bag, and then said: "This book has only been released not long ago. It tells the story of a spider saving a piglet."
"Oh, spider? I'm most afraid of spiders!"
A little girl with short hair and cute bob head screamed while covering her ears. While she was scared, she couldn't help but want to sound.
Charlotte's website became the hottest topic for students on Monday. Everyone was talking about it. It seemed that they didn't know about this book. People who hadn't read it were aliens and were separated from the masses!
What happened in the school gradually affected the outside world. When the course of the day ended and when these children were out of school, sales in major bookstores across the country soared, making all predictions pale.
According to common sense, during weekdays, all entertainment projects will basically experience a significant decline, and book sales are no exception.
But starting from 3:30 in the afternoon, the on-site book sales speed in the bookstore increased sharply, and a stack of books seemed to be gone in a short while!
The number of online orders placed in the same period is also increasing rapidly. When children take the initiative to say they want to read this book, how can parents refuse?
In fact, the comparison between children is very serious. When a class is talking about this book, it will soon spread to the entire grade. The entire school will not take long before another school will be infected!
Many teachers have never heard of this book and have never seen it, but the students are at the forefront.
Due to the urgent mood of many children, they can't stand buying books online tomorrow or a few days before they arrive, so more parents choose to go to bookstores to buy books.
It would be fine if they were going to buy it alone, but one parent after another took their children to buy the same book. Many parents in the bookstore were curious to see this and wondered if they wanted to buy one for their children!
When night fell, the bookstore cashiers were almost numb, and she could tell the price of the book with her eyes closed.
"Charlotte's Net" sold 510,000 copies nationwide on Monday, almost setting a record that is insurmountable!
It actually sells more on weekdays than on weekends. It is basically around 300,000 copies on weekends, but now it has reached 500,000!
Everyone knows that 500,000 copies a day are by no means the limit of "Charlotte's Network". Its reputation has just begun to ferment, and the topic and popularity have slowly begun. Many people are looking forward to it...
They are looking forward to whether Lin Han can break the long-sanitary record of last century. That record has been at the point where 730,000 copies per day for 40 years!
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"I'll just go, no wonder Lin Han came to write a fairy tale. This sales look too scary!"
"A single day of 500,000 copies, which means that Lin Han earned several million yuan in a day or tens of millions? Who can help me calculate it?"
"Your father is your father after all. Writing fairy tales actually sells better than science fiction. I'm so confused. I hope Teacher Lin will come back and write science fiction, but I feel that I shouldn't give up such a good market as fairy tales!"
"The audience of fairy tales is too big. Although science fiction has developed quite vigorously, it is incomparable."
"I'm going to buy one for my nephew, and it happens to be his birthday on Wednesday!"
"Pre-sale 1.2 million+, 1 million+ in three days on the first weekend, and 500,000+ on Monday, which means that "Charlotte's Network" sold 2.7 million copies in four days??? This is the rhythm of going to heaven!"
"It's too good to be too good to be famous. Lin Han is just an ordinary film director who writes science fiction novels. This data is mostly a system failure."
"Congratulations to Teacher Lin~ Unify the world, the list of cancer!"
"It's just a standard ending, it's so evil."
Netizens were amazed at the face of this data. The good news sent by the official Weibo of Renmin University Press was so true. The popularity of this book has just begun!
Audience is indeed the key. Many people admit that "Charlotte's Net" is a masterpiece, but it is by no means the best fairy tale. However, because the audience of fairy tales is too large, and it will be sold for millions of dollars at random. Tens of millions are not a dream, and the possibility is extraordinary.
Lin Han’s many science fiction novels can definitely be called the best science fiction novels in the industry, but the audience is relatively low. No matter how fierce the explosion is, it will be weak after it has been published in five or six million copies!
Writers, editors of publishers, and people in the book-related industry are all impressed by the sales ability of this book. They have questioned and worried before, but by this time they have all disappeared.
"Charlotte's Net" is of excellent quality, and it stands out easily in fairy tales, successfully leading the children to experience the stories of friendship, life and love!
Even Professor Yan Feng from Fudan University gave a comment, "This is definitely the most suitable world classic fairy tale for adults to see. There is no doubt that it will become a classic!"
Li Kaitao, a famous children's literature master, also gave a very high evaluation. He said: "Charlotte's Website" tells about friendship, intimacy and protection, adventure and miracles, life and death, trust and betrayal, joy and pain, and the passage of time. This book is quite perfect, just like the story itself!"
Lin Han’s good friend Li Wenyuan’s words on Weibo were praised by more than 100,000 people. He wrote: “Charlotte’s Web is a simple and simple fairy tale. It does not have the faint melancholy and helplessness in Andersen’s fairy tale, nor the gorgeous legends in Grimm’s fairy tale, nor the magical magic of Harry Pottery. There is only a piglet with innate shortcomings and a spider without a sense of ancestry. The background of the story is not in the beautiful forest, but in the unpopular farm pigpen. My daughter and I both like this gift very much!”
When the book was just finished printing, Lin Han sent a book to Li Wenyuan's daughter. The girl happened to be studying and looked quite good now.
One book critic and writer after another gave high praise, and read a rare article in the world. This article analyzed "Charlotte's Net" in detail, and the author even concluded that this fairy tale was five stars!
Originally, it was just children buying books, but after seeing the praises from all walks of life, many netizens couldn't help but try the drugs on their own to see if this story is really suitable for adults to read.
However, this time I was completely fascinated!
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"Charlotte's Net" became completely popular, and its popular scenes even appeared in various news media. Many children gave their most real feelings when they were interviewed.
After a week, its cumulative sales reached 4.8 million copies, far away from Lin Han’s many books before!
It is also the fastest book to sell over 5 million copies in thirty years, and it only took 11 days.
This is still a relatively important record. There are too many other records that "Charlotte's Net" broke. Not to mention that Lin Han was not interested in understanding it, even Renmin University Press was basically numb.
Throughout March, the national book market was shrouded in the shadow of spider webs. Charlotte and Wilber joined forces to dominate the book market, making Lin Han's name record on the monthly list again!
This is not only Lin Han's highest-selling work in a single month, but also basically locked in this year's annual sales champion. Even Lin Han was not sure to write another such a monster work.
The right time, place and people are harmonious, and all factors are gathered together, which is irreplicable!
Generally speaking, this type of fairy tale is not too much review on Douban Reading. After all, few of the users who use Douban are elementary school students.
Even so, it still accumulated more than 20,000 reviews in a short period of time, and accumulated scores to 8.8 points. You should know that the complete collection of Grimm's fairy tales only has less than 30,000 reviews, but the little prince won 220,000 reviews!
User Ziwendong gave five stars, and his evaluation was very simple, "While giving love is giving meaning to life."
Another user, Xiaomi Rabbit, also gave five stars. She wrote: "I originally bought it for the child, but I read it first. This is a very touching story. The little spider Charlotte appeared when Wilbur was the loneliest, which seemed to indicate that it was a little angel sent by God. It used its own web to weave Wilbur's extraordinary life. Both adults and children love this book very much."
"A book worth recommending, I finished it in two days after I bought it. My son was seven years old and always liked me to read it for him. Originally, he liked picture books the most and was not very interested in multi-text books without illustrations. Charlotte's website made him fall in love with multi-text books, and he asked me to read it for him again. Haha, five copies must be made. I am very satisfied. I recommend it to parents!"
"I have been reading the contents of the section for a week every night. My daughter understands the relationship between Fen, Charlotte and Wilbur, and she also likes all kinds of small animals on the farm. She even yells to buy a Dutch pig that will never grow up. Such a best-selling work does have its own merits."
"I like it very much. I don't have the hypocritical highness in ideological education. Lin Han just lets us see sincere friendship and family affection from basic human nature. I have to read it several times every day. My son used to like to tear books, but now he is very serious about flipping books by himself. It's a very good baby reading material. It would be better if there is a phonetic version!"
"The silent words in Charlotte's Net are very inspiring and inspire us to see the true meaning of friendship from all angles, and use convincing views to let children know that they are not alone."
Many comments are made by parents, and even the whole family likes this book very much.
Lin Han was also very satisfied with the fact that this fairy tale can achieve such excellent sales results. There will be many versions such as English, Chinese and English bilingual versions, drawing versions, and phonetic versions to be sold one after another!
But none of this was the focus of Lin Han's attention. He seemed to disappear from people's sight. He did not come out to participate in any publicity activities during the entire new book promotion period.
New book launch conference? Sales signing conference? TV programs? Interview programs? Magazine interviews?
None!
Lin Han is so willful because he is desperately rushing to make the post-production framework of "The Matrix 3", and then takes a week to travel and rest.
The current progress of the film production is quite gratifying. 70% has been completed. After Lin Han returns from travel, the remaining 30% will be completed in May and June!
In other words, in the second half of the year, Lin Han can do all kinds of new projects he wants and finally liberated from the Matrix!
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The fairy tale branch officially ends and returns to the topic!
Chapter completed!