reborn in america

Entering 1993, Nirvana, led by Carol, continued the development of the new version with more than a dozen newly recruited programmers.Compared with Carol and others, with Adam's strong capital injection, the programmers recruited this time are more professional, basically they all have several years of programming experience, especially in the field of network applications, they can all belong to the category of capable people.

After all, it is not ten years later. In addition to operating software, the Internet also has some distinctive companies, but due to reasons such as size, they are still in an incubating state, so these programmers are not very popular in the market. Compared with other top players in the industry, their treatment is extremely underestimated.

These senior programmers who are worth a lot of money in the future are not too expensive now, but they are cheaper than Adam who wants to make a big splash in this emerging industry.So Adam recruited more than a dozen at one go, each of which is considered a high-paying job in the industry, but it still makes Adam feel that it is worthwhile. Apart from creativity, what the Internet lacks is time. Adam does not mind exchanging his wealth, anyway, In the end, it’s always worth it.

At the same time, because tens of millions of funds have been injected into the company, there are no other expenses other than the initial hiring of personnel and the purchase of equipment sent out. However, it is impossible for these funds to be moldy in the company, so Adam used this part of the funds to rent a car near Silicon Valley. A one-story building of nearly 500 square meters was built.

Of course, with Adam’s current worth, even buying a piece of land is nothing, but it’s not necessary to think about it carefully. When the company goes public, the net worth will rise sharply, and there is no rush to buy again. The low price in Silicon Valley in a short period of time It is not worth spending huge sums of money to cut off your own capital flow before it soars.

In addition, although it has not yet reached the era of the Internet explosion, Silicon Valley is Silicon Valley after all. Companies such as Microsoft and Oracle are gathered there. On the contrary, they are developing extremely well around semiconductor-related industries, and the low prices are not cheap.

In the end, Adam asked Tonares to help hire a good manager named Chris Clark, who is considered to be an extremely experienced manager with excellent abilities. Under the introduction of Tonares, and for Adam and the others The company's development is extremely promising, so Qu Shen joined in to help Carol familiarize himself with the company's operations and help him establish a related network in Silicon Valley, paving the way for future cooperation with other companies and listing.

After finishing all this, half of January has passed, and Adam will return to Los Angeles, where he has been absent for a long time, to work on the work he has been absent for a long time.One of them is the official start of the two serials of "Doomsday Crisis" and "True Blood". Compared with the hot IP "The Witcher" as the main story, plus the richer world view and wizard system, and Adam's review. There are too many omissions, and the road to serialization of the hot-blooded extra-part "Sord's Revenge" can be said to be smooth and couldn't be smoother.

But the so-called people have good fortune and misfortune, no one can guarantee how long a serial novel can capture readers, so it is necessary to share readers' attention and let other content share and share the pressure in this regard, otherwise the "California Times" "The history of the previous avalanche will repeat itself.

While "Doomsday Crisis" focuses on men, "True Blood" focuses on housewives. Both parties have their own emphasis, but they will not deliberately appear exclusive, which can be regarded as a great supplement to the original market.

When Adam returned to LA, the update had already started, or in other words, four chapters were updated. In the first week, three chapters were serialized directly, allowing readers to read three chapters at a time and have a preliminary impression of the novel, so that they can decide to Don't look any further.

Obviously, this approach is still recognized by readers. Because of this reason, the two serialized novels quickly captured the hearts of many readers, and it can be regarded as the initial realization of Adam's vision.

But in fact, as early as years ago, the "California Times" defeated other newspapers to win the sales champion of the newspaper, and the biggest contributor was the extra chapter of "The Witcher". This result once again made the market question whether the novel can boost newspaper sales. It's not a small controversy. After all, as early as the summer after the "Wizard Whirlwind", there was no lack of newspapers following up, but obviously other newspapers did not get much benefit from this road.

Although it also increased some readers more or less, but the increase was not obvious, it was just because they refused to admit defeat so they reluctantly held on, and then the success of "The Witcher Extra Chapter" made the other party grit their teeth and continue to persist, but there is already This time, Adam entered the market with two novels published by the obvious studio, which aroused widespread attention. After all, these two books are not backed by the tens of millions of sales of "The Witcher". Whether they are popular or not depends on the market reaction .

The target groups of the two novels are different, and the writing techniques and final products are naturally different.Among them, "Doomsday Crisis" is aimed at men, or more precisely, young male readers. Therefore, starting from the first paragraph of the novel, it quickly enters the theme without any delay, and immediately renders a horrifying and desperate doomsday atmosphere. Grab the attention of impatient young male readers, and let the protagonist struggle to survive while explaining the ins and outs to the readers. Finally, at the end of the novel Chapter 3, a shocking little story quickly points out the core of the novel - go home .

It can be said that this book is actually a novel tailor-made according to the reader group. It has the compact and wonderful structure that an excellent American drama should have. It needs to be turned over a dozen times, and the reader is finally called to end.

Maybe his connotation is not enough, but after reading the whole chapter of the novel, the horror atmosphere surrounding the protagonist all the time firmly grabs the reader's attention, until the end of each chapter, suddenly there is a back and forth, scaring you Jump, and stop at the end, so you have to scold the author, and then look forward to the follow-up plot.

However, "True Blood" has a different target audience, so the style of the whole novel is far from that of "Doomsday Crisis". Ken relaxes, until the end of a chapter, I will also pull a bit to wake you up and say goodbye.

"True Blood" takes every step at a leisurely pace, like a routine, slowly telling a story that looks a little old-fashioned and covered with a Cinderella skin. In order to make readers feel a sense of substitution, we also Contrary to the descriptions of the protagonist's heart in long paragraphs like other novels, naughty, trivial, and even a bit rambling, but each sentence of these psychological descriptions has been discussed and disputed until it is confirmed that it meets the needs of most women in this situation. Ideas, and then make confirmation after artistic processing.

In addition, the focus of this novel is to use all kinds of gorgeous language to describe the male protagonist all the time, to hold him in a high position, and to describe his various attractive advantages from the front and the side, even to describe his shortcomings. , and must not make female readers feel disgusted, but to make people feel, 'ah, the male protagonist has such a shortcoming, it looks more real and cute'.It can be said that this novel reveals everything from all aspects. This is a novel tailored for female readers.

If there is an author who has the time and interest to read the two books separately, his ambition is undisguised—it is business, it is flattering and compromising to readers, this kind of purpose is clear, kneeling and licking so naked for readers , naked practice, it can be said that countless people in the industry despise it.

Therefore, what is shown is the slightly rough writing style of the novel Doomsday, which focuses on creating the atmosphere.The writing style of the novel True Love is excellent, but the storyline is a bit weak. The advantages and disadvantages of the two books are extremely obvious. If you want to criticize, there are almost everywhere you can aim.

But so what?As long as the market welcomes it.In the routine reader responses, "Doomsday Crisis" won the favor of 90.00% of male readers and 30.00% of female readers, while "True Blood" won more than 80.00% of female readers and less than [-]% of male readers Support is enough to show that they are very accurate in their positioning.

Among them, because "True Blood" attracted the favor of female readers who did not like to read newspapers, the "California Times" had a large number of female fans in the following months, and at the same time, the "California Times" stagnated slightly After a period of sales, there was a clear jump in sales again.

Commercial success, of course, is very likely to be true in terms of word of mouth, especially when Adam is so naked and naked, so countless newspapers and magazines have jumped out to criticize Adam, the scum of the profane novel industry. Criticism, some even used the horror title 'Starfall'.

But Adam is not easy to mess with. The "California Times" is not a nobody now, but a legendary newspaper of the new era that beats the whole of the United States and sets the sales record of North American newspapers every week. Naturally, it began to fight back against others' criticism—— ——"Readers' support is the basis of whether a novel is a classic. Obviously, "Doomsday Crisis" and "True Blood" are novels that are moving towards classics."

This headline on the front page slammed the red-eyed people, listing a large number of figures, such as the number of readers who loved the two novels during the serialization period, and a large number of positive comments from readers. Newspapers that are overly commercial hit in the face.

And those newspapers are not easy to mess with. They directly invited Christen, a tycoon in the fiction critic circle, to publish a review article in the New York Times-"A novel without a soul is not worthy of being called a novel." The act of market compromise.

Of course, the "California Times" also fought back again. The two sides fought in the air, and gained another wave of attention. The sales of the newspaper soared, which can be regarded as an unexpected harvest.

It’s just that after all, two fists are hard to beat four hands. Even though the "California Times" was stubborn and refused to admit defeat, it was still at a disadvantage after several battles, and Adam's reputation was inevitably affected.

Just when everyone thought that Adam would reply in person to regain his reputation, Adam directly announced on the headline of the "California Times" that the new science fiction work "The Colony" would be officially released on February 1993, 2.

The author has something to say: I was writing the plot of the colony today, and I was actually moved by the writing, so, probably, the content should be okay, so please look forward to it.

In addition, if you don't work overtime this week and weekends, you will add a new chapter, and you will be notified when the specific time comes, you know.