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"The other thing is about the novel "The Witcher". Without an exclusive interview or announcing the author, the sales volume of the California Times on Friday more than doubled that of Monday, jumping from a little over 23 copies to [-] on Friday copies, making the sales of the California Times equal to that of the LA Times in the California area." Lydia continued to report on the development of things after Adam's irresponsible and Carol went on a road trip.

"That's right, it's much better than I expected." Adam nodded, very satisfied with the result, it's not in vain that he spent so much effort and money on repeated grinding, and only then did he develop the excellent quality of this novel .

"After your interview with Boss came out on Monday, the California Times sold out all 35 sales for the whole day, and it caused a sensation. Many media outlets reported on your new book Boss. After I received your call At that time, I was reading the report about boss you in LA Times." Lydia said happily, as Adam's secretary, her boss was sought after, which naturally made her feel honored.

"Read it and listen to it. I'm very interested in how the La Times commented on this matter." The corners of Adam's mouth curled up slightly, and he said very proudly. You must know that Adam also thought about putting the novel on the La Times, but it turned out He just tried it out, but he was flatly rejected by the other party. However, thinking about the status of the other party and the positioning of the newspaper, Adam could only lower his expectations. After some selection, he chose the California Times, and the facts also verified his original intention. The decision is still correct.

"Single state sales of 35! Made by a super best-selling author!" Lydia turned to the front page of the newspaper, and then read it to Adam word by word.

"Ha, why do I smell a strong smell of jealousy?" Adam raised his eyebrows and said maliciously, but this is normal, after all, as a local newspaper in California, the LA Times used to be crushing on the California Times, and the result was short In just one week, the wind turned sharply, and he was instantly thrown behind by the little partner he once looked down upon. He could only use the national sales to cover up the embarrassing situation that his sales in California were far lower than that of the other party.

"That's what it means, boss. I think the editor who talked to us at the beginning regretted it." Lydia didn't object to Adam's words, but nodded.

"How do you say it?" Adam was just teasing, but Lydia didn't expect Lydia to respond in one gulp, indicating that they had made some moves.

Lydia smiled and put away the newspaper, put it on the other side of the table, then drank the coffee in the cup and said: "The editor contacted me as early as Monday, saying that he also wanted to do a more in-depth interview. Willing to accept any request from us, just hope that we can give up cooperation with the California Times and cooperate with them instead. But I don’t know boss, you will never violate the contract and change to other newspapers, and boss, you said before that you don’t want to accept Any additional interviews, so I declined for you."

"Hmm. Although it's great to be on the LA Times, it's really too much trouble, so let's push it." Adam didn't blame Lydia for making her own claims, because he had specifically said before leaving that no matter what program or newspaper interview Don't agree, or say that as long as you don't personally tell him what interview you want to participate in, then don't help him accept any interview.

Although the California Times was reluctant to cooperate with them at the beginning, they accepted it anyway. Regarding this point, Adam still has to accept a favor anyway, so Adam would not have to change his position if he did not have to change his position. It is possible to do the unethical behavior of violating the contract and investing in another house.

"Also, William Smith, the editor-in-chief of the California Times, called more than once, wanting us to hand over the follow-up chapters to them, and let them continue to serialize the follow-up content after the original chapters are serialized. He said that if it is possible If so, their newspaper office is willing to pay a million dollars." After talking about the sales volume, Lydia talked about another matter, and she called Lydia almost every day about William Smith's persevering Asked, at first Lydia still had the idea of ​​revenge and watching a good show, but in the end she was really annoyed by him.

"Wow! The California Times is so generous. It seems that their advertising business has developed very well recently." Adam was a little surprised. Knowing that the California Times' annual profit is only 200 million, they have such courage and are willing to take Paying 100 million U.S. dollars as a remuneration for the serialization is simply rich and powerful.

But think about it, because of Adam's novel, the sales volume of their newspaper has turned upside down, as long as it can be maintained, then it is possible to develop into a top-notch newspaper, and spend all the money earned this year in time. So what, for their newspaper, it is still profitable, or in other words, it has almost doubled.

"Yes, as far as I know, they have more than 20 subscribers. In addition, they renegotiated the contract with the newspaper's advertisers at the weekend of last week and increased the advertising fee by 50.00%. However, the advertisers did not express dissatisfaction I even heard that some well-known companies want to enter it. After all, the California Times already has the most subscribers in California. In addition, they have also established relationships with several neighboring states such as Nevada, Arizona, and Texas. With the connection, it seems that they want to break out from California and develop the California Times into a national newspaper." Lydia flipped through the recent news about the California Times in her mind, and told Adam one by one.

Adam's eyes widened slightly. He didn't expect the California Times to be so ambitious. You must know that they continue to rely on Adam's novel, but it only takes a month to complete the serialization. What will they do then?This is not the first time the California Times has broken through, but several previous failures almost bankrupted it, and finally had to narrow its scope, only circled around California, and stabilized its position.

What should they do when the novel craze subsides?Is it possible that they can continue to support this enthusiasm if they just change someone to write a novel?Do they think there are so many protagonists in this world?

Because the publishing of novels in the United States is too developed, the serialization of novels is always something for low-end players. Basically, only some tabloids with vulgar writing will continue to serialize novels, but even so, most of them are short stories. There are not many serializations of novels with millions of words.

But there are not many, not none, just like the bj single diary that many people are familiar with, the author opened a column in the newspaper for serialization, and finally became a big success. score.

Of course, that was in the UK. In fact, it will take a few years for the serial novels to be successful in the United States. After the prosperity and development of the Internet, after successful serialization in forums, blogs, personal websites, etc., they will move to entities, and finally turn to TV movies can be described as everywhere.

The typical example here is the well-known pornographic novel "Fifty Shades of Grey". , was a big success, the sales volume was so exaggerated that countless people's jaws dropped, and then it was successfully adapted into a movie and made a lot of money. Compared to as long as there are enough people who like it, she will shoot red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue and purple.

In addition, the same is true of Ma Da’s classic movie "The Martian". It took a full three years to complete the serialization on the Internet, and then the sales adaptations were also obtained one by one. It can be described as an extremely successful case.

Not to mention, after the 21st century, after the translation of Chinese online novels spread to Europe and the United States, it has gained millions of readers, and these readers have slowly grown through word of mouth.

You must know that a large part of these novels are fairy tales. For Europeans and Americans, how many of them can understand such things as Jindan and Bigu?Even if it is fantasy and fantasy, it must be crowned with a Chinese-style fantasy or fantasy novel.Among them, the dyslexia caused by the cultural differences between China and the United States is definitely not just talk.

Not to mention that the translators of these novels are all kinds of amateur translators. You can imagine how confusing the translated content is to European and American readers.Or imagine it yourself, let us read an English novel translated by amateur translators, how many people can like it?Even those well-known and well-known novels will be ruined and can't stand it, especially for obsessive-compulsive disorder patients, that is absolutely unbearable.But even so, there are still more and more European and American readers who like Chinese online novels, and they are not inferior to domestic readers in terms of following up.

Therefore, for European and American readers, it's not that they don't like this kind of novels, but because their preferences are ignored by those self-righteous publishing houses. They speculate based on their preferences, and in the end it is naturally the opposite.

This kind of embarrassing situation is not uncommon in Europe and the United States. The popular "Twilight Saga" was submitted to nine companies for the first time, and only one company reluctantly accepted it, but they were not optimistic about it. For nearly ten years, "The Twilight Saga" has become a cultural phenomenon that cannot be ignored in the European and American world. Until 2017, various vampire-themed film and television dramas are still common, and the ratings are not bad.

So it’s not that serialized novels are unpopular in the United States, but that the United States has never had the soil to cultivate them. In addition, there are always a small number of successful novels, so that this aspect has not been developed, which is a pity.

And Adam carried the fantasy novel "The Witcher" with absolutely satisfactory quality, landed brazenly, grabbed everyone's attention, and let them know that novels can be written in this way, and fantasy novels can have such a development, rather than simply framed in There is no escape from the low-magic world of The Lord of the Rings.

Of course, Adam does not deny that "The Lord of the Rings" is excellent and classic, but because it is too classic, it is regarded as the standard by all fantasy writers, and countless people follow the "Lord of the Rings" about magic, battle and alien races. The setting, and finally set a story designed by myself.

In addition, it is a variation based on knight novels since the Middle Ages, as well as orthodox swords and magic like the classic fantasy novel "Wheel of Time", but after all, there is not much breakthrough in the background, and people don't know why. The other party's thinking is still limited by traditional publishing houses.

After all, there are countless classic science fiction novels in Europe and the United States, among which there are many types with grand backgrounds, and whimsical ideas abound, which makes people sigh and admire them.