reborn in america

In 1992, the summer in California was as hot as usual, but hotter than the summer sun was a novel called "The Witcher", which was published by a small and medium-sized local newspaper in California. On Monday, the first week in July, entered The market, and then set off a monstrous wave.

And how huge and crazy this huge wave is, we can get a glimpse from the newspaper sales of the California Times. It was originally just an obscure local newspaper in California, with a daily sales volume of only a little over [-], even in the first half of this year. There has also been a decline in sales, but since "The Witcher" was published on the first Monday of July, a miracle in the newspaper industry was born, and this miracle will never be the second since the beginning of the Internet era. appear.

In a week, only three chapters of the novel doubled the sales volume of the California Times, created a small miracle, and made countless newspapers dumbfounded, but no one thought, or no one dared to imagine, this is just a miracle beginning.

In the second week, the California Times expanded outwards and cooperated with newspapers in several neighboring states. Sales increased again, from more than 20 copies on Friday of the first week to nearly 50 copies on Friday of the second week. Already adjacent to some of America's best-selling newspapers.

However, this is still not the end of the California Times. In the third week, as the plot became more tense, and the California Times once again united with all newspapers in the western United States, they cooperated temporarily and continued to expand the distribution of the newspaper, covering about half of the United States. The land and population of the country, so it is logical that the sales of newspapers continue to advance.

And on Friday of this week, as the major newspapers began to rush to report on this matter, the influence of "Wizard" and the California Times was expanded, and the sales volume of the California Times newspapers was further increased, and the scope of sales was expanded. , this Friday, the California Times finally defeated its old rival in a historic way. With sales of 110 million, it surpassed the national sales of 95 copies of the LA Times, showing a suppression in total sales.

Since it has never obtained Adam's approval to obtain the content of the follow-up novel, the California Times gave up continuing to cooperate with other states to sell newspapers in the fourth week, which was also the last week of the newspaper's publication of the novel "Wizard".

However, even so, on Friday of the fourth week, the last day of serialization was used as a gimmick, which triggered a large number of readers to purchase frantically, and there was even a strange situation of queuing up to buy newspapers. At the same time, this day also made a historic The birth of the record - the sales volume of the California Times created the highest sales volume of newspapers in the history of the United States, surpassing the super authoritative newspaper "Wall Street Journal", which has been the top sales volume of American newspapers for nearly a century, and closed all newspaper offices with a crazy sales volume of 230 million copies Mouths they criticize, kneel down and sing for their conquest.

As the most authoritative newspaper in the United States, the "Wall Street Times" was founded in 1889. With a circulation of more than 200 million copies, it has become the largest financial newspaper in the United States with a paid circulation. Some people have guessed that maybe this year "USA Today" will surpass "Wall Street Journal" to become the number one newspaper in the United States in terms of circulation.

However, no one could have imagined that a newspaper "California Times", which was only published in California on the west coast of the United States, had a huge counterattack in just one month, and kicked the "Wall Street Journal" from the throne of sales champion ahead of schedule. "USA Today" could only grit its teeth helplessly.

In fact, before this, "USA Today" was a real miracle in the American newspaper industry. Compared with most of the major newspapers founded in the last world, "USA Today" was the second largest newspaper in the past seven or eight years. , young incredible.

It was officially born in 1982. It attracts readers with its colorful layout, concentrated information, multi-purpose charts, emphasis on sports reports, and easy access to the information it needs. In less than two years since its launch, "USA Today" has jumped to the third place in the United States in terms of circulation. In the fourth year, it has already left the old newspaper "New York Times" far behind the "Wall Street Journal" and is ready to launch at any time. shock.

However, just this year, a "California Times" called "California Cyclone" by countless newspapers rose rapidly in a more legendary way and created another sales miracle. A miracle is enough to leave an eternal record in the industry.

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And in the second week after the California Times created this record, Adam finally arrived at their destination - New York. Compared with the cold and restrained arrival last time, after more than half a year of tempering, Adam has become more confident and open-minded. .

Carol drove the car to the four-star Greentown Hotel that Adam had booked a long time ago, and Lydia didn't know how long she had been waiting. When she saw Adam arrive, she rushed over and stood half a meter outside the car. place, smiling and waiting for Adam to get off.

Adam stretched out in the car, and said to Carol beside him, "Carl, we're finally here, get out of the car, Lydia has been waiting for a long time."

"Hmm." Carol responded in a low voice, bent over to help Adam unbuckle his seat belt, opened the car door, and then undid his own seat belt and the car door to get out of the car.

"Lydia, I'm sorry to keep you waiting." Adam looked at Lydia who was waiting outside the door with some embarrassment, as if she came so soon, she must have been waiting in the hall early, and let the waiter keep checking He said that he would notify Carol as soon as he saw Carol's car approaching, otherwise how could he be so timely.

Lydia didn't feel that she had been waiting for a long time, although she had been waiting in the lobby since she got up in the morning, ready to welcome Adam and Carol when they arrived. When he saw Adam get out of the car, he walked up to hug him Touch him, and jokingly said: "Boss, I haven't seen you in a month, you not only lost a lot of weight, but also got a full body tan, almost making me unrecognizable."

The corner of Adam's mouth twitched, tanned?It's all because the sun was too hot, stroking his body non-stop, he had suffered from heatstroke several times, so his skin was involuntarily darkened, becoming the tanning effect that countless white stars want to achieve.

"Have you booked that room? Carol and I will go to rest first, and we will talk about it in detail at dinner tonight." Adam is tired and sleepy at the moment, and the sweat all over his body is sticky and greasy, which is really uncomfortable, and he doesn't want to continue drinking. Lydia was arguing, so she said it directly.

"The presidential suite on the top floor is ready for occupancy at any time." Lydia also put away the smile on her face and said to Adam.

"I'm sorry to bother you, you've been waiting for a long time, and you're going to take a rest later, I just arrived yesterday, and I must have woken up early today, so I'm going to catch up on sleep in the afternoon, anyway, Carol and I definitely didn't get up that early. "Adam nodded and thanked Lydia for her proper arrangement.

"It's okay. I arrived early yesterday. It's rare that I didn't have anything to do. Instead, I was bored and sleepy." Lydia didn't dare to take the credit. This summer, the entire American newspapers and novel circles were messed up by Adam, especially It is the crazy performance of "The Witcher" that has made countless people praise it, and said that if Adam is released this year, he will lock in the top two in the sales record of American novels this year.

And Carol also got out of the car, he threw the key in his hand to the waiting waiter, and took out a tip of one hundred dollars to the waiter, saying: "Please help clean up before parking in the garage, and then send the luggage to For our room, the specific cost will be settled on the accommodation cost.”

With such a large tip, the waiter nodded in satisfaction and took the key in Carol's hand, and said, "Yes, sir, I promise that this car will be as clean as it gets when you need it. A new car is average."

"That's good." Carol nodded, then joined Adam who was waiting at the door, and the three walked into the hotel together.

Because the room had already been booked, it was good to go up directly, follow the waiter of the hotel, let him take the elevator to the presidential suite on the top floor, arrange things, and take a good bath with Carol.

Because they were really exhausted, the two of them took a bath this time very well, without any extravagant actions, they rubbed each other's exhausted bodies for a month, and when they walked out of the bathroom, Adam was a little dizzy, at least by Carol I grabbed it.

"What's wrong? Are you okay?" Carol asked worriedly. If Adam hadn't stopped him, Carol would have picked Adam up and went to the doctor.

"I'm tired, and I'm a little hypoglycemic, just eat." Adam waved his hand, indicating that Carol, who looked worried, was fine.

Because before coming up, Lydia ordered meals according to the taste of the two of them, so after taking a shower, the sumptuous lunch had arrived for a while, and the two of them didn't talk much. They sat aside and picked up their knives and forks to start enjoying up.

I have to say that I was very hungry. Everything was delicious, so I didn’t feel too special, but Adam just thought it was delicious. The steak was tender and juicy, and the dessert was so delicious. Nothing to say.

However, in order not to hurt his stomach too much, Adam stopped the knife and fork in his hand when he had eaten almost [-]% of his food, and lay down on the bed satisfied. Originally, he just wanted to take a lazy rest. I felt like I was falling into a black vortex and just fell asleep.

Carol cleaned up all the food, and originally wanted to turn around and ask Adam if he was full and if he wanted to add more, but when he turned around, Adam fell asleep at some point.

Carol put Adam under the quilt, tried not to disturb him as much as possible, and then fell asleep beside him. Seeing Adam's familiar and charming sleeping face, he also fell asleep in a daze.