What should I do if the system forces me to copy books?

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Although "The Lord of the Rings" has not yet been officially published, it is almost certain that the number of pre-sales alone on the first day of its release is enough to make it the champion of the New York Times bestseller list!

In terms of data: its number of pre-sales has surpassed the sales volume of "The Witcher Paladin", which is currently No. 1 on the New York Times best-selling list, this week.

In the US music market this year, the black rap ghost reggae has continuously won the top spot on the Billboard Hot Singles chart, while on the New York Times bestseller list, various newcomers have alternately won the top spot, so netizens are curious, After reaching the top of the New York Times bestseller list, will Li Chungang be able to break the record of the longest week set by the other party?

It stands to reason that the speed of publishing songs is much faster than publishing books.

Similarly, the replacement speed of books is much slower than that of songs.

There are more than ten songs in a chapter album, but there is only one book in a book, and it is impossible to pick out each chapter separately.

It can only be said that each has its own strengths and weaknesses.

These are two completely different fields, which obviously cannot be confused, but there are always people who are bored waiting to watch the excitement.

Random House is a true giant of global commercial publishing, while Amazon, the largest shopping platform in the United States, bears half of the online pre-orders.

Various chain bookstores have also opened pre-sale channels in their physical stores and official websites, and even the supermarket chain Wal-Mart is doing pre-orders.

The sales distinction of Wal-Mart does not seem to be high-end, but it is really aimed at ordinary people.

The sales in the audio-visual section and the book section have always been very good, and sometimes it even affects the results of the list!

The books that can be sold in Wal-Mart are the kind of down-to-earth books, not too professional, nor the type that is cold and difficult to understand.

Among the works translated into English by Li Chungang, only "Medical Skills" was not included, because this work about medical staff in the far east can only be read by professionals, and it is enough to put it in the library.

His book The Lord of the Rings was truly recommended by Random House, and almost all publicity resources and channel resources were used on it.

Even if Random House has no copyright at all, they still enthusiastically help Li Chungang to push it into Hollywood, just to see which company is willing to buy the copyright.

This is of course not because they are naturally warm-hearted, but because the distribution agreement signed by Li Chungang stipulates a full 10 years of publishing and sales rights.

Once the work is adapted into film and television, the book sales will be strongly affected, and thus climb to the peak!

This is by no means a lie.

In the comprehensive report on the book market released by the American Publishing Association, adult fictional works have declined compared with the same period last year. Among them, 1.2 million copies of classics were sold, a year-on-year decrease of 11%; sales of religious books were only 6500 million, a year-on-year increase. 50 million volumes of fantasy, a slight increase of 1.04%; 8 million volumes of science fiction, a year-on-year decrease of 1.15%.

In addition, Adventure, Western, Picture Book, Romance, and Popular are all on the decline!

But only one category is rising against the trend, and that is suspenseful reasoning.

This type of work sold 1.5 million copies in the first four months, second only to popular in terms of total sales, and even higher than romance!

Americans really like to read works with suspense and horror styles. Several kings of book sales were born from this genre, such as Stephen King and James Patterson.

In the past few months, none of the big kings released new works, so the sales should have declined.

But the number of works in this category is increasing instead of decreasing!

In the final analysis, because the appearance of Keppel Ron replaced the vacancies of these heavenly kings, five mystery novels were published in three years, and the suspense reasoning classification that had begun to highlight the decline was suddenly turned around and rose against the trend.

If it was previous years, Keppel Ron might continue his outstanding performance, but this year, a Cheng Yaojin-Li Chungang suddenly came out.

Chapter 570 Confucianism and elegance

The literary publishing market is very broad. There are those who only love suspense and mystery novels, some who love imaginative fantasy novels, and some who like both at the same time.

Now "The Lord of the Rings" is coming fiercely, and the pre-sales continue to rise. The staff of the forecasting agency said that they have never been so busy since they entered 2022. Regarding the increase in the forecast number of this work again and again, it can be said that It creates a lot of exposure for them.

For these forecasting agencies, in the past, they usually only made two forecasts for an upcoming book, before the publicity and after the publicity, or after the release and before the listing, but now they send out new forecasts almost every day information!

It can be said that Li Chungang made the publishing market in the other side of the United States jump like a dog across the entire Pacific Ocean.

Local culture and local protection feelings will exist no matter where you go, not to mention that China and the United States are two different places, even in different provinces and different urban areas in China.The simplest example is: if neighboring cities A and B can grow high-quality potatoes, then when city B wants to sell its potatoes to city A, it is likely to be discouraged because of local protection. Being excluded is also a kind of human nature.

But far away in the United States, many people can't understand Li Chungang's behavior of cross-border grabbing territory. They once regarded these sales as their own, but now they have been completely taken over by a foreign writer. All of them are incomparable. Outraged!

If it is the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and other regions or countries, it is okay, at least everyone can barely be regarded as in the "English" camp, and the relationship between each other can be said to be more or less invisible. So a few words to talk about.

However, Li Chungang is a native of China, and he speaks Chinese that sounds as if foreigners are listening to aliens. His works have always been considered by European and American authors to be the best fantasy works of "private land". It's not just that the foreign guests broke into the owner's house directly, but also went up to the owner's face and slapped several times, how annoying it is.

What's more, this guy has never been in the literary world of the United States, and he doesn't have any familiar friends there, let alone allies who have made a name for himself in the United States.

Fortunately, it is backed by Penguin Random House, the world's number one commercial publisher. With the existence of this behemoth, most of the local authors are in a state of daring to speak out. I can't help but want to criticize the opinions expressed on Te and Facebook.

Everyone is brewing, just waiting for the day when "The Lord of the Rings" is officially released, and waiting for the content of his new book "The Lord of the Rings"!

If there is something in the content of "Lord of the Rings" that is very unacceptable or contradictory in American culture, then these American writers can naturally take advantage of this and take advantage of it. A trivial matter can be exaggerated ten times and a hundred times. , and the already serious mistakes can be clung to this point, but it is impossible to engage in racism blatantly, but what they need is nothing more than a small "justification", one that is enough to arouse the xenophobic attitude of the American people The reason, that's all.

Foreign media always like to claim that the United States is the most inclusive and freest country in the world, but in fact, this inclusiveness is only relative, and in fact, their xenophobia still cannot be concealed in their bones.

If the people in the United States can repel Li Chungang, then it is obviously impossible for the follow-up works to have any sales miracles.

Even the pre-sale results, which can now be called history-making in the history of foreign literature, will probably attract unsubscribe orders like snowflakes.

The idea is full, but the reality is skinny.

The ideas of this group of people are quite good, but they have never understood the specific content of "The Lord of the Rings", let alone realize that Random House, as the world's number one commercial publisher, is essentially a real capitalist. Do you believe that a capitalist does something with such a strong purpose not for the benefit of Chiguoguo but for charity?Anyway, I don't believe it!

In this case, why did Random House spend so much manpower, material resources and all its resources on the book "The Lord of the Rings" on the premise of having Keppel Ron's new work "The Lost City in Time and Space"? , the answer to this question is actually not difficult to think about, it just depends on whether you are willing to calm down and think carefully.

Obviously, American native writers who have been completely blinded by the psychology of "xenophobia and hatred" can no longer think about this issue calmly.

The book is about to go on sale, not to mention that many people in Random House have already read the contents of "The Lord of the Rings". Even the printing houses responsible for printing all over the world have already received the freshly released books , Wanting to see the latest and most complete content is just a matter of reaching out, as long as you are willing to search and ask, there will always be gains.

Let's see if anyone does it.

["Lord of the Rings" has sold more than 6 million copies worldwide! 】

[Li Chungang's new fantasy work "The Lord of the Rings" has not yet been released. According to data from authoritative statistics agencies, this work is pre-booked to be the champion of this year's best-selling works list in advance only for the number of pre-sales! 】

[The sales volume of "Lord of the Rings" is expected to break the global sales record and set an unprecedented ceiling! 】

[The fantasy masterpiece "Lord of the Rings" is coming, are your wallets ready? 】

[Some media said that the five major film and television giants from Hollywood are all paying close attention to "Lord of the Rings". 】

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Li Chungang, who has nothing to do and is light, has been staying at home for the past few days and living his little life happily, especially when he was sleeping last night, he suddenly found out on Douyin that the country encourages childbearing and now there are still 2 A reward of ten thousand yuan.

It doesn't matter whether it's money or not. What's important is that after reading it, he somehow has the idea of ​​wanting a child.

You may not believe it when you say it, but he even thought about the name of the future child before he completely entered the dream last night:

If the baby is a boy, it is called Wenru!

If the baby is a girl, it is called Wenya!

Then think about it...

He found that he suddenly remembered that he was only 22 years old this year, and he hadn't even reached the legal age of marriage, let alone the matter of having a child. It's not a good reputation if it gets out.

"It seems that it's still a problem to be idle. If you are busy, you won't think about these things."

Chapter 571

Even the air is filled with a hot breath in June.

Liu Cheng wandered aimlessly on the sparsely populated streets alone. With such a normal temperature, if he went out to visit a large shopping mall with air-conditioning always on or in a certain store, there were very few people who really walked on the street. And his girlfriend was doing nail art with her best friend, anyway, he couldn't figure out what's so good about making his nails look fancy.

Besides, this is not only impractical, but also affects daily life.

Tell me, if you want to poke your nostrils, insert your butt, etc., you won't be afraid that the pointed and long manicure will be directly poked in it if you don't pay attention?

This can't continue to think deeply, it will be interesting to think about it this way.

His mind is full of coquettish thoughts, but as a boyfriend with a brain, he will never say a word in front of his girlfriend, and he will only praise him vigorously, and he can say whatever he likes.

To be honest, it is not easy to have a girlfriend who is decent outside and virtuous inside these days, no matter what Liu Cheng wants to go back to the life of a single dog!

What this person is most afraid of is wandering around aimlessly. Walking around makes him feel tired, hot and irritable.

Fortunately, he found a shopping mall not far away. From a distance, there are quite a lot of people inside. It seems that no matter how hot the temperature is, it can't stop people from going out on weekends to relax and relax. The premise is There is air conditioning in the place where you go shopping.

Liu Cheng's original intention was nothing more than to find a place or something to kill the next few hours. You must know that it usually takes one or two hours for a person to do a manicure, and the girlfriend and her girlfriends have a total of [-] hours. The three of them would have to grow up for at least a few hours, plus their sisters talked about some women's topics. Not only could I be a big man, but it would be awkward to stay there. It's better to go out and find a place by yourself or find a way to kill this time.

It's a pity that I didn't find any decent Internet cafes nearby, otherwise I could go in and play for a few hours.

"Hey hey~ can the brothers in the back stop squeezing me?"

"Why don't you make a move for a long time, don't wait until you can't buy it at the end?"

"Brothers and sisters, can you buy less? Are you a scalper purchasing agent? How many pairs of eyes can you read if you buy seventeen or eight copies by yourself?"

"Is it okay for labor and management to buy it back and give it to a friend? If you are not convinced, come and buy it earlier!"

"My Nima..."

"..."

Just getting a little closer, Liu Cheng could already hear the voices of whispering and arguing and discussing from the direction of the bookstore not far away, and after looking more carefully from a distance, he was shocked to find that there was a "long queue" lined up at the door of the bookstore. Is it a little too exaggerated?With his eyesight, he couldn't see the end far away at a glance, and he almost didn't even line up around the entire shopping mall.

In fact, if he runs to the end of the line to line up now, he will find that it is not too far from forming a circle around the mall!

According to his original idea, he just planned to go to the bookstore and choose a book he was interested in at random, and then find a milk tea shop with a good location to sit and read a book.

The beauties of this season have begun to boldly show their proud figures.

Everyone has a love of beauty, Liu Cheng said that he absolutely appreciates it with a pure attitude of appreciating artworks, and absolutely does not have any unreasonable thoughts.

In such a large-scale comprehensive shopping mall with a superior geographical location and a vast area, even a store the size of a tofu pavilion in it costs a lot of money, and the area and scale of this "Shiguang Bookstore" are not considered large. , all of the main business are books for young people, as for those teaching supplementary materials and professional books, there is not a single one!

Just this long queue, looking at it from a distance, gives people a feeling of daunting.

Liucheng was no exception, so when he crossed the long queue and arrived at the door of Shiguang Bookstore, he happened to see several clerks in bookstore overalls putting up posters on the display racks, and on the posters was clearly written: "To Chun Zhi Gang's latest fantasy masterpiece "Lord of the Rings" is released globally simultaneously, showing you the customs and customs of Middle-earth!"

Seeing the content on this poster, he suddenly remembered that today is actually the release date of "The Lord of the Rings". Strictly speaking, he is not a fan of Li Chungang, but it is more appropriate to say that he is a reader, because Li Chungang wrote Among so many works, he only chooses his favorite ones to read, such as "Fighting Knife in the Snow".

Liu Cheng thinks that the book "Knives in the Snow" is the most representative literary work with the four characters of "Jianghu Chivalry" after he read "Liang Gujin" martial arts novels when he was young, but just read the whole text. There are some contents that make him feel a little bit uneasy, so that he has not read even a chapter of the follow-up "Sword Come" until now, but he collected it on the first day of publishing the book.

Some embarrassment will not disappear slowly with the passage of time, on the contrary, it will be deeply planted in your heart, and gradually take root and sprout to affect a person!

Although Xuezhong didn't pay much attention to Zhichun and Zhigang after that, as long as the family is not disconnected from the Internet, there is no one who doesn't know the book "Lord of the Rings". Hot searches are simply overwhelming, you can’t figure it out, some well-known news media reports are fair, and some small media that are purely for rubbing the topic are like offline shows, and they are brainless when they come up "Licking" Li Chungang, boasting to death when he seized the opportunity.

What domestic literary No.1!

What is the role model of the younger generation in the new era to become famous overseas and win glory for the country!

What breaks world book sales records, sets such-and-such world records, etc...

Anyway, exaggeration doesn’t cost money, but as long as the report catches the heat, the traffic will go crazy like crazy every day, and it’s all against these small self-media who have tried their best to increase the popularity in the past year. It works.

"I didn't expect that "Lord of the Rings" will be released when I go out today. It's not fate. If that's the case, I'll just buy a copy and see!"

Liu Cheng's knowledge of the book "The Lord of the Rings" comes from the Internet, and the curiosity of the public is somewhat aroused, but the curiosity is not so strong that it is necessary to buy the book as soon as possible on the first day of its release. To a certain extent, and did not participate in the pre-sale, if I insist, it is the Buddha's fate.

Passers-by like him are more cautious when buying books, and don't want to waste time and money on a piece of rubbish, so most of the time, they only choose whether to read after reading other people's evaluations. Buy.

This time, it's all because the author of this book is called Zhichun Zhigang, otherwise Liucheng would never waste this time queuing up, let alone pay this money!

Chapter 572 Feeling Good About Yourself

In spring, the flowers will bloom and the birds will be free. I am still waiting, waiting for the "long dragon" that has no end in sight.

Liu Cheng found that his initial thoughts were still short, and the road was short, because judging by the current speed of moving in the queue, it would probably be an hour or two later when it was his turn to buy "Lord of the Rings". This is not a waste of time.

From a distance, he occasionally saw someone jumping over the queue and entering the Shiguang Bookstore, and walked out in less than 5 minutes. Definitely The Lord of the Rings.This kind of phenomenon made him suddenly unable to stop thinking about divergent thoughts... Is there some ulterior PY transaction in it, or how can these people buy books without queuing up, I'm afraid there is something missing in it Get light tricky.

With many years of experience in shopping malls, both experience and intuition tell Liucheng that there should be a "special" sales channel inside Shiguang Bookstore, and the price may be higher than normal purchases, but it is undeniable that the busy Consumers save a lot of time.

"Is it equivalent to spending money to buy time? This is still reasonable."

This is the consumption concept of some modern people. They no longer stick to a small amount of price issues like the older generation, but instead pay more attention to the key of "cost-effectiveness". In Liucheng's view, the basic price of a book is placed on the table. There, no matter how frantic the Shiguang Bookstore wants to make money, it will not charge too abnormal prices. In this case, it is still lined up in a queue, straight from the original position. Go back to the door of the bookstore.

Little did he know that his behavior of queuing for a long time and then suddenly giving up was in the eyes of people around him...

Like an idiot [beep——]!

"Hi, may I ask where is the "Lord of the Rings" I want to buy? I'm in a hurry, can I trouble you to get me a copy?" Liu Cheng found a person next to the cashier. For the shopping guides who happen to be free, as for the cash register, it is better not to join in the fun. The two cashiers are as busy as the assembly line and never stop. One is responsible for scanning the product code of "Dragon Race" and entering it into the computer, and the other is Responsible for packing bags for customers, the division of labor and cooperation is just right, it doesn't look like there is a special channel, but this person standing next to the pile of books in the whole store who is the most idle in the store seems to be doing something.

"Sorry, sir." The female shopping guide first bowed slightly, and then explained very conscientiously: "If you want to buy the book "The Lord of the Rings", you need to queue up to buy it. Because our bookstore is not large, The number of first-print books you got is limited, so here I suggest you hurry up and queue up. Of course, if you don’t want to queue, sir, you can also order the second batch of books from our bookstore. We will contact you by phone when the goods arrive. of."