Chapter 333： The best-selling book

Also in August, in California, the United States, two novels began to slowly become popular.

Now in California, without the outbreak of Silicon Valley, naturally it has not reached the sixth place in the future world GDP-this is the sixth after the United States, China, Japan, etc., a separate list The provinces of China can all be sixth.

However, California has always been a good place to live.

Here is sunny, with a long coastline, and a variety of natural scenery. Canada is above and Mexico is below. It can be said to span the entire North America.

To discuss the comfort of life alone, California has exploded to New York ten times, so it is no wonder that many Chinese female stars have come here to have children.

Americans are one of the most popular people who like to read books. Although they are not as perverted as Israel, they are in the top ten of all countries, and there is no problem at all.

In addition, the United States has a population of more than 300 million, which is a country with a large population. Naturally, it can also support a large number of book publications.

California, where the environment is suitable, is in the summer. Many people like to go to the beach to relax in the sun. They can also spend a afternoon reading a book or two while leisurely watching.

As it happens, after many people's word of mouth, two recent books published by a small publishing house have caused countless white-collar workers to like it.

The first book is called "Jurassic Park".

At first glance, this cover is a book of huge and fierce dinosaurs. I thought it was a book about those extinct dinosaurs. But when I picked it up, I realized that it was an adventure book about life.

There is not only a wonderful storyline, but also a variety of knowledge, including physics, nature, genes, machinery, mechanics ... etc., All mixed in this book, but it seems not stiff at all. The meaning of it is very interesting.

It's just that looking at such a wonderful and nervous novel, it's easy to fall into that atmosphere, and make people want to read it. Never stop, I want to finish it in one breath.

This has happened more than once in a bookstore before. Many readers picked up Jurassic Park and could n’t put it down until they were hungry or even reminded when the bookstore was closed, they did n’t find the time. It's been so long.

As a result, "Jurassic Park" also had a strong reputation, and a week after it was printed on July 10, it was on the Wall Street Journal's bestseller list.

It's no surprise that the 3,000 copies of the Wall Street Journal's bestseller list can be on the list.

But what is surprising is that once on the bestseller list, "Jurassic Park" began to rise in a straight line and began its own list journey.

Just two weeks later, "Jurassic Park" ranked 28th in the "Wall Street Journal" monthly best-selling list, and therefore directly on the world's most famous and authoritative best-selling list- "New York Times" bestseller list.

The "New York Times" bestseller list requires sales of 11,000 copies to reach the top.

There are not many evil middlemen who brush the list, so the "New York Times" list is very trustworthy.

Well, you are not mistaken. In the United States, there are also middlemen who brush the rankings. As long as you give money, they are responsible for buying books across the country, and then increase the sales of your books, so that you appear on the list. .

It's just that such large-scale brushing of the leaderboards will only appear on a large scale after the development of the Internet era and the part-time workers under them are easy to contact and organize.

Now no matter how they cheat, under the discrimination of the "New York Times" full-time staff, there is still no way to appear in the top 50 of the best-selling list.

And now, after entering August, "Jurassic Park" is also ranked 69th on the "New York Times" bestseller list, with good momentum.

Yin Jun wrote another book called "The Da Vinci Code", which is less thrilling than "Jurassic Park", and belongs to the category of detective books that burns brains and needs to be thought about, so at the beginning Its sales are not as good as "Jurassic Park".

At the same time, "Da Vinci Code" was only ranked 58th in the "Wall Street Journal" bestseller list, and 88th in the "New York Times" bestseller list, barely on the list.

So far, the shipments of Henry Press have been 33,231 copies of "Jurassic Park" and 17,489 copies of "The Da Vinci Code".

Kant Henry was very excited.

He has long seen that "Da Vinci Code" and "Jurassic Park" are two good books, so he gave Yin Jun the first print contract of 6,000 and 10,000.

I thought it might be sold out in about a year and a half, and then the cumulative sales exceeded at least 20,000 or 30,000 copies.

I didn't expect to be able to sell so much in less than a month from the official publication.

In fact, if it was n’t Kant ’s slow response, and the time for reprinting was too late, “Jurassic Park” would n’t just sell so much.

The current situation is that many book fans in California cannot buy books, let alone the states outside.

Right now, the printing houses are still working overtime, printing the second 50,000 copies.

Kant is ready. If the first 50,000 copies are sold out in August, then he will not wait for the second 50,000 copies to be sold out before printing, but will directly print another 100,000 copies.

"The Da Vinci Code" is not as popular as "Jurassic Park", but Kant has heard from bookmates in his own bookstore and on occasions where some book friends have discussed this book. Interesting books.

So Kant is also preparing to start printing the 50,000 copies of the second Da Vinci Code.

In fact, when Kant called Yin Jun, he was very excited to offer Yin Jun and himself 50,000 dollars each. Yin Jun paid this part in advance, and later deducted from the manuscript fee to make two copies together. Book promotion and publicity.

Know that before, Kant made a very detailed recommendation in his own Henry bookstore, and then posted some advertising pictures outside, and there was no large-scale comprehensive recommendation, including invited book reviewers and commentators to write articles , Including more bookstores in major cities, etc.

Kant is very optimistic that if these 100,000 dollars are spent, Yin Jun's two books, the final three-year total sales is likely to have a big breakthrough.

"Jurassic Park" should be able to reach 500,000 volumes, and "Da Vinci Code" should also have 300,000 volumes.

In this way, Yin Jun will get more than 1.2 million dollars in royalties before tax, which is a remarkable amount!

Today's American writers, who can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars by a book, absolutely no more than 100 people.

Many well-known writers also have to accumulate over time to slowly become famous and sell more slowly.

But Yin Jun directly rejected Kant's proposal, let him continue to print, just don't need to promote too much.

Kant is ignorant. He thought that Yin Jun did not know the difference between $ 1.2 million and $ 50,000, but Yin Jun did not listen to his explanation and insisted on doing so. He could only give up the plan.

what?

Do you let Kant pay for it?

Do not make jokes!

How could a businessman do such a great thing?

These two books were not written by Stephen King and Michael Clayton. How could Kant try to use his own money to publicize?

Therefore, Kant can only cook the dumplings while cooking.

Yin Jun doesn't really care much about the money in the novel.

In the impression, "Jurassic Park" and "Da Vinci Code" do indeed sell millions of best-selling books, but compared to the profits they create on movies and other peripheral products, it is too worthless mentioned.

Now Yin Jun is not waiting for 20-30 million Hong Kong dollars to eat, he will have to wait a few years after making a movie. Today's computer technology is not mature, or not at all. How could Yin Jun make these two novels, especially Is Jurassic Park wronged?

He is determined to make "Jurassic Park" more classic than his previous life.

And to achieve this step, although the computer technology of "Jurassic Park" is actually not much ~ www.novelhall.com ~ more is the model manufacturing technology, but it is not that there is nothing accumulated, so I hurried Do the project.

Just look at the special effects in Lucas's "Star Wars" to know how bad the special effects technology of this era is.

In the future, the four major special effects companies in Hollywood, that is, only Lucas ’industrial light and magic have just been established, are at least ten years away from the full bloom of special effects technology!

Yin Jun wants to do better than the previous Jurassic Park. In addition to letting a group of people start with other special effects movies and accumulating experience, it is more important to influence the development of the computer industry.

Microsoft has only been established for four years now, and the prototype of the WINDOWS system has not yet been bought by them, let alone the WINDOWS95 and WINDOWS98.

Yin Jun wanted to influence Microsoft, and it was only next year, after 1980, that IBM needed to join and influence them when it started using and implementing Microsoft's operating system.

Speaking of which, this matter is not easy to handle.

Although Bill's children's shoes looked harmless to humans and animals, they were definitely more sullen and poisonous than the arrogant Zuckerberg. They wanted to deal with him without any details or anything to calm them down. Easy to handle!

But there is no way for Yin Jun. The WINDOWS system is the most important platform equipped with almost all software. Even if it is not developed earlier, how can it spawn companies and elite engineers who specialize in developing software on WINDOWS?

Only after the flowers are released, the computer special skills that Yin Jun needs can come out of the minds of these technical houses and become a reality! (To be continued.)

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