Chapter 333 A Bestseller That Slowly Became Popular

Also entered August, in California, USA, two novels began to become popular slowly.

Now California, without the explosion of Silicon Valley, naturally has not yet reached the sixth place in the world's GDP in the future-this is the sixth after the United States, Huaguo, Japan, etc., a separate list If all the provinces in the province can be ranked sixth, that's really not too impressive.

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

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

In terms of the comfort of life alone, California is ten times better than New York, so it is no wonder that many Chinese female stars come here to give birth.

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

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

It is summer in California, where the environment is suitable. When many people like to go to the beach to bask in the sun, they can spend an afternoon leisurely reading a book or two.

Coincidentally, after many people's word of mouth, two new books recently published by a small publishing house have aroused the love of countless white-collar workers.

The first book is called Jurassic Park.

At first glance, the cover of this book is a book about a huge and ferocious dinosaur. I thought it was a book introducing those extinct dinosaurs, but when I picked it up, I realized that it was an adventure book about life exploration.

There are not only wonderful storylines in it, but also a variety of knowledge, including physics, nature, genes, machinery, mechanics... and so on, all of which are combined in this book, but it doesn't look blunt at all Meaning, on the contrary, it is very interesting.

It's just that, looking at such a wonderful and tense novel, it's easy to fall into that kind of atmosphere, which makes people want to read it. They want to finish it in one sitting.

This has happened more than once in the bookstore before. Many readers picked up "Jurassic Park" and couldn't put it down. It's been so long.

As a result, "Jurassic Park" has also gained a strong reputation, and it was on the "Wall Street Journal" bestseller list a week after it was published on July 10.

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

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

In just two weeks, "Jurassic Park" ranked 28th on the "Wall Street Journal" monthly bestseller list, and thus directly entered the world's most famous and authoritative bestseller list—— The New York Times bestseller list.

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

There aren't that many nasty list-scraping middlemen out there, so The New York Times' list is pretty trustworthy.

Well, you read that right. In the United States, there are also middlemen who use the rankings. As long as you give money, they will be responsible for buying books all over the country, and then increase the sales of your books and let you appear on the list. .

It's just that such large-scale swiping of rankings will only appear on a large scale after the development of the Internet age and the part-time workers under them can be easily contacted and organized.

Now no matter how they cheat, they still can't appear in the top 50 of the best-seller list under the identification of the full-time staff of "New York Times".

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

Another book written by Yin Jun called "The Da Vinci Code" is not so thrilling and exciting compared to "Jurassic Park". It's not selling as well as Jurassic Park.

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

So far, Henry Press has shipped 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 "The Da Vinci Code" and "Jurassic Park" are two good books, so he gave Yin Jun the first printing contract of 6,000 copies and 10,000 copies.

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

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

In fact, if it wasn't for Kant's slow reaction speed and the reprinting time was too late, "Jurassic Park" would not have sold so many copies at all.

The current state of affairs is that books are out of reach for many book lovers in California, let alone the outer states.

Right now, the printing factory is still working overtime to print the second 50,000 copies.

Kant had already planned that if the first 50,000 copies were sold out in August, he would not wait until the second 50,000 copies were sold out before printing, but would directly print another 100,000 copies.

"The Da Vinci Code" is not as popular as "Jurassic Park", but Kant has heard book friends talking about it in his bookstore and in the discussion occasions of some book friends. interesting books.

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

In fact, when Kant called Yin Jun, he very excitedly suggested that Yin Jun and himself should pay 50,000 US dollars each. Book sales and publicity.

You must know that before, Kant made a very detailed recommendation in his Henry Bookstore, and then posted some posters outside, and did not make a large-scale comprehensive recommendation, including inviting book reviewers and reviewers to write articles , including more bookstores in major cities, etc.

Kant optimistically estimates that if the $100,000 is spent, the final three-year total sales volume of Yin Jun's two books is likely to have a big breakthrough.

"Jurassic Park" should reach 500,000 copies, and "The Da Vinci Code" should also have 300,000 copies.

In this way, Yin Jun's royalties will exceed 1.2 million US dollars before tax, which is a remarkable sum!

Among American writers today, there are definitely no more than 100 who can earn hundreds of thousands of dollars from a single book.

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

But Yin Jun directly rejected Kant's proposal, just let him continue to publish, without too much publicity.

Kant was confused. He thought that Yin Jun didn't know the difference between 1.2 million US dollars and 50,000 US dollars, but Yin Jun didn't listen to his explanation and insisted on doing so. He could only give up the plan.

What?

You asked Kant to pay for the promotion?

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 spend his own money to promote them?

Therefore, Kant could only put the dumplings in the pot, watching and making them.

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

In my impression, "Jurassic Park" and "The Da Vinci Code" are indeed best-selling books that have sold millions of copies, but compared to the profits they create on peripheral products such as movies, they are worthless. mentioned.

Now Yin Jun is not waiting for 20 to 30 million Hong Kong dollars to eat, and he will have to wait several years to make a movie. Today's computer technology is not mature at all, or there is no such thing. How could Yin Jun let these two novels, especially Is "Jurassic Park" wronged to make do?

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

To reach this point, although the computer technology in "Jurassic Park" is actually not much, it is more model-making technology, but this is not a project that has no accumulation and is rushed to do it.

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

Among the four major special effects companies in Hollywood in the future, only Lucas' Industrial Light & Magic has just been established, and it is at least ten years before the special effects technology blooms!

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 accumulate experience, the more important thing is to influence the development of the computer industry.

Microsoft has only been established for 4 years now, and the prototype of the WINDOWS system has not been bought by them, let alone WINDOWS95 and WINDOWS98.

If Yin Jun wanted to influence Microsoft, he had to join and influence them next year, after 1980, when IBM began to use and promote Microsoft's operating system.

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

Although Bill Boys looks harmless to humans and animals, he is definitely more sinister and vicious than the arrogant and domineering Zuckerberg. If he wants to deal with him, he has no background or something to calm them down. Easy!

But Yin Jun has no choice. The WINDOWS system is the most important platform on which almost all software is carried. If it is not developed earlier, how can it give birth to companies and elite engineers who specialize in developing software on WINDOWS?

Only after all the flowers bloom, the computer stunt technology that Yin Jun needs can come out of the minds of these technical nerds and become a reality!