Chapter 42 Amazing Payment Rate

Chapter 42 Amazing payment rate

Yinlan Bookstore officially announced the five winners of this year's Supernova Awards at the end of the month. Lin Yuan was also notified by Yang Feng, and saw "Net King" at the end of the winners list.

"The novel will be published tomorrow."

Yang Feng gave Lin Yuan a shot: "However, you don't have to pay too much attention to the sales of novels. After all, sports competition is a niche subject, and sales are not the only way to prove your works. Anyway, congratulations on officially becoming a novelist."

Lin Yuan said, "Thank you."

Yang Feng smiled: "Then I will hang up here first, the company still has a publishing meeting to be held, and when the novel is officially published tomorrow, we will send you a few copies for free, and you can also go to major bookstores Go shopping, it will be officially launched in major bookstores in Qinzhou tomorrow."

"Okay, bye."

After finishing the call, Yang Feng put away his mobile phone and entered the meeting room. At the moment, the editors in the meeting room were discussing the results of this Supernova: "I don't know how the sales of Supernova this year are. I am very optimistic about the number one "Alien." "The Demon King of the Realm", the protagonist's identity after traveling through another world is a demon king that everyone shouts and beats, this kind of creative direction is quite unique, at least it is more interesting."

"I'm more optimistic about the second."

"The second author, Dalong, is an old bird. This guy has been a novelist for a long time, but he just put on a vest to grab the newcomer spot. However, the novel he wrote this time is really interesting. The protagonist is actually summoned by the princess to a different place. boundary."

"..."

Everyone discussed enthusiastically.

Some people are optimistic about the first, some are optimistic about the second, and some people think that the third and fourth are also good, but "Net King" is the least discussed, because the editors of the entire silver and blue library know that the fifth place is the editor-in-chief in order to enrich the market theme And forcibly added.

Everyone can understand this point.

The homogenization of themes in the novel market is indeed a bit serious, which is not conducive to the overall development of the novel circle, so this year, major publishing companies including Yinlan Shuku have made attempts to promote new themes, so as to guide the market in disguise The purpose of diversification of creative direction.

After announcing the results of the supernova awards.

The official website has an introduction to the award-winning works and a survey of readers' expectations. Many specially invited old readers have filled out the questionnaire. The result of the questionnaire is that the top three supernova award-winning readers have the highest expectations!

This is no surprise.

Because the top three are all aliens.

The fifth-ranked "Net King" has the lowest expectations. Readers seem to be innately uninterested in tennis. Even though the introduction on the official website has always emphasized that this is a sports novel that can be understood even if you don't know tennis, it still hasn't changed The results of this questionnaire survey.

Some people even protested on the official website!

This is a reserved item after the Supernova results are announced every year. There are always some pretentious but unsuccessful authors who feel that the Supernova awards are unfair, especially the selection of "Net King" this year has stimulated the nerves of many losers.

"Why?"

"Qinzhou has never had a precedent for the explosion of sports and competitive themes, let alone a novel about tennis. In order to make such a work not only have a single theme, Yinlan Bookstore forced such a work to rank fifth, which is really disappointing. People are disappointed."

The top four are all popular themes.

The fifth naturally became the target.

However, Yinlan Shuku would not pay attention to these protests. From the editorial department's point of view, even if "The King of the Net" is indeed a niche subject, the quality of the novel itself is definitely not as bad as the outside world judges.

"It's a pity for He Mingxuan."

An editor suddenly shook his head and said.

He Mingxuan is a novelist who has already made his debut. This time he put on a vest to contribute to Supernova, and his work has received good reviews. After reading his work, many editors suggested that He Mingxuan's work be the first in this supernova solicitation. five.

But it is a pity that he met "The King of Net".

The reasons of the editor-in-chief convinced everyone: "Firstly, the market needs diversified guidance, and secondly, He Mingxuan is an old man after all. Although there are old people wearing vests every year, I think this is not a good phenomenon. We should give more Opportunities for newcomers."

He Mingxuan lost the election.

The editor who has a good relationship with He Mingxuan specially comforted He Mingxuan: "If it wasn't for enriching the market themes, you should be able to rank fifth this time, so this time the failure is not because you are not strong enough, but because your luck is a little bit unlucky." a bit."

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Although He Mingxuan is the sixth so-called supernova, he did not participate in the protests against "Net King" by some losers, because when he first debuted, there were similar protests against his works, so he knew very well that he was rejected What kind of mood is the protester? He will never become the kind of person he once hated the most.

The editor is right.

He also felt that he was a bit unlucky this time. After all, he encountered a special situation, not to mention that he was not a newcomer, and it would be disgraceful to snatch a newcomer's opportunity in a vest, so it was understandable to give in to the newcomer in the end.

"Maybe I'm not suitable for writing books."

He Mingxuan has some self-doubt. He debuted as a novelist five years ago, and his novel sales even won the quarterly championship. But after that book was finished, he wrote several books in a row and hit the street, so that few publishing houses are willing to publish his work.

This made He Mingxuan very painful.

If it wasn't for this reason, he wouldn't have the cheek to participate in the Supernova Newcomer Awards. For every novelist, competing for opportunities with newcomers is proof that they have failed.

That night He Mingxuan couldn't sleep.

The next morning, He Mingxuan walked into the bookstore closest to his home in a daze, and subconsciously looked at the first row of bookshelves in the bookstore.

Once upon a time, this bookshelf was also filled with his works.

But today, all the top five supernova works are displayed on it.

His sixth place does not have a medal of merit.

There are a lot of people reading books in the bookstore, most of them are young readers, and everyone is rushing to this bookshelf——

As in previous years, readers are full of expectations for Supernova's award-winning works.

But getting them to pay for books is not an easy task.

Few people buy books directly. Most of them pick up the book first, look through it, find a quiet corner, and read tens of thousands of words first.

Make sure it is a story you like, and readers will honestly pay for it.

Watching this scene.

He Mingxuan recalled that he had done something stupid in retrospect.

At that time, his novel had just been published, and he sat alone in a corner of the bookstore for a whole day, doing nothing but observing the readers who bought books.

Whenever someone buys his book by He Mingxuan, he will be secretly excited and ecstatic.

today.

Enter the bookstore.

He Mingxuan also observed subconsciously.

No surprises, the first ones everyone picked up were the bookstore's heavy recommendations, that is, the works that won the top three supernovas.

However, to He Mingxuan's surprise, everyone's paying rate today was not high. Many people picked up the book and read it for a while before putting it back. It seems that the performance of this year's supernova is slightly worse than the previous one.

However, there was a book whose payment rate exceeded He Mingxuan's expectation.

This book is the competitive novel "Net King" that made He Mingxuan rank sixth.

In fact, there are very few readers who picked up "The King of the Internet" and read it. Compared with the top four, the number of people who are interested in this novel is so pitifully small.

And in stark contrast to this pity——

Readers who picked up "The King of the Internet" and watched it, basically bought the book in the end!

For this reason, He Mingxuan specially counted them.

From the moment they entered the bookstore, there were only 18 readers who were willing to pick up "The King of Net" and read it.

But to his surprise:

There are a total of fifteen people who have finished watching "The King of the Internet" and are willing to buy it!

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