In the beginning, I just wanted to make money

Shen Haobo is actually from the literary world. He is the founder of the Lower Body Poetry Movement and has become a representative figure together with Yin Lichuan!

Lower body poetry…

At the beginning of the 21st century, a movement emerged in the Chinese literary world - Lower Body Writingism, or the Lower Body Poetry Movement.

It sounds obscene, but what they advocate is to return to nature, release the savage true vitality, and present the original state of life...

The lower body is in direct opposition to the upper body.

Tradition, poetry, lyricism, philosophy, thinking and other things we learn in Tang poetry and Song lyrics all belong to the upper body, while the real, concrete, brutal, interesting and even sexy things that we usually ignore belong to the lower body.

The purpose of the lower body poetry movement is to get rid of the upper body factors and pursue the reality of the lower body.

The poems were stripped of their gorgeous coat and turned into naked, straightforward and popular poems...

In fact, from the perspective of literary development, change is necessary!

The new generation of poets is no longer satisfied with the expression system and expression methods of old poetry. They want to ignite a stronger and more intuitive desire for expression and lyrical ambition.

But the lower body is a little off track...

The focus should be on unleashing the true life force of the savage, but these guys focused on the lower body...

Give sex back to sex, give evil back to evil.

They wrote about sex under the gaze of traditional dross, placing sex at the lowest point of morality and linking it to the evil of human nature. They tried to write the "Flower of Evil" in their own language. As a result, the underworld stuff turned out to be like this. .

Shen Xudong had heard about Shen Haobo and knew that he insisted that "poetry should be niche. If the public recognizes it, then it is a novel!" ’

Therefore, Shen Xudong was quite surprised by Shen Haobo's visit, because... no matter how you look at it, they have no intersection.

…

Shen Haobo fell in love with "The Best in the World"...

It's like this. There are a lot of literati who sing their favorite poems, but probably only a few of them live a prosperous life.

The embarrassment of not being able to fill your stomach is a reality.

Therefore, Shen Haobo decided to change careers and join the book publishing industry...

But to be honest, private book publishing companies are not happy in today's market environment.

In the original time and space, Shen Haobo was very awesome and established Motie Books. In just three years, he won four books in a row, including "The Years of Grass", "Zhu Xian", "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", and "Tomb Robbers Notes"!

Become a legend in the private publishing industry...

Now, "Zhu Xian" has not yet been released, but "The Best in the World" is currently popular...

"No. 1 in the World" has been serialized for three months and has 400,000 words. The plot has progressed to the point where Zhu Wu, in order to save Su Xin, uses Huigong Dafa to absorb the poison of the Celestial Silkworm Gu into his body...

It's a small climax.

After the serialization of "No. 1 in the World", the sales of "Martial Arts Edition" have been rising steadily, with sales exceeding 700,000 copies last month!

For a bimonthly magazine that has been published for two years, this sales volume is a miracle...

Of course it’s not as good as Xiao Zhan’s brother’s cover of “People”—12.19 million copies were sold in the current period…

But "Martial Arts Edition" is a pure story, and the unit price is 6 yuan!

There is a lot of discussion online, especially on the Tianya Forum. There are more than 2,000 posts about plagiarism of characters in "The Best of the World"...

But the recent discussion is about whether Zhu Wuli is good or bad...

For a martial arts novel to have such popularity, it is not an exaggeration to call it a 'wonderful book'.

Shen Haobo spoke concisely and to the point, saying that he wanted to win the publishing rights of "The Best in the World"...

Shen Xudong is not very interested in this...

Several publishing houses have already called Shen Xudong regarding the publication of "No. 1 in the World", including Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House, Tuanjie Publishing House, and even Sanlian Publishing House...

In addition, the traditional Chinese version of "The Best in the World" was sold to Taiwan's Hetu Publishing House for 300,000 yuan...

After all, for Shen Xudong, at least for a fledgling writer, 300,000 is already impressive!

And...the money was transferred directly...

Very straightforward.

Traditional publishing is a model where publishing is done in Taiwan and sales rely on renting bookstores.

Taiwanese books generally have between 50,000 and 70,000 words each. A book can probably bring a writer a basic income ranging from two to three thousand to tens of thousands of yuan.

If it sells well, the profit will be very high!

In addition, early online articles, such as "Children of Light", "Stories of Grace", and "Tales of Demons and Gods" basically relied on traditional Chinese publishing...

Traditional Chinese publishing has been sold. Shen Xudong is not very concerned about simplified publishing for the time being. In his opinion, the most important thing about "The Best in the World" is the adaptation rights...

Besides, with so many well-known publishing houses interested, why did Shen Xudong hand over the publishing rights to "The Best in the World" to Shen Haobo?

Just because his surname is Shen?

…

Shen Haobo just mentioned the purpose, and then took Shen Xudong to eat together and talked about his own experience: "I used to write poems and couldn't support myself at all... I heard a senior said that there is money to be made by making books! Then I went to sea. ."

"If you attend a book ordering meeting, you can collect millions of dollars in cash, which is too much to count."

Indeed, around 2000 years ago was the golden age for the development of my country's book industry. You could get a lot of money at an ordering meeting just by picking up a cover. It was at that time that planners such as Chen Mingjun and Zhang Xiaobo surfaced.

By the way, Chen Mingjun created a new classic and published the Chinese version of a classic literary work, "One Hundred Years of Solitude", which sold 800,000 copies within 4 months of its launch: "Tokugawa Ieyasu" has sold 2.2 million copies in total; "1Q84" sold 1.6 million copies. More than 10,000 copies: "White Night Walk" has more than 2 million copies, and Zhang Ailing's works have sold more than 3.6 million copies;

Zhang Xiaobo founded Phoenix Linkage and was the first to plan the series "China Can Say No" and rose to prominence in the Chinese publishing industry - selling 3 million copies a year!

Shen Haobo was obviously not so lucky: "I recruited a friend and raised 150,000 yuan to set up a book studio. Moreover, the first book "Crayon Shin-chan Collection" was released in less than three months."

"The Crayon Shin-chan Collection? What is that?"

"Comic..."

"...You go on!"

"Crayon Shin-chan" is just "Crayon Shin-chan", why do we need to add the word "book"?

Shen Haobo smiled bitterly: "After we struggled to sell more than 20,000 copies, we found out that we had been cheated. This industry bullies newcomers, and those who sell books do not pay at all."

"and after?"

"It's hard to hold on..." Shen Haobo suddenly asked: "Chunshu, do you know?"

Shen Xudong nodded: "I've heard of it!"

"I was responsible for publishing her "BJ Doll"..."

"You published it? Then you also planned her new book launch party... wearing a bellyband?"

"right!"

Shen Haobo smiled bitterly: ""BJ Doll" is her first novel. It is not well-known. It will be difficult to sell it without some gimmick!"

More than just a gimmick...

Shen Haobo labeled Chunshu a "deviant and rebellious", and the most daring thing was to ask her to wear a red bellyband at the book launch conference.

"BJ Doll" became an instant hit, selling more than 120,000 copies in three months. Haruki also appeared in the American "Times" magazine with "BJ Doll". Together with Han Han, Man Zhou and Li Yang, they were called " Representative of China after the 1980s."

"Do you know what I thought of when I saw "The Best in the World"?"

"What?"

"The Martial Arts Bible for the Post-Jin Yong Era!"