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Kenzaburo Oe was silent for a while, and then asked: "What do you think about war?"

"You should reflect on and be honest about your mistakes," Hiroto Akihara expressed his true thoughts.

This era is the same as the previous life. The left-wing writers still occupy the mainstream position in the neon literary world. In the public opinion and political circles, the left-wing influence is getting lower and lower, and the right-wing is beginning to rise.

Even in the later literary world, anti-war doctrine once replaced anti-war doctrine, and there appeared a large number of works that believed that the atomic bomb should not be dropped, or only reflected the pain of the victims of the atomic bomb.

These works even appeared in countries all over the world (including China) in the name of "anti-war", making readers in other countries sympathize with neon.

Regarding his own "original sin" situation, he completely overcame it.

Yoshikawa Yuichiro nodded, accepting this statement.

Then he ordered others to fetch a stack of manuscript paper and handed it to Akihara Yuto: "This is my preface to this work."

Hiroto Akihara did not expect to be written a "preface", and began to read it after receiving it.

The so-called preface is an article placed before the main text of the work, which mainly introduces and comments on the ideological content and artistic features of the book.

The author's own preface is called "self preface", and the preface written by others is called "dai preface".

But the meaning of "preface" often also expresses the author's recommendation for this work.

Hiroto Akihara quickly finished reading the whole thing, and found that the work "Personal Experience" was highly praised in the preface, and he thought it was a work worth watching.

After reading it, Hiroto Akihara expressed his gratitude: "Thank you very much."

As far as he knows, Yuichiro Yoshikawa has not written a preface for others for many years, and it is estimated that many people in the industry will be surprised when it is released.

With a little more push, I may be able to create a new sales achievement in traditional literary works.

But what he didn't know was that it was just when he was happy.

However, Jingfanshe started a serious discussion meeting on the sales volume of Hiroto Akihara's works...

[Chapter 287.286 The Coming Crisis]

The Jingfansha in this world, as one of the four major publishing houses, has great similarities with the Kadokawa Bookstore Group in Akihara Hiroto's previous life.

Kadokawa Bookstore, established in 1945, initially published Japanese literature as its main business.

Until the 1970s, the chairman promoted Henggou's official history series to the general public, and got involved in the film industry, implementing the "Kadokawa Warfare".

The so-called "Kadokawa Warfare", that is, through the combination of publishing and film and television, the publication drives the box office of the movie, and the box office of the movie drives the sales of the publication, so as to achieve a mutual win between the two.

This practice is very common in later generations, but in the neon publication market at that time, it was indeed the first person to eat crabs.

Through the Kadokawa Warfare, Kadokawa Shoten has dominated the field of reasoning publishing in Japan through the "Kindaichi" series of Yokomizo Masashi.

But success also depends on reasoning, and failure also depends on reasoning.

When the three major publishers Shueisha, Kodansha, and Shogakukan began to rely on manga magazines and began to monopolize this field, the strategic transformation of Kadokawa Shoten was many steps behind.

After all, compared with the sales volume of over [-] million comics, the market scope of reasoning tens of millions of copies is pitifully small.

So that in the back, Kodansha, Shogakukan, and Shueisha are called the three major neon publishing houses by the Chinese, while Kadokawa Bookstore is not ranked at all.

It wasn't until the new century, with the explosion of the light field and Kadokawa Shoten's successive establishment of three light library (Kadokawa, Dengeki, Fujimi), that Kadokawa Shoten overtook and ranked second in the industry.

Jingfanshe in this world is also very similar to Kadokawa Bookstore, and occupies a dominant position in the field of reasoning.

Although their reasoning magazine "Spring of Literature" is not the number one in sales, the publishing house has a lot of reasoning and literature booklets for sale.

Last year, they sold more than 8 million copies, accounting for nearly 7% of the market share.

However, Hiroto Akihara has completely changed this situation by constantly carrying the "good works" of his previous life, and at the same time guiding the outlets of public opinion to promote the works.

Tokyo, Chiyoda Ward, Kebansha Headquarters Building.

In the large conference room on the third floor, a meeting was held specifically for half-year results.

However, this meeting was attended by all middle and high-level management, from the president to the vice president, from ministers at all levels to executives of various departments.

Even the editor-in-chief of "Spring of Literature" can only sit at the bottom.

After President Kohei Honda announced the meeting and introduced the theme, a minister responsible for managing statistics stood up and reported the results.

"According to the statistics of publishing sales in the first half of the year, the total market sales volume of inference booklets is 700 million copies, and the sales volume of our agency is about 340 million copies, accounting for 49% of the market share; the sales volume in the second half of the year is expected to be about 400 million copies. , a year-on-year decrease compared to last year..."

After he finished his report, the editor-in-chief of the reasoning magazine "Literary Spring" also stood up and reported that the sales volume had declined and the sales volume in half a year was about 90 copies, which was not as good as last year's 7% level.

Even the humble traditional literature department has reported half-year sales of less than 50 copies due to a decline in hits.

Listening to the announcement of the results one after another, Honda Hohei's face became more and more gloomy, and even the other senior managers felt a kind of pressure.

In Jingfanshe, management rights and ownership are not unified. As the president, he is directly responsible to the board of directors.

In the assessment criteria, financial performance is a very important factor.

The loss of the reasoning literature publishing business, which is a cash cow, undoubtedly greatly affected the performance of Jingfanshe.

If this continues, the gap between Jingfanshe and the other three major publishing houses will only widen, and even Hohei Honda himself will face impeachment and even lose his position as president.

After the department's report, Hohei Honda stood up, frowned and shouted: "Executive Tomioka, what is the main reason for the decline in market share? Who are the competitors?"

A middle-aged man stood up tremblingly, and said truthfully, "It's Anjiu Bookstore."

Hohei Honda thought for a while, and quickly remembered the name, and asked again: "Isn't this the small publishing house that cooperated with Hiroto Akihara?"

Because of the previous turmoil between Akihara Hiroto and Mantansha, the major publishing houses in the industry basically know him better, and Jingfanshe is one of them.

And the name Anjiu Bookstore also entered Honda Kohei's vision at this time.

Otherwise, with the status between the two, Hohei Honda would not have noticed such a small publishing house that can be seen everywhere.

The middle-aged man lowered his head and continued to report: "In the current market, all the works of Hiroto Akihara have been handed over to Anjiu Bookstore for publication. In the first half of this year, the total sales volume of Anjiu Bookstore's publications reached more than 300 million copies , accounting for 42% of the total market share of booklets."

"The market share we have been seized is mainly caused by Akihara Hiroto's series of works."

Kohei Honda frowned and thought for a while, and realized that he really couldn't blame the business department. After all, he was also a reader himself and knew the quality of Hiroto Akihara's works.

The other party keeps publishing a high-quality book every now and then, and even publishes relevant hot searches and news from time to time.

From this point of view, it is very feasible for a work to seize the market of its own publishing house.

He thought for a while, and continued to ask: "In this case, can we negotiate with Akihara Yuto to obtain the reprint copyright of his works, such as "Suspect X" and other popular works."

In the publishing industry, the same work is often published by different publishers due to different editions.

In Honda Kohei's view, since Anjiu Bookstore is relying on Akihara Yuto's works to seize market share, it only needs to take away Akihara Yuto's copyright.