Even though Chen Huaikai was there to check it, Tao Yushu was still uneasy and planned to go to Yunnan for a few days to put some pressure on Chen Kaige. There were still five months left before the Berlin Film Festival, so she wasn't worried at all if the directors from Xiangjiang were there.

But Chen Kaige and others from the academy, if you don't put some pressure on him, he will really dare to delay you for half a year. Tao Yushu went to Xishuangbanna, and the children were mainly taken care of by Zhang Guiqin and Adi.

After adapting to the life of having a nanny at home, Zhang Guiqin no longer complains much. It is indeed a lot easier to have someone to share these things. Especially Dongdong is about to be four years old now, and she is jumping around like a monkey every day, which looks very tiring.

Another benefit of A Di's presence is that Lin Erchun now leaves early and comes home late. She is usually at home alone, and she has to go to the alley to find someone to talk to. With A Di, Zhang Guiqin also has someone to talk to.

On this day, Lin Chaoyang was finishing his new novel. Li Tuo and Chen Jiangong came to the house and gathered several people living in the west courtyard, begging Lin Chaoyang to cook to satisfy everyone's cravings.

"You've been gone for two months, and all the oil in the stomachs of the brothers has dried up."

Chen Jiangong said it pitifully, and those who didn't know thought that they wouldn't be able to eat without Lin Chaoyang. During the meal, everyone chatted and mentioned some major events in the Yanjing literary world in the past few months.

After the news spread, the literary world was shocked.

In the past few months, whenever there is a gathering in the literary world, this matter will inevitably become the focus of discussion.

Li Tuo said with regret, "I knew I should have hugged Lao Wang's thigh more in the past two years. Why are you messing around with Lao Lin? If I had hugged Lao Wang's thigh tightly, I would be a division-level cadre now."

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"Stop! Stop!" Lin Chaoyang stopped the two of them from imagining.

Their imaginations were basically Jingye's nonsense, mostly jokes and not serious at all.

Zhu Wei also talked about the current situation of "People's Literature". After Wang Meng left, "People's Literature" did not have another editor-in-chief. Instead, Liu Xinwu was transferred to the magazine as executive deputy editor. From a popular writer to the number one literary writer in the country

The top leader of the magazine, everyone is full of envy towards Liu Xinwu

Only Lin Chaoyang himself knew that Liu Xinwu, the deputy editor-in-chief, would not last more than a few months.

While chatting, Li Tuo suddenly became concerned about when "The Truman Show" will be released in China. "You have to ask China Film Group Corporation about this. By the way, why do you care about this?"

"After all, it's a film that won the grand prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Isn't it enough to care about it?"

Chen Jiangong said with a smile: "He is not concerned about the movie, but he is concerned about the reaction of the domestic people after the movie is released."

"The Truman Show" caused quite a controversy in China after its publication last year, and it lasted for quite some time.

A few months ago, the movie "The Truman Show" was a hit at the Yaonah Film Festival. When the news spread back to China, those who were controversial about the novel immediately fell into a state of jaw-dropping. Foreign monks can chant sutras, not only in Hong Kong.

, even more so in the mainland.

The film "The Truman Show" can win awards at internationally renowned film festivals. How high is this level? There is nothing to question. During that time, the voices that originally opposed and criticized the novel were suppressed in no way.

No resistance.

But when it comes to quarreling, as long as one party doesn't admit defeat, it's basically impossible to win.

As time goes by, the influence of the awards on "The Truman Show" gradually weakens, and those objections and criticisms become active again.

This makes Li Tuo, the "Lin Chui" who has always been a strong supporter of "The Truman Show", very unhappy. He now urgently needs the movie to be released to teach those who oppose it a lesson.

"These people are talking nonsense now because the movie has not been released in China. I just want to see what they will look like after the movie is released." Li Tuo said angrily.

"What kind of face can it be? Just shut up and pretend nothing happened. Have you forgotten that the news of winning the award just came back?

These people, as long as they don’t conform to their aesthetics, they are absolutely evil. How do you expect these people to turn around and praise "The Truman Show"?"

Chen Jiangong and Li Tuo were having a great time chatting. Zhang Yimou on the side was very excited listening to their chat. He couldn't help but ask Lin Chaoyang about some details of film shooting and exhibition participation. For him, an academic filmmaker, he could

Winning an award at a top international film festival like the Yaona Film Festival is a dream come true.

Lin Chaoyang's focus is different from theirs. After the movie's awards have been won and the box office has been released, the rest of the matter has little to do with him. The only connection is that the influence of the movie can feed back into the original novel.

After winning the award, the original novel "The Truman Show" became popular not only in Hong Kong, but also in China. After all, winning a grand prize abroad at this time is a sure win for the country!

Not only literature lovers, but ordinary people also want to know what this novel is about and why it can win awards abroad. At this time, the movie has not been released in China, but it has actually encouraged the popularity of "The Truman" in disguise.

The sales volume of the novel "The World".

Since June, sales of "The Truman Show" have remained high in the mainland.

Unlike Xiangjiang, where the market is too small and sales suddenly explode and then start to slump, sales in the mainland have maintained a steady downward trend after a substantial increase.

The sales volume in May was only 130,000 copies, then suddenly surged to 510,000 copies in June, 450,000 copies in July, and 390,000 copies in August. This sales decline can be said to be extremely healthy.

Also because of this strong rebound after winning the award, the sales volume of "The Truman Show" easily exceeded the 3 million volume mark one year after its publication in the mainland, with a total sales volume of 3.2 million copies.

According to this trend, sales are expected to exceed 5 million copies by the first half of next year.

Successful film and television adaptations often bring huge reader feedback to the original novels, and Lin Chaoyang has benefited from this more than once. This year, in addition to "The Truman Show", the value of "The King of Chess" is also rising.

After the first Sino-Japanese Go Tournament, the sales of this novel did not decline all the way. On the contrary, it became more and more popular with the start of the second Sino-Japanese Go Tournament. The competition between China and Japan for Go hegemony prompted more and more people to

More and more people are becoming interested in Go, a chess sport that was originally unpopular.

For more than a year, Chinese people's attention and enthusiasm for learning Go have increased.

Amid such craze, "The Master of Chess" has become a must-read for almost every Go enthusiast and follower.

As of the end of July this year, the cumulative sales of "Chess Master" have successfully exceeded 10 million copies, becoming another super bestseller among Lin Chaoyang's works with sales exceeding 10 million copies.

From 0 to 10 million copies, "The Master of Chess" took nearly five years, but from 1,000 to 20 million copies, it must have taken less than five years. Because in August, "The Master of Chess" was sold again

380,000 copies.

A novel can still achieve such dazzling sales five years after its publication, which has broken the usual rules of the book market. It is completely unreasonable, but the facts are here.

Seeing "The Master of Chess" hitting 20 million copies in sales faster and more ferociously, people can only lament that Lin Chaoyang was unlucky. He wrote a novel related to Go, and it happened to happen again.

The Go competition between China and Japan has caused a wave of enthusiasm among the people.

Higher sales also mean a surge in revenue.

Although Lin Chaoyang re-signed a royalty contract with Yanjing Publishing House the year before last, the sales explosion of "Chess Master" has been more concentrated in the past two years. This means that he still received most of the royalties based on sales.

to calculate the royalty income.

So far, the cumulative royalties and royalties generated by "Chess Master" for Lin Chaoyang have exceeded 2 million yuan.

At this time in 1986, he earned more than 2 million yuan in income from a single novel through royalties from novels. It can be said that he topped the Chinese literary world, and this record will continue to be refreshed.

When friends get together, the issue of Lin Chaoyang's income often comes up, which is hard to avoid. Chatting cannot be separated from his works. When talking about his works, he will talk about sales, and naturally he will also talk about his income.

Lin Chaoyang is different from others in that his works have always been best-selling, and he is the first writer in China who dares to ask a publishing house for royalties.

In the past three years, the royalty payment system has not become widely popular in the domestic publishing industry.

The reason is also very simple. Royalty payment is not something that any writer will agree to if he makes a request to the publishing house.

Without fame, strength, or the best-selling of previous works, which writer would have the courage to make such a request to a publishing house? What’s more, the royalty payment system is also risky for writers.

The sales of their works are not good, and the income they receive may not be as much as the remuneration per thousand words. In fact, this is the biggest headache for many writers. Regardless of the literary boom in the 1980s, most writers who are not well-known have sales of less than 1,000 words after their works are published.

Not much more than the hereafter.

Speaking of which, I have to mention that that year Li Tuo and Feng Jicai edited a collection of short stories for Sichuan Literature and Art Publishing House.

They claimed to "collect the most representative short stories in recent years", and they did exactly that, and they compiled it very carefully. Unfortunately, the final collection sold less than 20,000 copies within a year of its publication.

Of course, this is not a loss, but the publishing house doesn't make much money either. It's basically a profit-making situation.

The reason for this situation is that in addition to the fact that these works themselves have already had a high degree of exposure and popularity, and many readers have already read them, making it difficult for them to desire to buy novel collections, they are basically domestic literary commodities in the new era.

The development has gone awry.

When it comes to literature in the 1980s, what do many readers and literature lovers of this period think of? "People's Literature", "Harvest", "October", "Contemporary", "Yenjing Literature"...

What must have flashed in people's minds are the names of these well-known literary magazines, because the literary craze of the 1980s was largely supported by these literary magazines.

The reasons are not complicated. The torrent of humanity brought serious disasters to the Chinese literary world. During that period, Chinese literary creation fell into stagnation or even retrogression.

There was a stagnant group of writers, the quality of literary works was worrying, there was a shortage of printing paper, and policy trends were unclear... In the mid-to-late 1970s, the problems faced by the Chinese literary community were complex.

But at this time, literary magazines emerged as carriers that could perfectly deal with these thorny issues.

Backed by a large publishing house, there is no need to worry about the risks of printing paper and policies. It was famous all over the country before the humanitarian flood, and has the reputation to attract many contributors. Its outstanding editing skills can efficiently screen and cultivate potential authors.

The rise of literary magazines seems logical, but while the rise of these magazines has spawned a literary craze, it has also restricted the dissemination of works to a certain extent.

Because most literary works in the 1980s were published in literary magazines before publication, this would certainly increase the popularity and influence of the works and writers, but it would also weaken readers' desire to purchase the works after they were published.

You know, the price of publications in this era is not cheap compared to people's salary income, it can even be said to be expensive.

Since you can see the new works of most excellent and well-known writers in literary magazines, there is no need to spend money to buy the published copy. Unless you like the work very much, you may spend another copy.

money.

Thus we will see an interesting phenomenon in the literary world in the 1980s.

Many well-known literary magazines sell hundreds of thousands or millions of copies per issue, but it is often difficult to reach this level after the works published in them are independently published.

You can say that readers may buy the magazine because of its reputation, but the problem is that the magazine's reputation and sales are also brought about by the works. And this phenomenon is not an exception, but a common phenomenon.

Lin Chaoyang is one of the few writers who can break this phenomenon. In the early years, he had a nickname of "Lin Million" that has been circulated among major domestic literary magazines.

The so-called "million" does not refer to the manuscript fee. Lin Chaoyang had not yet received a million-level royalty at that time, but refers to which magazine can easily exceed one million copies if it publishes his new work.

At first, some people did not believe this fact, but as more and more magazines collaborated with Lin Chaoyang, this fact was constantly verified.

Especially the publication of "Crossing the Boat" in 1983 and "Crossing the Guandong" in "Flower City" in 1984 can be said to have brought a huge shock to China's major literary magazines. Especially "Crossing the Guandong", a single issue exceeded

3 million copies, setting a mythical sales volume in the Chinese literary magazine industry, and also driving the overall increase in the sales and influence of "Flower City" magazine.
To be continued...