"This is just an announcement of the primary selection list. You can view the finalists in each category. The specific rankings will only be known when you wait for the award ceremony."

Cheng Tao was slightly excited. If nothing unexpected happened, Zhang Chu's novel would achieve good results, which would definitely be very useful for distribution.

Now he doesn't care whether "Journey to the West" may run into "Youth Pi" or whether "Youth Pi" has not signed a publishing agreement with his company.

The reason why Nanhai Publishing Company got the news so quickly is that their company is also the co-organizer of this good literary essay contest in China. However, this co-organizer is quite valuable, with more than 80 publishing houses and publishing institutions.

In fact, this is also led by the Writers Association, allowing the publishers to pay for the bill and publish the winning works.

Of course, these publishing houses want to sign potential stocks that can sell well. For example, the best novels in previous years are the hottest ones, and no one can grab the rest of the best essays and the best poems!

After all, how to publish a poem?

Even if it is made into a collection of poems, it will not sell many copies. How many people still read poetry these days?

Especially a bunch of newcomers, unknown collections of poems can only become inventory in bookstores or publishing house warehouses.

Zhang Chu's original spirit suddenly became relaxed and he couldn't see what the ranking was.

"Forget it, I'd better sign it. It's time to sign it early."

Seeing this, Cheng Tao quickly added: "This announcement is not a good example, it will open comments and downloads. The work will face the pickiness and evaluation of countless readers. Many times, the shortcomings that the judges cannot see will be magnified, while some overlooked advantages will be highlighted."

"Is this a link that can turn the salted fish over?" Zhang Chu concluded.

In fact, this link is more suitable for "Youth Pi". There are so many things in it that allow netizens to analyze what religion, what symbolic meaning of animals, and what corresponding intentions during drifting.

Originally it was like the gyro at the ending of "Inception", and it was necessary for the audience to discuss it to form a topic and a popular trend.

Cheng Tao nodded and said, "That's right, although the judges give awards from a professional perspective, if readers have a bad reputation, they will also be affected."

"I remember that last year there was a work that was said to have been favored by all judges, probably because of the sun and snow. On the Internet, readers said they couldn't understand it, and even couldn't understand the wonderful things that the judges said. So they only won a silver award at the final award ceremony."

Cao Mengru has always been very concerned about these things, so she would not tell the two people in front of her that she also submitted an essay last year, but unfortunately she had never even had a primary election.

Generally speaking, many people say that they can’t understand or can’t read those serious literatures, but truly excellent works will not give people that feeling.

Before he could finish his words, there was another phone call from Zhou Kang on Zhang Chu.

Needless to say, it must be a matter of this.

"Zhang Chu, your book "Youth Pi" can be read!"

"This is a good thing, but if you can read it for free, wouldn't the commercial value be greatly reduced?"

If everyone went to read free content, who would buy physical books or e-books in the future?

Zhou Kang laughed and explained: "Only the first Chinese Good Literature has been tossing the free novels. Later, with the strong request of all publishing institutions and authors, the public announcement from the Writers Association has become a paid model!"

Hearing this, Zhang Chu, a rookie who had never seen the world, was curious and waiting for the following text.

"Poetry, prose, and short stories do not require payment, novellas, and novellas can only be read after they are paid. This fee is the same as the e-book download fee. China Writers Network does not charge any fees, and it has not signed a contract with a publishing agency, so 100% of them are distributed to the writers, which is considered an additional benefit."

Is there such a good thing?

Zhang Chu really didn't expect this. It seems that the writers' association in this world should be very important and have a long-term vision. No wonder there are so many essay contestants.

They don’t set bonuses, they earn them all by themselves!

If a popular novel or novella appears, the cost of downloading may be higher than that of most literary awards.

"I don't know how many people can read my book."

After hearing Zhang Chu's muttering, Zhou Kang got a vaccination, "Of course, don't have too much hope. After all, the Chinese Writers Network has not had much traffic, and there are actually very few users, mainly industry insiders, so you should not fantasize about making hundreds of millions of dollars."

Before he started to do his dream, he was ruthlessly exposed. Zhang Chu was quite clear about his understanding of himself. He replied: "Anything counts as much as you have, no less money, no more than ten!"

After hanging up Zhou Kang's phone call, he had no intention of signing the autographs. He hurriedly signed the remaining more than 200 books, and Zhang Chu flashed.

...

When he returned to the rented house, he didn't even have time to change his shoes, Zhang Chu quickly turned on the computer and entered the Chinese Writers Network with his browser.

At this time, the big picture on the homepage is "Announcement of the Preliminary Selected Works of Good Chinese Literature".

After Zhang Chu clicked in, he suddenly found that this was actually arranged according to different categories, and the novels selected works were relatively backward.

More than two hours have passed since the online announcement of the work. Judging from the number of clicks on each work, it seems that there are really not many users of this writer website!

After all, it is not a professional novel website. The work will be announced only a year or two. Who would come and check it out if you have nothing to do?

He found that "Home", which ranked first in poetry, only had 172 clicks, which was pitiful and terrible.

In the novella and novels that require paid, fewer people choose to read them for a paid basis!

The work only provides free reading of a few thousand words, but that is not included in the click. Those who have to pay to read the full text can be counted in it.

"Do you want it to be so miserable..."

Zhang Chu thought he could make some money from this part of the game console, but in reality he poured cold water on it.

However, when he swiped the mouse down, he suddenly found that his book "Youth Pi" had a feeling of being ahead of his crowd.

There are 50 works in the first-choice category that have been selected through the novel. Among so many works, most of them are single-digit clicks and reads.

However, the book "Pi's Fantasy Drift" has 516 clicks, and even if you remove the 100 digits, you can still rank in the top three!

If you don’t read the tragic situation of all the books, then Zhang Chu will probably dislike his achievements. Just 516 people paid for the purchase of relevant content, which is too pitiful.
Chapter completed!