Chapter 25: Annihilation

  It wasn't until the next day when Tiankong Net editor Wu Yue sent a message to Zhou Fan that he finally understood.

  "What's going on, stopping updates now when your book is doing so well? This week, we've already scheduled a homepage recommendation for you. At that time, gaining 200,000 to 300,000 followers in just one week won't be difficult, and it's even possible to get more."

  Upon seeing the editor's information, Zhou Fan let out a sigh. "Isn't it said that for the first recommendation, you need to have at least 100,000 more collections to be considered qualified? Mine only increased by 10,000, isn't that a bit too little?"

  "One hundred thousand?"

  "How can it be 100,000?"

  Not to mention Zhou Fan being a newcomer, even some top-notch authors' first book recommendations wouldn't increase by ten million.

  "Now you see, others say so too."

  Then, Zhou Fan sent the screenshot to Wuyue immediately.

  "All I want to say is that you've been cheated by others."

  When I saw this screenshot, Wu Yue almost spit out his food. These online friends' words are really believable. He immediately explained to Zhou Fan, "Actually, the recommendations on Tiankong.com, small ones, a week's worth of recommendations, will increase by over 1,000 collections, bigger ones will increase by 2,000 or 3,000, and even top-level recommendations won't necessarily break 10,000 collections. Your first recommendation was just a category channel recommendation, not even the homepage, and it increased by 10,000 collections, which is really against the odds. Now think about it, how bad is your book's performance?"

  "Is this true?"

  "Of course it's true."

  "Don't lie to me?"

  "Why would I cheat you?"

  It wasn't until Zhou Fan really confirmed it that he realized he had been fooled by netizens yesterday.

  "I'm fed up with you, it's too depressing."

  Zhou Fan was depressed and just asked a small question about collecting, why did they cheat people.

  Actually, this can't be blamed on others. Who let Zhou Fan go there to show off, a week's worth of 10,000 followers, this is absolutely blatant showing off. You went there and said it clearly, isn't that slapping someone in the face? Naturally, others won't tell you the real answer. However, Wu Yue didn't explain the reason to Zhou Fan, these things, after some time, Zhou Fan will naturally understand.

  "Okay, I'll go update it right away."

  After getting confirmation, Zhou Fan also knew that dropping updates was not good, and immediately logged in to the background, quickly sending out 6,000 words.

  Of course, after releasing 6,000 words, Zhou Fan also took a comprehensive look at the situation of "The Book and Sword Enmity Record".

  It's better not to look at it, but when you take a look, Zhou Fan is slightly surprised again.

  At first glance, the book review section of "The Book and Sword" has been boiling, with many book friends discussing the plot in the forum from time to time. Even because "The Book and Sword" was too hot, it once made the book review section enter the homepage and was counted as one of the most popular book review sections on Tianya.cn.

  Such a book review area, although not as collectible, is truly remarkable data. However, such signs have made "Book and Sword" stand out even more. Generally speaking, only extremely popular books will have so many people discussing them. If it's just an ordinary work, there will be at most a few reviews in one day. But now, the review area of "Book and Sword" has already reached over a thousand posts in one day. Such signs are usually only seen with some of the biggest hits on Tianya.cn.

  This is just one of them.

  Secondly, due to the strong landing of "Book Sword Enmity Record", the first place on the new book chart has also been firmly occupied by Book Sword. The gap with the second-place data has reached tenfold. Many newcomers scolded the author of "Book Sword Enmity Record" and said that they didn't know which great god was opening a new book, and that as a great god, there's no need to come here and show off, snatching the newcomer chart.

  Of course, Zhou Fan was really hit by a stray bullet while lying down.

  When did he become a great god of Tianyu Network, and it was his first time publishing a book.

  However, other new authors scolded him severely, and Zhou Fan did not respond to them, which does not need explanation.

  Thirdly, if we say that being the first on the newcomer list is not a big deal. After all, it's just a newcomer list, and he will automatically switch lists after a month. Every year, countless newcomers become number one, but not all of them can become famous or even enter the writing circle. However, "Book Sword Enmity Record" has entered the click ranking data on Tianya Net with a record of 150,000 words, which is already against the heavens.

  Although "The Book and the Sword" is only ranked 15th for now, it has already caught the attention of countless people.

  1.5 million words entered the click-through rate chart, what kind of concept is this? In the previous records of Tianyi Sky Net, only super masters could enter. Even some super masters may not be able to enter the click-through rate chart at 1.5 million words. But now entering the click-through rate chart is a new book by a newcomer with no background.

  This is completely against heaven.

  Of course, also because "The Legend of Book and Sword" has officially entered the top ten list of Sky Clicks, this work can be said to have truly started its promotion.

  Many people didn't think it was an excellent work at first, but after clicking on it, they suddenly found that the book "The Legend of Book and Sword" seemed to have a great innovation. It's just that what exactly is innovative, they can't say for a while. Anyway, as long as they pay attention carefully, they become true fans of the book.

  Three against-the-sky records had completely put Zhou Fan at ease.

  The book and sword are just the beginning, and have already achieved such a heaven-defying achievement. The future prospects are boundless.

  Even, Zhou Fan has thought again, if he were to bring more classic and passionate works like Tian Long Ba Bu, The Legend of the Condor Hero trilogy, and The Smiling, Proud Wanderer onto this platform, he wonders how many people would go crazy. Thinking about it, Zhou Fan gets a little excited. However, in the end, Zhou Fan calms down again. Let's take it slow, first let Book Sword accumulate some popularity before doing anything else.

  Hello, I am Li Qiang, an editor from Xinsheng Publishing House. We plan to publish your book "Jian En Chou Lu".

  On PP, someone sent an add friend information request.

  "Published?"

  Although this gave Zhou Fan a small surprise, he thought to himself that in his previous life, he had been mixed up for so long without any publishing opportunities. Unexpectedly, just by releasing tens of thousands of words, the publisher had already found him. Immediately afterwards, Zhou Fan added the editor's PP and after a while, Editor Li Qiang sent another message to Zhou Fan.

  "Hello, may I ask if you are Zhou Yifan, the author of 'The Legend of Book and Sword'?"

  "Yes, hello."

  "I'm contacting you today because I wanted to discuss with you the publication of 'The Record of Sword and Book Enmity'."

  "We plan to publish your work at a price of 50 yuan per thousand words, what do you think?"

  "Is it 50 yuan for a thousand words?"

  Zhou Fan thought for a moment.

  One thousand words for fifty yuan, ten thousand words for five hundred, one hundred thousand words for five thousand.

  The Book and Sword Chronicles has about 600,000 words in total. Calculating it this way, the profit seems to be only 30,000.

  This is also too little, right?

  If it were his own work, Zhou Fan might have agreed directly. However, this is "The Book and the Sword", a classic novel by Jin Yong, and they wanted to buy it for 30,000 yuan. He couldn't agree to that, even if he was a big fan of Jin Yong's works in his past life. But Zhou Fan didn't say that the money was too little, instead, he changed his tone and said, "I'm not very fond of this buyout method. How about we adopt a profit-sharing cooperation model?"

  If Zhou Fan hadn't posted "Book Sword" on Tiankong.com earlier, he would have really doubted whether the novel was suitable for this world. But in more than half a month, the incredible achievements of "Book Sword" had already told Zhou Fan that even on such a commercial online literature platform, "Book Sword En Chou Lu" could still burst out its potential.

  Nature, at the price of 50 yuan per thousand words, Zhou Fan was unwilling to sell it out.

  However, Zhou Fan's proposal was interrupted by Li Qiang.

  "Sorry, currently our usual way of cooperation is to buy out the rights, we don't do profit sharing. Only some well-known authors adopt this method. Moreover, for you, as a newcomer, buying out the rights also has its benefits. Because at this time, you don't have to worry about whether your work sells well or not, you just need to receive the payment, and we'll take on the risk."

  Li Qiang is still a capable editor with relatively good business skills. If he were a new author, he would really be deceived into signing a contract.

  Of course, Zhou Fan, although a new author, clearly knew the future value of Book Sword.

  "I still tend towards our previous cooperative model."

  "Alright, if it's like this, then unfortunately, your work will also be unable to get published in the future."

  "What's going on, are you trying to shut me down?"

  Zhou Fan was a bit inexplicable. However, he had confidence in "The Book and the Sword", if your publishing house didn't publish it, wouldn't others do so?

  The other party didn't respond, which made Zhou Fan feel a bit depressed, so he directly deleted him and ignored those guys.

  Sanlian Publishing House

  Sanlian Publishing House is a relatively small publishing company. Due to its limited strength, Sanlian has never been able to expand and can only publish a limited number of books. However, recently the company has encountered a dilemma. The problem is that they have discovered that the number of people planning to purchase works globally has been decreasing year by year. In the past, when a new book was released, it would sell at least tens of thousands of copies. Now, selling two or three hundred thousand copies is considered a bestseller.

  Have to say, this is really a tragedy.

  Of course, many scholars have discovered this point. They believe that with the emergence of online writing and the Internet, paper books will be greatly affected. When everyone can open their computers or directly use their mobile phones, why would they want to buy physical books?

  However, Li Zhi Cheng, the boss of Sanlian Publishing House, does not think so.

  He believes that although physical books are under pressure from online e-books, the real reason why paper-based books are becoming less and less popular is not this, but rather that there are not many classic works being published globally.

  Yes, this phenomenon has plagued the Earth Federation for decades, but so far, no solution has been found to this problem.

  The reason they got this answer is that they think the audience for paper books has always been stable. In other words, people who usually buy paper books haven't decreased and continue to buy them. Those who like e-books didn't plan on buying paper books in the first place.

  The reason is simple: no matter how many e-readers there are, it doesn't affect the sales of their paper books.

  In the end, there are not many classic works in the market that can stimulate users' purchasing needs.

  This has also led to global publishing groups making less profit every year.

  Li Zhi Cheng opened Tianya.cn out of boredom and wanted to see what's trending lately.

  After all, in the online works market, their reaction speed is still relatively fast, which is beneficial for Li Zhi Cheng's analysis and judgment of the market.

  The Book and the Sword

  For some reason, when Li Zhi Cheng, the boss of Sanlian Publishing House, opened the website for the first time, he discovered this work.

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