One week after the release of "Rainbow in the Drizzle", China's book market experienced another wave of shock, because the great devil Zhang Zhong released a new book.
The new book "After School" will officially meet readers on September 6th.
The promotion of "After School" has been going on, but there was too much other news about Zhang Zhong during this period, so the news of the release of "After School" was drowned out and became a bit inconspicuous.
It is indeed difficult to be eye-catching. After all, this summer, the two books "The Shining" and "I, Robot" have been on people's lips. In addition to hiding in bed and experiencing the horror of "The Shining", people also
Keep discussing the "Three Laws of Robotics" with others.
Moreover, the residual heat of "Dune" and "The Wandering Sea Ball" has not dissipated. The global sales of "Dune" continue to rise. Book lovers have been paying attention to how far it can go.
There is also a sequel to "The Wandering Sea Ball". Readers have been looking forward to it, but there is no news at all.
In addition to these books, Zhang Zhong's previous inscription for He Ruchu in Yanjing also caused a stir.
Just imagine how difficult it would be to promote "After School" under such circumstances.
But even so, there was no problem with the sales of "After School". It maintained a high level of popularity and crushed all the books on the market as soon as it came out.
This book did not arouse much response, with few criticisms and few praises.
There are not many criticisms because this book is indeed a good book, and it is definitely of a high standard among mystery novels. But there are few praises because the author of this book is Zhang Zhong.
Zhang Zhong has given readers too many surprises since his debut, and almost every time he brings something different.
If "After School" was written by another writer, readers might be more relaxed and give it an eight or even nine.
But this book is serious, so that's different.
For Zhang Zhong, this book can only be regarded as passing, so a score of six or seven is enough.
This is called the expectation gap.
However, readers said that there was no surprise in this book, but they did not go home empty-handed after going to the bookstore, and they all bought a copy.
There is no way, although it is not outstanding compared with Zhang Zhong's own books, but it is different when compared with other books. It seems that Zhang Zhong's book is still the best.
This book has sold very well both in China and Europe and the United States.
What Zhang Zhong didn't expect was that "After School" would still encounter waterloo in Neon.
Isn't this unscientific?
If times and the world have changed, "After School" may not be accepted by others, but readers in other countries also read it with gusto.
Only Neon, they even showed a repulsive reaction to the book.
The funniest thing is that a Neon historian named Kusaka Zuo jumped out to criticize "After School".
The point of his criticism is quite strange.
"Previously, Zhang Zhong's book has never had a simultaneous release in Neon. However, this time he chose Neon as the first country to be released simultaneously, probably because his book did not perform well in the Neon market before.
I am very pleased that Zhang Zhong attaches great importance to the Neon book market, but he should not try to open up the Neon market with such a rough book. Neon readers have their own aesthetics, and they pursue literary pursuits
They are never flattering, and they will not look down upon Zhang Zhong because of his reputation. They are good readers, but they are also the most difficult readers to conquer. Obviously, facts have proved that "After School" is not sincere.
Books cannot conquer neon readers. Because stripped of Zhang Zhong’s fame, this is just a very ordinary mystery novel..."
This is a bit disgusting to say. First of all, Zhang Zhong is very optimistic about the neon market. In other words, Zhang Zhong wants to curry favor with the readers of Neon, but in the end, the readers of Neon will not buy it at all. In the end, the readers of Neon will not buy it.
This shows that the reason why readers of Neon did not buy it is because if the book "After School" had not been famous by Zhang Zhong, it would have been sold out long ago.
This theory seems to be the same thing. After all, the sales volume of this book in Neon is not high, but the problem is that the sales volume of Zhang Zhong’s previous books is not high in Neon. Could it be that those books before Zhang Zhong
Is it also because of Zhang Zhong’s reputation that people from other countries buy it?
You know, when the book "Ten Little Indian Boys" came out, Zhang Zhong was not very famous.
But even this paragraph with a lot of logical holes is still very popular, and many people in Neon support this theory.
After all, Kusaka Zuo’s entire paragraph is praising the readers of Neon.
Well, it’s not our problem that we don’t like your book, but because we are all ambitious readers. It’s your book that’s the problem.
Chen Qing specifically mentioned this matter when reporting the sales volume of "After School" to Zhang Zhong.
"Boss, I really don't know why you want Neon to be the starting country. Now they are so arrogant."
"I just think this book is suitable for neon readers." Zhang Zhong really didn't expect that the sales would be so poor. This is the only work on earth that won the Edogawa Rampo Award.
It seemed that the boss had made a mistake. Chen Qing sighed and said, "Then can we give up the neon market properly? It's time-consuming, labor-intensive, and not very rewarding."
Zhang Zhong pondered for a while and said, "Why do you think this book was frustrated in Neon? Is it because the book is not good?"
"How is it possible? Even if this book doesn't become a hit, it won't have such a small sales volume in a country with more than 100 million people. I think they are simply xenophobic, but they talk nice, and they all have pursuits.
Readers will not be affected by unexpected things in the work, bah!"
Zhang Zhong smiled. It seemed that Chen Qing was so angry that he started to swear.
"Well, let's do an experiment to see if they are not affected by foreign objects. I will send you another book tomorrow. This time I will only send the neon language version. You can just make up the name of the neon country.
Author's name."
"This trick is okay." Chen Qing shouted, and then hesitated, "But isn't it a bit wasteful? This is a book."
"What's the waste? It's not that I can't publish it in other countries. I can just change the author's name when the time comes. It's just a small experiment."
"Well, I want to see if Neon's readers are really as fair and impartial as they say."
…
Zhang Zhong actually had some opinions on Kusakazuo's words.
Why, I've pawned the pawn for you, and you still want to erect a memorial arch. How can such a good thing happen?
Zhang Zhong conducted this experiment just to smash down their archway.