Zhang Zhong has not responded to fans' complaints. He has not yet decided whether "Harry Potter" will continue to be serialized or directly released as a stand-alone book later.
Unlike the system giving it to him directly, he wrote this book slowly by himself, so the progress is much slower.
The reputation of "Zero Zero One" has been completely opened up. The sales volume of the third issue directly reached 5 million, which is faster than selling books. Of course, the profit of the magazine is relatively low. Selling ten copies may not make a profit for one novel.
The sales volume of five million is already very high for a magazine, but Chen Qing does not seem to be satisfied. His plan is to make the sales of this magazine reach 10 million before 2021.
It has to be said that the success of two consecutive issues has made Chen Qing a little inflated. He has forgotten the cautiousness of printing 300,000 copies in the first issue.
Now Chen Qing's eyes are on leading magazines such as "Agitation", "Science Fiction World", and "Fantasy Martial Arts".
In fact, it is still too early for him to expand now.
Sales of five million copies should not be too difficult for "Zero Zero One", because the traffic of Yu Dongyu and Zhang Zhong alone is worth so many sales.
Going up further depends on the quality and dissemination of the magazine, and that's when you can see your real skills.
Editor-in-chief Liang Han is not as optimistic as Chen Qing. He knows that sales are now entirely supported by Zhang Zhong and Yu Dongyu.
But the magazine cannot always live under Zhang Zhong’s protection, and Yu Dongyu’s novels cannot be serialized forever.
Taking the first three issues as an example, the number of Zhang Zhong’s works in the magazine is getting smaller and smaller every issue. Maybe in a few issues, the only Zhang Zhong’s work in the magazine will be “Harry Potter”.
By that time, if Yu Dongyu's series of novels "A Thousand Doors" is discontinued, the magazine will have to rely on only one "Harry Potter".
As for "Harry Potter", although the online response is quite good at this stage, Liang Han feels that it is mainly because of Zhang Zhong's own halo. He may be able to achieve this effect by writing any book. The question is how the subsequent story will end.
No matter what, Liang Han has no bottom.
If "Harry Potter" can be more popular than he expected, then "Zero and One" can also rely on "Harry Potter" to continue to be popular.
But this is not what Liang Han wants to see. What he wants is that in addition to Zhang Zhong's part, the magazine itself can also be done well. Those readers who come to buy the magazine every time are not only for Zhang Zhong's books, but also for other reasons.
Something interests them.
He doesn't want "Zero Zero One" to become Zhang Zhong's solo show, which is also what Zhang Zhong doesn't want to happen.
Therefore, Liang Han is working very hard now. He even spends seven or eight hours a day helping the copy editors in the magazine to select manuscripts from the incoming submissions.
In addition, the magazine cover must set the tone.
This is something he has been worrying about recently. The first three issues of "Zero Zero One" have different covers and even different styles.
For ordinary magazines, the cover of each issue will definitely change, and it is impossible to use the same cover all the time.
But generally magazines have a main color, which is a fixed layout, which makes the magazine iconic.
Famous magazines can be recognized by readers from afar because of their recognizable and iconic cover layout.
This matter would definitely not be accomplished by the art editors of the magazine, so Liang Han sent out another call for submissions.
"Well, that's a good thing. I'll write the name of the magazine and I'll send it back to you, and you can just draw pictures yourself." After hearing Chen Qing talk about the call for submissions for the cover, Zhang Zhong responded very positively and encouraged them, "
The cover is the face of the magazine, and it’s great that you can think of a good face. However, since it’s a call for submissions, you should also give others some motivation.”
Chen Qing said, "The magazine is planning to use 20,000 yuan as a bonus for the selected works."
"Twenty thousand is too little. Let's use 100,000. The magazine has already made a profit, so this little money should be fine."
"Of course it's no problem, I just think the bonus..."
"Do you think the bonus is too high?" Zhang Zhong completed Chen Qing's unfinished words, and then said with a smile, "You said it was a matter of honor. You can't just give away your face for 20,000 yuan.
It’s about 100,000, no more, no less.”
Chen Qing nodded. Of course he knew that it was about face, but after all, it was not his own money, so it would not be appropriate to spend it without any concern.
"Okay, let's talk about it like this."
Zhang reinstalled his mobile phone and touched Pengpeng's head, who was writing big characters.
When this girl traveled to Baiyue last time, she became interested in calligraphy. At that time, Zhang Zhong said that he would teach her later. However, Pengpeng didn't say that he wanted to learn calligraphy for so long after coming back, and Zhang Zhong didn't think about it.
This girl didn't know what happened today. After dinner, she pulled Zhang Zhong and said she wanted to write big characters.
When his daughter wanted to learn, Zhang Zhong naturally taught her attentively and quickly prepared paper, ink, pen and inkstone for her. But as soon as he dipped Peng Peng in ink, Chen Qing called.
When calling Chen Qing, Pengpeng was thinking about it on his own, and Zhang Zhong didn't pay attention.
"What did you write?"
Zhang Zhong asked with a smile, then stretched his head to look, and saw a crooked word "big" written on the paper.
Yes, I said I wanted to write big characters, but I really just wrote "big" characters.
Big is one of the few words that Pengpeng knows.
"Dad, do I write well?" Pengpeng raised his head and asked.
"It looks good, it looks good." Zhang Zhong nodded against his will.
"Then I'll write another one." Pengpeng was encouraged and full of energy. She grabbed the brush and wrote another word "big".
Looking at the way Pengpeng held the pen, several black lines appeared on Zhang Zhong's forehead.
Pengpeng may have smaller hands and a larger brush, so he tightly grasped the penholder with his five fingers.
Although there is no definite way to hold a brush, this was the first time Zhang Zhong had seen him holding a brush like this, as if he was about to hit someone at any moment.
"Dad, look at whether the words I wrote are bigger."
Pengpeng doesn't know anything about calligraphy. She probably thought that the bigger the characters, the better. Otherwise, how could it be called writing big characters?
Zhang Zhong did not correct Pengpeng's pen-holding posture, he just wrote a word himself and asked her to follow it.
The posture of holding the pen is nothing more than for better writing services. If Peng Peng can really write well in this posture, it is not impossible. Although it is not very beautiful, the result is the same.
However, it is difficult to write well with this pen-holding posture, so Pengpeng will definitely find a better pen-holding posture in the future writing process.
Zhang Zhong has always believed that it is sometimes better to reverse the two words of teaching.
It is better to learn first and then teach than to teach first and then learn. Pengpeng has not reached the stage of learning yet, so there is no need to deliberately teach.
When she knows how to learn how to write and how to hold a pen, Zhang Zhong can teach her.