Seeing Hu Huifang's face beaming with joy, Zhang Zhong said nothing. In fact, it was just a Nebula Award, and it did not rise to the level of bringing glory to the country.
If it weren't for Zhang Zhong, Hu Huifang might not have paid attention to the Nebula Award.
The average reading amount of Chinese people is still very low. According to Linkaipu big data, the average reading amount of Chinese people is less than six paper books.
The Jews who love reading the most read nearly 70 books, and the Neon Kingdom next door has 40 books.
In comparison, the amount of reading among Chinese people is pitifully small.
Speaking of which, China's annual book sales are no lower than any other country, but this is based on China's large population.
This leads to a phenomenon.
In China, there are many people who pay attention to physical books, but there are even more people who don't pay attention.
For example, there are 50 million people who usually pay more attention to physical books. This is already a very huge number. If you put it in Neon, it would be half of others. If you put it in Koryo, it would be the entire population of the country.
But in China, it means that only one out of thirty people pays attention to physical books.
People like Hu Huifang usually read quite a lot, but they mostly read famous classics, or occasionally go to bookstores to read. It is impossible to pay attention to the Nebula Awards.
Now, Zhang Zhong has been nominated, which has not only attracted attention to Hu Huifang, but also attracted the attention of many people in China who had not paid attention before.
Apart from anything else, this wave of assists from CCTV alone can attract the attention of many people.
This is definitely a good thing for Zhang Zhong, which is very intuitive from the sales volume of new books.
Since the announcement of the Nebula Awards, the sales of the new book "The Last Starfish" have suddenly shot up again.
Not only the sales in China, but also in North America are increasing faster.
According to statistics, in just one week, the global sales of "The Last Starfish" reached 19 million copies.
Some enthusiastic netizens also made a calculation to calculate the royalties that Zhang Zhong could earn from this book in a week. The final figure was 160 million, which has exceeded the previous expectations of netizens.
In fact, this netizen considers the remuneration for the physical version to be too much. After all, Zhang Zhong also has to pay taxes.
However, the overall royalties have exceeded 160 million, because in addition to the physical version, there is also income from the electronic version, which is also a part that cannot be underestimated.
If this book is made into a movie in the future, the income from the copyright will definitely be added to it.
It's only been a week now, and sales will definitely increase in the future. If Zhang Zhong really wins the Nebula Award, or even the Hugo Award, then the sales of this book will usher in two waves of dramatic growth.
Zhang Zhong guessed that the final profit from this book may exceed 500 million Huaxia coins.
At that time, netizens were clamoring about participating in a large project worth 100 million yuan. Little did they know that they still underestimated the book. It is very likely that the large project would eventually double several times. Anyway, it has now exceeded their expectations.
Now that the sales volume for a week has been released, and netizens have thoughtfully helped Zhang Zhong calculate his income, donations will have to be put on the agenda. Zhang Zhong also knows that many people are staring at this matter now.
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But there is no need to rush, this matter can be done slowly, and even if he is in a hurry, he cannot rush it. Even if he sells the money now, hundreds of schools will not suddenly appear.
This matter has to be left to the company, and he doesn't have that much time. The donation needs to confirm the intention, qualifications, and discuss the address. If he does it by himself, he won't have to do other things in the past few years, just go to school.
The process is over.
The company has set up a team to deal with these matters, and the team members will then contact the local management agencies on behalf of the company.
The first Hope Primary School is already going through the process, and Chen Qing called yesterday.
This first Hope Primary School was chosen in Nanhuai Province. It had already been contacted by the Provincial Youth Foundation. The other party provided several addresses to choose from. The purpose of Chen Qing's call was to let Zhang Zhong choose a site.
Zhang Zhong let Chen Qing make his own decision. In fact, it doesn't matter which one he chooses. Anyway, there will be a second one and a third one in a while... Those who haven't chosen it now will soon choose it later.
The first Hope Primary School was named after Zhang Zhong, Peng Peng.
Speaking of which, the word "Pengpeng" is quite suitable for the name of Hope Primary School.
The word "Pengpeng" is taken from the sentence in "The Book of Songs, Puanfeng, Zaichi", "I walk in the wild, and Pengpeng brings wheat", and Pengpeng describes the lush vegetation and represents the meaning of thriving.
The words "hope" and "pengpeng" are quite appropriate no matter how you look at them.
But this is just the name of the first school. You can name it any way you like, and it doesn’t have to be a person’s name.
Most people who donate to Hope Primary School will name it after themselves. Most of these people want to ask for a name. Of course, Zhang Zhong has also seen a person say, "Name it after me. If anything happens, come to me."
Zhang Zhong was in no position to do either of these things. He didn't want to seek fame. He also didn't want to ask others to come to him if something happened.
He donated money, but if he really has a problem, to be honest, he should go to the Youth Development Foundation.
Zhang Zhong pressed a rivet on the map on the wall of the study room. At that location, a "Pengpeng Hope Primary School" will be built.
He believes that in the near future, more and more rivets will be hammered into this picture.
After reading it, he sat back behind his desk and prepared to spend 30,000 points to draw a prize.
A few days ago, he thought about holding off until next year before taking part in the lottery, but today he gained 10,000 points, which made him feel a little itchy.
But before he started the lottery, he received a call from Liu Hong, the president of Jiangyang University.
This was a late call. Ever since Xu Wenxuan told Zhang Zhong about jointly running a school, this was the first time Liu Hong had contacted him.
"Hello, Principal Liu." Zhang Zhong answered the phone and said hello with a smile.
"Teacher Zhang, have you had dinner?"
"Excuse me, I've already had my meal. I wonder if Principal Liu called me at this time. Does he have any instructions? My class is over and the school is about to have a holiday." Zhang Zhong pretended to be confused, pretending to understand.
, play Tai Chi with Liu Hong.
Liu Hong was direct and straight to the point, "I called because I wanted to discuss something with Teacher Zhang. President Qi Lin of Jinling University had a phone call with me two days ago. They intend to jointly establish a college with Jiangyang University.
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"Jointly running a school?" Zhang Zhong said in surprise, "Then this is a good thing."
The corner of Liu Hong's mouth on the other end of the phone twitched. He actually knew that Zhang Zhong already knew about the joint school running, and he also knew that Zhang Zhong knew that he knew that Zhang Zhong knew about this matter.
It sounds a bit hard to say, but the fact is that both of them knew it in their hearts, but they were both pretending to be confused.
"Yeah, I think it's a good thing too, but things are a bit sudden, so I called to discuss it with you."