The sales of "Clockwork Girl" are not ideal. In the past half a month, the global sales volume was 49 million copies.
This kind of sales cannot be considered bad for any other writer, but for Zhang Zhong, it has declined somewhat.
Previously, it only took less than two days for "Sophie's World" to achieve this sales volume, and "The Da Vinci Code" was slightly worse, only taking five or six days.
But it took "Clockwork Girl" twenty days to reach this sales volume.
This sales figure includes those books that can be redeemed for free.
Logically speaking, since it can be redeemed for free, the sales figures should be higher than other works. Moreover, Zhang Zhong also specially wrote two short stories to pave the way for this book, so the sales volume should not be so low.
But after reading the investigation report handed over by Chen Qing, Zhang Zhong roughly understood.
It turns out that many readers are still waiting to accumulate enough points in order to exchange books for free.
Of course, this is not the only reason. The fundamental reason is that this book is too uncomfortable to read, which has caused many readers to complain and feel that the reading experience is not smooth.
The combination of these reasons resulted in unsatisfactory sales of this book.
The sales volume was not ideal, and many people redeemed it for free, so Zhang Zhong was able to earn very little money from "Clockwork Girl".
However, this does not mean that Zhang Zhong has lost money this time. In fact, with the sacrifice of "Clockwork Girl", the sales of Zhang Zhong's other books have increased during this period.
The combined increased sales of those books may make more money than "The Wind-up Girl" alone.
Just like a shopping mall doing promotional activities, customers may make money, but merchants never lose money.
In addition to the news that the sales of "Clockwork Girl" were not ideal, Zhang Zhong also heard good news, that is, the sales of "The Last Starfish Man" exceeded 100 million, becoming Zhang Zhong's third novel with sales exceeding 100 million.
The two books that exceeded 100 million were "Dune" and "Sophie's World".
Of course, because of Zhang Zhong’s previous promise, all royalties from “The Last Starfish Man” will be donated, which means Zhang Zhong needs to donate approximately 600 million Chinese coins.
The sales of "The Last Starfish" can exceed 100 million. The role of the movie is very large, and according to the current momentum, it may surpass "Dune" and become Zhang Zhong's best-selling novel.
The sales volume exceeded 100 million, which also reminded many people of Zhang Zhong’s previous promise. Many netizens brought up the past and talked about donations.
[If I remember correctly, Zhang Zhong said that he would donate all the sales of "The Last Starfish Man". 】
[Not just donating it, he said at the time that he would donate it all to build a Hope Primary School. 】
[I also remember that at that time we all said that we had participated in a large project worth over 100 million yuan. 】
[Yeah, but some people estimate the royalties for this book to be 60 million, haha, it’s probably more than 600 million now. 】
[The problem is that I haven’t seen many Zhang Zhong Hope Primary Schools yet.]
[Yeah, I haven’t seen a few of them. Have any of you seen them? 】
【Didn’t see it.】
【It’s not like he regrets it.】
[Isn’t this deceiving readers’ feelings? 】
[There is a black man upstairs, let the administrator deal with it.]
[Don’t be blind, we have a Hope Primary School donated by Zhang Zhong here, but it’s not called Mr. Zhang’s Hope Primary School.]
[Yes, people don’t have to name it after themselves. 】
[Don’t you have a bad memory? Didn’t Zhang Zhong’s company disclose it before? They donated 130 million to the Youth Development Foundation, and other large and small donations totaled 100 million. This was something before, but now
There must be more.]
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Perhaps because there were a lot of discussions about this matter online, the Youth Development Foundation also came out the next day to announce all of Zhang Zhong’s donation projects.
Accounts show that the Youth Development Foundation has successively received a total of 210 million donations from Zhang Zhong. Forty hope primary schools have been built and 150 more are under construction.
Not only that, the Youth Foundation also listed the addresses and names of these 190 hope primary schools. In some of them, Zhang Zhong donated not only school buildings, but also some additional materials. These things, the Youth Foundation
All listed one by one.
The company's official website also released a statement titled "I hope everyone will forget about the donation of royalties for "The Last Starfish"."
This title is quite eye-catching.
Does Zhang Zhong really want to regret it? Is he unwilling to donate all the money?
However, after reading the main text, readers suddenly realized that the original statement said that everyone should forget about the donation of royalties for "The Last Starfish" because their donation would not be limited to the royalties of "The Last Starfish". The implication was that
In other words, the money they donated will definitely exceed the royalties of "The Last Starfish".
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Zhang Zhong was not in the mood to care about those trivial matters. He was sitting by the lake with Lin De and others, admiring the sunset.
"I have a lot of memories here."
The person who spoke was Affleck. This guy came here yesterday and only called Zhang Zhong after he arrived in China. At that time, Zhang Zhong and Linde had already arrived at the island in the middle of the lake, so they asked him to come directly.
"The Last Starfish" had been filmed here on the island in the middle of the lake, so Affleck had this emotion.
Since the popularity of "Ten Little Indian Boys" and "The Last Starfish Man", the tourism industry here on Huxin Island has also improved to a higher level. The Jiangyang government also intends to base the planning of Huxin Island on these two movies.
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In particular, the villa built for the filming of "Ten Little Indian Boys" has now become a must-visit attraction for tourists.
Zhang Zhong looked at the calm lake, and what he was thinking about was the "Lord of the Flies" he was writing recently. Because it was not drawn from the system lottery, he needed to combine his previous memories to write it out by himself, so the speed was much slower.
A few days later, he had only written less than a third of it.
"Tell me, what would happen if there were only people on this island left in the world now, and the lake was full of ferocious underwater creatures?"
Zhang Zhong's sudden question aroused the interest of several others.
Llorente spoke first, "If it is really like what you said, then none of us can escape and can only live on the resources of the island. But according to the current situation, the resources of this island are
There is no way for people like us to survive."
Now there are many people on the island, but there are not many resources on the island, and the resources in the water are not used, so the first thing people face is the problem of food and water.
"People will be eliminated internally immediately, leaving a small number of people." Llorente expressed his conjecture.
Linde shook his head and said, "It shouldn't be so soon, because everyone is a member of a civilized society. The stage you mentioned will still take some time."