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Chapter 12. Triple Soft Hardcover "The Condor Heroes" (Part 2)

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That's right, as a Hong Kong martial arts master, Jin Yong's influence is definitely no worse than that of any big star, and even higher than many formal literati.

Especially in the 1980s, Jin Yong's TV series and his novels were rampant, and the entire land of China was fascinated by Jin Yong. In order to watch the TV series "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", the uncles and men in charge of boiling boilers in Nandu were all skipped the shift to watch TV, which eventually caused the boiler explosion and became a big news around the surrounding area. Under tremendous pressure, the TV station had to stop broadcasting this set of Hong Kong TV series.

Jin Yong's martial arts novels are also rampant. In addition to the very thin novels in the earliest period, there are Sichuan literary and artistic "The Book and Sword of the Sword", Hainan vertical version of traditional Chinese characters, and Baowentang version of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", poor Mr. Jin Yong confiscated a penny of copyright fees, but his masterpiece was divided up by many diverse publishing houses.

Now Wang Heizi is very confident to say that the martial arts novels he has at hand are all masterpieces of Jin Yong, and they also originate from Jin Yong's ubiquitous popularity.

Jin Yong's is the best.

However, facing Wang Heizi's confidence, Lin Yi smiled and said, "Maybe Mr. Jin Yong's works are indeed very good, but his novels are too common now, especially many stories have been adapted into TV series, such as "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", "The Legend of Condor Heroes", "The Deer and the Cauldron", and "The Deer and the Cauldron". There are seven or eight versions at most. Many people are tired of watching it and can't watch it on TV. Who still buys books to read..."

All Lin Yi said is true, but it is because it is true that it makes people embarrassed.

Wang Heizi's face became darker and was about to refute, Lin Yi changed his mind, "But can you let me see what book it is first? If it's good, I can buy some."

Wang Heizi seemed to have caught a life-saving straw and hurriedly said, "I happened to bring a few sets today, wait a moment." He ran to his stall.

Soon, turn back.

I saw Wang Heizi taking a set of unopened martial arts novels, which turned out to be a set of four books and one set of "The Legend of Condor Heroes" with a light brown cover on the triple version, complete.

"Sanlian? There are many pirated books in Sanlian." Lin Yi frowned.

Dong Yanjing next to him also said, "Yes, I have sold such books before. One book costs at most five yuan. Sometimes it costs ten yuan a set. There are too many pirated copies and many words are not clear."

Wang Heizi was anxious, "I paid a lot of money to collect this. It is absolutely genuine, not comparable to those pirated versions... If you don't believe it, just open it and see if what I said is right."

Seeing him say this, Lin Yi was not polite, so he took apart the sealing film wrapped around the book, looked through it, it turned out to be a soft hardcover book lock.

You should know that many of the books published now are glued, and it takes time to lock the thread. You have to glue the spine through it and then use a good thread to carefully lock the entire spine. Such books are not easy to open glue and fall off the pages.

In this way, the book craftsmanship of the thread lock is much higher than that of ordinary books, the cost is higher, and the price is often not low.

Moreover, this set of books is even more valuable if it is published by Sanlian Publishing House. You should know that there are four major publishing houses in China, namely: Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House, People's Literature Publishing House, Business Publishing House, and Sanlian Publishing House.

Most of the books published in ancient books in Shanghai are very literary and are very popular among readers. As the name suggests, people's literature has published many domestic and foreign literary works, and is a regular army in the publishing industry. Generally, the selection of editions is strictly selected and the school is carefully, and there are few mistakes. The business publisher first took the route of ancient books, but later it directly took the route of academic and dictionary. Most of the published books are academic works, or dictionaries at home and abroad, which are the favorites of real scholars. Finally, it is Sanlian. "Sanlian" has always been associated with "life", and is called Sanlian Life Publishing House. As the name suggests, it is for the public. As long as it is a subject that the people like, this publisher will publish, such as the very popular Sanmao Literature Series, Qiong Yao Romance Series, Xiao Yi's Martial Arts Series, Gu Long Martial Arts Series, and of course, Jin Yong's martial arts novels.

It is precisely because Sanlian is famous enough that most of the published books are bestsellers, so it has become a favorite among many pirated groups.

According to statistics, in the early 1990s, Sanlian suffered pirated books, and Sanlian spent a lot of money to buy copyrights. Before they were sold in bookstores, they had been pirated by small booksellers, and rented or sold in bookstores, as well as cheap bookstores. Therefore, if you like to rent novels, you must have read Sanlian's pirated books, especially the Wolongsheng series and the Jin Yong series.

Lin Yi looked through the triple version of Jin Yong's "The Legend of Condor Heroes" in his hand, and a wisp of book fragrance overflowed... Lin Yi was slightly surprised and used to wipe his nose habitually, but at this moment, a change occurred.

I saw that the fragrance of books floating out of martial arts novels was increasing. Lin Yi's nose was like a magnet, sucking the trace of spiritual energy contained in every page of the book with all his heart. Even the originally neatly printed and exquisite pages became a little exhausted. The originally clear handwriting began to float like tadpoles on the writing, becoming blurred and abstract---

What is an accident? It means that the development of something is beyond your imagination. Of course, Lin Yi felt it at this time.

The accident continues---

The essence of the book is still quickly integrating into Lin Yi's body. Slowly, Lin Yi found that he could clearly memorize some of the wonderful contents of this book, and even memorize it backwards, as if these clips have been read many times, but they can easily pick them up from their minds--

For example, Chapter 32, what is love---

Xiaolongnu looked at it for a while and suddenly asked: "Do you say that after a person dies, he really has a King of Yama?"

Yang Guo said: "I hope this will happen. In the dark world, there will be a torture of the Knife Mountain and the Oil Pot. Otherwise, we will never meet and gather together."

Xiaolongnu said: "Yes, I hope there is a good thing to have a dark world. I heard that there was a Meng Po on the road to the underworld. She asked you to drink a bowl of soup and all kinds of things in the Yang world. I won't drink this bowl of soup. I will always remember your kindness forever." She is good at self-control, although her sad tone is still plain.

But Yang Guo couldn't bear it and turned around to wipe his tears.

Xiaolongnu sighed: "The things in the underworld are slim, so it's better to be immortal. Look at how beautiful this flower is."

Yang Guo followed her finger and saw a crimson flower on the side of the road blooming from the mouth of the bowl. He trembled slightly in the wind, like a peony, not a peony, not a peony, not a peony, not a peony, not a peony, not a peony, and said, "This flower is rare to bloom so brightly in the middle of winter. I will give it a name and call it Dragon Girl Flower." Then he went over and picked it and inserted it into the temples of Xiaolong Girl.

Xiaolongnu smiled and said, "Thank you. I gave me a good flower and gave the flower a good name."

...

I don't know how long it took---

"Brother Lin, Brother Lin, are you okay? How about my book? You are talking, huh, are you dizzy? Why are you doing with your eyes closed? Is it a headache to see the words like me..." Wang Heizi urged from the side.

Lin Yi came to his senses and looked at the book "The Legend of Condor Heroes". The handwriting was very different from what he had just happened to be, and it turned out to be a little blurry, as if it was not printed clearly.

Lin Yi couldn't help but feel guilty and hurriedly turned the book to the copyright page to cover it up.

The copyright page is very clear---

Author: Jin Yong

Publisher: Life, Reading, New Knowledge, Sanlian Bookstore

Publication time: The first printing in Beijing in September 1999

Binding: Soft hardcover

No pricing

Number of prints: 600 volumes

...

How come there is no pricing to print only 600 copies? Is this... limited edition?

Lin Yi felt suspicious and felt that this set of books must be valuable.

Lin Yi couldn't guess thoroughly, and Wang Heizi didn't understand.

In fact, since 1994, Beijing Sanlian Bookstore obtained exclusive authorization from Jin Yong and began to publish "Jin Yong's Works Collection" in mainland China (a total of 12 types, 36 volumes, and the full set of paperbacks is priced at 688 yuan). Since then, the market for Jin Yong's works has been opened, and Beijing Sanlian Bookstore has made a lot of money because of this. Originally, Jin Yong wanted to renew his contract with Sanlian Bookstore, but Jin Yong suddenly unilaterally added many requirements, such as selling at least 40,000 sets a year, and increasing the royalties for Jin Yong.

Cheng and others were unable to accept Sanlian, so they did not renew the contract successfully. The copyright contract was terminated on November 30, 2001 and no longer renewed the contract. Since then, Sanlian's version of "Jin Yong's Works Collection" has become out of print. The publishing and sales agency rights of Jin Yong's 12 sets of works were exclusively authorized to Guangzhou Publishing House in 2001, and the new version of "Jin Yong's Works Collection" was jointly published by Guangzhou Publishing House and Huacheng Publishing House. Since then, "Jin Yong's Works Collection" bid farewell to Sanlian and entered the Guangzhou edition era.

The reason why Guangzhou Publishing House published "Jin Yong's Works Collection" was probably because it attracted the popularity of Jin Yong in the mainland and believed that "Jin Yong's Works Collection" was already a "long-term book" in the mainland.

Of course, there is a change in content. For example, the end of "The Book and Sword of Revenge" adds a chapter "Where is the Soul" to allow the dead Princess Xiangxiang to meet Chen Jialuo; in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Huang Yaoshi's crush on his female disciple Mei Chaofeng; in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", the emotional scene between Yang Guo and Xiaolongnu was added, which made Yang Guo fall in love with Guo Xiang, and also changed the image of King Jinlun, changing his way of death, making him more humane; in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Zhang Wuji was unable to forget Xiao Zhao, Yin Li and Zhou Zhiruo; in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", Duan Yu became a monk, and Wang Yuyan eventually married Murong Fu; in "The Deer and the Cauldron", Wei Xiaobao eventually lost all his property due to gambling, and only three of his seven wives were left.

Who would have thought that this "change" actually caused a strong backlash from many "gold fans". Many "gold fans" were quite puzzled by Jin Yong's move to modify his works. In their eyes, the old version of Jin Yong's martial arts novels was relatively perfect, and the revisions were suspected of being extravagant, and they missed the past even more. Therefore, when the "Guangzhou version" flooded into the book market and the "Sanlian version" was already out of print, the "Sanlian version" in the old book market became a hot commodity.

The 600 limited edition "The Legend of Condor Heroes" in Lin Yi's hand is a "soft hardcover" unpriced version specially customized in order to meet some special gift-giving customers during the Sanlian publication period. Whether it is cover design or paper binding, it is better. Because there is no pricing, it is said how much it is when it is given out, and the quantity is very rare, so it is difficult to see in the market. Now, such a set of "The Legend of Condor Heroes" has been sold to a high price of 2,500 yuan in the hands of experts.

It’s just a pity that Wang Heizi doesn’t know anything, but he takes the treasure but treats it as a hot taro to throw it out.

Relying on his sensitive sense of smell and increasingly well-known recognition, Lin Yi determined that this set of Jin Yong's martial arts books was a rare treasure.

He calmly looked through several other sets casually. Sure enough, they were all limited editions with no price tags.

Seeing that he was looking carefully, Wang Heizi couldn't help asking urgently: "How is it, do you like it?"

Lin Yi sighed, his eyes were vague, and he shook his head and said, "It's hard to say!"
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