Chapter 233 A single spark can start a prairie fire
"Zhang Chu's works, Britain and the United States win the championship, creating a new era of Chinese-speaking writers!"
"Detective Sherlock Jedi Counterattack, the United States narrowly defeated the King of Descendants!"
"Sherlock is sought after in the UK, readers say this is the best fan work!"
"American Book Sales Report: Detective Sherlock tenaciously sniped the night school, and the king encountered Waterloo!"
"British media praises Zhang Chu's choice in the new book list, eighth in total"
"Shenxia successfully enters the beauty, foreign netizens shout incredible!"
"Have you read this book yet? It has won both Britain and the United States!"
News has been prepared long ago, and the data here will be released as soon as it is updated. The media are not honest. They are actually preparing to have two sets of manuscripts.
If it is Shen Xia Xibai, then let’s put it another way. Anyway, there is one that can only exist in the recycling bin.
This is indeed exciting news. Many writers are tragic in the European and American markets. Even a super master who can sell tens of millions of copies in China can only leave sadly in the critical eyes of European and American readers!
Now, Zhang Chu's works are so amazing that even many overseas Chinese can't help but help buy them. Even if they don't read them, they still have to buy them to increase sales.
The early morning in the United States is just the afternoon in China. I was tired from work or class on Monday, but as soon as this news came out, countless netizens seemed to have been injected with chicken blood, drowsy, and were resurrected in a state of full blood.
"It's amazing my brother!"
"So strong, I'm actually the winner!"
"I knew Juan Fu and Watson would not disappoint."
"As a fan of Zhang Chu, I am so happy that I can see new books almost every one or two months, and there is also these good news. It is simply a way to show our country's power!"
"I finally won. For the sake of Zhang Chuda, I said I would eat dirt this month. Not only did I buy "Journey to the West Diary", I also bought a "Detective Sherlock" on both the UK and the US Amazon to increase sales. It is so expensive to buy books from foreign countries!!! A book costs more than 100, not counting the postage!!"
"In Los Angeles, we jointly promoted it with the National Association of College Students' Reasoning, and it seems that the effect is quite good."
"Thank you for your help from the handsome guy upstairs. You have paid too much~"
The victory of a new book is never that simple. It is not just a reasoning, but also a detective novel enthusiast reading this book, and overseas study parties have worked together to organize publicity again and again.
Many readers in China have already read novels, but in order to successfully reach the list of "Detective Sherlock", they can directly exchange RMB for pounds or US dollars, and go to foreign online bookstores to order physical books and e-books for support.
Zhang Chu’s number of fans can’t accomplish such a difficult thing at all. Many of them are spontaneous behaviors of netizens. It seems that they have gained a lot now!
Never have a work in Chinese? It has been translated into English and can reach the top in the UK and the United States at the same time, and has never even reached the top on one side!
The cultural differences are huge, and it is possible that readers here will not buy it at all.
Many people think that everything will be fine if they translated in the past, and even hope that pure Chinese versions can be made on the list without translations, which is simply fantasy.
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"Win the championship?"
Tencent News pushed by Zhang Chu on WeChat was a little stunned. He knew that his agency was building momentum with TV stations and other media.
However, the gap between it and "Night School" was really big. I didn't expect that in the past two days, I not only caught up, but even surpassed it!
Now it seems that all kinds of actions have actually played a considerable role. After all, the publisher of "Night School" did not sit idly by, and there are also a variety of news and book reviews.
But the arm did not twist its thighs, and the two giants of BBC and CBS were boosting the game behind. Even if there was only a trace of turmoil, it was a storm for both new books!
"It's good to win the championship, so you won't be thinking about this all day long."
His mentality was quite good. He didn't jump up cheering or yelling, running around the playground. He just clenched his fists and celebrated in his heart.
This is actually a trick. If his first book was not "Sherlock Detective", but "Psychological Sin" or "Ghost Blows Out the Light", it would not open up the European and American markets at all.
Now that the market is opened with the works of Sherlock Holmes fantasy, at least a small group of readers can be cultivated, and these readers are the spark.
In the future, whether it is Zhang Chu's new works or the works of other Chinese writers, their sparks can ignite a spark and then gather into a prairie fire!
That's right, Zhang Chu is still cultivating readers now. If he doesn't train a few hardcore players in Europe and the United States, no one will read the story of the Chinese background later.
At least there are a few people who can help promote it. It is not realistic to rely on overseas Chinese or overseas students for a long time. To truly enter European and American culture, you have to conquer their locals!
In fact, young people nowadays have a high degree of cultural acceptance of countries around the world, and Chinese culture has always been relatively mysterious.
It is impossible for many writers to read traditional literature that foreign young people think of reading. Is it okay if even young people in their own country do not read those pure literary works?
How many young people have read the novel "Red Sorghum" on Earth?
I guess I haven't watched one tenth or one percent of "Fighting Break the Sky".
How many people have heard of Jia Pingwa's "The Extreme Flower", how many people know Yan Lianke, and how many people know who the author of "White Deer Plain" is?
The fig leaf of traditional literature is not overseas sales, but overseas library collections. After all, few readers actually buy books, and they promote how many libraries have collected their works.
But how often do young people go to the library to borrow books?
What about the number of borrowings after the library collection? Do they dare to announce it?
Even in terms of the number of library collections around the world, the number of libraries that collect "The Three-Body Problem" has exceeded 1,000, which is even higher than Mo Yan's works.
Times are changing, and the original old tricks actually don’t work. Zhang Chu never thought of becoming a serious literary writer, but wanted to take the curve to save the country.
Write popular literature first, accumulate readers all over the world, and then slowly transform, so that the influence will be much greater!
In Zhang Chu's view, China now has no shortage of good literature, no shortage of literary masters, but only lacks respect for literature and propaganda of literature.
Compared with science, literature is indeed useless. But the biggest use of literature may be that it is useless.
Chapter completed!