Silicon Valley

v2 Chapter 224: The rise of novel websites

On November 1, "Resident Evil" was officially published.

At this time, people in the industry are very concerned about this, because "Resident Evil" can be used as a reference. Can the physical publishing of online novels sell well? And this is closely related to one's own vital interests! ! !

"Resident Evil" has been put on the shelves in bookstores across the United States. As soon as the door opened, many people gathered at the door of some bookstores!

"Boss, is there a book "Resident Evil"? It is the latest book written by Henry Williams!"

"Yes!!!" The boss smiled very happy when he heard the words. A group of boys and girls at the door can make a lot of money by buying one copy a day!

The bookstore owner led the crowd into the bookstore, and then while pointing to the location of the book "Resident Evil", he said: "5 dollars a copy, you have to buy it as soon as possible, the stock is not much!" In fact, in the bookstore owner's warehouse, There are more than two hundred books in storage. Henry Williams' books are generally best-sellers. Take a look at his "Harry Potter" and "Jurassic Park". Which one is not popular? The bookstore owner has full confidence in Henry Williams!

As soon as the bookstore owner’s voice fell, a group of people rushed to buy it.

Mad, the bookstore owner is really brain-dead, and he doesn't even have enough stock for Henry Williams' new book, so hurry up and grab it, you will have your hands fast, your hands will be slow! ! !

The bookstore owner saw them look like tigers and wolves, and suddenly couldn't laugh or cry: "Don't grab, don't grab! I still have a lot of stock in my warehouse..."

...

West German Publishing Company.

Edward paced around the office, a little worried about the sales of Resident Evil. He is not sure that this book has already been uploaded on the Internet, and it can sell well in reality!

Henry sat on one side of the sofa and sipped tea slowly.

"Hehe. Edward actually got a pack of the best Longjing..."

Henry was not in a hurry, and smiled and said to Edward: "Come for tea. Are you always walking around, don't you feel dizzy?"

"Oh." Edward replied, and walked across to Henry to sit down, put another cup of tea on the coffee table, opened his mouth and drank it.

Henry saw it and shook his head involuntarily.

"It's useless to be in a hurry, you see, I am very calm!"

Edward looked at Henry with a look of helplessness.

"Oh, Chairman. Why don't you care about your new book sales?"

"I care, why don't you care?" Henry put down the teacup and said with a smile, "But it's useless to care. All we should do has already been done. Now we just need to wait for the result! Edward, You have to put your mentality well, isn't it a physical book? It's not a big deal..."

Edward heard this. Suddenly there was a black line. The foundation of West German Publishing House is to publish physical books...

Edward sat for a while, always feeling uncomfortable.

At this time, the knock on the office door rang. A young female secretary came in!

The female secretary first greeted Henry and Edward, and then said excitedly: "This morning, bookstores across the United States have lined up to buy books. The new book "Resident Evil" is on sale!!!"

Edward felt relieved when he heard the words. There was a happy expression on his face, and he said in his mouth: "Great. Great..."

Henry chuckled and shook his head. He picked up the tea cup and slowly tasted it. Although he couldn't taste any special taste, the fragrance of the tea gave him endless aftertaste. It was a familiar Chinese taste, which made him unconscious. Remember all the past lives!

At 8 o'clock in the evening, the sales statistics were completed, and "Resident Evil" sold 500,000 copies that day. When West German Publishing announced the news, many people were shocked.

The reporters interviewed today’s book buyers, and later found that among these people, 40% are Henry Williams readers; 25% like to watch "Resident Evil" and bought them for collection. ; There are 35% of people who are curious about this book. Millions of people on the Internet read "Resident Evil", which shows that this book is well written, and this book is also the world's richest man and genius writer Henry William What Si wrote, curiosity couldn't help getting heavier... So, I also bought a copy!

The successful publication of "Resident Evil" has undoubtedly injected strong confidence into the majority of IReader novel website writers!

In the following week, the sales of "Resident Evil" novels were booming, with a total of 3 million copies sold, ranking first in the best-selling list of American novels this week! ! !

At this time, the other publishers were silent!

Subsequently, the major publishing companies immediately held a meeting to discuss future development.

“Let’s also build a novel website!!!” Someone suggested at the beginning of the meeting, “Internet publicity is much better than the actual effect, because online reading is cheap, if you read pirated copies, it’s still free! Therefore, one copy Books are easier to be read by other people. In this way, the popularity of the book is high, and we can also get the full copyright of the novel like IReader novel website to obtain more benefits!!!"

"Yes! I heard that when they sign a work, it is usually a full copyright contract. The IReader novel website can obtain the right to operate all copyrights such as film and television adaptation rights, or game adaptation rights, and the profit will be shared with the author! !!!"

"Well! It seems feasible. Although the publication of physical books will be affected, from the analysis of the book "Resident Evil", the impact does not seem to be too great!"

"Well, it seems that the establishment of a novel website is very feasible!"

"Since everyone thinks it's okay, then we will also establish a novel website!!!"

"it is good!!!"

"..."

Not long afterwards, many publishing houses in the United States decided to establish novel websites. After planning for a few weeks, the imitator IReader's novel website also launched their own novel website! These publishing houses are ambitious and feel that the future is bright. They imagine that after a novel under the website becomes famous, they will receive film and television adaptations, game adaptations, etc., it can be said that they are dreaming of making money every day! ! !

What can Henry say?

Not all novel websites can be as successful as IReader novel websites. The backstage of IReader novel websites on the Internet is ICQ, which is Henry! ! !

Even if the largest publishing house in the United States has established a novel website ~lightnovelpub.net~ it can't do the same as IReader novel website! ICQ traffic can make IReader novel website far ahead of other websites, not to mention, due to the first-mover advantage, IReader novel website has become bigger and stronger, in the eyes of netizens, it is the largest and best novel website.

In addition, the IReader novel website is closer to the development of civilians, everyone can be a writer. Readers have read all the novels written by traditional writers. Naturally, their tastes will change. On the contrary, reading novels written by ordinary people feels funny, refreshing and more interesting!

Many publishers did not realize this, and while holding hundreds of works owned by the company on their websites, they shouted slogans! Among them, the slogan of the American publishing giant McGraw Hill is as follows:

"To build the best novel website, our novels are all works by well-known authors, no bad works!!!"

The last sentence, "No bad work", obviously means something!

(PS: There is one more at 10:30 in the evening)

(To be continued.)