The scene on the day when the novel "Pumping Heartbeat" was released was probably the dullest one in recent years when Yu Dong's novels were released. But even so, there were still a lot of people in bookstores around the world who went to bookstores early in the morning to ask about the status of the new book.
Most other writers have a much more lively scene releasing new books.
Because the promotion of the new book this time is a little weaker than before, it relied on loyal readers at the beginning, and Yu Dong's strong publicity has not yet taken effect.
In fact, readers' expectations for this novel are a little lower than the previous novels, because it is said to be a fresh and fresh love novel.
YU is indeed great, but this is not what YU is good at. Even if YU's style is changeable, the theme of fresh love originally gives people less expectations.
If they want to read about love, readers still like the kind of love in "Old Book" that moisturizes things silently and spans time and space.
But after reading "Pumping Heart", readers couldn't help but say it was so delicious.
Especially some female readers, after reading the book, they are all surprised that YU can write the thoughts of boys and girls so vividly, especially the psychological changes of the little heroine, which are not only real, but also very subtle.
There are also frequent changes in perspective in the novel, which also make readers' eyes light up. There are many works of this kind that use narrative perspective changes, but it is too rare to use such a smooth one like YU's.
I have to say that he is indeed a master of literature. Even if he is writing a fresh and pure love novel, he can still write flowers.
At the beginning, everyone thought that the sales volume of "Pumping Heart" would definitely not be as good as that of "Source Code". After all, "Source Code" is excellent, and it is also science fiction and belongs to YU's stronghold. But what is surprising is that "Pumping Heart"
》It only took one week to achieve the lead in sales.
In the first three days, the sales of "Pounding Heart" were indeed much lower than the previous sales of "Source Code" in the first three days, but by the seventh day, "Pumping Heart" was already better than the sales of "Source Code" in the first seven days.
The sales volume is high, and looking at the current situation, the sales volume of "Pumping Heartbeat" will get better and better in the future.
In the sales rankings of many YU novels, "Pumping Heart" can at least surpass "Source Code", and it is very likely to reach the mid-stream.
The key point is that "Thumping Heartbeat" caused a series of effects, the most popular of which was the wave of confessions.
Since "Pumping Heart" became popular, various confessions have appeared on major social software and websites, most of which are memories.
[When I was in junior high school, there was a girl in my class. I liked her very much. Unfortunately, I was as stupid as the boys in the book and missed her. 】
[Jessica who studied at Starling High School, if you see this comment, I hope you can know that I have liked you. 】
[There once was a girl who liked me very much, but I didn’t understand it at all at the time. I just played video games with my friends.]
[Ten years ago, when I was a high school student, I would go to the basketball court every afternoon to watch my male classmates play basketball. The boy I liked was there. I watched it for three years, but I never talked to him...]
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The story of the male and female protagonists in "Heartbeat" is definitely not what most people have experienced, but the ignorant feelings between the male and female protagonists are something that most people have experienced. Reading the novel also reminds them of their youth.
Beautiful times.
Two weeks after the novel was released, the movie of the same name "Pumping Heart" was officially released.
Because there were many blockbusters during this period, the schedule for "Pumping Heart" was average, so there was not much pressure at first. However, not long after the novel came out, the pressure of box office pre-sales appeared. People found that the tickets for "Pumping Heart" were not very good.
Good buy.
The box office for the first three days of the weekend is out. "Pumping Heart" performed very well, taking in 20 million US dollars. This was achieved despite a small film schedule. If there were a lot of films scheduled at the beginning, the box office of this first weekend would still be high.
It will be much higher.
What’s interesting is that it only took two and a half days for “Pumping Heartbeat” to make a profit.
Including Yu Dong's screenwriting fee, this movie is only a little over 8 million US dollars. Now the box office has exceeded 20 million US dollars. It has been recouped. Next, let's wait to make money.
Of course, the box office limit for a movie like "Heartbeat" is there. In addition, there are too many blockbusters during this period. There is "Pirates of the Caribbean" in the front, and "Lord of the Rings 2" and "Harry Potter" in the back.
2" Encirclement and Suppression. It is very good that the final box office of this movie exceeds 100 million US dollars, and most of the credit goes to the novel.
After the novel became popular, many of the sentences in it also became popular. Many netizens would also use the sentences in the novel when expressing their love. Among them, the most frequently used sentence is "People are like rainbows, and you will only know them when you meet them."
The sentence "People are like rainbows, you will know them when you meet them" is also a literal translation in the English version. After this line became popular, some people on the Internet began to use "rainbow" to represent the kind of lover who is more important than "almost lover".
A more distant relationship is more likely to have a crush.
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【This person is like a rainbow, you will know when you meet him】
This is not a confession made by a netizen on the Internet, but the title of a research report recently issued by Mary Meeker, a well-known investment analyst and known as the Queen of the Internet.
Mary Meeker is a loyal supporter of Amazon. She has been very optimistic about Amazon's future from the beginning, and she has expressed praise for Amazon in the analysis reports she has written in recent years. She wrote in the research report, "We believe
Amazon has demonstrated its ability to increase wallet share by developing the best e-commerce infrastructure, including customization tools, customer relationship management applications, and more.
[We believe Amazon is developing a very significant and sustainable competitive advantage.]
[Investors will likely profit from owning shares of a company like Amazon, which will become one of the most growth companies we will see in a generation, and for more than 4 percent
The Deep Space Company with 10 shares will also receive huge benefits.】
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! [In many analyses, I have seen the strength and depth of Amazon’s management team, as well as their outlook for the future, which will allow them to succeed. Now is the time
The best time to invest in Amazon.】
Mary Meeker is already well-known in the investment community. She gained great fame for launching Netscape. On the day Netscape went public, its stock price soared from the issue price of fourteen dollars to seventy-five dollars.
It set a record for first-day gains for listed companies, and that listing also successfully ushered in the Internet era.
Mary Meeker's report this time caused a lot of controversy. Some street tabloids even said that she was either in a relationship with Bezos or having an affair with Jimmy. Otherwise, she would not be so mindless in supporting Amazon.
Some investors even said they were about to launch a class action lawsuit, accusing Mary Meeker of misleading investors and recommending Amazon stock for alleged conflicts of interest.
Investors also don't believe in Mary Meeker, even though she was once the Queen of the Internet.
Not only because investors have no confidence in Amazon, but also because Mary Meeker's development in the past two years has indeed not been very good.
The year before last, Mary Meeker led AOL's acquisition of Time Warner, the merger of the century. She was very confident that this merger would become the most profitable merger in history, but in fact the merger of the two companies became a
A complete disaster.
As the Internet bubble burst, the merged companies continued to lose money. If Deep Space had not taken action in time this year, their losses this year might have exceeded 100 billion U.S. dollars, and they would have lost one of the world's top companies in one year.
But even with Deep Space's intervention, AOL Time Warner's losses will not be wiped out for a while. They will still lose tens of billions of dollars this year.
This incident also caused investors to lose confidence in Mary Meeker, thinking that her support for Internet companies was too irrational.
Ordinary people don't know much about investment or company management. They only know that Amazon has been losing money in recent years.
Who can invest in a company that consistently loses money?
Can a company that has been losing money bring profits to investors? This is obviously impossible, so ordinary investors will not use their money to buy Amazon stocks.
Although some analysts are not as straightforward as the tabloids, they also implicitly stated that Mary Meeker suddenly issued several research reports in a row to recommend Amazon's stock, most likely because Deep Space Company was preparing to raise the stock price.
, and then sold the stocks in hand.
The Deep Space Company is particularly short of money recently.
Everyone in the industry knows this. Deep Space has made a lot of moves recently, and they all cost a lot of money, so Deep Space must have no money now.
If you run out of money, you can either launch a company to go public, borrow money from a bank, or sell your stocks. These are the three ways deep space companies can make money.
It takes too long to prepare for the listing of a company, and it is not the style of a deep-sky company. After all, borrowing money from the bank has to be repaid, so selling the stock is the best option as a last resort.
The speculations of these analysts are unfounded, but they can convince people because they are consistent with human nature.
But the subsequent operations of Deep Space Company made no one outside think that not only did they not sell their stocks, but they also bought a small amount of Amazon's stocks.
When they bought it on the first day, people thought Deep Sky was fishing. On the second and third days, Deep Sky still bought a small amount of Amazon stock every day, with no intention of selling the stock at all.
This action made those investment analysts confused. If Deep Space Company wanted to fish, then it must have put too much bait. With so many stocks in their hands, how many could they throw away later?
It’s not like you can sell stocks if you want to. If you want to buy them, someone has to take over. So even if Deep Space Company wants to raise the stock price to cash out, it won’t be able to get away with much at one time. After all, once they sell in large quantities, it will cause a lot of trouble.
Panic will not only make you unable to make money, but may also cause the stock to fall below its original price.
Amazon’s stock is too low now. It dropped to five dollars when it was lowest last year. It has risen a little this year, but it is still less than ten dollars. If it were not because Deep Space has been holding stocks, Amazon’s stock might be even lower.
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Many people still hold Amazon stock because of Deep Space. They have been hoping that Deep Space can change Amazon, just like it took over BenQ Group and took over PETS to create miracles.
They even opposed Bezos and hoped that Deep Space would step in to remove Bezos from his position as CEO and let someone with more ability take over.
It is very easy for Deep Space to remove Bezos from his position as CEO. As long as Deep Space is willing, they can decide anything about Amazon. However, Deep Space has never interfered with Bezos. It is only when Bezos needs help.
Provide help to them when needed.
On the day the movie "Harry Potter 2" was released, Amazon suddenly announced their company's third quarter financial report for this year. The report stated that in the three months from July to September, the company achieved profit for the first time, with a profit amount of
Reached 6.8 million US dollars.
As soon as this financial report came out, it was like a powerful bomb thrown into the lake. Many people were dumbfounded.
What? Didn’t Amazon say it would keep losing money? How did it start making a profit?
Although more than six million US dollars is not much, it is still money. As long as it is profitable, it proves that there is hope, and in this report of Amazon, in addition to profits, you can see many other things, such as net income and freedom.
cash flow.
This is the third quarter report. Combining the previous two quarters, it can be estimated that this year's net income should eventually increase by more than 20% compared to last year, and product sales growth should also exceed 30%.
There is another most important indicator, which is free cash flow. This year's free cash flow should be able to become positive, exceeding US$100 million, which is nearly US$300 million higher than the end of last year.
Every piece of data here indicates that Amazon still has a bright future, at least not as bad as those previous investment analysts said.
Amazon's official website also explains the reasons why it is profitable. Apart from laying off a small number of employees, there have been no substantial changes in the past two years. However, in the second half of last year, some of the investments the company had made before came into effect.
In the past, Amazon spent a lot of money investing in the construction of distribution centers, and these distribution centers have now begun to help Amazon significantly reduce distribution costs, increase their gross profit margins, and make inventory cycles much shorter than other retailers.
Most importantly, this also helped Amazon increase sales.
In fact, Amazon was expected to make its first profit in the first quarter of this year. However, in order to develop the company's cloud services, Amazon allocated a large amount of funds to Deep Space Computer and asked Deep Space Computer to provide them with technical support. At that time, this move was still criticized.
Chapter completed!