Spielberg said that the Transformers project would take at least two or three years. Neither Yu Dong nor Jimmy had any objections. In their opinion, it would be impossible for this movie to be released in two or three years.
Although it is adapted from an anime, many of the characters in the movie have to be redesigned and the story has to be rearranged. This step alone takes a long time.
When these are completed, they still have to consider technical issues. Deep Space Company has also conducted an internal evaluation. If they want to shoot a live-action version of Transformers, there are still many technical difficulties to overcome, and it will not be possible to shoot it right away.
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After talking about Transformers, Spielberg talked about shopping at street stalls on the streets of Jinling. He especially liked shopping at street stalls. He would buy back anything interesting he saw and would often bring some weird ones to Yu Dong.
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"I saw a lot of fantasy novels with Chinese characteristics on the bookstall today. They are all from your Deep Space Company, and they are all pirated copies."
Yu Dong and Jimmy didn't find it strange at all when they heard that it was pirated. It would be strange if the street stalls didn't sell pirated copies. Even for their deep space books, even in Jinling, there is no way to prevent piracy.
The fantasy novels with Chinese characteristics that Spielberg refers to are actually those online novels in deep space.
Ever since Zhao Yan became popular on the website, many people have followed suit and started writing fantasy novels.
At the beginning, everyone wrote fantasy novels in a similar style, but slowly, some people began to adapt them, and derived a different set of things.
And because Li Qiuhao's mythological novels are relatively famous, some people have combined fantasy novels with domestic mythological novels and created several systems.
Some people say that these novels are a bit nondescript, but they have a large audience. At first, they were just read by netizens on the website. Later, Deep Space Company selected some novels with higher quality and more popular among netizens and made them into physical versions for offline audiences.
It also gradually increased.
But what really made this type of novel popular were the pirated novels on street stalls.
Compared with genuine books, although these pirated books are not of high quality, they are definitely cheap. Therefore, as long as Deep Space releases a set of genuine physical books, corresponding pirated copies will follow.
In fact, before Deep Space Company issued physical copies of these books, there were already pirated copies of them.
Some pirates will copy the novels on the website, and then find a printing house to make pirated books with poor quality and poor layout. Some of these pirated books don't even have a decent book cover, and there are missing pages.
It's even more common.
But after Deep Space Company removed the physical books, these pirates no longer went to the website to copy the electronic files themselves, but directly stole the original version of Deep Space Company.
The reason is very simple. The physical book produced by Deep Space Company has not only been proofread and formatted, but also has illustrations.
Even if it is a pirated version, readers are more willing to read it.
In addition to the text version, Deep Space Company also publishes a magazine called "Xuan World", which specializes in serializing comics adapted from these novels.
No one steals magazines because there is really no profit.
Jimmy looked at Spielberg with a smile, "Didn't you buy a few copies and go back and read them?"
Spielberg curled his lips and said, "I can't read Chinese, why would I buy it back?"
"It's also in English. You can check it out online. We've translated a lot of online novels this year. Apart from English, the most translated version is the neon version. But it won't be long before the number of neon versions will exceed that of the English version.
Edition." Yu Dong said.
Spielberg asked strangely, "Why, as far as I know, your company's novels are the least shipped by Neon, right? Why are you changing your strategy now?"
Jimmy explained, "Because judging from the early experiments, this type of online novel is very popular in Neon."
The reason why Deep Space Company's novels are rarely sold in Neon is very simple. It's not that Deep Space Company doesn't pay attention to the Neon market, but because Neon people are relatively exclusive in the field of literature, and foreign books are difficult to sell in Neon.
Gotta move.
The sales of Yu Dong's novels in Neon are very good, but compared to other countries where the books dominate the charts as soon as they are published, the sales here in Neon are a bit dull.
Sometimes, Yu Dong's novels are pushed out of the top spot by other novels in the new issue, and sometimes they don't even make it into the top three, which is hard to see in other regions.
But even so, Neon people believe that Yu Dong's achievements are a miracle. No foreign writer has ever achieved such dazzling results in the Neon book market.
Yu Dong's novels have achieved some success in Neon, mainly because of books such as "Resident Evil", "Old Book", and "Golden Dreamland", as well as works such as "Curse", "Going West", and "Death of a Widow".
The response to Neon was average, even bad.
Some experts have made statistics and found that very few foreign literary works can be included in Neon, and not many people have more than four works by the same foreign author included in Neon.
In recent years, Chinese literature has made some achievements in Europe and the United States, but the response in the neon market is still mediocre.
But the amazing thing is that when those Internet articles on deep space were translated into neon language and sold in neon, the response was quite good.
In China, these types of novels are called fantasy novels or fantasy novels, but in Neon, whether they are fantasy novels or fantasy novels, they are all called supernatural novels.
When we decided to translate online novels abroad before, Shen Kong did research, so the novels translated to Europe and the United States were all fantasy, while the ones translated to Neon were more about gods and monsters.
Since it was discovered that this type of novel could open up the neon market, Shen Kong quickly followed suit and prepared to continue translating more supernatural novels.
The novel that had the best response in Neon was called "Monster Eleven". When translated to Neon, the title became "Monster Eleven's Lifebook", and now it has been published as a comic book.
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After Mitarai Qiye returned home, he first boarded the Deep Space Tribe and left a message to the "housing agent" and "my grandson Chen Tao", telling them that he had arrived home safely and that they did not need to worry.
After doing this, Mitarai Nanaya ran to take a bath. When he came out, he found that his sister, Mitarai Mia, a high school student, had returned.
Seeing Mitarai Miya holding a book with a colorful cover and reading it, Mitarai Nanaya couldn't help complaining, "If you can put one-tenth of your attention on reading these books on the textbooks, you don't have to worry about going to college.
Something happened."
Mitarai Miya seemed to be used to being complained about by her brother. She raised her head and glanced at Mitarai Nanaya, and said with a smile, "Didn't my brother also like to read this kind of book in the past? I learned from him."
Every time Mitarai Nanaya taught her sister a lesson, Mitarai Mia would say this.
"I learned it from my brother."
But Mitarai Nanaya couldn't refute, because he had been like this before. When he was as old as Mitarai Mia, he was even more playful than Mitarai Mia.
Many of the comics Mitarai Mia reads were obtained from him.
Seeing that direct lessons didn't work, Mitarashi Nanaya decided to change his strategy. He sat across from Miya and asked: "Are there any good books to read recently? Is there any new work by Akira Toriyama-sensei?"
"Desert adventure is not my type."
"Then what are you reading?" Nanaya Mitarai took advantage of the situation and stretched her head to look at the comic book in Mia's hand.
Meiya turned directly to the cover and pointed to the words on it: ""Fairy Eleven's Life Book" is a comic that has become very popular among my classmates recently. A novel has been published before, but I haven't read the novel."
Mitarai Nanaya glanced at the title of the book and was attracted by a pattern in the upper left corner of the cover.
Ordinary books will only have the logo of the publishing house and not the logo of the author's agency, but Deep Space books are different. Most of the books under the name of Deep Space Company will have the starry sky logo of Deep Space Company.
Seeing the starry sky logo, Mitarashi Nanaya looked at the author column: Xia Ye.
"Is this a Chinese writer?" Mitarashi Nanaya asked.
But Meiya shook her head and said, "I don't know, it's possible. The story in it has something to do with China. Do you know this author?"
"Is the story good? I think you have read two-thirds of it."
Meiya smiled and said, "The story has just begun. This is the first one. I heard people who have read the novel tell me that there are many more stories to come, and even the novel version is not finished yet. Oh,
By the way, brother, you are going to China, did you bring me a gift?"
"Of course, I'll get it for you."
Mitarai Nanaya got up to find her backpack, and then found a box inside.
Meiya took the box, looked up and down, and asked curiously, "What's inside?"
Mitarai Nanaya said with a smile, "You will know after you open it and take a look."
Meiya opened the box with great anticipation, but when she saw what was inside, there was a hint of disappointment in her eyes. There was a pen inside.
Although this pen looks very exquisite, Meiya really has no interest in pens, and she doesn't usually use pens.
"Thank you, brother."
Seeing that Miya was a little disappointed, Mitarai Nanaya smiled and said, "Miya, don't underestimate this pen, it is very commemorative. The brand of this pen is called Hero, and they customized a thousand pens for Deep Space Company
, each pen has a number on it, and the number on this pen is 46, which is very high, and YU also signed it. Look at the small blue ring on the cap,
Doesn’t it sound familiar?”
Meiya looked at the small blue ring on the pen cover, which was about one centimeter wide and had a blue background, giving people the feeling of a starry sky.
"It looks a bit familiar."
Mitarashi Nanaya pointed to the Starry Sky logo on the comic, "Here, this is the Deep Space Company's logo."
Meiya showed a surprised expression: "Isn't the Deep Space Company's logo a dove? I can see it every day."
Mitarai Nanaya curled her lips, "That pigeon is not the logo of Deep Space Company, but the logo of Dongdong. This is their company's logo."
"So that's it, so this comic is also produced by Deep Space Company?"
"Well, that's why I asked you if the author is Chinese, but it is also possible that he is a neon person who signed a contract with Deep Space Company." Nanaya Mitarai put away the pen and continued, "This comic is from Aiko's house.
Did you buy it from your bookstore?"
Meiya smiled and nodded, "Sister Aiko asked you today if you had come back from China and if you had brought her any gifts? Why don't you go to the bookstore now? She will definitely be very happy to see you."
Mitarai Nanaya tapped Miya's forehead with her finger, "Children don't care about adults' matters."
After saying that, Mitarai Nanaya looked at the time, then took a bag from her schoolbag and walked out the door.
"Are you looking for sister Aiko?" Meiya asked inside the room.
Mitarashi Nanaya waved her hands and walked away.
The bookstore of Amamiya's family is not far from Mitarai's house. It only takes about seven or eight minutes to walk there in a leisurely manner. Amamiya Aiko was Mitarai Nanaya's high school classmate, but her studies were average and she eventually went to a junior college.
, has now graduated.
So-called junior colleges are two- or three-year colleges, similar to Chinese junior colleges.
After graduating from junior college, Aiko found a job in Osaka, but she only worked for half a year before quitting and going home to help her family take care of the bookstore business.
Amamiya's bookstore is the largest and oldest bookstore in the neighborhood, having been open for more than fifty years.
As soon as Mitarai Nanaya entered the bookstore, the young cashier greeted him with a smile, "Mr. Mitarai is here, long time no see."
Because of Mitarai's scandal with Amamiya Aiko, all the employees in the store knew Mitarai. Every time Mitarai came over, the little girls would tease him.
"Aiko is on the second floor."
Although he had experienced it many times, Mitarashi Nanaya still felt embarrassed. He smiled awkwardly and said, "I just came to see if there are any new books, not..."
"We know, but the newly arrived books are also on the second floor."
Mitarai Nanaya glanced at the direction of the stairs, then ran to the first floor where new books were put on the shelves as if running away, and then she saw the "Fairy Eleven's Life Book" at a glance.
Not only "Fairy Eleven's Life Book", but also several supernatural novels have the Deep Space Corporation's logo on the cover.
However, except for "Fairy Eleven's Life Book", the others are only novels, not comics.
He randomly picked up a book and read it, and soon he understood that these were the online novels about deep space.
Mitarai Nanaya usually not only visits Deep Space Tribe, but also the English version of Deep Space, where she has read many translated Chinese online novels.
But he didn't expect that he would be able to see these novels in Neon, and they were also physical versions.
Just as he was studying these books carefully, a gentle voice came from behind, "Qiye, are you also interested in these books?"
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