Chapter 222 A hundredfold increase
Xu Yuan did not directly name which work or writer it was, but at this critical moment, who else besides "Detective Sherlock"?
This is actually not his own idea. Originally, Chinese literary works have been unable to be accepted by European and American readers due to cultural barriers and other reasons.
When Zhang Chu chose to write a fan article about Sherlock Holmes, and even in order to make this work legitimately enter the United States, the United Kingdom and other markets even used systems to sue the Conan Doyle Foundation.
Now netizens seem to have no use in that lawsuit. Only 415 copies have been sold worldwide. It is better not to sue it. It is simply embarrassing to go to the United States!
Xu Yuan still has many friends and readers in the popular literature circle. His micro blog was quickly forwarded by people in the popular literature circle, and many writers began to violently criticize and fight against this behavior.
"Don't let this bad habit of the Chinese literary circle spread to other countries, false propaganda will be exposed one day."
"There are still very few works that can enter the mainstream cultural perspective of the West. It is not that you make the protagonist become a British person, but British readers will buy it!"
"Write a book steadily and don't think about those messy things!"
"The favorite thing for new writers today is to be too ambitious and have no down-to-earth idea. They dream of becoming popular all day long, which is too unrealistic!"
"Young literary enthusiasts must recognize their own strengths. They cannot be fooled by others in just a few words. This failure to enter the beauty industry may be a good thing. It can make Zhang Chu sober, and at the same time let cultural merchants know that creating stars is not that easy to create."
"This reminds me of some singers who went to Times Square to advertise on the big screen. When they came back, they became the international king and queen. They really think that the people of the whole country are blind!"
Overnight, Zhang Chu, who was originally a proud Chinese, was immediately labeled as the king of hype. It seemed that the Twitter discussions were all about copyright transactions made by him. He asked several foreigners to help hype them together!
The name Zhang Chu seems to have become a product of commercial star creation. There are countless people who praise it when it succeeds, and after the temporary failure, all monsters and monsters emerge.
Fan Wenli, a special commentator of the literary magazine "Comprehensive Review of Literature", wrote an article on Weibo titled "Chinese Literature is not so popular abroad" to comment on this incident.
[Foreign literature has come in vigorously for a long time, but Chinese literature has always been very light. As of November this year, a total of 177 foreign works have been translated into Chinese, but only 5 works have been translated into English.]
At the beginning, a number that makes people have to think deeply is presented, 177:5, the gap is too obvious!
[When we are happy about the list of Chinese literature that ranks high in foreign countries, our literature is actually not that popular, not to mention that many works cannot even make the list.
The literary world actually has high hopes for Zhang Chu's work "Detective Sherlock", believing that this work chose a detective novel with a fixed reader type, and modernized Sherlock Holmes, and there are also many news reports.
In order to make the book officially released in the United States, Zhang Chu did not hesitate to contact the three major lawyers to help protect his rights by email. Now it seems that this has not played any positive work.
Although overseas translation of Chinese literary works has been continuously made breakthroughs, due to various relationships, it has never been able to enter the mainstream book market.]
As the article says, why do netizens feel that they are so disappointed?
Isn’t it that the deep hatred of love?
Everyone's expectations for "Sherlock" were too high, and they thought it was different from the charming sluts outside, but in the end they found that there was no difference.
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Zhang Chu was quite surprised after seeing this data. Even he felt that it was a little bit small. He was not in the mood to learn Tai Chi at this moment, so he quickly called Zhou Kang.
This matter is mainly about communicating with overseas publisher Random Bookstore. Nanhai Publishing Company must not be able to understand it. It can only be seen if there is any news from the agent. After all, it is probably still late at night in Europe and the United States!
"Uncle Zhou, have you seen the news online? Why is the English version released so quietly?"
This sales volume is really sorry for the prepaid manuscript fee paid to him by Random House. If the sales continue at this rate, when will those millions of dollars be repaid?
Compared to this, Zhou Kang was much calmer now. "I just contacted Random House's US headquarters, but I couldn't contact them in various ways. In the end, the staff of Random House China Branch told us the truth. They hadn't started to push them seriously. They were originally scheduled to be listed at 9:00 this morning in the US time."
"That's how it means that the English version of "Sherlock" has not been released yet?"
"It can be said that you can just look at the words on the Internet now, don't take it to your heart. They all have the mentality of admiring successful people. Once you encounter some setbacks or the rest will be amplified!"
Zhang Chu felt a little relieved, and he knew that the attractiveness of the modern version of Sherlock Holmes could not be so small.
"Actually, the media data are all fake. I just read the English version of "Sherlock" on the domestic Amazon website, which sold more than 1,000 copies. There are already 741 copies and 18 reviews in the UK, 1,584 copies and 12 reviews in the US, and I don't know how the 415 copies of this data came from, and Amazon said that it is not available for 24 hours at all."
This is just two major powers, Britain and the United States. Including more than 20 effects including Australia and Canada, sales have exceeded 5,000 copies!
"These media are really fucked. In order to make a news, they don't even care about the truth!"
Zhou Kang had long expressed doubts about the credibility of the media. He didn't know where the sales of 415 copies came out of 24 hours a day. So many media with huge influence did not verify it and confirm it.
The original source was said to be the foreign network report, but who has time to pay attention to a work that has not yet been released?
It is too outrageous to spread rumors. Zhang Chu couldn't help but shake his head when he heard this. The conscience of media people was probably eaten by dogs, and it was a bit good for domestic writers.
After looking at the physical education teacher's assembly order, he quickly hung up the phone and planned to go back and deal with these matters later.
At this time, Menglong Culture Media and Random Bookstore had already started to fight.
Chapter completed!