1980 My Literary Era.

Chapter 116 The Influence of "Farewell My Concubine"

When signing for them, Lin Weimin found that almost everyone took out a copy of "People's Literature" that published "Farewell My Concubine".

"You all liked Farewell My Concubine?" he asked.

"Hmm." The girls nodded frantically.

Lin Weimin thought so too. Among the novels he wrote before, "Farewell My Concubine" is probably the most suitable for girls of this age.

Things like BL have always been the favorite of rotten girls, even in the 80s now.

"Mr. Lin, I also like "The Death of Yura." A little girl added.

Lin Weimin nodded, a child can be taught.

The teacher has written so many novels, you just talk about "Farewell My Concubine", which is somewhat disrespectful to the teacher.

After signing, the girls were overjoyed and treasured the book into their schoolbags.

Yao Shuhua looked at Lin Weimin cautiously, and made another request, "Mr. Lin, can you take a photo with us?"

Lin Weimin was stunned for a moment. He was about to ask if you have a camera, but then he thought, can someone ask you?

Sure enough, no matter what year it is, star chasing is not bad for money.

These days, a camera costs hundreds of dollars, which is simply not affordable for ordinary people.

People who spend 500 yuan to buy a TV set and people who spend 500 yuan to buy a camera, do you think the consumption level is the same?

Taking out the camera, the four girls first took a photo with Lin Weimin one by one, and then prepared to take another photo with Lin Weimin.

At this time, everyone is in a difficult situation. Who will take the picture when they all come to take pictures?
Yao Shuhua beckoned to her sister Yao Shuzhi, "Sister, take a picture for us!"

Yao Shuzhi, who turned into a tool man, took the camera expressionlessly and took a group photo for several people.

The girls happily took the photo together, feeling that everything was complete, and couldn't help but smirk.

"Mr. Lin, I'll send the photo to you when I develop it later."

Lin Weimin suspected that they just wanted to take the opportunity to meet him again.

Yao Shuzhi said: "Okay. This time people have seen it, the name has been signed, and the photo has been combined. Let's go back."

The girls have achieved their goals, their thoughts are clear, and they nodded repeatedly.

It's just that when I left, I still didn't forget to look back at Mr. Lin for the last time.

"Let's play again!" Lin Weimin waved goodbye to the girls, which drew Yao Shuzhi's eyes.

After she finished seeing off people and came back, Lin Weimin smiled and said, "I said, why do you think I'm so displeased these two days? Is this the crux of the relationship?"

Yao Shuzhi snorted coldly: "This girl dares not to go to school today to come to see you, it's really against the sky!"

"Then why don't you deal with her? Comrade Xiao Yao, what you are doing now is called helping the evildoer!"

"Humph!"

Liu Yin said: "Look! Now Weimin has caught up with movie stars, and there are girls who come here just to see him."

"Wei Min should be considered a literary idol now!" Zhu Changsheng laughed.

Rong Shihui shook his head and said, "The little girl now..."

In the afternoon, Lin Weimin went to the editorial office of "People's Literature" in the front building.

"Mr. Xie, how is the reader's survey done?"

The time limit for the questionnaire is one month after the listing of "People's Literature", and today is the last day of the month of listing.

"Soon, soon!" Xie Mingqing said impatiently.

The employees of the editorial department have been tossing a lot about this new questionnaire. You must know that the sales volume of each issue of "People's Literature" is stable at more than 50 copies.

In the 80s, readers were extremely enthusiastic about writing letters to magazines, not to mention that they issued surveys, which put readers in a high position.

In just one month, "People's Literature" received more than [-] questionnaires.

Just sorting out these questionnaires every day requires a dedicated person to do this, and this month not only there are questionnaires, but also letters from readers are much more than in the previous period, most of which are because of the novel "Farewell My Concubine".

Lin Weimin saw that everyone was very busy, so he went up to help for a while, and finally when it was time to get off work, the editorial department finally sorted out the ratings of all the works published in the April issue of "People's Literature".

On a simple blackboard, the 14 articles in this issue are arranged in sequence, all written in chalk, and each article is followed by a rating. These ratings are collected by the editors from more than 3000 readers. drawn from the questionnaire.

Among them, "Farewell My Concubine" is far ahead of other works with a high score of 9.4 points, which is a full 2 points higher than No.8.1's 1.3 points, which is a cliff-like lead.

Looking at the ratings on the blackboard, the editors all smiled with satisfaction.

Although it is tiring to sort out the questionnaires of these readers, their harvest is also great.

With these ratings, editors have the most intuitive understanding of the quality of works published in each issue, instead of judging only by media reviews and a few letters from readers as before.

This method is very important for the editorial department to control the quality of future publications.

"The popularity of "Farewell My Concubine" is really high!" Xie Mingqing exclaimed.

"Riding the dust!"

Everyone lamented the readers' love for "Farewell My Concubine", and Xie Mingqing said: "The readers' love is directly reflected in the sales volume. It has only been a month, and this April issue has already sold 50 copies."

How much does a good work help to increase the sales of publications?
In 1979, "Harvest" was republished, and the second issue of the reissue published the important work "Magnolia under the Great Wall" by writer Cong Weixi. .With the help of "Harvest", the reputation of "big wall literature" spread like wildfire.

Lin Weimin's "Farewell My Concubine" now reflects such an influence.

Since the resumption of publication of "People's Literature", sales have been rising steadily, and it is normal for each issue to sell more than 40 to 10 copies.In the past, the sales volume of the publication at this time should be around [-] copies. For example, the April issue sold [-] more copies in a month than usual. "People's Literature" has never happened so far.

This is only one month, and a large literary publication like "People's Literature" has a very obvious long-tail effect in sales.Old editors like Xie Mingqing have rich experience. According to this speed, it should not be a problem for this issue of "People's Literature" to sell more than 80 million copies.

Especially before "Farewell My Concubine" has not been published in a single volume, readers who want to get a glimpse of this novel can only go through "People's Literature", which forces everyone to buy this issue of the publication.

Xie Mingqing had a premonition in his heart that the final sales volume of this issue of "People's Literature" might fall below everyone's expectations.

(End of this chapter)