The days when I retired with the queen of music

Chapter 416 "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"

"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" became a hit before it even hit.

After learning from Kuku that "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" had been published and would be released simultaneously around the world, within a few days, Lu Anzhi saw that "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was all over his WeChat account. topic of.

"The first domestic novel to be released simultaneously globally."

"What is Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone about?"

"Analyzing the story from the trailer content, what kind of story "Harry Potter" is."

"Lu Anzhi's first magic-themed novel has the gold content of being simultaneously released worldwide."

"Reliable analysis, why is Lu Anzhi's novel released simultaneously around the world?"

He looked at the content in WeChat and various news links and was amazed. He did not expect that a "synchronized global release" would actually make this novel that has not yet been released to readers become popular before it is released.

But think about it, in this world, the concept of global simultaneous launch has always been practiced abroad, and it is rarely practiced in China.

And even those who play abroad have selectively ignored the domestic market. It’s as if the land of Kyushu is not part of the world.

Other domestic novels are basically picked up by foreign publishing houses after they become popular in China. Once they are chosen, they are translated into foreign language versions and then published in small quantities in suitable areas. After confirming that the sales volume is OK, the printing volume is increased. .

For example, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is basically only available in Southeast Asia.

But Lu Anzhi is different.

He has "The Little Prince" and "Lu An's Collection of Short Fairy Tales". After a year of fermentation, these two novels have gained unimaginable popularity overseas. Mattique Biondini's promotion at the Beautiful Country Rock Festival inexplicably opened the door to these two novels from the mysterious Eastern country, causing the sales of these two novels to increase steadily.

Therefore, after learning that another fairy tale masterpiece by Lu Anzhi from the mysterious Eastern country has been completed, overseas publishers quickly expressed their intention to cooperate in publishing and reviewed the manuscript.

The imaginative and complete magical world attracts almost everyone. No one will ignore Lu Anzhi's title as the author of the famous fairy tale "The Little Prince" during this review process, which makes this "Harry Potter" "Spectre and the Philosopher's Stone" received a completely different treatment from the opening of the previous life.

So, the goods were rolled out and the publicity began.

There are also domestic compatriots abroad who translate comments on foreign websites and post them on WeChat, such as "XXX, a well-known Chinese fairy tale writer, expressed great expectations for Lu Anzhi's new book", "Overseas evaluation of "The Little Prince"", ""Harry Potter" "Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" overseas pre-order status" and so on, have attracted a lot of attention.

Song Xiaoqin also showed great interest when she saw this kind of micro-talk, and asked Lu Anzhi and Zhang Suxin: "Why does this kind of micro-talk seem to be so popular? Are netizens so happy that your novel can be published overseas?" "

Lu Anzhi thought for a while and said, "It should be more than just novels. If you create an account and post how foreign people brag about China every day, it will probably become popular."

There were many such situations in his previous life. When the promotional video for "Black Myth: Wukong" was released, he had seen many videos of well-known foreign game anchors watching "Black Myth: Wukong" on Station B.

But people in this world have obviously never seen anything like this. Song Xiaoqin was surprised and said: "Can it still be like this?"

Lu Anzhi nodded and said: "Yes, this is the traffic password. You open a company, recruit a group of foreigners, post WeChat messages and videos on the domestic Internet every day, brag about how good China is, and talk about how bad it is abroad. , if you say something like "China is so good, I don't want to go back, maybe I can make a lot of money."

But now this is just a mouthful. If such traffic passwords really need to be supported by enough traffic and then monetized, they still have to wait until the short video era arrives. The current number of Internet users is still too small to support this market.

But if you really want to do it, you might be able to make one or two foreigners famous in this way, and then try your luck in the entertainment industry to make money domestically.

——Of course, the premise is that this foreigner must have some skills, such as talk shows, singing, etc., and cannot just brag like those foreigners in previous lives.

Song Xiaoqin and Zhang Suxin expressed their disdain for Lu Anzhi's suggestion unceremoniously: "I didn't expect that a guy like you with thick eyebrows and big eyes would come up with such a shameless way to make money!"

Lu Anzhi said innocently: "Why am I being called a loser! I just said it casually and didn't put it into practice! And it doesn't matter if you don't want to make money at home. Just get a few people to go abroad and brag about it, and you don't even want to go back to China." The same goes for things like that.”

Song Xiaoqin: "..."

Zhang Suxin: "..."

Lu Anzhi: "Maybe you can also change your mind, find people in China, go to live abroad, and then find out why it's not good abroad, regret going abroad, etc. Maybe you can also be harsh in the beginning. Let’s talk about the round moon abroad, which will reverse the attitude later and everyone will like to see it. This is called an electronic pet.”

Zhang Suxin: "..."

Song Xiaoqin followed Zhang Suxin's example and rolled her eyes: "You said you have made so much money, why are you still thinking of these messy money-making ideas?"

Lu Anzhi shouted that he was wronged: "I didn't think about it! I just opened my mouth."

Song Xiaoqin: "..."

Zhang Suxin: "..."

Xianxian: "Hey! Dad will come as soon as he opens his mouth!"

The little guy unknowingly learned an idiom from Lu Anzhi.

Song Xiaoqin and Zhang Suxin's attention was thus transferred to Xianxian. Song Xiaoqin rubbed Xianxian's little face and said, "Xianxian is great, she learned to speak idioms in no time!"

Xianxian doesn't just know an idiom. When she was praised by Song Xiaoqin, she immediately became more expressive and immediately performed an idiom for Song Xiaoqin: "Open your mouth and come! Talk nonsense! Open the bow left and right!"

The little guy's idioms all have their origins. For example, I just learned to open my mouth and come. Another example is talking nonsense. She once said some nonsense using the thinking of a child. Zhang Suxin called her "nonsense" and she remembered it in her heart.

And "shooting the bow from left to right" was the way she used both her little hands when eating. Miao Suqin said to her: "You still shoot the bow from left to right while eating." She also remembered it in her heart.

Several adults laughed and played with Xianxian, and the topic just now was quickly thrown aside. Lu Anzhi's "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was published simultaneously around the world, and as the topic ended, it was no longer mentioned by them.

Anyway, they don’t need to pay attention to this news all the time. Before the novel is officially released, this news will always break into their eyes when they open WeChat on their mobile phones.

The popularity of the topic itself is one thing. Xinwei Company cannot ignore the boss's topic and let the popularity drop.

Therefore, the topic of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is always hot on WeChat. Weibo is hot, and discussions on this topic in other places cannot cool down.

Soon, the day came for the novel to be released simultaneously worldwide. This new fairy tale novel was put on display in Sanwei Bookstore and Baicaotang, and it was quickly sold out.

Most other bookstores are like this. Only in more remote bookstores, book sales will be slower.

One day later, overseas novel sales data were also summarized in real time. Novels are also selling very quickly in most places. Only in a few places are books selling slower.

The slowly unfolding and accumulation scenes like "The Little Prince" and "Luan's Short Fairy Tales" did not happen in "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". Due to the author's fame brought by "The Little Prince" and "Lu An's Collection of Short Fairy Tales" and the promotion that started in advance, this novel showed unimaginable popularity as soon as it was put on the shelves.

And a week later, various publishers compiled the sales data for the week and announced the unimaginable global sales data. The popularity of this novel reached another level, ushering in another wave of buying frenzy.

This kind of grand occasion has never been seen not only in China, but also abroad.

What has never been seen in China is that a novel written by someone from one's own country can be so popular abroad, and what has never been seen abroad is that the first-week sales of a novel can be so large - after all, domestic The population is far larger than that of foreign countries.

Coupled with the quality of the novel "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" itself, it is normal for it to have such high popularity and sales.

Among them, sales in Britain are the highest.

"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is a story based on the country of Britain. Moreover, in order to make the novel’s incident full of storytelling, Under the Maple Tree also wrote the few lines between Lu Anzhi and Ku Ku on the title page——

After starting his writing career, Lu Anzhi spent three years traveling all over the world. He wrote "The Little Prince" after meeting a retired pilot in Frankfurt. While riding a train in Britain, he saw a little boy wearing glasses and with a lightning-like scar on his forehead. The story about the little boy and magic suddenly broke into his mind.

After knowing "The Little Prince" and confirming that "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is an excellent fairy tale novel, the British people are full of interest in the inextricable fate between Lu Anzhi and Britain.

Kuku is smiling from ear to ear every day. As the core person in charge of the global simultaneous publication of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", she will earn a lot of bonuses from the operation of this book. She feels that she will not have to worry about it for the rest of her life. How could she be unhappy?

She couldn't help but say to Lu Anzhi on Qiuqiu: Boss B, you are so popular now. If you hold a book signing event abroad, you will probably block the roads abroad. No other author in the country can do this.

When Lu Anzhi saw the bitter Qiuqiu news, he asked: What do you want to say?

Kuku: Hehe! Boss B, should we go abroad to do autograph signings? If you don’t want to do it at home, it’s no problem abroad, right?

Lu Anzhi: I’m free! I don’t want to do anything at home, so you want me to go abroad? I'm not traveling.

Kuku: Alas! Boss B, why didn’t you write these two books earlier? If you had written it earlier, you would have been able to do autograph signings during those three years of traveling abroad.

Lu Anzhi: Come on soon! Stop imagining things! My popularity has also developed step by step. Without the preparation of "Dragon", how could I have gained so much popularity in China? Without domestic popularity, how could "The Little Prince" become so popular all of a sudden? Without "The Little Prince", how could "Harry Potter" become such a hit upon release?

Kuku is helpless: Okay.

But she felt that what Lu Anzhi said did make sense, and this was also true.

Lu Anzhi's novels are more popular than the other, but they are indeed one step at a time.

If the trajectory changes, Lu Anzhi's level should still be able to reach the current level of popularity, but the situation in the middle and the level of popularity should also be different...

The popularity of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was both unexpected and reasonable in Lu Anzhi's opinion.

In the previous life, when this novel first came out, it had a bad fate. Later, Time Warner took a fancy to this novel and adapted it into a movie. Only then did this novel gradually become invincible around the world.

But it's different now. In this world, this novel took off with the help of the popularity of "The Little Prince".

In any case, this novel still bursts out with the strength it should have.

Lu Anzhi even received a call from Bertina on the other side of the ocean. The little girl muttered a lot of English on the phone, and she was very excited: "Uncle Lu An, "Harry Potter" is so great! My mother tells me Harry Potter stories every day. , I like Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! I also want to go to Gryffindor in the future! There are also flying broomsticks! And magic! I have memorized Uncle Luan, the levitation spell, and Wingardium Leviosa! How is it? Am I great?"

Lu Anzhi listened to the little girl talking excitedly, and hurriedly said: "It's amazing."

Then he heard the little girl ask again: "Where is Xianxian? Has Xianxian watched "Harry Potter"?"

Lu Anzhi said: "Xianxian is still young and she doesn't quite understand it. When she grows up, I will explain it to her."

Bertina said: "That's such a pity! Uncle Lu An, can you give the phone to Xianxian? I want to talk to her! I have to tell her how great "Harry Potter" is!"

Unexpectedly, the little girl I met at the rock music festival has also become a loyal fan of "Harry Potter".

Lu Anzhi said "Okay" with a smile, handed the phone to Xianxian, and said, "Xianxian, this is Sister Bertina, she wants to talk to you."

"Bertina?"

Xianxian was confused for a while before she realized what she was doing. She hurriedly took the phone and said, "Sister Betty! I want to talk to Sister Betty!"

This little guy had a different name now. Lu Anzhi remembered that Xianxian didn't call Bertina that way before.

But it doesn't matter, this little guy also accidentally called the right one.

Then Xianxian took the phone, and Lu Anzhi listened to her and Bertina communicating in Chinese and English through the phone. Two little girls, you can’t understand what I’m saying, and I can’t understand what you’re saying, but they still communicate happily, which is amazing.

(End of this chapter)