It didn¡¯t take long for Wen Xun¡¯s company to receive several sacks of resumes one after another. Almost half of these resumes were submitted by college students, and almost a quarter were submitted by working people in society. Wen Xun is very satisfied with this ratio, because in the previous series, he also explained that he can work part-time through the Internet.
In this era, although not every household has a computer, it is still very common, and the price is only 2 or 3 yuan an hour. If you work part-time at Wen Xun's studio through the Internet, you only need to write it on paper in advance, upload it later through the Internet, and then go online to the mailbox to see Wen Xun's feedback.
This model is very attractive to young and middle-aged people who still have literary dreams. Such a part-time job will not affect their normal study and work. As long as they use part of their spare time every day to receive training from Wenxun Studio and Just write. At the end of each month, you can get a decent salary based on the quality and quantity of your work, and you can also get a guarantee that you will be recommended by Wen Xun and fly solo in the future. This is simply the legendary "American Dream".
After receiving the resumes, Wen Xun arranged for employees to start selecting candidates for the first round of testing according to his requirements. ~Because many of them are part-time jobs online, Wen Xun is not planning to conduct all interviews. What he plans to do is conduct an online test. In this kind of test, Wen Xun will arrange some scenes, such as a rough plot setting, and what will be tested is the applicant's writing ability and imagination ability. Such an online school examination will naturally face the risk of cheating, but Wenxun has thought of a way to avoid this risk.
After sending out the first round of questions, Wen Xun received another call from Kadokawa Shoten, along with a fax sent to him. It turns out that Kadokawa Shoten had basically started printing the book "The Melancholy of Sumiko" at this time. Before printing, Kadokawa Shoten had conspicuously learned from the practices of the American Hollywood film companies and randomly found many students and white-collar workers to try it out. "The Melancholy of Sumiko".
This kind of approach has almost never been done in the book publishing industry around the world. Kadokawa Shoten is the first to step forward this time. However, after trying this once, the effect was very good. Kadokawa Bookstore first signed a confidentiality agreement with the people who tried it, and then asked those people to try it out, and then asked them to rate the book after reading it. The final statistical result was that out of a total of 200 people, a total of 120 people had the urge to buy this book. Among these 150 people, about two-thirds are school students, and about one-third are people who have just entered society within five years.
According to this statistical result, the target consumer group of Kadokawa Shoten's book is basically the range from high school students to 26 or 7-year-old youth. This range is now basically the mainstream consumer group in the Japanese animation industry.
Looking at the faxed statistical report, Wen Xun was really surprised at the prospects of this book in the Japanese market. He didn't expect that a book he wrote randomly for fun would be so appreciated by the Japanese.
"I heard that our club hopes that you can come to Japan to hold a signing event when the sale is here. Are you willing?" The other side also asked such a question.
After thinking about it for a while, Wen Xun agreed. Since the market test results of this book are not good, he might as well go to Japan to have a book signing. In this way, the sales volume may be higher, he can get more money, and he can also travel for free. trip.
However, even if the Japanese market trial data is not available, Wen Xun has no plans to sell this book in China for the time being. His idea is simple: wait for the book to become popular in Japan, wait for the news to hit the news, and then wait for domestic readers to start wondering why Wenxun has not released it at the same time, or even has no intention of selling it in China. When the time comes, this book will be released again.
In this way, the effect of hunger marketing is basically achieved. When readers' interest is aroused and they want to buy something but cannot, they will complain to their relatives and friends, and then arouse the interest of their relatives and friends. Then when it comes to the market, as long as the book is on the shelves, it will be sold out immediately
In addition to this incident, another news came from Kadokawa Shoten, which is the progress of animation. Hiromi Arakawa, the cow aunt, has already drawn seven or eight chapters, which is basically enough to save the manuscripts required for serialization. Kadokawa Shoten plans to start serializing "Fullmetal Alchemist" some time before "Sumiko's Melancholy" is sold. Comics, this can have a very good market warm-up effect on the sales of new books.
At the same time, Kadokawa Shoten's animation process of "Fullmetal Alchemist" is also very fast. They have animated more than a dozen episodes, and have designed the main plot and storyline based on the progress of Wen Xun's second part. It is expected that it will be released in "Fullmetal Alchemist". Fullmetal Alchemist manga will be broadcast on TV stations one week after its release, with one episode per week.
For these progress,Wen Xun expressed great satisfaction. This will basically set off a small craze of revisiting the first part of "Fullmetal Alchemist", and then "Sumiko's Melancholy" while it's hot, and when it's almost sold out, then "Fullmetal Alchemist" will be available while it's hot. The second part of "The Master". In this way, Wen Xun will play the leading role in the Japanese reading market for basically half a year.
The last thing Kadokawa Shoten mentioned was the selection of the singer and theme song for "Fullmetal Alchemist". This question corresponded to the dream Wen Xun had before, so Wen Xun decided to wait until he arrived in Japan and directly select the singer and theme song directly under the arrangement of Kadokawa Shoten.
After hanging up, Wen Xun suddenly seemed a little sorry for the puppy Zhang Yiqiong. Because she had originally agreed to let her help and be an assistant. But the problem is that he is going to Japan, and because there are many things to do, he is expected to be taken there for more than a week, maybe even a month. In this way, it is naturally impossible for him to take the puppy across the ocean. After all, it is easy for him to ask for leave from school, but it is not so easy for puppies