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    "Bring me a copy of Ming Pao Monthly." "This classmate, I'm sorry, it's sold out." "It's sold out, how come it's so fast?" "I didn't expect it to be so easy to sell. It took more than 20 minutes.  Sold out," the newsstand owner replied, with a look of regret on his face.  The owner of the newsstand has been running the newsstand for seven or eight years. In his impression, "Ming Pao Monthly" was relatively easy to sell in the 1970s. Of course, this sales is relative.  Usually five copies are purchased, and three or four copies are sold, and sometimes all are sold out.  But in the past few years, things have stopped working. He often bought five copies and could only sell two or three. Gradually, he only sold three copies.  This year, it was only a symbolic addition.  But because this location is relatively remote, sometimes even one copy cannot be sold.  However, in recent days, thanks to the fact that he sells newspapers and periodicals, he noticed a piece of news in Ming Pao about Lin Jing's new work that will be published in Ming Pao Monthly.  Last year, "Ming Pao Evening News" sold particularly well because of Lin Jing's martial arts novels "Heroes" and "Kunlun".  Often newspapers are sold out as soon as they hit the shelves.  Based on this impression, he deliberately bought a few more copies of "Ming Pao Monthly", an unprecedented ten copies.  Unexpectedly, the store just opened today, and people came over one after another to ask if there was any "Ming Pao Monthly" for sale, and within half an hour, ten copies were sold out.  In the past, I could not sell one copy in a month, but now I can sell ten copies in a few dozen minutes.  Scenes like this one at newsstands are happening in many places in Hong Kong.  September 2, "Ming Pao Monthly" editorial department.  Dong Qiao looked at a data sheet that Zhang Lilai brought over. It was clearly the sales volume of "Ming Pao Monthly" yesterday, and the sales data was 56,383 copies.  More than 50,000 and close to 60,000 copies.  The sales volume in one day is only in Hong Kong.  Although it is said that the 50,000 copies have consumed a lot of the "potential" of "Ming Pao Monthly", with this momentum, it is not certain that the sales volume may exceed 100,000 by the end of the month.  One hundred thousand!  ?A monthly magazine.  If it can reach a sales volume of 100,000, it will undoubtedly be a myth in a small place like Hong Kong!  When Ming Pao Monthly started a sales boom, Lin Jing and Mo Ziqi were on the phone.  Mo Ziqi reported to her some of the recent situation of Time and Space Film Studio, as well as the arrangements for the second half of the year.  But after the report, we talked and talked.  Let¡¯s talk about Lin Jing¡¯s new work and Ming Pao Monthly.  "The sales volume of Xinqi's "Ming Pao Monthly" is very good, but this is all due to your works, Miss Lin. If you can hand over the "Rise of Great Powers" series to Bookworm Publishing House, the sales volume should be better, and Bookworm  The publishing house can improve its reputation and performance," Mo Ziqi said jokingly.  With Lin Jing¡¯s current reputation, no matter what words she writes, she doesn¡¯t have to worry about sales at all.  That's why Mo Ziqi said that the success of "Ming Pao Monthly" is not due to the success of the publication.  But Mo Ziqi also knew that it would be impossible to hand over "The Rise of Great Powers" to Bookworm Publishing House, especially after he read "The Rise of Great Powers: The Ocean Age", which made him even more convinced of his idea.  It¡¯s not that Ming Pao Monthly can give higher remuneration.  The newspapers and periodicals under Jin Yong's name have always been famous for their low author remuneration. Even for a high-level academic publication such as "Ming Pao Monthly", university lecturer-level submissions are only 80,000 words, and professor-level submissions are only 1,000 words.  One hundred to one hundred and fifty.  As far as he knows, Lin Jing's "The Rise of Great Powers" is 150 words long, which is equivalent to the highest quality professor's submission.  It is said that Jin Yong, Dong Qiao and Zhang Lilai all agreed to give higher royalties, but Lin Jing denied it.  "It's just one hundred and fifty thousand words. Bookworm Publishing House can give more than 20% of the royalties at any time. Two, three, three or four hundred per thousand words is not a problem."  But in Lin Jing¡¯s opinion, this is just small money.  ?Writing "The Rise of Great Powers".  She's not doing it for the royalties.  Even in the eyes of many writers, one hundred and fifty words per thousand words is already a height that is beyond their reach, and earning hundreds of thousands or one million is not a problem at all.  If she really wanted to make money, she would not write "The Rise of Great Powers" at all, because articles like "The Rise of Great Powers" are not like popular literature, and their readers will not be too wide.  Just like younger brother Lin Yan and younger sister Lin Si, they really like her novels, "Things About the Ming Dynasty" and "Three Kingdoms", but for "The Rise of the Great Powers", Lin Si said she couldn't understand it, but Lin Yan could understand it.  Some, but not much, and in his opinion, "The Rise of the Great Powers" was boring and made him want to sleep.  "The Rise of the Great Powers" is a work destined to be a niche. Of course, this niche is only relative.  Lin Jing has so many crazy fans, many of them may not like it, but they will buy it back and collect it.  "In the future, there will be a chance." Lin Jing said with a smile.  "Do you have a new idea?" Unexpectedly, her words surprised Mo Ziqi, "It won't be so soon, right?" ""The Rise of the Great Powers" is just a "Ocean Age", the tip of the iceberg  That's it, how can it be so soon? Let's wait until I finish writing "The Rise of a Great Power" and I have more time." Lin Jing said without comment.  There are tons of works in her head, but she doesn¡¯t have enough time to write them out.  With the popularity of "The Rise of Great Powers", a topic about "The Rise of Great Powers" quickly formed in Hong Kong.  Because of the content of "The Rise of Great Powers", the topics triggered.  The martial arts novels written by Lin Jing before were also very popular after they were published, but this excitement was due to the surprise at the contrast between Lin Jing writing such mature martial arts novels at this age, rather than the value of the work itself.  Even "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" and "Three Kingdoms", because they were too popular and "grassroots", caused a sensation, but this sensation did not reach "Tian Ting".  Most of the people who follow and like Lin Jing¡¯s works are ordinary people.  If an intellectual like Dong Qiao hadn't been acquainted with Jin Yong, even if he knew that there was a person like Lin Jing, he might not have paid attention to reading Lin Jing's works, even if Lin Jing's name had spread throughout Hong Kong.  Because in the eyes of people like them, many of the works written by Lin Jing, such as martial arts novels and romance novels, are just like dog meat, to use a bad metaphor. They can be used to satisfy hunger and satisfy their greed, but they cannot be put on the stage.  For example, although Jin Yong wrote more than ten martial arts novels, which spread throughout the Chinese areas of the world and earned him a fortune and a huge reputation, in Jin Yong's eyes, his most proud career was still "  Ming Pao" and "Ming Pao Monthly".  After all, it is only the 1980s. In the eyes of orthodox intellectuals, martial arts novels are evil and unpopular.  If a student is seen by a professor studying martial arts novels, he may be scolded for not doing his job properly.  It is treasonous and impossible for Peking University professors like Kong Qingdong in later generations to specialize in martial arts novels, especially Jin Yong¡¯s martial arts novels, and even go to hundreds of forums to talk about "The Laughing Book of Gods".  As the topic of "The Rise of Great Powers" became more and more intense, reading "The Rise of Great Powers: The Ocean Age" suddenly became a fashion, a fashion among intellectuals, a fashion among white-collar workers, and among middle school students and college students.  a fashion.  Reading fashion!
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