1980 My literary era

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

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

"Yeah." The girls nodded wildly.

Lin Weimin thought the same thing. Among the novels he had written before, "Farewell My Concubine" was probably the most suitable for the tastes of girls of this age.

Things like BL have always been a favorite of fujoshi, even now in the 1980s.

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

Lin Weimin nodded. Children can be taught.

The teacher has written so many novels, and if you just talk about "Farewell My Concubine", it is a bit disrespectful to the teacher.

After signing, the girls were overjoyed and put the books into their schoolbags with great care.

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

Lin Weimin was stunned for a moment. He was about to ask you if you have a camera, but then he thought, can't I ask you?

Sure enough, no matter what year it is, those who chase stars are not short of money.

These days, a camera can easily cost several hundred yuan, which is simply not within the reach of ordinary people.

Do you think the consumption level of a person who spends 500 yuan on a TV is the same as that of a person who spends 500 yuan on a camera?

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 the four of them and Lin Weimin.

At this time, everyone was in trouble. Who took the photo when everyone came to take pictures?

Yao Shuhua waved to her sister Yao Shuzhi, "Sister, take a picture of us!"

Yao Shuzhi, who turned into a tool man, took the camera with an expressionless face and took a group photo of several people.

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

"Teacher Lin, when the photos are developed, I will send them to you."

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 shadow has been combined. Let's go back."

The girls achieved their goals and had clear ideas, nodding their heads again and again.

But when I left, I didn’t forget to look back three times to pay homage to Teacher Lin for the last time.

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

After she came back from sending people off, Lin Weimin smiled and said, "Why have you been so unhappy with me these past two days? Is this the crux of your love?"

Yao Shuzhi snorted coldly: "This girl dares to skip school and come to see you today. She is really rebelling!"

"Then you won't deal with her? Comrade Xiao Yao, what you are doing now is called aiding the enemy!"

"snort!"

Liu Yin said: "Look! Now the people are catching up with movie stars, and there are even little girls who come here just to see him."

"Wei Min should be considered a literary idol now!" Zhu Changsheng said with a smile.

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

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

"Teacher Xie, how is the preparation of the readers' questionnaire going?"

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

"Come on, come on!" Xie Mingqing said impatiently.

The staff of the editorial department have been working hard on this new questionnaire. You must know that the sales volume of each issue of "People's Literature" is now stable at more than 500,000 copies.

In the 1980s, readers wrote letters to magazines with great enthusiasm, not to mention surveys that put readers on a pedestal.

In just one month, "People's Literature" received more than 20,000 questionnaires.

Just sorting out these questionnaires every day requires one person to do this. Moreover, this month not only has questionnaires, but there are also many more letters from readers than in previous periods. Most of them 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. Finally, when it was almost time to get off work, the editorial department finally compiled the ratings of all the works published in the April issue of "People's Literature".

On a simple blackboard, the 14 works in this issue are arranged in order, all written with chalk. Each work is followed by a rating. These ratings are obtained by the editors from more than 23,000 readers. summarized from the questionnaire.

Among them, "Farewell My Concubine" is far ahead of other works with a high score of 9.4 points, a full 1.3 points higher than the second place score of 8.1 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 compile these readers' questionnaires, they are also very rewarding.

With these ratings, editors have the most intuitive understanding of the quality of the works published in each issue, rather than relying solely on media reviews and a few letters from readers as before.

This method plays a very important role in the editorial department's control of the quality of works published in future publications.

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

"Yi Qi Jue Chen!"

Everyone lamented the love gained by "Farewell My Concubine" from readers. Xie Mingqing added: "The readers' love is directly reflected in the sales volume. In just one month, the April issue has sold 500,000 copies."

How much does a good work help increase the sales of a publication?

"Harvest" resumed publication in 1979. The second issue of the resumption of publication published the important work "Magnolia Under the Big Wall" by writer Cong Weixi. This issue of "Harvest" soared from the level of 10,000 copies at the time of the resumption of publication to hundreds of thousands. . Riding on the momentum of "Harvest", the reputation of "Big Wall Literature" spread like wildfire.

Lin Weimin's "Farewell My Concubine" now embodies exactly this kind of influence.

Since the resumption of publication of "People's Literature", sales have been steadily increasing. It is normal for each issue to sell an additional ten or twenty thousand copies. In previous issues, the sales volume of the publication at this time should be around 400,000 copies. For example, the April issue has sold 100,000 more copies in one month than usual. "People's Literature" has never happened before.

This is only one month. A large literary publication like "People's Literature" has a very obvious long-tail effect in terms of sales. Veteran editors like Xie Mingqing are rich in experience. At this rate, it should not be a problem for this issue of "People's Literature" to sell more than 700,000 or 800,000 copies.

Especially before "Farewell My Concubine" was released as a stand-alone book, readers who wanted to have a glimpse of this novel could only go through "People's Literature", which forced everyone to buy this issue of the publication.

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