Rebirth of the Wild Age

The issue of "Under the Banyan Tree" was unexpectedly smooth. Judging from the feedback from local agents, the first printing of 3,000 copies was sold out in only one week, so another 5,000 copies were printed in the second printing.

Moreover, because Lin Zhuoyun was afraid of poor sales, she positioned the magazine as a bimonthly magazine, and now she simply changed it to a bimonthly magazine.

For no other reason than the novelty of the web.

Most people in China have never been on the Internet, but they know about such a thing from various channels, and they are very curious about everything on the Internet. At this time, there were still many student magazines, which specially intercepted the chat content of major forums and printed them word for word. Such rough columns were unexpectedly very popular.

The gimmick of "the first issue of online literature" alone is enough to support the sales of at least tens of thousands of copies per issue.

The sensational article in the inaugural issue was not the serialization of "Three-Body Problem", nor was it the work of some Internet guru, but a special column—Death Diary.

"Death Diary", also known as "Message of Life", is the diary of a patient with advanced gastric cancer. Knowing that his life was not long, he began to write a diary every day in August. By November, he could no longer hold a pen, so his wife continued to write.

Before the inaugural issue of "Under the Banyan Tree" was published, Shenghai media had already reported on this person's deeds, and foreign newspapers were reprinting it one after another, which can be said to have caused a small-scale sensation. However, his "Death Diary" was too long. Although it had been spread all over the Internet, major newspapers only intercepted and published a paragraph. "Under the Banyan Tree" was the first magazine to serialize the full text.

The husband and wife both write very well. The husband's writing is humorous, open-minded and philosophical, while the wife's writing is tender and sad but strong. Facing the serious illness, they did not complain about others, but enjoyed the fun of life optimistically, discussing life and death in a relaxed and flat tone.

This series of diaries not only makes people feel sorry and sympathetic, but also arouses people's deep thinking about the meaning of life.

Before the second issue of "Under the Banyan Tree" magazine was published, it had already received more than 20 letters from readers, all inquiring about the current situation of this cancer patient, and some readers sent thousands of paper cranes for the magazine to donate. These readers are obviously not on the Internet, because the Internet has long spread, and netizens from the three major portal websites and major forums have rushed to the banyan tree to express their condolences and encouragement.

The price of the magazine is 5 yuan, which is a bit expensive, but the content is quite enough.

Needless to say, the quality of the articles, prose, essays, poems, short stories, etc., had no chance to be published before, and they have been saved under the banyan tree for several years. All kinds of high-quality articles can be selected by Lin Zhuoyun, and each article is kept perfect, and the overall quality can crush most literary magazines.

When the fourth issue of "Under the Banyan Tree" was released, word of mouth exploded, and sales soared to nearly 50,000 copies.

The retailer called the agent to say that the magazine was selling well, and the agent gave feedback to the upper-level agent, so they continued to reprint and spread it to the market. This situation surprised my peers, because the sales volume has risen too fast, which is completely unreasonable.

Therefore, some relatively enlightened traditional magazines try to publish one or two online articles per issue.

It can only be said that the Internet writers at this time are very powerful. After all, there are few people who can surf the Internet, and even fewer people can write articles on the Internet. Most of them have a high education background.

At this time, the art director and forum moderator under the banyan tree won the May 4th Literature Award several years ago, and will serve as the vice chairman of the Shenghai Writers Association in the future—everyone in the circle knows how difficult it is for the Writers Association in Beijing and Shenghai It's even more awesome to be the vice chairman. The other moderators and content editors are also big names in the future. This website can be said to be a hidden dragon and a crouching tiger.

There is also a very interesting phenomenon, these talented people are writing based on their interests, and basically do not get any manuscript fees. However, when Banyan Tree began to commercialize, more and more money was earned, but the great people stationed at the station left one after another.

By the way, under the banyan tree has two forums, one is serious and the other is lively and interesting. In terms of traffic, it can rank among the top three in many forums; and in terms of content, it is quite a collection of Tianya and Zhihu.

After the publication of the third issue of the magazine, Lin Zhuoyun posted on the "Lie Down Reading" forum: "There are two articles in this issue that cannot be contacted with the authors, and QQ, icq and emails do not reply. Their pen names are 'Holly' and 'Holly' respectively. Kafka's Big Beetle', if you see this post, please contact me, and friends who know them can also contact me, so that I can send the manuscript fee and the magazine. Thank you."

"Miss Carp is paying the manuscript fee again. Congratulations to all the stationmates who have been selected for the manuscript!" The moderator was the first to reply. This gentleman is almost 50 years old and spends all day hanging out with young people on the Internet.

"I'm so excited, this is the first draft fee in my life, and I want to treat guests to celebrate."

"Brother, you also run a company anyway, what about a few hundred dollars for the manuscript fee? You can get more than that for a casual massage."

"Can making money from doing business be the same as making money from writing articles? We are cultural people now! Don't you know that I have contributed articles to many magazines before, and the articles are not bad, but they just don't publish them. Fortunately, our website also Start your own magazine."

"It's because the magazine you submitted is too high-level. Like I submit to some city and county newspapers, I can post several articles a month."

"What's the point of sending tofu cubes? It's a waste of time."

"By the way, how much has our magazine sold?"

"Miss Carp has a post, and the sales volume of the last issue was 25,000 copies."

"Awesome!"

"Developing so fast? Unexpected."

"The only online literature publication in the country, it's a hell of a bad sales volume. I'm a high school chemistry teacher in a small eastern city. I haven't seen the magazine last month. It was published in a bookstore outside the school this month. There are students who bought "Under the Banyan Tree" in the class."

"I heard that the readers of "Death Diary" responded very strongly. How is Lu Youqing (cancer patient) doing now?"

"Should have left, I didn't pay much attention."

"left already."

"Oh, it's a pity for this person. He has a successful career and a happy family, but he has cancer."

"Let's not talk about him, it will be sad when we talk about it. Is there an update for "Three-Body Problem" this month?"

"No."

"Should we also follow the readers of Sohu and hold an online memorial service for 'Zenith Star'? Maybe we can blow him out."

"Okay, who will plan it?"

Happy red carp: "Aren't you afraid that the 'Zenithelians' will stop completely?"

"Miss Carp, hurry up and edit the magazine, don't waste time in the forum."

Happy red carp: "Ahem, I'm a 'Zenithelian', I've memorized ID's for all of you, beware of writing you as villains!"

"Isn't Red Carp a woman?"

"what's the situation?"

Happy Red Carp: "I tell you, I, Zentraedi, am a super hacker. Now I have stolen Red Carp's account, and the next one to be hacked is someone who speaks ill of me!"

"God damn bastard, go back and update!"

"Where does the evildoer escape, please coax, hurry like a law!"

Happy red carp: "Go away!"

Ning Caishen: "Report to the organization that the Zenith star is Red Carp's boyfriend."

"Kill the Zenith, grab the carp!"

"Kill the Zenith, grab the carp!"

"..."

Song Weiyang threw away the keyboard and went to play games with Doudou, too lazy to compare common sense with these funny people.