Rebirth of the Wild Age

The release of the magazine "Under the Banyan Tree" was unexpectedly smooth. According to the feedback from local agents, the first 3,000 copies were sold out in just one week, so another 5,000 copies were printed for the second time.

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

There is no other reason, but the Internet is too novel.

Most people in China have not been online yet, but they know about such a thing from various channels and are curious about everything on the Internet. At this time, there are still many student magazines that intercept the chat content of major forums and print them out verbatim. Such crude columns are still 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 article that caused a sensation in the inaugural issue was not a serialized novel of "Three Body", nor was it the work of a great internet god, but a special column—the death diary.

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

Before the first issue of "Under the Banyan Tree", Shenghai media had already reported on this person's deeds, and foreign newspapers have successively reprinted it, which can be said to have caused a small-scale sensation. However, his "Death Diary" is too long. Although it has been circulated on the Internet for a long time, major newspapers only intercepted one paragraph of the publication. "Under the Banyan Tree" was the first magazine to serialize the full text.

Both husband and wife write very well, the husband's writing is humorous and open-minded and philosophical, and the wife's writing is tender and sad and strong. In the face of illness, they did not blame others, but optimistically enjoyed the taste of life, discussing life and death in a relaxed and plain tone.

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

Before the second issue of Banyan Tree was released, it had received more than 20 letters from readers asking about the current status of this cancer patient, and readers sent Qianzhihe to ask the magazine for donation. These readers are obviously not online, because the Internet has spread all over the world, and netizens from the three major portals and major forums rushed to the banyan tree to give condolences and encouragement.

The magazine is priced at 5 yuan, which is a bit more expensive, but the content is adequate.

There is no need to mention the quality of the articles. Prose, essays, poems, short stories, etc., have never had the opportunity to be published before, and they have been under the banyan tree for several years. Lin Zhuoyun chooses all kinds of high-quality articles, and each one strives for perfection, and the overall quality can crush most literary magazines.

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

The retailer called the agent to say that the magazine was good for sale, and the agent reported the situation to the higher-level agent, so they continued to print and spread the market. This situation surprised the peers, because the sales volume has risen so fast that it makes no sense at all.

Therefore, some relatively open-minded traditional magazines try to publish one or two online articles in each journal.

It can only be said that the Internet writers at this time are particularly awesome. After all, there are fewer people who can access the Internet, and even fewer people can write articles on the Internet, and most of them have high education backgrounds.

At this time, the artistic director and forum moderator under the banyan tree won the May Fourth Literature Award several years ago, and will serve as the vice chairman of the Shenghai City Writers Association in the future. It’s even more awesome to be a vice chairman. Other moderators and content editors are also well-known figures 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 great people write on interest, and basically don't get any manuscript fees. But when the banyan tree began to commercialize, more and more money was made, but the stationed cattle ran away one after another-people are not scarce of the money, and even more distressed that the website has changed its taste and become more vulgar and snobbery.

By the way, there are two forum sections under Banyan Tree, one with serious style and the other with lively and interesting. In terms of traffic, it ranks among the top three in many forums; 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 in the "Lying and Reading" forum section: "There are two articles in this issue that cannot be contacted with the author, and QQ, ICQ and e-mail do not reply. Their pen names are'Winter Qing' and ' Kafka’s Big Beetle’, if you see this post, please take the initiative to contact me. 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 for the manuscript again. Congratulations to all the friends who have been selected for the manuscript!" The first person who responded was the moderator. This gentleman is almost 50 years old, and he spends all day hanging out with young people on the Internet.

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

"Man, you also started a company anyway. Is it a few hundred dollars for the manuscript fee? It's more than just a little bit of money for a casual massage."

"Can business make money the same as writing articles? We are now a cultural person! Don't you know, I have contributed articles to many magazines before, and the articles are not bad, but they just don’t publish them. Fortunately, our website is also I started my own magazine."

"That's because the magazine you deliver is too high-level. Like I voted for some city and county-level newspapers, I can post several pieces of tofu a month."

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

"By the way, how much did our magazine sell?"

"Miss Carp has a post. The sales volume in the previous issue was 25,000 copies."

"Awesome!"

"Developing so fast? Unexpectedly."

“The only online literature publication in the country. It’s a **** if the sales are not good~www.wuxiamtl.com~ I am a high school chemistry teacher, and I am just a small eastern city. I haven’t seen the magazine last month, so I will publish it to school this month. There is a bookstore outside, and there are students in my class who bought "Under the Banyan Tree"."

"I heard that the readers of "Death Diary" received a strong response. How is Lu Youqing (cancer patient) now?"

"It should be gone, I didn't pay much attention to it."

"left already."

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

"Don't talk about him, I feel sad when we talk. Is "Three-Body" updated this month?"

"no."

"Should we also learn from Sohu readers and hold an online memorial service for the'Zenith Starren'? Maybe we can blow him up."

"Yes, who will plan?"

Happy Red Carp: "Aren't you afraid that the'Zenith Stars' will stop completely?"

"Miss Carp, go write a magazine, don't waste time in the forum."

Happy Red Carp: "Ahem, Lao Tzu is the ‘Zenith Star Man’, you guys are pale, I have all remembered your ID, and be careful to write you guys as big villains!"

"Isn't the red carp female?"

"what's the situation?"

Happy Red Carp: "Tell you, my Zenith Star is a super hacker, and I have stolen Red Carp's account now. The next person to be hacked is the one who speaks badly about me!"

"God damned bastard, go back and update the novel!"

"Where does the evildoer flee? Mighty, hurriedly like a law!"

Happy red carp: "Go!"

Ning Caishen: "Reporting organization, Zenith Star is the boyfriend of Red Carp."

"Kill the sky, grab the carp!"

"Kill the sky, grab the carp!"

"..."

Song Weiyang threw away the keyboard and went to play games with Doudou.