More than 70 days of struggle, nearly 600,000 words, this is the data of the free trial period of "The Hidden Dragon of the Qing Dynasty", and the trial period will be followed by the release of the book for sale. The remarks before putting it on the shelves are indispensable, so I can only say a few words at will.
Once it's on the shelves, you'll have to collect money, and there will definitely be diversion of readers. There's nothing we can do about it. Now that the online literature industry has been deeply marketized, many things have already formed rules, and we can't change them.
Let me be verbose here, it’s really not expensive to read the original version!
At 17k, the charge for a thousand words is three cents. One chapter of "The Hidden Dragon of the Qing Dynasty" is more than three thousand words, so it costs nine cents to read one chapter. Calculated based on the fact that two chapters are updated a day, it only costs 18 cents to read a day. In this way, your monthly consumption of 5.4 yuan is enough to read a month.
For five or six yuan, even if you buy a pack of cigarettes, you won't be able to buy a very good one. You can't even add meat or eggs to a bowl of noodles. But such a small amount of money is enough for you to watch it for a month. This is really the cheapest leisure consumption in today's society.
The money is not much, it is just a thought, to give Xinjing a little support. I know that writing history is very hard, so I feel sorry for my gray hair. (Baidu search network updates the fastest and most stably)
History is really difficult to write. This is not deliberately pretentious, but the truth. Because the history of the late Qing Dynasty is relatively close to ours in time, it is difficult to completely isolate it. Many chapters cannot be obtained by just scratching the head, but need to check a lot of information.
It may take a few minutes for everyone to read a chapter, but it takes at least half a day for Xinjing to write this chapter. It takes time to look up information and organize the plot. In addition, typing is slow, so writing a chapter is really hard.
To be honest, the 600,000 words of "The Hidden Dragon of the Qing Dynasty" have already consumed more effort than the last entire book I wrote. That "Interstellar Hunter Country" was a full 200 words. Ten thousand words.
Apart from anything else, my gray hair has obviously increased in the past two months.
Historical themes are niche themes, and regular readers of online articles know this very well. The target consumer group of history is originally smaller than that of urban and fantasy genres, and it is very difficult to write history. Coupled with the impact of piracy, many historical authors have changed careers. If this vicious cycle continues, the entire history category will naturally shrink.
The writing was laborious and laborious, and few people read it. In the end, there was no money to be made. The cruel reality made many authors shy away from it. It is precisely because of this that many old bookworms are complaining that there are no good books to read, and they are calling for a book shortage. .
But Xinjing has to say that it is precisely because the environment is so cruel that we need the support of all book friends even more! The author's motivation comes from readers, and the greatest support readers can give to authors is genuine reading.
I won’t go into too much nonsense. We are all smart people and we all know that the key to the problem is not money at all. Who can care about the five or six yuan a month who can access the Internet? In fact, it's all a matter of habit. There is no habit of reading genuine books.
To put it more seriously, the current social atmosphere also forces people to watch pirated copies. Maybe when you recharge five or six yuan to support the author, people around you will laugh at you for being stupid. In the eyes of those people, there are free pirated versions to watch, but you still spend money to watch the genuine version. Isn’t that stupid?
Look, there are many friends who want to consume genuine products, but they may shrink from such ridicule.
Regarding this kind of social atmosphere, I can only give you one sentence: "How broad your heart is, how vast your world is." When your life is limited to petty profits and the comparison of pennies and bucks, I'm afraid you have no chance to go there. Look up at the turbulent world.
Don't care what others think of you, do the right thing, don't hesitate and move forward bravely. When others lower their heads to pick up the 50 cents dropped on the street, you may be able to see the most beautiful rainbow flashing across the sky.
Get moving, my dearest book friends, let us plunge into the magnificent era in the book, follow the pace of "The Hidden Dragon of the Qing Dynasty", and let our souls take a journey through history.
I'm on the road, and you're willing to accompany me!
On December 1, 2014, "The Hidden Dragon of the Qing Dynasty" was officially launched! i734
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