For this reason, Jiang Lili held the mentality of watching a joke. Seeing that the five hundred English books could not be sold, other publishing houses in Wucheng, especially other publishing houses that had received the submission of this book before, also received the news.
Most of the previous publishing houses were not optimistic about the content of Chen Yuan's book. When they saw Huayu Culture Publishing House signed a contract with Chen Yuan, everyone looked on coldly, thinking that it was no wonder that Huayu Culture was not profitable.
As long as their editor-in-chief continues to operate in such a reckless manner, publishing books by lesser-known authors, the benefits will become less and less. If Arima Culture does not improve this year, it will close sooner or later.
Liu Chuan, the editor-in-chief of Huayu Culture, is also under a lot of pressure. After all, their benefits are very bad. Because of publishing this English book, there have been several conflicts among his own internal staff.
The economic benefits of the publishing house are not good. If it continues to develop like this, it may not be able to continue to support after two or three years of operation.
Once the publishing house goes bankrupt, everyone will lose their jobs. It seems that things are calm now, but everyone knows how much the loss has been. The publishing house is just doing the last struggle step by step.
After Liu Chuan took over the position of editor-in-chief, the publishing house had already suffered serious losses, and he tried many ways to save it, but it was of no use. It was like a dying old man, and it was almost impossible to revive it.
I have always wanted to save the publishing house. Now that I see Chen Yuan's book, I also hold the attitude of giving it a try. In fact, without this book, the publishing house will go bankrupt sooner or later. Speed up its life.
There are some people in the publishing house, even though they know that they will go bankrupt sooner or later, but now they don’t want to face these things and just want to die peacefully. They don’t want to change, they don’t want to innovate, and they don’t want Liu Chuan to spend money. Wasted on an English book.
Even if only 500 copies are published, if it fails, Liu Chuan will still be condemned, and it is very likely that the publishing house will close down in the future, and he will become a sinner. body.
When Liu Chuan was in a state of uncertainty, several editors outside came in angrily and said.
"Editor Liu, we jointly protest against the cancellation of the publication of this book by author Chen Yuan."
Liu Chuan frowned and directly refused: "Impossible, we have already signed the contract."
The editors were very angry: "What, if something goes wrong with such a big matter, can you, Editor-in-Chief Liu, bear the loss?"
Liu Chuan said: "Anyway, this matter must have nothing to do with you. Just take care of your own affairs and finish your work? Are you so leisurely?"
He glanced at these familiar faces. They were all black sheep in the publishing house. These people were harmful to the publishing house, but the current state of the publishing house simply cannot withstand a major change, and even if they are forced to replace them, they will not be able to recruit new people to replace them. There are vacancies, so Liu Chuan has been patient with these people, and if there is a chance, he must clear them all out.
These editors also said after hearing this: "Editor Liu, if you are so determined to go your own way, if you lose money at that time, then we can't agree to it, and you have to promise to bear it yourself."
Liu Chuan sneered: "If there is any loss, I have to bear it myself. Does that mean that the publishing house will also give me all the money it makes? Don't think that I don't know what you people are thinking. To tell you the truth, this book will definitely be published, and I will not It will hinder your work, but if you continue to make trouble, it will be treated as absenteeism today."
The faces of several people were very ugly when they heard it, but they didn't dare to continue to make trouble. They were still unconvinced. Liu Chuan's temper was getting worse and worse, and he didn't know what gave him the confidence. When the English book really couldn't sell Go out and see what he is still arrogant about? It will be too late to cry at that time, and now it is rumored that if the book can be sold, sows can climb trees. Editor-in-chief Liu really wants to be a sinner of Huayu Culture.
Liu Chuan endured the pressure for more than a month, and finally published Chen Yuan's English book. The cover of "How to Learn English" is a yellow book cover, with the title and author's name printed on it, as well as the editor's name and The address of the publishing house, as well as the book number and other information, on the promotional card of the outer packaging, it is printed: "The easiest way to learn English in history, let your child learn English in one minute."
As soon as the book was printed, Liu Chuan sent the finished book to Chen Yuan to read. Chen Yuan was very satisfied. publicity.
But as soon as the slogan on this book came out, Jiang Lili knew about it again, and she sneered at it. She didn't dare to publicize the simplest method in history. What kind of guts does Liu Chuan have to say this? In other words, the author is still a vocational high school student, so it can make people laugh out loud.
Jiang Lili feels that she and this kind of people are not of the same class. If she really compares herself with this kind of people, she may really lose her status. The essays she is busy with will be published in the next few days. Just know that the sky is high and the earth is thick, and young people have never been beaten by their peers.
Liu Chuan said that his journey was not going well, and he repeatedly hit the wall. He wanted to sell Chen Yuan's books to bookstores, but only a few small bookstores were willing to accept his books for the sake of saving face and accepting ten or eight copies less.
The big bookstores didn't even read it at all, and were rejected directly. They had no choice but to start with small bookstores and gradually promote them.
Fang Cuiping, several parents of the students, Jiang Yuexiang, Mrs. Wu and Zhao Yan, they bought 50 copies directly, mainly to sell them to the people around them. At first, relatives and friends were also disgusted, but after a long time, they will always be curious or accept it. , gradually saw the effect.
Zhao Yan recommended it to the English teacher in their school. She doesn’t teach English herself, but she absolutely agrees with the content of this book. Some teachers don’t believe it, and forget about it after taking the book. Some teachers promise to read it look.
From this point of view, knowledgeable people will naturally feel that the content of this book is really good.
A fifth-grade English teacher named Feng Yu brought the content of this book to the classroom. As a result, the children accepted it very well. After a class, they felt that they were not satisfied. They even pestered her to ask how to play English games. Because of the inaccurate pronunciation of the phonetic symbols, the child felt anxious that he could not cooperate with other students in playing games. He made up his mind to learn English well, which was something he had never done before.
Feng Yu deeply realized how powerful this book is. Its charm can conquer all the children. The children resisted learning before because the study was boring. Some children fell asleep during class. Simply because learning doesn't appeal to them.
Therefore, compulsory and oppressive learning has been adopted all the time. Most of the children are also under pressure to complete the homework left every day. If they are told not to keep homework, these children may be so happy, but today she finished this class. After the class, the children had obvious active learning and made changes.
In this book, there are many, many learning games. The game methods are very interesting, but they can only be played with the cooperation of multiple people. If you want to play games, you must know the pronunciation and spelling of English words. Some children can’t I am very anxious. Everyone can participate in playing games. It is the first time for the top students in the class to play this game. Everyone is fair and there is no sense of gap, so it is more attractive to children who want to learn English well and participate.
None of the children Feng Yu had ever taught was so enthusiastic about pestering her to ask questions. When the bell rang for the end of get out of class, none of the children left. It seemed that I could really use the teaching methods in this book frequently in the future.
This book is definitely good stuff.
The parents of the fifth grade found a miraculous phenomenon when they came back from work today, that is, their children started to recite English on their own initiative. If you don't know how to recite words, you can only watch them when you play with your classmates, so you have to work hard to learn the English you need.
Parents actually don’t know what English games are, and what this teaching method means. They just see that the children are learning on their own, and they don’t need to be forced to learn, and they don’t have to worry about discipline. This is a good thing and deserves encouragement and praise.
In Feng Yu's class, after a long time, all the students improved their grades, which attracted the collective attention of the school leaders and parents. In order to show that the reward was a special case and was rated as an excellent teacher, Feng Yu's bonus this month was also increased by 30%. When the other teachers saw Feng Yu's situation, they were jealous and envious, and hurried to ask her what method she used, why everyone was at the same level, and the average grades in the class were similar, so why did she improve so much.
This is something closely related to bonuses and ratings. The other teachers were naturally very enthusiastic, but they didn't expect that after asking, it was actually the credit of an English book.
This book was written by a parent of a third-grade student. After hearing the news, all the teachers were shocked. The third-grade teacher was not surprised. Only Huang Ru was very angry. Why is there Chen Yuan everywhere? It is really annoying.
The teachers started running to the big bookstores all over the city, frantically looking for this book.
At the famous Huadong Bookstore in Wucheng, two teachers from Wucheng Primary School asked the staff at the bookstore at the door: "Do you have the book "How to Learn English" here?"
The people in the book store were at a loss as to where they had heard of such books: "No, no."
Teacher: "Ah, why don't you have such a good book in such a big bookstore?"
"Don't worry, we really don't."
Huaxi and Huabei bookstores are also showing the same scene: "Is there "How to Learn English"?" "No."
"Hey, I've gone to three bookstores, but none of them are sold. If I can't find any more, I can only go to the publishing house of Huayu Culture to ask."
Several major bookstores didn’t take it seriously when they were first asked by customers, but if twenty customers came to ask about the whereabouts of this book at the same time in a day, the leaders of the bookstore would pay attention to it, and they were all curious about what happened. How can a book be so attractive to customers
The teachers of Wucheng Primary School finally found a few scattered copies of "How to Learn English" in a small bookstore, but these books are not enough for their school teachers, not to mention that parents heard that they would buy them, and teachers in other primary schools were also moved by the news. For a while, all the books on the market were divided up.
Moreover, the supply is in short supply, and many people are looking for it everywhere. After asking their staff in the next few bookstores, they found that Huayu Culture had published a book "How to Learn English", but because the content of this book was not very good, it was rejected. Confiscated, the leaders are very angry now, if the content is not good, why are customers so eager to buy it? Even if people take the initiative to push the door open, the ducks that reach their mouths can fly.
If you take over a few hundred copies, can you not worry about selling them now
Liu Chuan was worried that the book could not be sold, and several employees came to sneer at the hot wind: "Editor Liu, I told you not to publish this book, but you didn't listen. You regret it now. There are still 400 copies in the warehouse that cannot be sold. Go out, do you pay out of your own pocket?"
Liu Chuan was aggrieved by this, but he couldn't say anything. He rubbed his temples and his face was full of worry, but it was a fact that the book was not easy to sell, and he really couldn't refute it.
Just as several employees were mocking, Liu Chuan's assistant suddenly rushed in from the outside and said with a happy face.
"Editor Liu, the owners of several major bookstores in East China, North China, West China, and South China have all come, and they said they want to order "How to Learn English"!"
Liu Chuan was overjoyed when he heard the words. The smiles on his face when he mocked the editors froze, and someone outside said: "What? Only four hundred copies? This quantity is too small, not enough for several of our bookstores to fit between our teeth."