Reborn Millennial Gamer

Chapter 184 Recommend a Good Book to You

New York Times Building, Office of the President.

Arthur Sulzberger put down the printout of the preface written by Bill Gates to "The World Is Flat", and a rare trace of surprise appeared on his face that had been calm for many years, and soon disappeared without a trace.

He asked with interest: "Thomas, how did you convince him?"

"Arthur, you know, I have some kind of friendship with him, not only I interviewed him, I am an honorary doctor and visiting professor at Harvard, and he is also from Harvard, although he dropped out of school."

Friedman leaned back, leaning on the back of the chair, and said proudly: "But the main content of the book is the thoughts of Lu and I. His Microsoft was inspired by our previous reports and entered the Chinese development market."

Arthur Sulzberger raised his lips and pointed out a paragraph in the manuscript that was dedicated to Lu Fei, "Then, how could he have such a good opinion of Lu Fei, whom he has never seen before, you told him? "

"It's very simple, I told him that Lu is Huaxia's him, China's Bill Gates."

As soon as Friedman said it, Arthur Sulzberger laughed, and the laughter of the two scattered in the office.

"good idea!"

Arthur Sulzberger was so happy that he almost didn't laugh out his tears. If China's Bill Gates wrote a best-selling book, wouldn't he be even more awesome as a deity?

"With the addition of his preface, the number of the first printing can be at least 5 copies on the original basis."

"How much does McGraw-Hill Press initially intend to print?"

"10 volumes, you know, economics and management books are no better than popular novels like "Harry Potter"."

Arthur Sulzberger shrugged. "What's more, the first author is a Chinese businessman."

Friedman corrected: "Bill Gates of China."

"Grandfather, China's Bill Gates, the New York Times can help him hype his operations, but we also hope that you can recommend new books to Harvard. Now that colleges are on spring break, there should be many lectures in colleges."

"no problem!"

Friedman agreed, he is an honorary doctorate of five universities.

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Book sales in the United States account for one-third of the world's book sales, and book publishing is the first of its kind.

Even if you promote some good books that don’t make money, it will add force and influence to the publishing house. Making money is the first priority. If the author of "The World Is Flat" doesn’t have Friedman, with Lu Fei’s reputation alone, It is impossible to even have 3000 copies in the first printing, let alone spread to the hottest major cities in the United States.

On average in 40 important cities, each place has a circulation of 2500 copies.

A Walmart department store in New York.

Gurg grunt, the wheels of the car rolled and made a slight sound.

Edward Zuckerberg pushed a cart and walked through the shelves with his wife Karen and daughter to shop. The shelves were full and the categories were complete.

Taking advantage of the time when Karen and his daughter went to buy toilet paper, he took the time to go to the book area. In fact, in the United States, most of the book sales are not in bookstores, but in retail hypermarkets. Major publishing houses rely on increasing discounts to sell best seller.

Walking over with ease, he asked the clerk, "Are there any new books?"

The clerk introduced politely: "There are more than a dozen new books on the shelves these days, please follow me!"

Edward glanced at the new books on the bookshelf, "The Lovely Bones", "The Fourth Hand", and "The Nanny's Diary", each of which passed before his eyes, and was suddenly fascinated by the weird and surprising book "The World Is Flat". The name attracts, the line of sight locks.

"This "The World Is Flat" is the work of that famous scholar?"

The clerk introduced: "Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman..."

Although Edward is a dentist, he is also a serious bookworm. He is naturally familiar with Friedman, whose name often appears in the "New York Times", and immediately concluded that it is a good book with a strong sense of style.

However, when the clerk said in the second half of the sentence that he co-wrote with a Chinese Internet elite, he couldn't help being surprised.

"Who is this Lu?"

"Haven't you read the previous issues of The New York Times? He is China's Bill Gates! China's Jeff Bezos!"

"What?! China's Bill Gates? Jeff Bezos?"

Edward frowned, doubtful. The last book he read written by a Chinese was "Sun Tzu's Art of War".

"That's right, Bill Gates even wrote a preface for this book."

"Bill Gates?!"

"Yes." The clerk smiled.

The conversation between the two immediately recruited all the book-hunters around. After all, the name of the richest man in the world is more attractive than the president.

Edward asked politely, "May I read it first?"

The clerk took out the unpacked sample booklet: "Of course, please do it."

Edward couldn't wait to open the title page, and first read Bill Gates' preface, and at a glance, he saw that it read:

"As the world's best newspaper columnist, Friedman has mastered the skills, through the detailed description of a large number of surprising phenomena in the world's economic life, for readers to show the speed of development of the global economy, close cooperation and complexity."

"As for Huaxia Lu, who co-wrote with him, he owns an Internet e-commerce company similar to the combination of Amazon and eBay, and has a social tool comparable to Microsoft's MSN with hundreds of millions of global users. He is only 19 years old and is comparable to me...

He analyzed the various phenomena proposed by Friedman, found out the connection among them, and based on this, he came up with a concise point of view. The most important thing is not only the American perspective, but also China. For anyone who wants to know This is a must-read for readers who will take us to the next stage of world flattening and globalization. "

The Chinese who Bill Gates admires so much must be a master, and this book must be a good book!

Edward began to flip through the text, starting from Chapter 1, and fell into it unconsciously, completely forgetting about Karen and her daughter.

After about ten minutes, the clerk finally couldn't help reminding: "Sir, have you decided to buy it?"

"Huh? Oh, sure, give me a copy, please."

As if he had found a treasure, Edward suddenly thought of his son who was obsessed with the Internet at home, and changed his words: "Give me two copies, thank you!"

"The World Is Flat" has nearly 500 pages and costs 22.5 US dollars for a complete set. It is not cheap, but it is not expensive. For a middle-class family like his, it is a drop in the bucket.

Excited to bring the book, he went home with his wife and daughter non-stop, and then went straight to his son's room, and saw Zuckerberg sitting in front of the computer with a hunched back, tinkering with his music program.

Perhaps it is due to Jewish genes, my son is very interested in computers and software programming, and he does not allow it to be restrained, because in this era, computers have great prospects.

Before, it was just intuition.

But now, after watching "The World Is Flat", I fully support Zuckerberg's dedication to computers and the Internet.

"What's the matter, Daddy?" Zuckerberg wondered.

"Mark, here's a new book on the Internet. It's very novel. I think you'll like it."

Edward put the book on the table, patted his son on the back, roughly described the contents of the book, and turned to leave.

Zuckerberg frowned and picked up the book. At first glance, it was boring, and then he put it down. It was a rare spring break, and he wanted to think about the algorithm before returning to school.

But when I thought of Bill Gates writing the preface, I became curious again, and I couldn't help picking it up again, flipping through it casually.

At the beginning, I dismissed it, even if there are Internet of Things, cloud computing, virtual reality, iteration, these concepts have long been mentioned in "Out of Control", they are just fried rice.

However, I slowly sank into it, even though a maze screensaver appeared on the screen, I still gnawed and read, completely ignoring the loss of time.

"Dengdengdeng~"

Suddenly, the MSN prompt sounded in the stereo.

Zuckerberg shuddered suddenly, his heart trembling with "thump, thump, thump", and he looked back at the computer. His roommate sent a message.

"Too outdated!"

He complained contemptuously, and immediately thought of the QQ mentioned by Lu Fei in the book, which connects a Huaxia, which accounts for one-fifth of the world's population, across space and geography, and establishes a social village.

Can I be a social platform?
Or, simply make an American version of QQ!

With a lifetime of thoughts, I immediately replied to my roommate, and turned into running water, and couldn't wait to recommend "The World Is Flat" to my friends.

The roommate was puzzled: "Lu, who is he?"

"An internet prophet from China."

(End of this chapter)