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Chapter 529 Rowling's Axis vs. Amos' Alliance (Fifth update, please vote and subscribe!!)
The book sales war has captured the attention of book lovers across North America.

The main reason is that neither of them are unknown figures.

Since 2000, both have demonstrated unparalleled talent and influence in the creative field, and are equally renowned.

However, they had never faced off against each other before.

Back in 2004, some people wondered what would happen if Amos and J.K. Rowling had a match.
Of course, they did try again in 2003.

It's just that comparing a traditional novel like Notre Dame de Paris with a serialized novel like Harry Potter is a bit of a mismatch.

In fact, even with J.K. Rowling's recommendation, Notre Dame de Paris only sold ten million copies.

Back then, Harry Potter sold a whopping 18 million copies.

Things are different now!

After a year in 2004, Liu Jin's fame was, in some ways, no less than that of Rowling.

Moreover, he had just won the Palme d'Or and was riding high.

In such a situation, how could one not feel excited?

……

A war between two people has begun!

At that moment, someone who had wandered in appeared.

Harvey Weinstein.

He started putting his efforts into "Life Is Beautiful"...

In fact, Life Is Beautiful has been progressing steadily since Cannes.

Harvey discovered that there seemed to be a very powerful force suppressing the publicity for "Life Is Beautiful".

The same applies when negotiating with theater chains.

He spent over a month running around, but only managed to secure 1800 opening scenes.

This was something that Harvey absolutely could not tolerate.

Yes, that’s right!

Americans don't care whether you won the Palme d'Or or not.

The three major European powers have virtually no influence on the American people.

With 1800 scenes at the start, that's already pretty good!

But for Harvey, this result was absolutely unacceptable...

Liu Jin prepared $30 million for the publicity and distribution of "Life Is Beautiful".

The actual investment in filming was only 20 million.

Afterwards, Liu Jin added another five million.

With $35 million in marketing and promotion, achieving only this opening result would definitely not be considered a success.

He is Harvey Weinstein!

But Harvey also knew who was stopping Life Is Beautiful.

Besides the small daily life, there are also some Jews who work closely with the small daily life.

That's the power of two nations!
Even Harvey wouldn't dare to do anything underhanded.

But that's all money!

Moreover, this is the first battle since the founding of Weinstein Company. The stronger the opponent, the more Harvey's abilities will be revealed.

So Harvey was always looking for an opportunity.

With Liu Jin and Rowling going to war, Harvey suddenly found an opportunity.

He began to mobilize his staff to further increase the publicity efforts for "Life Is Beautiful".

Meanwhile, we continue to maintain contact with major cinema chains...

For this level of popularity, you only provided 1800 screens; it's practically a desecration of the US dollar.

The mastermind behind this film was Amos.

An author whose works combined have grossed nearly three billion US dollars at the box office—are you declaring war on the dollar?
Yes, three billion US dollars.

Over the past five years, the adaptations of Liu Jin's works have generally been successful.

The Hangover alone grossed nearly $1.2 billion at the box office.

Other films such as *Identity*, *Amélie*, *Before Sunrise*, *The Father Trapped in Time*, and *Million Dollar Baby* have collectively grossed $1.1 to $1.2 billion. If we include *Pirates of the Caribbean*, the first film grossed $800 million, bringing the total to over $3 billion, with the sequel scheduled for release next year.

I know you're in a difficult position.

But you can stop them once, can you stop them a second time?

Pirates of the Caribbean, Kung Fu Panda, Death Note, WALL-E...

Radisson, my fellow countrymen, this is all money!
Not to mention the future, Amos will create even more works, do you really want to offend him?

We're quite well-off, but we'll never give you money for no reason...

Gentlemen, think about the prophecy in "The Eye of the Ferocious Beast"! If even the release of a work can be controlled by them, then I think that one day, the story told in "The Eye of the Ferocious Beast" might not be impossible to come true.

At this point, America had not yet been completely brainwashed.

They haven't been corrupted by those messy ideologies.

There are still normal people!
Several major cinema chains are hesitant.

Yes, it's just a movie, there's nothing taboo about it, it's just a Chinese person making fun of everyday life...

Why should we get involved?
Yes, they're quite wealthy. But they can't possibly bribe us.

……

While Harvey and the major theater chains are engaged in further negotiations.

The Hollywood Reporter suddenly came up with a concept.

Rowling's Axis Powers vs. Amos's Allies.

That sounds really interesting.

On July 28th, the sales figures for Harry Potter's first full week after its release were released.

Nemo still reigns supreme.

Sales: 1.8 million copies.

"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" is still in second place, with 1.5 million copies sold.

Third place: The Da Vinci Code.

The Da Vinci Code, which has been on the market for six months, has surprisingly achieved growth this week, with sales reaching 130 copies.

Fourth place goes to The Hunger Games.

Sales reached 98 copies, approaching the million mark.

Fifth place goes to "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," a novel published in 2003 that miraculously sold 830,000 copies just two years later.

Even the academic community was baffled.

But they reacted very quickly, immediately notifying the printing plant to reprint "The Order of the Phoenix".

Sixth place: Night at the Museum, 780,000 copies sold.

The book's sales had already plateaued, but then...

Seventh place: Life Is Beautiful

Eighth place: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the third Harry Potter book, published in 1999.

Ninth place: The Old Man and the Sea, 730,000 copies sold.

10th Place: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, published in 1997

……

The top ten spots were dominated by works by Liu Jin and Rowling.

Even authors who were on the list last week are now wailing in despair…

This is a crime, it's stifling literary creation.

Both of them, a man and a woman, deserve to go to hell.

The academic group is laughing their heads off!
HarperCollins Publishers laughed too.

Random House should have been very happy, but for some reason, they couldn't smile.

Because they didn't know when they would be able to cooperate with Liu Jin again...

Are these two monsters?
Meanwhile, Stephanie Morgan Mayer, who lives in Phoenix, Arizona, hung up the phone.

She breathed a sigh of relief.

“Pan Qiao, I’m glad I listened to your idea.”

Pan Qiao is her husband.

I'm cooking dinner.

"What, my idea?"

"Do you remember the day I asked you if we should stick to publishing Twilight in July?"

"Um, I remember."

"Jonnie, an editor from Little Brown Publishing, just called me and said: J.K. Rowling and Amos are going crazy, they're really going crazy."

Half of the top 30 bestsellers on the New York Times list are their books.

Works from before the millennium have made it back onto the list. Can you believe that "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" from 95 sold 37 copies last week?
Amos's "Amélie," published in 2001, sold an astonishing 430,000 copies!

Stephanie couldn't help but clutch her head, and said with a wry smile, "This world has gone mad!"
They said it was a war between the Rowling Axis powers and the Amos Allies, and that the fighting had supposedly spread to Europe…

Pan Qiao smacked his lips and swallowed.

Stephanie's words surprised him as well.

He thought for a moment and said, "How about we go to the bookstore tomorrow and buy a couple of their books... to see what's so good about them."

This will be a valuable experience for your future creative work!

In May, Stephanie asked him if he wanted Twilight to be published in July.

At that time, she might have to compete with J.K. Rowling and Amos.

Pan Qiao felt that his wife had written...

What is that thing called?!
So I casually replied: It's best to wait and avoid them.

What a prescient suggestion...

If Stephanie's book, whatever the city, gets involved in this competition, it will probably suffer a very terrible fate!
They're practically two monsters.

……

(End of this chapter)