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"How about online serialization?"

Meng Huo and Alice discussed countermeasures, and came up with an idea: "Put "Detective Conan" on the Internet as a serial, and readers can read it without buying a magazine. Isn't this good for promotion?"

Magazines have limited readers, but the Internet does not have this problem.

Meng Huo thought it was a good idea, but Alice unceremoniously rejected it.

"Impossible, online serialization does more harm than good, and best-selling comics are not allowed to be serialized online."

She explained to Meng Huo that all publishing companies in Huaxia would not put their works online to weaken their value. Online serialization requires reader stickiness, and it is difficult to gather stickiness for comics that are updated once a week.

In this world, copyright protection is serious, people's culture and entertainment are enriched, and the most popular thing is offline books.

Meng Huo thought about one thing wrong. The popularity of the Internet in his previous life made him take it for granted, but that is a deformed market. Restricted life and entertainment, poor publishing and distribution of novels, and different consumption concepts, people are enthusiastic about online serialization, creating a false sense of prosperity.

But that kind of prosperity has never been seen in other developed countries in the same world. What will happen to this world?

There are so many bookstores and a variety of comics and novels that people can buy their favorite books at any time. Why do they love online novels? According to Alice's words - "If you spend money, you can't hold it in your hand, you can only watch the screen. What's the value of such a thing?"

This kind of thinking represents the vast majority of people, especially books that can be collected like comics.

Of course, there are also online serials. Its development history is longer than that of the previous life, and its quality is higher, but it will not be too prosperous. Many newcomer novelists started from online serialization, were discovered by publishing companies after becoming famous, and then embarked on the road of professional novelists.

Meng Huo chose the right direction. If he made his debut in the novel, he might still be struggling now. Moreover, Ye Xiong also denied the idea of ​​online serialization on the phone. If it doesn't become popular, it will affect the sales of magazines and booklets. In the long run, it will definitely do more harm than good.

Of course, he also explained that it is not impossible to publish online. After some comics are finished, there will be a dedicated online version, but that will have to wait until the offline interest is saturated. A popular manga like "Detective Conan" is unlikely to be published online as long as the publisher is still making money.

This incident made Meng Huo feel discouraged, so he had to think of another way.

On September 2, Ninghai No. 1 Middle School started school.

Summer has just passed, and the heat of the sun has not subsided. Students in blue and white school uniforms returned to the teaching building sweating after listening to the speech in the square.

"Snapped!"

A hand clapped on Meng Huo's shoulder, he turned his head, and Shen Jie's smiling face bloomed like a flower among many young faces: "Meng Huo, I finally found you!"

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Meng Huo smiled slightly. He found that Shen Jie was following two girls, and he was surprised: "As expected of you, you made friends so quickly?"

"They are my roommates, this is Han Xuan, and she is Li Yu!" Shen Jie introduced the two girls next to Meng Huo, and Meng Huo greeted them, but he didn't pay much attention.

He was about to leave after finishing the book, and he didn't see his classmates a few times a year, so he didn't need to keep it in his heart.

"What about you, why don't you see your roommate?" Shen Jie looked at Meng Huo and said, "You are too lonely!"

"I don't live here. There are rented rooms here." Meng Huo laughed, and then he asked: "I'm in the tenth class.

You seem different from me? "

"right."

Shen Jie was surprised that Meng Huo didn't have a place to stay, so she replied, "I'm in class one. I don't know why the school separates us."

Class one is a key class, and class ten is an ordinary class. Normally speaking, since they all had good grades and came from the same place, Meng Huo should be in the same class. But don't forget that he is a special student who is not allowed to come to school, and being assigned to a key class is likely to cause controversy.

Meng Huo understood this, so he didn't pay much attention to it.

He was very happy to see that Shen Jie had found a friend so quickly, and judging from her position and demeanor, she was still the center of the three of them, and the other two girls were relatively shy.

Meng Huo was no longer worried about the situation of this fellow villager.

He chatted with Shen Jie for a few words, then got the textbook in the classroom and went home.

On the way, he bought a translated version of the novel "Detective Sherlock". Knowing the enemy and the confidant, Meng Huo wants to see how good this novel is.

He spent the whole afternoon reading novels. The plot of "Detective Sherlock" made Meng Huo amazed. The story told the process of solving a case by a young detective. A series of suspenseful cases, the protagonist is perfect, literary , philosophy, medicine, music, swordsmanship... proficient in everything!

He solved impossible puzzles again and again, and the wisdom he displayed was shocking.

After reading this novel, even Meng Huo felt an urge to collect it. In terms of criminal methods and reasoning process, "Detective Sherlock" is already invincible.

However it also has disadvantages.

One is the Western background, and it has a long history, and young people may not like it. The second is that the protagonist is too perfect, he is like a robot, a computer, and he doesn't like any women, which is just the opposite of "Detective Conan".

"Detective Sherlock" takes reasoning and puzzle solving as the first element, and there is basically no description of life and emotion. These are the places where "Detective Conan" is better than it.

However, the gap between the two is still very large, how to narrow this gap?

The method of online serialization has been blocked, and corporate publicity and operation cannot be intervened. Meng Huo can only start with the content of "Detective Conan". His first thought is to add an interesting new case to the booklet.

But even if the case is interesting, he is not sure that he can win "Sherlock", maybe he should start from other aspects, such as relying on the air mass in his head?

Meng Huo didn't pay attention to it for a while, so he focused on it again, and found that the amount of air mass had increased a lot.

Sure enough, it is recovering, and now it has recovered barely enough for a picture, but what can a picture do?

Meng Huo thought of a way. He is not sure that this way can make the single volume of "Detective Conan" surpass "Detective Sherlock", but it will definitely increase sales!

He took out his mobile phone and called Alice.

"Has the pamphlet been sent to the publisher?"

"Not yet, it won't be released until next week!" Alice sat in the editorial department reviewing the manuscript, and she said, "I'm very busy now, and I'm finalizing the ninth chapter, which has to be sent to the publishing house tonight."

"Wait, don't send it over." Meng Huo was taken aback, "I'm going to redraw Chapter 9, please ask Editor-in-Chief Ye if he can delay the release of "Weekly Boys."

"I want to add a new character!"