The release of "Under the Banyan Tree" magazine was unexpectedly smooth. Judging from the feedback from local agents, the first 3,000 copies were sold out after only one week of printing, so another 5,000 copies were printed for the second time.

Moreover, because Lin Zhuoyun was afraid of poor sales, she positioned the magazine as a bimonthly, and now she simply changed it to a bimonthly.

There is no other reason, the Internet is too novel.

Most people in China have not been online yet, but they know that there is such a thing from various channels and are very curious about everything on the Internet. At this time, there are many student magazines that specialize in intercepting chat content from major forums and print them out word by word. Such a rough column is even very popular.

The gimmick of "the first issue of online literature" alone is enough to support the sales of at least tens of thousands of volumes per issue.

The articles that caused a sensation in the first issue were not serialized by "The Three-Body Problem" or the works of an Internet master, but a special column - the Diary of Death.

"Diary of Death", also known as "Message of Life", is the diary of a patient with advanced gastric cancer. He knew that his life was not long and had been writing diaries every day since August. By November, he could no longer write, so his wife continued to write.

Before the release of the first issue of "Under the Banyan Tree", Shenghai media had already reported this person's deeds, and newspapers from other places were reprinting one after another, which could be said to have caused a small sensation. However, his "Diary of Death" was too long. Although it had been spread throughout the Internet, major newspapers only cut off one paragraph and published it. "Under the Banyan Tree" was the first magazine to be serialized in full text.

Both husband and wife have good writing styles. The husband's writing is humorous and open-minded and philosophical, and the wife's writing is warm and sad and strong. Faced with the disease, they do not blame others, but rather enjoy the interest of life and use a relaxed and plain tone to discuss life and death.

This series of diaries not only makes people feel regret and sympathy, but also arouses people's deep thinking about the meaning of life.

Before the second issue of "Under the Banyan Tree" magazine was released, it had received more than 20 letters from readers, all asking about the current situation of the cancer patient, and readers also sent Qianzhi cranes for the magazine to transfer them. These readers obviously did not go online because the Internet had spread long ago, and netizens from the three major portals and major forums went to the banyan tree to express condolences and encouragement.

The magazine is priced at 5 yuan, which is a bit expensive, but the content is quite sufficient.

The quality of the article is needless to say. There is no chance to publish essays, essays, poems, and short stories before. They have been saved under the banyan tree for several years. All kinds of fine articles are selected by Lin Zhuoyun, and each article is constantly improving. The overall quality can crush most literary magazines.

When the release of "Under the Banyan Tree" reached the fourth issue, its reputation completely exploded, and its sales soared to nearly 50,000 copies.

The retailer called the agent and said that the magazine was easy to sell. The agent reported the situation to the higher-level agents, so he kept printing and spreading the market. This situation surprised his peers because sales volumes were really rising too fast, and it was completely unreasonable.

Therefore, some relatively open-minded traditional magazines tried to publish one or two online articles in each issue.

I can only say that online writers at this time are particularly awesome. After all, fewer people can access the Internet, even fewer people can write articles on the Internet, and most of them have high-education backgrounds.

At this time, the artistic director under the banyan tree and the moderator of the forum, won the May 4th Literature Award several years ago, and will serve as the vice chairman of the Shenghai Writers Association in the future. Everyone in the circle knows how difficult it is to enter the Beijing and Shenghai Writers Associations, and it is even more awesome to be the vice chairman. Other moderators and content editors are also famous figures in the future. This website can be said to be hidden and hiding dragons and slumped tigers.

There is also a very interesting phenomenon. These great people write based on their interests and basically cannot get any royalties. However, when the commercialization of the banyan tree began, the more money they earned, the great people on the station fled one after another. People don’t care about the money, and they feel more sorry for the website’s distortion and become more vulgar and snobbish.

By the way, under the Banyan Tree, there are two forum sections, one is serious in style and the other is lively and interesting. Judging from the traffic, it can rank among the top three among many forums; and from the content, it has a lot of combined tastes from Tianya and Zhihu.

After the third issue of the magazine was released, Lin Zhuoyun posted on the "Lying While Reading" forum section: "There are two articles in this issue of the magazine that cannot be contacted, and the authors are not responded to qq, icq and email. Their pseudonyms are 'Holly' and 'Kafka's Big Beetle'. If you see this post, please contact me on your own initiative. Friends who know them can also contact me, so I can send the royalties and magazines. Thank you."

"Miss Li Yu has paid another article fee. Congratulations to all the friends who have been selected for the article!" The first reply was the moderator. This gentleman is almost 50 years old and is still spending time online with young people all day.

"I'm so excited. This is the first royalty fee in my life. I want to treat you to celebrate."

"Brother, you are also a company. Is it as for a few hundred yuan royalty? It's more than that little money to have a massage casually."

"Can you make money by doing business and writing articles be the same? We are a cultural person now! You don't know. I have submitted manuscripts to many magazines before, and the articles are not bad, but they just don't publish them. Fortunately, our website also runs the magazines by itself."

"That's because the magazine you submitted is too high. For example, I invest in some municipal and county-level newspapers and can publish several tofu pieces a month."

"What does it mean to have tofu cubes? It's a waste of time."

"By the way, how much is our magazine selling?"

"Miss Carp has a post, and the sales volume of the previous issue was 25,000 copies."

"Awesome!"

"It's so fast? It's unexpected."

"The only online literature journal in the country, it's a hell of a bad sales. I'm a high school chemistry teacher, just a small eastern city. I haven't seen a magazine last month, and it was released to a bookstore outside the school this month. There are students in my class who bought "Under the Banyan Tree"."

"I heard that the readers of "Diary of Death" have received strong reactions. How is Lu Youqing (cancer patient) now?"

"It should have left, I didn't pay much attention."

"It's gone."

"Oh, this person is a pity. He has a successful career and a happy family, but he has cancer."

"If you don't talk about him, you'll feel sad when you talk. Is there any update to "The Three-Body Problem" this month?"

"No."

"Would we also learn from Sohu's readers and hold an online memorial service for the 'Zelephant Star'? Maybe it can blow him up."

"Yes, who will plan it?"

Happy Red Carp: "Aren't you afraid that the 'Zenth Star Man' will completely stop updating?"

"Miss Carp, go and edit magazines, don't waste time in the forum."

Happy Red Carp: "Hehe, I am the 'Zenth Star Man'. I remember all of you, so be careful to write you as villains!"

"Isn't the Red Carp a woman?"

“What’s the situation?”

Happy Red Carp: "Tell you, my Zen Star is a super hacker. Now he has stolen Red Carp's account. The next person who has been stolen is the person who speaks bad things about me!"

"God-killed bastard, hurry up and go back to update!"

"Where can the monster escape? Mali, coax it, hurry up and as order as the law!"

Happy Red Carp: "Get out!"

Ning Caishen: "Report to the organization, the Zen Star is the boyfriend of Red Carp."

"Kill the zenith and grab the carp!"

"Kill the zenith and grab the carp!"

“…”
Chapter completed!