Yu Dong renamed "Ghost Mom" ​​as "Perfect World".
Originally he thought of using "If I Had a Perfect World", but later he changed his mind and left only the words "Perfect World".
There is not much difference in structure and core between "Perfect World" and "Caroline", except that Yu Dong has Chineseized the story and the protagonist Caroline has become Yu Xiaoguo.
The entire novel, including punctuation, totals about 51,000 words, and Yu Dong spent seven days writing it.
When Cheng Yanqiu inspected the finished product, he expressed surprise at the length of the story, "I thought it was just a story of a few thousand words."
The story Yu Dong told Yu Haiguo and the others that day was indeed rather omitted, and it didn't sound very long.
"A little more details have been added." Yu Dong smiled, "The novel may look a little more scary than the story told that day."
Cheng Yanqiu nodded while reading the manuscript, "Well, I got this feeling just after reading the first two paragraphs. There are many details in the novel. Is this novel long or short? Do you want it? Make it into a single volume, or send it to some magazine?"
A novel of 50,000 words is really embarrassing in length and difficult to turn into a single book.
Generally speaking, if you want to make a single book, it must be at least 100,000 words. Novels of 40,000 to 50,000 words usually need to be put into a collection, or some short stories can be added to make up the number.
Of course, if you really want to make it into a single book, you can do it, but you have to add more illustrations, otherwise the page numbers will be too few and it won't look like a book.
"Let's post it online first. As for how it will be released physically later, we'll see how it goes."
Yu Dong's idea is that if the response to the novel is good and the reader's response is high, he can add some illustrations and make "Perfect World" into a single book.
If the response is average, wait until you have other short stories and short stories on hand before adding it to the collection.
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Yu Dong asked Yiliang to send someone over to get the manuscript that day. Later, they would find someone to make "Perfect World" into several foreign language versions. The tentative ones were English, French, Spanish and Italian.
Because it is serialized online, this time we don’t have to translate all of it before releasing it. Instead, we can release only part of it after it has been translated.
The Chinese version of the entire novel is 51,000 words, divided into eight weeks, which averages out to more than 6,000 words per week.
And this speed puts no pressure on those translation teams at all.
Just one week later, the first verse of "Perfect World" was finished.
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On August 20th, the Deep Space Tribe website made an update.
The updated content is very simple, that is, when you click on a tribe with more than 2,000 characters, it will enter the long article mode, which is more convenient for users to read.
After seeing this update, most users didn't take it to heart, because normally no one would publish a tribe with more than 2,000 characters, so this feature is generally not used.
Landry looked at the website's update instructions and showed a hint of confusion. His first reaction was the same as that of most users, thinking that this feature was useless.
According to his understanding of Deep Space Company, this company has done very well in making things from the beginning. For example, Deep Space Tribe has considered most of the details from the beginning, and has rarely updated or updated them later.
Change, don't want to be next door to AOL, it will be updated with a new feature every once in a while.
It's as if Deep Space Company is afraid that too many updates will affect the user experience.
But it is such a company and such a website that suddenly received an update today, and the content of the update is so "useless".
Perhaps, this update has any special significance?
Judging from the update introduction, this update is not complicated, and its purpose should also be to improve the experience of reading long articles.
Does this represent Deep Space’s view on the future development of Deep Space Tribe? Does Deep Space Company believe that people will publish more and more long articles on Deep Space Tribe?
However, this is completely opposite to Landry's prediction.
Landry believes that as the times develop and the speed of information dissemination becomes faster and faster, the content posted by people in the Deep Space Tribe should become shorter and shorter.
And everything the Deep Space Company has done before seems to prove that they think so too.
Landry shook his head. Sometimes he felt that he had grasped the secret of Deep Space Company's development, but sometimes he felt that he had grasped nothing and had no idea what Deep Space Company was going to do.
When he couldn't figure it out, he stopped thinking about it. Landry turned off updating the introduction, and then browsed around the website.
He wanted to see if anyone he followed had posted a long article so that he could experience the experience of reading a long article, but after browsing around, he found that none of the 175 people he followed had posted a long article.
"Sure enough, people still don't like long articles."
Landry muttered something and was about to close the website when he suddenly noticed a new tribe appeared.
YU?
That’s right, YU, which hasn’t released a tribe for a long time, suddenly made some news.
As a fan of YU's career, Landry quickly turned over.
There are actually many fans of Yu Dong. Needless to say, those who like him because of his novels or the film and television dramas he writes, these two are the most common.
But apart from that, there are some special fans.
For example, Landry, although he also read Yu Dong's novels and watched the movies written by him, compared to these, Landry paid more attention to Yu Dong's performance in career development.
Every time the Deep Space Company comes up with a new plan, Landry is the most excited. He always thinks that YU is the one who has grasped the fate of the times.
Of course, he has a lot of career fans, so it's not particularly strange.
Yu Dong also has one of the most amazing fans, which is his fans.
Yes, Yu Dong, a contestant who sings provocatively, also has fans.
Of course, most of Yu Dong's fans are funny, and they also know how good Yu Dong is at singing.
After Landry turned to YU's new tribe, he immediately raised his eyebrows, and the doubts that had accumulated in his head were suddenly solved.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! It turns out that the update of the Deep Space Tribe is prepared for YU’s new tribe.
Landry clicked the read button in the lower right corner of the long article and immediately entered the long article reading mode.
When opened in this mode, it is like opening another page on the original page, but it also has a floating feeling.
The background of this new page is a little darker, and the text is more prominent. The layout is somewhat similar to that of a physical book, and there are page turning buttons, which is indeed very suitable for long text reading.
But looking at the dense Chinese on the entire page, Landry scratched his head. He couldn't understand a single word.
Landry fumbled around again and soon discovered that there was a version switch on the left side of the reading mode. In addition to the Chinese version, there were four languages ​​to choose from: English, French, Italian and Spanish.
When he saw this, Landry was shocked. This update of the Deep Space Tribe Network far exceeded his imagination.
And these updates seem to be all for YU’s long article.
Landry quickly clicked on the English version, and then the screen changed, and the Chinese turned into dense English.
Now Landry understood. What YU released was actually a novel called "A Perfect World."
At this time, Landry no longer had the time to explore the functions of the long article mode, and instead focused all his attention on the novel.
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"To be continued?"
It wasn't until he finished reading the long article that Landry looked at the bottom few words and couldn't help but rub his head. He just saw a little clue, but there was nothing behind it.
He clicked and turned the page hard, but to no avail, he looked around again, but couldn't find a way to enter the next chapter.
Then he switched out of the long article reading mode and clicked on YU's homepage.
There are only two tribes on the YU homepage, one was posted before the signing of "The Da Vinci Code" and has already passed, and the other is the one just posted, and there is no third one.
Landry clicked on the tribe's comment area and found that he was not the first to read the novel. Many netizens had already commented in the comment area.
[Elke: Dear Mr. YU, how can I see the content behind this novel? 】
[Lin Ke: I think this may be the beginning of a new book. If you want to read the following content, you need to buy the physical version. 】
[The Moon and Sevenpence: If there is a physical version, that would be fine, I would definitely buy it.]
[Aris: "The Da Vinci Code" has just been released. How can a new book come out so soon? 】
[Flood: Do you think this article may be related to the Easter eggs in "The Da Vinci Code"? Didn't the official say that there are still many Easter eggs that have not been found? 】
[Water and Fire: I don’t care about the easter eggs right now, I care about the content behind this novel. Since it has been published in five languages, it must have been finished.]
[Beauty with Purple Eyes: I have to say, this mode of reading long articles is really good.]
[New York Subway: Will the following content still be available to us for free like this? 】
[Serhu: Probably not, I think it should be a lot of space.]
[Red Cross: The official did not conduct any publicity for YU’s new tribe? 】
[Filter: YU still needs special promotion? I’m sure this tribe will definitely be on the hot list tonight. 】
[Keyboard dancing: Of course, I guess YU’s followers will definitely increase again. 】
【ppp: Aim for the first place, aim for the first place.】
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"Perfect World" was quietly uploaded to the Deep Space Tribe, and soon attracted the attention of netizens.
People are curious about what this part of the content means. Is it an introduction before the release of the new book, or will the subsequent content be released in the Deep Space Tribe?
Some professionals in the industry have begun to speculate on this. Some people believe that Deep Space Company will definitely start to get involved in the field of e-books. "Perfect World" will be the beginning, and its subsequent content may start to charge fees.
This statement is quite popular, and many netizens expressed their belief. Even O'Reilly called Jimmy and asked if they had any intention in this regard.
O'Reilly's company is mainly engaged in the production of e-books. If Deep Space Company wants to get involved in this field, it will definitely have a big impact on them, so he will definitely be very concerned about it.
After receiving O'Reilly's call, Jimmy comforted O'Reilly and told him that Deep Space had no intention of competing for business with their company. This was just YU's personal behavior and did not involve any commercial actions.
In fact, Jimmy said that this time it was entirely YU's personal behavior, but O'Reilly didn't quite believe it. After all, the Deep Space Tribe has specially updated the long article reading mode.
However, O'Reilly still knows Jimmy well. If Jimmy really wants to get involved in the field of e-books, he will most likely have a chat with him first.
No matter what Jimmy does, his first thought is always win-win cooperation. In other words, he always likes to take advantage of the situation.
The official did not let netizens guess for too long. Two days later, the official account of Deep Space Books on the Deep Space Tribe released a message that the follow-up version of "Perfect World" released by YU on the personal tribe will continue to be released in Shenzhen.
It will be serialized on Empty Tribe, and all subsequent content will be free of charge.
The length of each update of "Perfect World" is similar to the first update. The update time is every Friday evening at 7 o'clock, and the update is expected to be completed in eight weeks.
After the official announcement came out, readers were both happy and disappointed. They were happy because they had just read "The Da Vinci Code" and there was a new book to read, but they were disappointed because it would take two months to update the book.
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Steven Case looked at the data of "Online Tribe" and didn't know whether to laugh or not.
More than a month ago, AOL's tribe website "Online Tribe" was launched. With some celebrities signed up, Online Tribe also gained some customers, but its subsequent development could not keep up at all.
There will always be a wave of activity on the website, resulting in a surge in traffic. When the activity ends, the traffic will be reduced back to its original state.
For example, last week, they invited several famous writers to come over and organized a lottery for the repost tribe.
The overall effect of the activity was good. The number of users and daily active users of the website increased significantly. However, after the activity ended, these data fell off a cliff.
However, in the past two days, the website's traffic has increased slightly.
Logically speaking, this is a good thing, and Steven Case should be happy, but the key is that this wave of traffic was brought by YU.
There is a young actor in the "Online Tribe". After "Perfect World" was released, he immediately copied the article to the "Online Tribe", which attracted the attention of some netizens.
The key is that this kind of reprinted article must have a well-known source, not only the author YU, but also the fact that it is transferred from the Deep Space Tribe. In other words, no matter how much traffic there is, it is advertising for the Deep Space Tribe.
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Looking at the data report, Steven Case sighed deeply. He did not expect that it would be so difficult to catch up with this step behind.
In fact, after "Perfect World" became popular, Steven Keys also thought about inviting some writers to publish books on the "Online Tribe".
Chapter completed!