Yang Yishu's interest in Citigroup was the series of reactions triggered by the work "The Collapse of the Empire", which was tentatively sold by Random Bookstore in the North American book market.

When I was doing "creating" or "copying", some senior executives, main editors, and Citigroup literary critics who are familiar with the Landon Group also learned about the existence of this novel through the Bantam Publishing Group. And because Shawn, who is now the marketing director of the group, heard the other party's evaluation of "The Collapse of the Empire" - this is a complete Citigroup novel. From the writing style and grammar, the story character background described in the article, and the spirit contained in the entire work, they are all Citigroup novels. I don't know how a young author born in an ancient Eastern country did this...

After such an evaluation, coupled with the great success of the boy's previous work, "Twilight", it is not surprising that some industry insiders are interested in Yang Yi's work. Based on this situation, before the boy's work was published, many people began to read this work privately through their own channels. Then among the people who saw it in advance through internal channels, many of them, like Sean, couldn't help but comment on this novel, which made "The Collapse of the Empire" gain far exceeding expectations before it was released.

After the work was officially published, the same as those who had paid attention to it before, although this work is more inclined to traditional literary subjects and does not have a very clear and strong commercial flavor, it still caused a great sensation in the Citigroup book market. After the trial reading, a considerable number of readers were willing to spend money on this work, and within one week of the book's publication, it accumulated sales to a huge amount of 100,000 copies. This number is already a seedling of super bestsellers in China. Although the copyright regulations in Citigroup are more stringent and there are almost no places for pirated publications to live in, the 100,000 copies are already a very good number.

A work that is more inclined to humanistic care, more inclined to express literary and author's thoughts, can achieve market results that many commercial bestsellers cannot achieve, which shows many problems. In short, the senior executives of Random Bookstore have been dedicated to the group for the first time to commend Bantam Group and Peacock Publishing Company. In addition, Sean personally has also received commendation from the upper class.

But when "The Collapse of the Empire" made great achievements in the book market, some disharmonious voices also appeared.

This time, it was not some chauvinism or European and American right-wing forces, because of the Chinese identity of a boy. But when Random Bookstore was preparing to build momentum for "The Collapse of the Empire" and hoped to win this work this year's Pulitzer Literature Prize, he encountered a tradition at the beginning of the establishment of this award - this award was divided into two categories. The winners of the press and creative circles can be of any nationality, but the winning entries must be published in the Citigroup Weekly (or Daily). The winners of the creative circles must be Citigroup citizens. The only exception is the history award, and any book about Citigroup history can be awarded. The author does not have to be a Citigroup.

It is this that makes "The Collapse of the Empire" almost difficult to nominate. Because the author of this work is not a Citigroup writer.

Because of this problem, after achieving good market results, this work has caused extensive discussions in the industry. The Niu Yue Times, which has always had a cooperative relationship with Random Bookstore, even published a reader survey in the literature and art sector - readers of "The Collapse of the Empire", do you think this work is qualified to be nominated for the Pulitzer Literature Prize?

Just after the very conspicuous question on the work, there was a note that anyone could see at the first time - the author of this work is a genuine Chinese, not a tourist who studied or lived in Citigroup, nor does he have a Chinese identity, but as far as the work itself is concerned, we need your opinion.

After this questionnaire was published, it immediately received a lot of telephone feedback from readers. Perhaps because the boys' "copy" of this work was very detailed, almost to the point of being a fake original work, most readers who saw the newspaper questionnaire almost all said that "The Collapse of the Empire" is definitely qualified to participate in the Pulitzer Literature Competition.

But in many cases, readers' opinions only represent public opinion itself, and have no help in the matters they are concerned about. Just like this time, although the boy's works have achieved spectacular sales results, and the readers' feedback has also made many Citigroup authors jealous. From the perspective of reputation, this novel is considered an excellent work in any case. However, the jury of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature has never responded to the media and the public.

Regarding this, many people in the Citigroup, which has relatively casual remarks, can't help but start to feel angry, especially some literary figures who love this work very much and have a certain right to speak, and have begun to condemn the Pulitzer Prize judges.

During Yang Yi's annual meeting of the Magic City Writers Association, the other side of the Bantam Group made a brief summary of the current situation and informed the boys, but it was obvious that the other party was not prepared to let it go. Instead, he had begun to use his public opinion influence to put pressure on the Pulitzer reviewer, Columbia University and the prize fund management committee of the award from various channels.

The boys naturally know the reason why the other party did this. Random House may be a well-known publishing group, but this kind of corporate group dominated by basics will not be the same as themselves. It has any literary dreams. Personal feelings will never be able to resist the fundamental demands of an interest group. Whether at home or abroad, it is the same. Yang Yi, as a reborn person, naturally knows it. Therefore, Random House does this not because "The Collapse of the Empire" is too well written. If they don't try to make the Pulitzer Prize fall on the boy's head, they will be sorry for such a good work. But because if Yang Yi can finally win the Citigroup Award as a foreign writer as a foreign writer, it stipulates that it will not be awarded to foreign writers. Then the whole incident itself is an excellent hype topic, which can make Random House gain more than Yang Yi.

The beneficiaries of the boy's final winning championship are not only himself and Random Bookstore. Even the Niu Yue Times, which is a public opinion position, will benefit a lot from the continuous reporting of this news. So to a certain extent, even if Yang Yi himself told the other party that he didn't care whether he could win the award, Random Bookstore and many related media, driven by their own interests, would definitely not stop.

With this enlightenment, although Yang Yi couple was very concerned about the news from the other side of the ocean, they were much more relaxed than the relatively nervous mood before. Anyway, even if he didn't care about it himself, some people would help him. Moreover, he had no right to decide whether he could win the award in the end, so he was so happy to watch the show.

As a result, the entire incident began to become more and more controversial under the purpose of Random House. First, the well-known literary critics under Random House and the authors who had collaborated with Random House, all came forward to argue for "The Collapse of the Empire". It seemed that the influence of this work was so great that the entire Citigroup literary community could not ignore it. Random House's approach also aroused dissatisfaction among many insiders in the Columbia University. Some of these people were Columbia alumni, while others were previously award-winning writers and authors, who were very acknowledging the practice of completely localizing the award. So after seeing many people standing up for their opinions, they naturally couldn't help but speak for the Columbia University and the Pulitzer Prize jury.

Even now, many people who talked about the media have appeared. The focus of the dispute between the two sides was at the beginning, but all focused on a Chinese author. Whether the Pulitzer Prize was qualified to make the Pulitzer Prize go against tradition and make an exception for "The Collapse of the Empire". However, in the end, the scope of this kind of verbal slap has become wider and wider, directly to whether it is necessary for the Pulitzer Prize to stick to tradition and only recognize the literary creation people in Citigroup.

McCarry is an independent writer of the Niuyo Times and has her own column in the newspaper. However, because she is not an employee of the Niuyo Times, but has her own position on many news focus issues, she has created a certain reputation, making her columns a popular section in the Niuyo Times. After all, there are often differences in opinions about a columnist and the position where she expresses public opinions. Then, arguments in the newspaper are also a scene that many Niuyo Times readers like. This time, when the Pulitzer Prize regulations were inappropriate, McCarry expressed her views clearly as soon as the Pulitzer Prize regulations appeared - it was absolutely timely. However, some of the Niuyo Times' views will make this pure, Citi-National Award no longer pure.
Chapter completed!