Writing a book is a highly polarized profession. If you only publish a novel occasionally like Zhang Bowen, you can't support yourself at all.

If you have a few bestsellers, even if you don’t write the rest of your life, you won’t be starved to death.

If you want to achieve financial freedom, that one million is not enough, not to mention that you haven’t got it yet, it’s just a prediction.

I will spend the next few years in Yanjing. Zhang Chu originally wanted to buy a small nest for himself, but it was already 2018 when he was reborn. If it were 2008, he might be able to buy a house with one million yuan.

"Oh, this money is not enough!"

Zhang Chu patted his head and sighed, his main purpose was to obtain reputation value, and to earn some money while obtaining reputation value, which is very good.

But the key point at the moment is that for the first time I participated in this kind of literary summit that looked a bit high-end. What exactly is waiting for me at this suspense literary summit?

Don't make any jokes then!

He was determined to find a senior who had been there to ask, but found that he didn't even know a suspense and reasoning writer, which was a bit too much of a failure.

In the suspense reasoning group formed by Gu Xinxue, Zhang Chu found that no one responded to him every time he bubbling. Many people were suspicious and jealous about newcomers like him who suddenly became popular. People who were slightly neutral would not take the initiative to say hello because of their face. Over time, he became a nuclear submarine.

The verbal battle with Qin Mu somewhat affected others' perception of him. After all, Qin Mu is considered an old qualification in the reasoning world. In order to take care of Qin Mu's face, the rest had to alienate him and neglect him.

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"What? Zhang Chu was actually invited to the suspense and reasoning summit? Where did he get the qualification?"

Li Siwei almost smashed his mouse!

This literary summit may not be reported by the outside world, but it is a qualification recognition for industry insiders, proving that you have truly entered the core creative circle.

He is the star of the future in the first half of this year, but after Zhang Chu was born in June, everyone would choose Zhang Chu in unison instead of him, Li Siwei.

In fact, this is quite normal. No matter from any perspective, Li Siwei is not a match for Zhang Chu, and both are not even writers of the same level.

Since his work "Escape from the Island of Killing" was released on February 20, it has sold less than 100,000 copies in half a year. The sales volume among newcomers is OK, but it is still a bit short of what to do if you want to attend the summit.

Zhang Chu's work "Sherlock Detective" sold more than 500,000 copies in less than two months. This is a work that aims to hit the title of the King of Sales of Suspenseful Novels this year. It is the strongest newcomer!

No matter how unwilling Li Siwei was, he could not change this fact. No matter who made his strong indicators not as good as others, there was such a big gap between them as newcomers.

"If my book had so much publicity, it should have so much sales."

Li Siwei said sourly, and he completely forgot that he was praised by Nanhai Publishing Company as a Chinese mystery novel when he hoped that he would be praised in the overwhelming hope.

"I hope he will make a fool of himself on the scene."

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"Not good! Brother Chu, the authors of fan novels are trembling now! How are you doing there?"

Fu Deyu, who had been reading online novels, was shocked and sent a voice message to Zhang Chu and asked with concern.

What else can Zhang Chu say?

This was a purely undesirable disaster!

A major incident suddenly happened in the martial arts circle that had been silent for a long time. Hua Ye, a martial arts master over 80, sued Tanhua Beifei, a rich writer list last year, and asked the other party to stop publishing the novel "Qimen Weapons" and compensate for the loss of 5 million yuan.

For Hua Ye, who is already 80 years old, this is a rare big move he has made in recent years. After the news came out, Beifei himself quickly made a statement, admitting that "Qimen Weapons" is a fan work, which has indeed infringed on Teacher Hua Ye.

Such a thing was not at all related to Zhang Chu, but when people discuss the prospects for commercialization of fan works, they inevitably brought him into the discussion.

After all, Zhang Chu became famous because of "Detective Sherlock". Even foreign foundations have issued special articles to condemn it. Will such a work be sued one day?

In addition to the original work of "Psychological Crime", Zhang Chu was creating later, "Journey to the West" is also considered a fan work of the classic masterpiece "Journey to the West", and he is also called the king of fan online!

Since ancient times, there has been no first in literature and no second in martial arts. The title of King of Fans is simply to put Zhang Chu on the stove and roast it.

Now, as soon as the lawsuit between Mr. Hua Ye and Beifei came out, people looked at Zhang Chu and waited to see when he would be in trouble.

In fact, fan literature has always existed since ancient times. For example, in the strict sense of "Jin Ping Mei", it is also a fan work of "Water Margin", but the Internet has made it extremely prosperous.

Moreover, fancies are not limited to literature, movies, games and even comics now. Fancies have a lot of eyes and fancies. Fancies have become an important means of self-promotion of entertainment products.

Just like Zhang Chu's article "Detective Sherlock" is legitimate because the movie "Detective Sherlock Holmes" is a product of promotional essay contest, but because it was published and sold well, it became a representative of fan.

Fans will definitely draw a lot of reference to the plots and characters of the original work. According to the Bern Convention, these belong to the category of intellectual property rights and are protected by law.

However, the law has not completely blocked the commercialization path of fan-culturalism. Just like Zhang Chu's "Detective Sherlock", after the copyright protection period of the original work ends, it naturally cannot constitute infringement.

Another example abroad is "Fifty Shades of Gray". How many people know that it originally originated from the theme forum of the vampire novel "Twilight"?

The male and female protagonists are both based on the male and female protagonists of "Twilight" and developed, but this did not stop the rapid commercialization of "Fifty Shades of Gray".

Because after repeated revisions by the author, the "Fifty Shades of Gray" series of novels deliberately avoided the proprietary terms in the original novel, and only borrowed the spirit of the original work.

This is a bit like the routine in online novels. Everyone writes about breaking the engagement flow and wasteful material flow. There may be some plots of pretending to slap in the face, and the plots are the same, but they also do not constitute infringement.

It is no exaggeration to say that Mr. Hua Ye’s move really shocked the fan circle. The commercial prospects of fan culture are now placed on Zhang Chu. The fate of his two works is related to the direction of many fan cultures!
Chapter completed!