This article comes from the WeChat public account:Du Shaofei (ID: shaofeidu), author: less Du, head Figure from:” my trisomy chapter of the North Sea Biography “stills
“I have been in a bookstore for so many years and I have never seen any overseas (Science Fiction) works that reach such an extent, even if they are domestic It’s probably comparable to Haruki Murakami…” In a large bookstore in Tokyo, Japan, the staff sighed while replenishing the goods.
Yes, “Three Body” is on fire again in Japan.
On June 18th, “Three Body II: The Dark Forest” was launched, and the majority of Japanese book fans called it “the only positive energy happy event in June.” The Japanese version of the second and upper two volumes, once released, immediately reached the top of the Japanese Amazon literature list. In just 5 days, 140,000 copies that were close to the previous results were sold. Not only was the bookstore busy, but even the publishing house was printed with baldness.
The head of the bookstore, filled with enthusiastic blushing heartbeat recommendations, without exaggerating the degree of Chinese real estate advertising:
@芳林堂书店高田马场店: The strongest monster-level science fiction literature in human history, Big Brother Liu Cixin struck today!
@熊泽书店蒲田店: The manager strongly recommends it! This is already a six-body!
@住吉书房元住吉本店: Earth-shattering hard science fiction will hit your brain! Please also tremble in this shock and romance!
It was the same when “Three Body I” was released last July. Originally, only 10,000 copies of test water were printed in accordance with the practice, but the results were less than half a day on the shelf, and all were sold out. In the first week of sale, it was printed 10 times in 7 days. By the end of 2019, the sales volume including the electronic version has reached 140,000 copies. You must know that in a small country with hundreds of flowers in the literary circle, more than 100,000 copies are the best-selling books, and the book shelf at the door of the bookstore is C position.
ReasonIt has long been expected that the Japanese bookstore will also sell Chinese original Liu Cixin works at the same time, and even cooperate with “Beijing Fold” and other Chinese science fiction works. The marketing strategy is the same as that of jam and bread in the supermarket.
“Three Body” also placed “Beijing Fold” and other Chinese science fiction works
When the fancy touts of the island nation passed back to the country, the mainland Chinese citizens who were dressed in water and also felt and were proud, all expressed that–
“Liu Cixin is China’s most important cultural export.”
However, Chinese readers who are immersed in the export of culture must not think of it: just over 50 kilometers away from Korea, the sales of the same “Three Body” series are very bleak. In May 2019, Liu Cixin broke the news in an interview: “The Korean version of “Three Body”, the first one was sold in 400 volumes.”
Korea is the earliest country in the world to translate and publish “Three Body”. Japan and South Korea share the same Asian cultural background, which is more resonant, so why is it so different? This is not easy to explain.
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Some people say that the Korean version suffers from the loss on the cover.
The soil is so hot and heartburning, who can’t be dismissed?