Coquettish Rebirth

Chapter [-] Picture Book King and Hope Bookstore

"But how to solve the problem of entering the dictionary?" At this time, Mr. Wang asked a key question. e^Look, yes, as an electronic dictionary, the most important thing is the dictionary fonts stored in the system!But where did this font come from?Such a font library must not be handled by the Huaxia Hi-Tech group!why?Because this dictionary is actually a relatively good dictionary that can only be compiled by relying on the corpus accumulated over decades.

For example, the "Collins Collaborative Dictionary" comes from a corpus of 3.5 million entries!Not to mention high-end dictionaries such as "Oxford Advanced English-Chinese Dictionary" often recommended by teachers in universities!That kind of dictionary can only be compiled by relying on something like the "British National Corpus"! <It can be said that it is completely unfeasible to enter a dictionary.Then the only way is to cooperate with the existing publishing houses, cooperate with those publishing houses that have published English-Chinese dictionaries, buy the electronic copyright of their dictionaries, and then use their cooperation and cooperation according to the storage capacity of the existing machines Modify the font library of the dictionary.

However, if you cooperate with these publishing houses, there is another problem-increasing costs. If you cooperate with the publishing houses that publish "Oxford Advanced English-Chinese Dictionary", then if an electronic dictionary is sold, it will cost Give them a patent fee of five or sixty yuan or even one hundred yuan!In this way, the cost is equivalent to a direct increase of 60% or even 20%!

In this way, it is better to cooperate directly with domestic publishing houses, so that at least the money can be spent less.But what did the manufacturers that produced electronic dictionaries do in history?They use a very simple and easy method. For example, if a brand name is called BBK, it is "free" to use other people's materials without the consent of other publishers, and then they are sued to the court afterwards. , was sentenced to lose money...

Even in order to avoid this kind of thing, some manufacturers have made some very smart moves, that is, compiling the basic dictionary hun, so that if you compare the contents of the dictionary, you will not be able to grasp any clues, but this way On the contrary, it will bring some troubles to users - those manufacturers will not remove repetitive and redundant explanations, and may even produce some self-contradictory explanations...

"This... Let's go back and talk to the FLTRP. Their dictionary compiling is pretty good in China," Jia Hongjian said.The full name of the foreign research institute he mentioned is Foreign Language Teaching and Research Publishing House, a publishing house established in China in 79 to study foreign language learning and compile foreign language materials. Relatively speaking, the English-Chinese dictionary they compiled is the best among domestic publishing houses. OK, most professional.

"Well, okay. By the way, Mr. Jia, can we start applying for patents?" Mr. Wang Jizhi asked. Now that he has followed Huaxia Hi-Tech, he knows that Huaxia Hi-Tech attaches great importance to patents. As long as the trial production of the product is successful, no matter whether it works well or not, the whole world will now occupy the patent of the mechanism!

"Okay, but let's register two patents. One is to register a patent for our mode of linking with electronic dictionaries through scanning. The other is to see if we can register the patent for electronic dictionaries. If this can be registered successfully, Then this market will be ours from now on!" Jia Hongjian said with a smile.

At this time, another event that will affect China for a period of time in the future happened.Well-known manga publishers such as Shueisha and Shogakukan in Japan actually united to report to the Central News Bureau of China in French to report the above-board pirated manga in the Chinese market.

It turned out that after domestic TV stations began to introduce Japan's "Saint Seiya" around 90, an organization called "Nanhai Art Photography Publishing House" in Nanhai Province, a reformed special zone, was established in 88. It should have mainly published and This publishing house, which has introduced foreign photographic and art materials, excavated and reflected the cultural materials of the construction of the South China Sea Special Zone and local conditions and customs, and devoted itself to the development of art publishing, did not know how to start publishing pirated Japanese manga in a fair and honest manner.

After they bought the original Chinese comics of the Wanwan edition, they even only needed to change the traditional characters into simplified ones, and then printed them openly and aboveboard, and then they could directly enter the Xinhua Bookstore for sale!This kind of behavior is even more extreme than Changhe's knockoff Japanese vans - at least Renchanghe had inquired about the authorization fee in advance, and he only sold that type of knockoff car, and did not successively sell all the Japanese manufacturers' vans. All the models of cars are copycats!

What about Nanhai Fine Arts and Photography Publishing House?After publishing the first set of "Saint Seiya", another work "Fuma Kojiro" and seeing the market response is very good, seeing that the children in the market are watching "Saint Seiya", I simply published it directly "Saint Warrior of the Goddess"!

The so-called "Saint Seiya of Nv God" is "Saint Seiya" translated by "rich and Chinese readers' habits". This is a pirated manga that just changed the name. It was changed to 5 booklets. Originally, one volume became five volumes, which is more suitable for the tastes of Chinese consumers. However, the pirated version of "Saint Seiya" at 8.5 yuan per volume was actually sold directly in China within a year. Over 600 million copies have been sold in mainland China!

The success of Nanhai Fine Arts and Photography Publishing House and the success of Saint Seiya have spurred copycats in major provinces and cities to compete for pirated copies, and almost all booksellers who have published Japanese comics have also made a lot of money; moreover, the comics selected by booksellers are precisely The most prestigious and exciting palace-level works in Japan over the years, such as "Dragon Ball", "City Hunter", "Luan Ma 12", "Movie Girl" and so on.

The booming manga boom in 90 continued to 91, and the business volume of many printing factories increased greatly. It is said that a large state-owned printing factory in Shuchuan, throughout the year of 91, the orders in the factory were all Japanese comic books, 24 hours a day. Working day and night, some of the machines were broken, and they couldn't handle it, so they had to distribute it to other small printing factories to cope with the printing volume.And this large state-owned factory is also the one that prints the most comic books in the country. Almost [-]% of the reprinted books on the market are produced there. It is conceivable that the number is astonishing.Due to the ever-expanding market demand, it is difficult to guarantee the quality and quantity of comic books. In addition, many mediocre teenage girl comics are flooding the market, making the development of the entire comic book market very unbalanced.

Since "Dragon Ball" was a hit in China in 92, it had already replaced "Saint Seiya" as the king of sales in 92-93.Pirates kept up with the progress of Japan and directly reprinted from Japanese manga magazines. However, the pages of each issue of "Dragon Ball" were not enough to complete a book, thus deriving the first serial manga magazine in China, "The King of Picture Books".

This "King of Picture Books" was published by a publishing house in Shuchuan called Hope Bookstore. This publishing house has been bold enough to directly contact Chinese students studying in Japan, and pay them to make every issue of the "Youth Weekly Jump" on the market. The best-selling manga magazines like "are directly packaged in EMS and airlifted to China, and then urgently find the teachers and students of the School of Foreign Languages ​​to Chineseize them, and then they are printed into magazines and distributed nationwide!

I hope that the bookstore didn’t know the background at the time, and it actually claimed to have more channels than Xinhua Bookstore, which has online stores all over China. Even apart from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, there is no place in China that he can’t sell!Even such an act of direct piracy of magazines is more expensive than direct printing of comic books in single volumes-after the publication of "The King of Picture Books", the peak sales volume of each semi-monthly issue reached more than 80 copies!

Compared with such an upright practice of pirating and selling subscription pirated comics, the behavior of selling pirated CDs in small shops in the streets and alleys in the 21st century is simply weak!However, it is because of such "blockhouse" piracy that it directly aroused the idea of ​​​​the Japanese side.Some comic book stores in Japan began to send employees from Wanwan to the mainland to collect statistics, and in the end they directly counted relatively accurate circulation data.With such circulation data, the next step is to directly complain and question the Central News Bureau!

After being questioned, the government's first reaction was to tighten the publication approval for the field of comics.As for the mysterious background of the legend, after the Hope Bookstore found out about it through various channels, a countermeasure was released—began to prepare to transform into original comics.

When the call for papers for "The King of Painting Books" appeared on the inside page of the magazine, it can be said that the entire Chinese comic circle was boiling!Originally, after seeing so many comics, many people were already eager to try it out for themselves, but now they saw that "The King of Painting Books" was about to start "revitalizing national comics", mainly making original works, for Chinese cartoonists " Enough room for growth”, then they can directly want to contribute without being excited?

It's just that I hope that the bookstore and "The King of Picture Books" think too well of everything. They may think that as long as they clean themselves up now, everything they have done before will not be held accountable.But this time is different. In this era when video games are still regarded as electronic heroin, and when the old generation with conservative concepts is in power on this stage, can the people above allow such a kind of value invasion?Not to mention that the former Communist regime was best at controlling values, let’s talk about the most important incident in the 80s. Wasn’t that the invasion of various bourgeois liberalization ideas during the so-called reform and opening up?

With regard to what seems to be a new round of invasion of values, can the above people let go of the washed-up hope bookstore and "The King of Painting Books" so easily?Can you let go of the Japanese manga full of vulgarity, badness and violence so easily and constantly poisoning the youth of the motherland?

A round of "strike hard" in the cultural field is coming...

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