"If there is any other bad news, let's tell it as well." Sir Brown said slowly, looking at Al-Khelaifi who was hesitant to speak.
"Well, does the sales statistics count?"
Khelaifi opened the title page of The Little Prince and took out a note, "I just made a call to a friend in the publishing industry. , got its first week sales data."
"How many copies are expected to be sold, 20,000 and 30,000 copies"
The chairman already has a bad mentality. On a hunch, he unfolded the note in his hand.
"It's hard to say because the first week is not over yet, but I think it should be more than that."
Sir Brown stared at the data on the note and fell into silence.
12,296 copies on the first day
7,531 copies on the second day
6,212 copies on the third day
6,197 copies on the fourth day
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5621 books on the fifth day
Total 37857 books
“Nearly 40,000 books were sold in the first five days, which should have created the best-selling book in history. The new record for fairy tale books is only the sales performance in the UK."
Khelaifi's cheek twitched, "Why else would I have to meet you in person to discuss it? We may have made a mistake in our strategy. It should be treated coldly. Many readers are curious, and the atmosphere of various online discussions seems to be free advance publicity before the book is released."
"It makes no sense to say this now. "
From the moment Anna took the little prince out of her handbag at the shareholders' meeting, she didn't give him a chance to treat him coldly.
Sir Brown crumpled the note into a ball and threw it into the saucer on the other side.
He pondered for a moment, "We should see a more optimistic side. Our publicity is still effective. After the initial public opinion heat was released, the daily sales of Little Prince have now dropped. 60. "
"Such a hot sale is indeed slightly beyond everyone's original expectations, but the matter is still within control, at least the mainstream art critics' opinions are under our control. Shareholder Al-Khelaifi, you are right, the most important thing for us now is to put out the fire and cut it.”
“Let’s cut the relationship between sales success and illustrators, and then find a way to cut it off from oil painting. The relationship between magazines. Don’t let the trend of public opinion equate the success of this fairy tale book with the magazine’s misjudgment.”
Good politicians can advance and retreat.
Sir Brown’s mind has calmed down.
Now that the objective fact that the Little Prince’s sales are very successful has emerged.
The top priority now is not to continue the stubborn attack that people who buy the new version of The Little Prince are idiots and arouse readers' rebellious psychology.
He must find a way to deprive Detective Cat of Little Prince's sales honor, and at the same time, let the magazine escape from this unfavorable topic battlefield.
MainstreamIf the public opinion is still in his hands for a day, it will not be difficult to complete this matter.
The words are readily available.
If sales volume can be easily equated with the level of artistry, then the most artistic magazine in the world should not be oil paintings, but Playboy.
Wait until the limelight of this incident passes.
He Sir Brown has ten thousand ways to deal with the detective cat.
"I'm afraid this is not as easy as you think. My friend, you haven't read the newspaper recently. There are already some bad voices in the mainstream media."
The American shareholders raised their eyebrows and reminded them quietly in a low voice.
"Which magazine is going against us and wants to rely on a detective cat to compete with the dignified oil painting? I'm afraid it's a little too impatient." Sir Brown was furious.
Everyone thinks that he, the "Pope of Art", is easy to bully or something.
Oil Painting Magazine is the leader of the newspaper industry without any rival in the field of art criticism.
In terms of gold content, it can instantly kill the other nine magazines in the top ten.
If you dare to stab yourself at such a moment, you simply don’t know how to write the word “death”.
"It's not an art criticism magazine. It's a financial magazine. Have you subscribed to The Economic Critic or The Economic Critic Business Review? Even the American cable news network cited it in its morning news period. Their articles. You should probably read them."
"We can no longer suppress this kind of heat."
Sir Brown picked up the table with a gloomy expression. I talked to him on the landline next to him.
Immediately a clerk walked into his office holding a set of newspapers.
Reading newspapers is a daily requirement for high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen. In order to keep in line with the high-net-worth readership, the staff common room of Oil Painting Magazine has subscriptions to various mainstream European newspapers.
It only takes a few minutes to send a top financial newspaper like an economics critic.
On the cover of the newspaper is a huge cartoon that occupies the entire page.
It was a golden scale with the word "Oil Painting" written on it.
On one end of the scale tray stood a large number of old men with white beards, accompanied by a dialog box that read "Miss Elena, you are wrong"
Put the scale on There was only a little girl sitting alone in a wheelchair on the other end. The speech on the dialog box was "Look into my eyes and tell me Detective Cat is a bad painter. Please, you people really understand art."< /p>
The balance is now tilting towards a large group of old men with white beards.
But there is a weight that looks very heavy next to the little girl in the wheelchair, and it is about to fall from the sky.
The weight has the title of The Little Prince written on it and the slogan that sales of more than 40,000 copies in the first week are more than 40k.
Economics critics also included a blurb for its cover comic.The headline on the front page is that the long-established oil painting magazine is about to set up its own art private equity fund, but before the rich rush to call their personal financial assistants to transfer money, you might as well take a look at this interesting illustration battle.
Sir Brown turned to the first page of the newspaper.
This news review by the economics critic is very long and takes up two pages.
It combs through in detail the causes and consequences of the major reform of Oil Painting Magazine, as well as the dispute between them at the shareholders' meeting about the artistic level of Detective Cat.
Judging from the theme of the entire article, the newspaper actually did not make a very sensational statement about the oil painting fund that was rumored to be taking shape.
Like all mainstream financial analysts.
Economics commentators also hold a positive and cautious attitude.
It’s just that the writing always makes people feel a bit strange.
How to describe it.
It’s like reading an editorial in a green-leaning newspaper describing Saudi Aramco’s efforts to become carbon neutral.
Obviously the whole article is to praise you, but there are always some weird words to prick you.
As for the long-term direction of magazine reform, economic critics even gave a relatively pessimistic and negative attitude. In June 1637, a tulip named Eternal Purple Emperor in Amsterdam was sold for three The price of 10,000 Dutch gold coins. This is equivalent to the price of a sailing warship, a coastal manor and forty war horses.
The speculators who are gradually becoming red-eyed in the trading market do not know this. At this time, there were less than a hundred days left before the famous tulip crash night in history. This time, the business transformation of Oil Painting Magazine, also led by Dutchman Sir Jos Brown, I wonder if it can learn from the lessons of its predecessors. Let’s listen to this newspaper’s exclusive interview with Anna Ileana, a descendant of the founder of Oil Painting Magazine and a former board member.
Reporter “It’s unbelievable, Ms. Ileana, from the conversation just now, I can I can hear your unconcealed pessimism about the future of the Oil Painting Fund. This is almost completely opposite to the investment groups in the market who are eager to join this financial feast. At this moment, you are still the largest in the entire magazine. Private shareholders. Outsiders are unanimously optimistic, and my own family members speak ill of me. This is really a weird thing I have never seen in my entire interviewing career."
Ms. Irina "The objective fact is that I am the one who has different opinions. As someone who was kicked out of the board of directors, I don’t shy away from this. It’s impossible for a magazine to comment on art impartially and play money games for investors at the same time.”
“The simplest one. If you tell the truth, it may mean losing money. So how to choose between artistic responsibility and profit? In the case of Detective Cat, the magazine made a decision that makes me feel ashamed. It’s my honor to be suspended for this matter.”
Reporter “Detective Cat, again.It's Detective Cat. Ms. Ileana, you repeatedly mentioned the name Detective Cat in previous conversations, and regarded the magazine’s removal of the African female painter as a symbolic incident of the magazine founded by your ancestors deviating from its artistic responsibilities. ”
“With all due respect, no offense, but there is no systematic judgment standard for art. Regarding the issue of Detective Cat, is there a possibility that the shareholders of Oil Painting Magazine are right, but you are the wrong party?"
Ms. Irina "There is no one in art. There is a unified evaluation standard, but it is analogous to the familiar case law. You can pay attention to the works of Professor Boggs. He is a knife-painting artist recommended with three stars in the Oil Painting Magazine Buyer's Guide. ”
“I don’t mean to say that Professor Boggs’s works are crude here. It is precisely because he is an extremely good expert in knife painting. In comparison with his works, the excellence of Detective Cat can be seen even more. . There is a simpler way. Professor Boggs once published a collection of fairy tale illustrations for Disney. ”
“I believe it won’t take much time to distinguish the difference in reputation between these two sets of illustrations, regardless of reader reviews or sales. Of course, some people can say that artistic attainments cannot be measured by simple sales and money, right?"
Reporter "Oh, madam, you have said what I wanted to say. Is there anything wrong with this view?"
Ms. Irina, "On the contrary, there is nothing wrong at all. I myself hold this view. At some point, money is the external expression of artistic value, but artistic value and money cannot be directly linked. ”
“So it’s back to our original topic. A magazine subordinate who believes that art has nothing to do with money leads a for-profit private equity fund. This incident reveals incomprehensible black humor from beginning to end. "
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Sir Brown no longer wants to read any more.
He underestimated Anna.
The chairman himself is a A person who is good at manipulating public opinion and controlling the media.
But his opponent is the heir of the Elena family. Anna is not the kind of second-generation ancestor who only cries in front of reporters or shows a drunken giggle. .
She is also good at dealing with the media.
Miss Irina avoided the art criticism circle where Sir Brown was dominant and chose the equally influential financial newspaper to accept an exclusive interview.
Long before she had the idea of cutting off the matter, Anna had already taken action
She turned the detective cat incident into a media interview. The key points in the struggle between the Elena family and the oil painting management were like the military flags fought over by the two sides in the battle.
A few small holes were pinched out in the corners of the newspaper.
"Hey, Sir Brown, I know you must be tempted to tear up this newspaper right now. Believe me, when I read this report, I was definitely not in a better mood than you are now.. "
Khelaifi sighed, "But I have to suggest that you hold your nose and read it, at least until the last section. I have to say, I'm afraid, that's the worst part of this story. ”
“First week sales of 40,000 copies. How could it be worse? Even if you told me that The Little Prince topped the sales charts this week, it wouldn't make me feel any worse. "
Sir Brown shrugged and said helplessly.
As the old gentleman spoke, his eyes still glanced at the paragraph at the end of the newspaper.
Many readers may be interested in The so-called real-life corporate promotional video of Schostic Group’s Easter book season on YouTube, TikTok, TV stations or subway stations has left a deep impression. Many people already know that the book that made the crying little girl smile is the new version of the book. Prince. However, in addition to ordinary readers, the attention of the advertising film was also scientists from King's College London and the ASD Autism Medical Abbreviation Trust
As we all know, autism. Patients with autism are called children from the stars. Since the concept of "art therapy" was proposed in the 1930s, early intellectual intervention combining painting and music has been the most commonly used treatment plan in the field of autism research.
Scientists have always hoped to find a work that can penetrate into the hearts of children with autism and become a link between autistic children and the outside world.
Please note that based on the professional ethics of a news media, we cannot advocate that a new treatment is effective or ineffective without careful review by the FDA and other authoritative agencies. According to the telephone consultation, the Schostic Group has donated 1,500 fairy tale books to King's College for auxiliary research.
May the children recover soon
"This guy can still draw. Treating autism is such nonsense. ”
With Sir Brown’s self-cultivation, he couldn’t help but curse an ugly curse word.
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