Chapter 152: Haisheng 2
The woman's fingers tapped on the table. On both sides of the long table were the editors-in-chief of various literary publications.
"Group Portrait", "Modern" and "Talk Club".
The editor of "Masa Shirabe" sat at the end, covering his face with his hands and not daring to look at himself.
Takeda Maifei sneered. She hung up the phone very decisively yesterday and now she has learned to be an ostrich.
"The editor-in-chief of each magazine, please tell us about the sales last month."
The executive assistant conveyed her meaning to her without having to speak.
This kind of topic used to be reported only to the higher-level leaders. The editorial director sitting aside kept wiping sweat with a small handkerchief.
Takeda Zhenfei has been assigned to Kodansha by the Otowa Group to take charge of business for many years. Apart from a president whom few people have seen, she is the oldest.
He acts resolutely and makes decisions cleanly. Everyone is afraid that he will be sent to Hokkaido to grow potatoes by accident.
"Group Magazine sold 458,000 copies last month and published two books."
At this time, those who were engaged in pure literature were still bold.
Saito Asuka, the editor-in-chief of the group portrait, raised his glasses and said.
"There is almost no fluctuation compared to the same period in previous years, but the market for pure literature is not high now, so thank you Saito for your editorship."
Takeda Zhenbi is not an unreasonable person. Although she has a posture of apologizing for poor performance, her attitude towards magazine women who are only in the middle and lower reaches of sales is still very gentle.
With Saito Asuka taking the lead, everyone started talking at once.
Kodansha is the largest comprehensive publishing house in the country, and its sales are also very exaggerated. Except for a few purely literary magazines, the sales of other magazines are exaggerated. A certain boy's magazine comic almost exceeded 1.5 million.
"It seems that there is still an editor-in-chief who hasn't said anything yet."
Takeda Zhenbi knocked on the table, and everyone reporting on the work wisely shut up.
The theme of the meeting was the sluggish sales of "Masa Shirabe", and anyone with a discerning eye would know that this was a meeting directed by Mr. Takeda against his sister.
President Takeda and Editor-in-Chief Takeda look almost the same, and no one at Kodansha knows about their relationship.
It's just that the relationship between the two sisters doesn't seem to be very good. They just fired each other's position as the editor-in-chief of the sixth team some time ago, and now they are eyeing "Masa Shirabe" again.
If it weren't for the sisters, everyone would almost think that the scene before them was workplace bullying.
The younger sister lowered her head timidly, while the elder sister stared at her sharply.
""Masa Shirabe"."
Takako Takeda bit the bullet and opened the documents prepared for her by Chiyo Tanabe.
In the past, this kind of sales report did not include a haiku column at all. "Haiku is dead" is not just a lie.
It is not as good as its predecessors and has no new ideas. Instead of reading a magazine, it is better to read "Man'yoshu" and Matsuo Basho's poetry collection.
If pure literature can be considered a niche, haiku is even more of a niche within a niche.
"8900 volumes."
Mrs. Takeda covered her face with the document and curled her toes tightly together.
"So few?"
Princess Takeda was shocked. She knew that the performance of the Haiku column was not good, but she did not expect it to be so bad.
Among a large number of publications with sales of tens or millions of dollars, there is not one person who has not broken four figures.
"Cause, response."
Originally, she wanted to slap her stupid sister, but it turned out that "Shirabe Masa" seemed to be on the verge of being cut off. Takeda Maifei frowned and put on a business-like expression.
The sales volume of 8,000 to 9,000 yuan, the schedule design, and the money for manual printing cannot be earned back.
Seeing that no one meant to laugh at him, Yu Shinoda, who was not dealing with him, just looked at himself with gloating.
Mrs. Takeda gave three reasons why the haiku Tatsukawa Toru said in the car yesterday was not popular.
"The haiku saints are in power, but future generations are not allowed to enter? That's an interesting statement." Saito Asuka, the editor-in-chief of "Group Portrait", nodded.
The first point of Toru Ryukawa's point is that the author did not study it carefully, the second point is that why readers are not interested, and the third point of Matsuo Basho's statement that one person cut off the luck of haiku has not been mentioned.
Everyone has regarded the great poet who revolutionized haiku as a saint and ancestor. No one has ever said that he was a stumbling block for the death of haiku.
But if you think about it carefully, it seems to be the case. Matsuo Basho standardized the use of haiku sentences and advocated strictness and seriousness.
As a result, after Haiku entered the literary world, I could no longer write many things. I almost finished the Haiku Spring and Autumn Period in one breath. There are more than a thousand haiku, and almost all of them are excellent works. It will be difficult for several generations to reach his height.
"Solution."
Takeda Zhenfei knocked on the table. She didn't care about the Haiku situation. If there was no way to increase sales, this kind of loss-making project should be stopped as soon as possible.
"I signed a book of haiku poems two days ago, written by the owner of Dassai House."
Mrs. Takeda turned around and took out the book. She originally wanted to take out a collection of haiku, but when she ran out of money, she realized that she didn't bring it with her when she went out last night.
"Owner of Dassai House?"
Saito Asuka, who is a scholar and had previously been a haiku column editor, raised his eyebrows.
Nowadays, there are only a few people writing haiku, and many of them have almost stopped writing. The owner of Dassai House suddenly appeared.
"A collection? Even if there aren't hundreds of songs?"
Shinoda Yu, who was sitting opposite his wife, smiled.
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She felt that besides being good-looking, Mrs. Takeda had no professional skills at all. Writing ten haiku poems was enough to rack her brains. How could anyone write so many at once?
"Editor-in-Chief Takeda is afraid he may have encountered a liar."
The woman had a 'can you do it' smile on her face.
The wife took a deep breath. This man became more and more arrogant after taking her position.
The editors were talking, but Takeda only wanted the results.
"If sales have not improved in three months, you will go to the Sixth Group to study as the editor-in-chief."
The sixth group has made progress under the leadership of Shinoda Yu. Takeda Takako's eyes widened after hearing this.
Didn't he just not come back last night? As for sending himself to the enemy?
The wife gritted her teeth, feeling that her sister was even more hateful than Toru Ryukawa at the moment.
"That's what happened with the Haiku column,"
Princess Takeda suddenly put on a serious face.
“What do you think of the group portrait award?”
Those present were all editors, the most well-connected group in the literary world. When they heard the leader's inquiry, everyone's expressions froze.
"Is there no way to get the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology to withdraw from this time? Or replace it with someone else?"
Saitori Tobito, who entered the judging panel on behalf of Kodansha this time, smiled bitterly, "There are a lot of doubts on the pages of major newspapers now."
Choosing a young author as a judge is an incredible thing in itself, let alone "Group Portraits", one of the five major newcomer awards.
There has been overwhelming discussion about whether the Group Image Awards will be rigorous this year, and Takeda Maifei sighed.
"Let"
Takeda Maifei looked uncomfortable, as if she didn't want to, but she had to do it.
"Let the people from the Publicity and Development Department do some positive public relations for Ryukawa Toru."
"Public relations are just drinking poison to quench thirst."
Saito Asuka shook his head, "Qualifications are qualifications, and this kind of media public relations is difficult to be effective."
The people being scolded now are all literati, and they are also those 'geniuses' who think that their writing is good, so that Tatsukawa Tetsu may bury his own works.
They don’t think that Toru Ryukawa can tell them what to do. Many people even say that he is only good at some ‘niche literature’ that is not accepted by the mainstream.
"Snow Country", "Hear the Wind Sing", "The Golden Pavilion" and even many people don't know this work.
"That."
A group of people were discussing the possibility of letting Toru Ryukawa withdraw from this group portrait award, and Takako Takeda frowned.
"What if he also writes good poetry and haiku?"
Haiku is almost at the top of the literary contempt chain, Mrs. Takeda asked in the editorial office.
(End of chapter)