those things in the editorial department

After processing the inventory, this year's work is basically over.The days were wobbly, and finally reached the 29th year.Although the publishing house is also a company system, it is a state-owned enterprise after all, and it must follow the national holiday regulations.However, many people asked for leave a few days earlier to go home, and the last half of them were basically from the province.Those who stay at the end will get a Chinese New Year red envelope in an envelope, not much, two or three hundred.

Wu Chunjun and Lu Minghong took the red envelopes and walked back.

"Chunjun, you came back so late, didn't your mother tell you?"

"Of course, I've been urged to go back a long time ago."

"It's not very busy, why don't you go back earlier? Could it be that you can't buy a ticket?"

Wu Chunjun raised his index finger and shook it, "Didn't you see the bombing of the seven aunts and eight aunts that went viral on the Internet? They were either asking for salary or forced marriage. My mother finished worrying about my brother's marriage, and now it's my turn. If I go back too early, I will definitely be hurt." Being dragged on a blind date."

Lu Minghong smiled hippiely, "There are policies and there are countermeasures, do you want me to play your boyfriend in friendship?" He raised his eyebrows, "The friendship price is only [-]% off."

"Oh?" Wu Chunjun turned around to look carefully, and gently pinched his chin with one hand, "He looks like a dog. Are you attacking or receiving?"

...I am most afraid of the sudden silence of the air.

Lu Minghong looked at Wu Chunjun's teasing smile, his eyes darkened slightly.

Wu Chunjun hurriedly regained his senses, "Don't talk about [-]% off, you don't even want to stick to me, I'm straight, straight and straight!" He shook his hands as he said, "If my mother finds out that I'm cheating, I'll kill you I can't." He smiled and shook his head.

Lu Minghong silently followed behind him, staring at the back all the way.

After receiving the red envelopes, the administration arranged for everyone to clean up, tidy up the tabletops, and pasted a couplet written by the president himself at the door, and then turned off the computer, turned off the lights, unplugged the socket, turned off the switch, closed the door, and locked it. It was officially a holiday.

Lu Minghong is a native of Guangzhou, so he didn't need to drive a car. After returning to the dormitory, he packed up slowly, and after seeing off all his roommates, he went home with a few books.

Guangzhou at the end of the year is still a vacuum.He contracted a bus by himself.

The work at home was almost done, so he hid in his room and surfed the Internet after returning.There is a group of people in the postgraduate Q group who are clamoring for a gathering at the beginning of the year.We haven't seen each other for half a year, and I miss you very much.In fact, it is just two years after graduation that I have been keen on gatherings. Afterwards, we will go further and further on our respective life paths. Those who get married get married, and those who have children. It is not easy to get together again. While there are still many people staying in Guangzhou, Make an appointment now.

Lu Minghong glanced at the publishing professional book he brought back, touched his chin, and suddenly had an idea.

On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, Lu Minghong went to "Xinghua Street", ordered a pot with the kumquat seller, and agreed to go shopping for a while and pick it up later.Walking around, Lu Minghong bought two more windmills and two peach blossoms, ran to the dormitory to plug them in, and then went back to take kumquats home.

"Do you know how to buy a pot of kumquats?" I heard my mother shouting as soon as I entered the door.The older sister is helping to bring out the dishes.

Except for the elder sister who is already married, the family of four had a reunion dinner early.Some people like to go to restaurants to have New Year's Eve dinner for convenience, but they prefer to cook at home. Dad doesn't usually cook much, but he also cooks a few dishes for New Year's Eve dinner.The family chatted while eating, Lu Minghong was the only boy in the family, and he just graduated this year, so naturally he was the most talked about, and he even talked about "is there any girl in the office who looks right to me", Lu Minghong rambled about Flick in the past.

After dinner, Lu's father and Lu's mother watched the Spring Festival Gala on TV. Lu Mingyan had already invited his friends to go out to play. Lu Minghong was browsing Moments, but the "Editors in the World are One Family" group suddenly became lively, so he simply turned on the computer Concentrate on chatting.

[Breathable fish: (Screenshot of Doshu Official Account) Editorial dogs are relatively common dwelling mammals. This species has two main habits: one is to bring manuscripts to their lairs as soon as the holidays come, and the other is to return to their lairs after the holidays. Will bring a revised or untouched manuscript back to the office from the lair.In special periods like National Day and Chinese New Year, editor dogs in urban forests will even travel thousands of kilometers in order to edit manuscripts or make themselves feel good at editing manuscripts, and stage the most spectacular manuscript contest on the earth in three directions: water, land and air. migration.To bring the manuscript or not?this is a problem. ...I think this description is proper and I am right. ]

[Zhou Zhi 1998: I also brought...]

[Little official who catches the pen: Our company reviews manuscripts on the computer, and proofreading only needs to print paper manuscripts.Now that the price of paper is rising again, I wonder if there will be a paperless office in the future. ]

[Please call me editor, reviewer, recorder and editor: I am still used to reading paper manuscripts. Now many companies do not strictly abide by the third review and third review. If the editors are all paperless, the quality problem will be more serious. ]

[Little official who catches the pen: But publishing must also keep pace with the times. The publishing industry in the Internet age is also facing transformation. ]

[Helpless editor: That’s right, if you don’t transform, you will definitely be eliminated, and it will really become a “sunset industry”. ]

[My family is in the Northeast: Publishing is an old business of disseminating knowledge, as long as there are people, there will be a need for publishing.Don't worry about the industry prospects, the key is how to achieve update iterations. ]

[Fish that can breathe: With the rise of self-media, everyone is a spokesperson. It is too convenient to publish articles now. There are so many writers on the Internet, full-time and part-time, and there are so many platforms to publish. From the author group Said that publishing in the future will be more popular.And the optionality is so strong, it will be more personalized from the perspective of consumption. ]

[Thousand-year sigh Great Dunhuang: With the development of technology, there is also the mutual penetration of different fields, and it is inevitable to become more technical and intelligent. "Internet + publishing" has not yet exerted its power. ]

[Little official who catches the pen: Judging from the situation in the past two years, the trend of all-IP and pan-entertainment is also taking shape.Just like the popular "Three Lives Three Worlds Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms" a while ago, there are novels, TV dramas, movies, comics, songs, and games. ]

[N+1 Books: By the way, almost all the popular TV dramas in recent years have been contracted by online novels. ]

[Editor’s Notes 1998: @拍笔小官 is right.Cross-media operation has become a new trend in the development of the cultural media industry. For example, a large global news publishing group owns almost all media types: newspapers, TV, movies, magazines, entertainment and news websites.Through cross-media management, multiple developments of the same content can be realized, and the value-added and scale effect of content utilization can be realized. ]

[Editor Lao Zhou: Compared with the current economic situation, traditional publishing is closed to a certain extent. If the transformation can be realized, the future is still limitless.I have discussed this issue in Zhihu. Regarding the several working modes of future editing, you can take a look if you are interested. ] followed by a URL link.

Lao Zhou is an old editor. He is relatively authoritative in the group. He often helps people answer doubts and give advice. He is very professional.

The group was quiet for a while, and then the discussion started again.

[Glance: Old Zhou is mighty, he has been taught.For the publishing industry to develop, first of all, we publishers must develop our concepts. ]

[Please call me editor, reviewer and school guide: I have been an editor for 15 years, but I still can't graduate! ! ]

[Bookmakers of the Human Soul: Where Will Traditional Editors Go?Put down the machete and spear, pick up the mouse missile, a soldier is still a soldier. ]

[Life is from one manuscript to another: Laughing and crying, why did the upstairs suddenly become emotional. ]

[Glance: Senior editors are still senior, publishers just need to update their concepts and methods. ]

……

[With a book in hand, I have: No way, the countdown to New Year’s Eve is coming, and you are still discussing work, you are really workaholics. ]

Lu Minghong raised his head and looked out of the window, where the Canton Tower happened to be visible in the distance.

[A: Five! ]

[B: Four! ]

[C: Three! ]

[Ding: Two! ]

……

five!Four!three!two!one! ! !

When the second hand points to 12, the sound of the Xiaoman waist is booming and the lights are showing off. Nearly [-] citizens gathered in Huacheng Square cheered in unison, "Happy New Year~!!!"

Wu Chunjun watched the Spring Festival Gala, watched the crowded videos in Moments, seemed to be infected, and said softly: Happy New Year!

Many people wait to post to Moments within 1 minute of New Year's Eve, and continue to scroll down. He saw Lu Minghong's Moments message at 00:00, and there was only one sentence——

New Year's Message: The world is new, and so am I.

Wu Chunjun smiled.Such positive energy must be praised.

In the fourth year of junior high school, Lu Minghong had a party with a group of graduate students.

Everyone first explained the recent situation to each other, and then talked about it.Lu Minghong saw that the time was almost up, so he took the opportunity to propose, "You all know that I am a book editor, simply speaking, I am a book maker. I have a topic I want to do now, and I want to invite you to be the editors of my book." Author, do you want to participate?"

When everyone heard that such a high-profile matter as publishing a book was about to fall on them, they all expressed their interest in learning about it.Although it is easy to publish a book now, and some of them have published articles in magazines and the like, but after all, it is the first time to publish a book. I am a little excited, and I want to hear what he has to say.

So a good reunion of classmates turned into an author meeting in seconds.Lu Minghong explained his thoughts to the quasi-authors in detail, which he pondered over the past few days.

"We are graduate students in the history department, so naturally we are not as familiar as we are, so we will write a book on historical subjects."

It turned out that he planned to publish a social science book, each chapter was a dynasty, and a famous short sentence was used as the title. For example, in the Han Dynasty, "Those who commit crimes against a strong Han will be punished even if they are far away." Big things", in the late Qing Dynasty, you can use "to measure the material resources of China, to unite the country's favor", which is a summary of that dynasty and shows the spirit of the times.The content of the book is not a simple enumeration of knowledge. If it can reflect the style of the times, the whole book can have an atmosphere of "the evolution history of Chinese civilization and spirit in 5000 years".

In the past few years, there have been many such refreshing historical and social science books on the market, such as "This History Is Reliable", "A Random Talk on Chinese History", "A Half-hour Talk on Chinese History", "History in Pictures", "If History It's a group of meows" and so on, and Lu Minghong admitted that he also got his inspiration from jokes on the Internet.In fact, when he reads the manuscript, some ideas pop up from time to time, such as making a children's book that shows human geography, or a simple version of Marxism, but it hasn't been brewed yet, and now it's time to start practicing while the author has settled down. knife.

"Although we are all high-achieving students, this book is for the general public. It is popular and can be understood by people aged eight to 80 as long as they can read. The requirements are professional but simple, and the expressions are easy to understand. It is better if the language can reveal humor and wit in plainness."

"Squad leader, your request is too tricky." A girl curled her lips and said.

"That is, there is no book that everyone from eight to eighty years old loves to read."

"Oh, you're not stupid." Lu Minghong smiled, "It's an exaggeration. In short, it is for the general public. People who are not majors in history actually know much less historical knowledge than we think, even if they have attended middle school. Many people in this book are ignorant or even completely forgotten. Many people’s historical knowledge is actually seen on TV, so this book is intended to be both informative and interesting, serious and sensational. In the past two years, the country has emphasized 'cultural Confidence', CCTV’s father’s promotional variety shows come out one set at a time, let’s follow this trend and try to use a way that the public likes to hear and see to call for our popular 5000-year history.”

"The general direction of writing is what I said just now. Of course, you can decide for yourself the specific famous sentences you choose. Let's create a new group, and you can often discuss details and progress in it. Chapter 4, the Republic of China is more sensitive and you don't write it. I personally choose two to write, and the manuscript will be handed in in April. I still dare not say the manuscript fee, and I will try my best to fight for it. I will give each of you a few collections. If you can write it, it must be a face to your family."

"Then when will it be ready?"

"September."

"So long?"

"Approval of topic selection, three reviews and three revisions, plus design and typesetting, three to four months is a normal cycle."

"Now that computer technology is so advanced, can't it be intelligent?"

Lu Minghong smiled, "Science and technology can of course be used as an auxiliary means to make the process more convenient, but no matter how advanced the technology is, it cannot replace people. For example, a thing has multiple names, and it is impossible for a machine to judge which one to use under certain circumstances. Some sentences The formula is a wrong sentence in a certain sense, and it is okay in a certain situation, and the machine cannot judge it. Even if the dark horse can retrieve some suspected typos, it still needs manual judgment to finally confirm. These are just proofreading. , the most important thing is that artificial intelligence cannot judge the content. What kind of content is good, what kind of expression is more appropriate and accurate, whether the writing logic and emotional changes are smooth, what kind of subject matter corresponds to what layout design, and what kind of marketing Means, etc., are all things that machines can’t do. Books are the carrier of knowledge after all, especially paper books. Don’t talk about feelings, even if you get a book that is reviewed by a machine, you will feel less Take the temperature."

"Aiyo, Shibie will look at you with admiration for three days." One person laughed.

One of them clapped his hands suddenly, "Then what, life is more than what you see in front of you..."

Several people immediately responded: "There are poems and distant fields! Hahaha..."

A group of people just laughed like this.

That night, Lu Minghong sent his classmates' doubts about editing to the "Editors in the world are one family" group, which aroused everyone's sympathy.

[A: After my friend knew that I was an editor, he asked me how much the ISBN cost.Oh my god can I say that selling ISBNs is illegal? ]

[B: At least your friend knows about ISBN. My friend thought I was a reporter.I was always worried that I would be retaliated against for exposing the darkness.The wind is messy. ]

[C: A little knowledge is more terrible than ignorance.My friend thought that the editor was just a person who corrected typos, and thought I had no future. Every time he saw me, he looked at me with sympathy.I want to say that I am actually very proud of my profession, okay? ]

[D: The knowledge involved in editing is too much and trivial, even if you want to explain it, you can't explain it.I really want to write a novel based on the daily work of editors, and popularize the work of editors to the public. ]

[E: Upstairs, yes.I will pre-order 10 copies first, and give them to my parents, relatives and friends. ]

Everyone joked about this issue.Lu Minghong raised his eyebrows, this is possible, but his experience is still too inexperienced, so he can try it in two years.And... Lu Minghong remembered that Lu Lushen was always flirting with him and Chunjun, and if it was written on the subject of danmei, there might be a market for it.hehe……