Chapter 576: Blame the Reporter

Just... he thought that the other party would take out the leaf, and thought that he would take out the truth, but the scene before him was still beyond his expectations.

"Sir, please rest assured, it is absolutely authentic!" Nico said, patting his chest, "I brought this from Tijuana, with the purchase ticket. Don't worry, I believe my skin color should be very authoritative in the field of providing authentic products."

Nigo, who is very good at business, even made a joke about his own race.

Featured Occupation Backpacker. Hanks asked, "Why would you want to smuggle a novel?"

You know, The Fellowship of the Ring has only been released in North America for a day and a half. There is no rough statistics on the box office yet, because it was released on Friday (yesterday), and according to American rules, box office statistics have to wait until the first weekend.

"I'm only telling you, sir, that Gunslinger Bruce has started making pirated copies of this book. There must be a huge market for it, so I went there this morning." Nigo said in a low voice.

Bruce the Gunner - even Hanks, who is a reporter for an entertainment newspaper, knows that he is one of the bigwigs in the underground industry in Los Angeles. It is a bit inaccurate to call him a gangster, because Bruce the Gunner is not involved in pornography, gambling, or drugs, but is deeply involved in the gray smuggling industry such as home appliances and cars.

They've started printing pirated copies? The Lord of the Rings books are so popular? Not really, Hanks thought, and took out a hundred dollars.

Nigo handed over the book happily. Of course he was happy. The three books of "The Lord of the Rings Trilogy" cost $48 per set. With a coupon, it was about $ per book.

Earn a lot!

After the sale, Nigo disappeared in a flash. He came back, took out another set of books from the box, and squatted at the door of the Amazon bookstore, staring at the customers passing by with his brown eyes.

In half a day, thirty-two sets were sold.

"Gu, the book you wrote is my favorite." Nigo's thick lips kissed the book cover. This was not the first time he did this, thanks to the plastic film.

"You are a world-class super writer, better than Hemingway." Although Ni Ge has never read the books of Hemingway and Gu Lu, the latter can make him money.

He continued, "The only drawback is that it has too many words and is too heavy. It would be great if each book had half the words."

Tijuana is only 200 kilometers away from Los Angeles, and he carried more than 500 books (a whole car), which is not a small amount.

Hanks took the book home. The reason he didn't understand was that he only looked at the public opinion on Rotten Tomatoes. If he had some free time, he would have looked at Twitter and understood...

On the first day of the release of "The Lord of the Rings", thousands of American netizens asked: "Oh my God, why don't bookstores sell The Lord of the Rings?"

There were many responses from netizens who had half-understanding or who expressed conspiracy theories below.

"Because when The Lord of the Rings Trilogy was released, it was criticized by many media in our country, so it was not released. Those idiots who don't know anything and only know how to criticize."

"Our country is a country of freedom, and Gu Lu is a Chinese who is very famous in Europe and America. The movie version of The Shawshank Redemption is still being introduced to many prisons and is rated as a must-see movie for inmates. Will the country allow a Chinese to have such a great influence? Of course, the Lord of the Rings trilogy will not be allowed to be sold."

"The prison is showing The Shawshank Redemption? But if I remember correctly, both the original novel and the movie version are about prison escape..."

"Not being able to see the original Lord of the Rings is a sign of the decline of democracy. The beginning of a country's lack of freedom is to prevent foreign works from being published. I am so sad."

"It's a pity. I have a small bookstore of 800 square meters. I have consulted Hachette Books (publisher of The Lord of the Rings), and they said that the Lord of the Rings trilogy will not be sold in the United States. If you want to buy it, you have to go to the country of maple leaves or Mexico. This is all done by those media people who only know how to talk!"

Then most of the comments were wailing, wailing that the American people had become second-class citizens. Mexico could watch it, the Maple Leaf Country could watch it, and even Brazil could watch it, but they couldn't. Another group of netizens were passionately criticizing the media.

“That’s all nonsense!”

“Why is it okay to spread rumors?!
"Do you have any dignity as a human being?"

The person who raised the above question was Connolly from The Washington Post. He was so angry. He had always been the one who processed others artistically. When had he ever been processed by others?

Connery did criticize Gu Lu, but he criticized The Shawshank Redemption, which was serialized in newspapers. At most, he uttered two sentences about "A Man Called Ove Decides to Die." When The Lord of the Rings was released, he didn't say anything. To be more precise, because the word of mouth on the Internet was very good, the whole public opinion didn't say anything.

Of course, Connery wouldn't be so broken just by being processed, after all, he has experienced many ups and downs.

What really broke his defense was that Connery had read the book "Yes, Prime Minister". At that time, Gu Lu had taken the book to America for sale, so The Lord of the Rings would surely have been sold as well.

So he left a message on the Internet: Just wait, soon, "The Lord of the Rings" and all of Gu Lu's books will be available for purchase in America.

Now his account has been dug out by netizens.

"So?" "Can Washington Post reporters talk nonsense?" "He just likes to talk nonsense. I remember he criticized The Lord of the Rings." "The journalists in our country are so bad, no wonder the influence of print media is getting weaker and weaker." and so on.

There are also some remarks that cannot pass the review, such as greetings to parents, etc. America also has a hot-tempered brother.

"With millions in profits, aren't the Chinese really tempted?" Connery was anxious.

The Lord of the Rings set costs 9.6 US dollars. According to Gu Lu's current fame, he can get % of the royalties. That means he can earn US dollars for each set sold. According to the current market demand in America, it is really a profit of millions of US dollars.

"No, we can't just sit there and do nothing!" Connery prepared for action.

In addition, as time goes by, the number of netizens posting complaints has not decreased, but increased instead.

As word of mouth spread, the number of audiences entering the cinema increased. According to a report released by a data company, "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" raked in $1 million in box office revenue in 3 theaters in just three days during its first weekend.

At the same time, it is also the best opening result so far in 2022.

It is December now, and for America, a new year is about to end. The first Lord of the Rings is very likely to top the North American box office chart.

"The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring", which was released worldwide, did well at the box office not only in North America, but also in Europe, Asia and the Kangaroo Country.

Yao Xiaoju was very happy because with the blessing of the Lord of the Rings, he could open a flagship store for the peripheral products overseas. However, it is called the Little Prince flagship store in China, and it is probably called the Lord of the Rings flagship store overseas...

"Crash!" All the documents on the desk fell to the ground.

"Fuck! The Chinese are inherently evil. They just love to cheat us Ansa!" Am Winston, the CEO of Fox, was very unhappy.

(End of this chapter)

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