Recently, the Himalayas 423 Audiobook Festival is in full swing. The audiobook and paper book of Mo Yan's new work "Mo Yan's Strange Stories", a Nobel Prize winner for literature, have been launched simultaneously, bringing users a variety of reading options.

In order to allow the audience to have a deeper understanding of the works, Himalaya also joins the dialogue with the big coffee in the audiobook album, sharing the relevant content of Chinese strange novels, enhancing the user's sense of participation and interaction, bringing "listening + reading + speaking". one-stop experience.

　　"Mo Yan's Strange Stories Collection" is a collection of 18 folk fairy tales and strange stories by Mo Yan, such as the ghost of the neighbor's uncle came to pay off the debt owed to our family before his death; the turtle essence was transformed into a human body to take the exam, and also wrote letters to home; The story of a woman who is reluctant to marry the person designated by her parents, spread her arms and flew up to the treetops on the day of marriage, etc.

In his speech for the audiobook album, Mo Yan introduced that this work was inspired by the work "Liao Zhai" by Pu Songling, a native of Shandong, and some listeners commented in the Himalayan comment area: "This is a dream linkage through ancient and modern times."

　　For a long time, Mo Yan's novels have attracted much attention, and his achievements and brilliance in short stories have been relatively obscured, but his short stories are in the industry?

Has always been highly rated.

The Nobel Prize winner and the famous Japanese writer Kenzaburo Oe once said: "If the short stories are ranked in the top five in the world, Mo Yan's should be included." "Mo Yan's Strange Stories Collection" This bizarre book is also Mo Yanjin The epitome of short stories in recent years, its humorous and interesting style is liked by more and more young people.

　　The audiobook of "Mo Yan's Strange Stories" is performed by Wang Mingjun, a famous dubbing and broadcasting artist and associate professor of Communication University of China. His representative works include "Three-Body Problem", "One Hundred Years of Solitude", "The World" and "Changjin Lake".

Teacher Wang Mingjun also expressed his love for this work in his published speech. He believes that "Mo Yan's Strange Stories Collection" uses strange and eerie imagination to explore the deep and complex human nature, and fully demonstrates Mo Yan's "brave and Compassion".

Mo Yan commented on the audio version of this work in three words, namely, "very vivid, immersive, and full of thoughts".

　　In order to let the audience have a deeper understanding of the work, this audio album has innovatively added podcast content. The host of the independent podcast "Da Nei's Secret Talk", which is full of interest, invited Zhang Wumeng, a Ph.D. The history and classification of weird fiction, and why we read weird fiction.

Different from the immersive experience of audiobooks, podcasts have their own topic attributes, which can interpret the works and extend knowledge from various aspects.

The combination of audiobooks and podcasts, on the one hand, lowers the reading threshold of serious literature, increases knowledge, and on the other hand makes listeners more engaged.

Through the podcast of "Inner Secret Talk", which introduces the development process of strange novels from ancient times to the present and interprets the background of Mo Yan's creation, the audience can better understand the details and creative ideas of these strange stories.

　　This year’s Himalaya 423 Listening Book Festival, Himalaya has cooperated with more than 30 publishing institutions to launch more than 1,500 paper books, upgrade the one-stop service for listening and buying books, and bring a full range of content services that integrate listening and reading.

In addition to "Mo Yan's Strange Stories Collection", the paper and audio books of Keigo Higashino's latest reasoning work "Transparent Spiral" were released simultaneously during the Himalaya 423 Listening Book Festival.

Maijia's "Sea of ​​Life" high-quality sound drama and "Dai Jianye's Poetry Lesson" (titled "A Brief History of Poetry in the Song Dynasty") are also launched on Himalaya simultaneously. Listeners can click "shop" on the album page or directly enter Hima Mall Buy.

　　China's "14th Five-Year Plan" shows that cultural development has become one of the most important features of the new era. It is the need of the times to drive the construction of new cultural enterprises with technological innovation. Information standardization, resource dataization and operational intelligence will become the "ten The direction of efforts of Chinese publishing companies during the Fourth Five-Year Plan period.

By combining paper books and audio albums, Himalaya not only brings users a new content consumption experience that integrates listening and watching, but also means that the "audio tape paper books" Hima paper book sales link the audio albums with the sales of paper books. The model has been gradually recognized by major publishing houses, which provides a new development opportunity for the traditional publishing industry.

　　At the same time, the Himalaya 423 Listening Book Festival has also launched a series of high-quality albums, including the high-quality sound drama "The Long Corridor", "Deyun Club Classic Cross Talk Collection | , "Legend of Sword and Fairy IV", "League of Legends: My Age" high-quality audio drama, "The Institute of Useless Studies", "Single Reading Season 1: Reading This Era with Xu Zhiyuan", etc., covering literature, comic dialogue, suspense , games, Chinese studies and other categories, so that the audience can enjoy the spiritual food with rich categories, well-made and high-quality content during the 423 Listening Book Festival.

　　At a time when the pace of life is accelerating, listening to books has become an increasingly common way of life due to the unique accompanying attributes of audio and highly diverse adaptation scenarios.

People can enjoy listening to books in various scenarios such as bedtime, commuting, study, work, physical exercise and housework, which makes the flowing fragmented time meaningful.

At the same time, the development of smartphones, in-vehicle scenarios and smart speakers has also provided more convenient channels for listening to books.

　　In order to meet people's growing spiritual and cultural needs, Himalaya has continuously deepened cooperation with major publishing houses and content copyright agencies to introduce high-quality IP to listeners and bring more high-quality audio books.

At present, the content of audiobooks has covered a variety of high-quality channels such as personal growth, cultural history, children's stories, business and finance, etc., which can meet the needs of various age groups.

In the future, Himalaya will also continue to bring more good content to book lovers. It is hoped that through the enrichment of content and the blessing of technology, listening to books will be ubiquitous and more people will enjoy the fun of reading.