Readers familiar with the whole thing know how hard it was to get this book out.I wrote three prefaces alone, each of which was postponed before publication.Once, the publisher broke the contract, and once because there was a controversy, and I didn’t want people to say that I was hyping for the new book, so as to defend the purity of my views in the controversy.Once it was because of a lawsuit.The title of the book was also changed and changed, and it was called "Tan" at first, and then the pirates helped me publish it.until now. Books must be published.Most of the articles in it have been published on my blog.Readers who don’t want to spend 20 yuan to buy books can go online and spend 20 yuan for electricity and Internet access to browse all the articles.As for the critics, I don't understand your logic.My essays are all on the Internet. If I don't publish them, if the Internet goes down, won't there be nothing left?What's more, I think my own articles are well written. Many people have read them for free. I don't publish them, so what should I do with these articles?Can't publish for a lifetime?Adrift and homeless?Can't my anthology be included?Compared with essays published in newspapers, are there any disadvantages besides being more attractive and unedited?Why is it that the authors of the essay columns in the newspapers compile and publish books, but everyone approves of them?Let readers who want to read paper books buy pirated copies?You are happy when the pirates make money, but you are not happy about the author getting the manuscript fee?I really want to put you all directly into Edison Chen's camera.

For this book, I did not ask for a guarantee from the publisher. Out of trust in my partner, Beirong Company, and my old friend Lu Jinbo, this book sold for every one, and we didn't even sign the contract.I don't have any expectations for the sales of this book, after all, many readers have read the article.Some readers who don't want to buy can stand in the bookstore and read the unpublished articles of this book.In my impression, this is the second time I have said this in the preface.But I hope that some people will not make irresponsible remarks based on the sales volume of this book. I have already accepted the loss of royalties, and you have to destroy an author's confidence in providing free essays on the Internet.This is like no one will tell you if you don’t donate, but you will be scolded for being stingy and showing off if you donate.After all, I am the only best-selling author in China who provides free original literary works on the Internet.This can be regarded as my meager support for the Internet. To paraphrase a netizen, although the Internet is sometimes vulgar and indecent, it shines with the brilliance of democracy and freedom.In this real world, vulgarity and obscenity are everywhere, but democracy and freedom are not everywhere.

The above complaints were mentioned in an article.Take out some fragments separately as prologues.In any case, wherever I wrote my essays, I would later receive them in my book.And it must be received in the book. For a writer, the article is the destination of ideas, and the book is the destination of articles.