Starting from the spring semester of 2023, The Letter of Fu Lei, a must-read masterpiece in the second volume of the eighth grade, was replaced by a classic talk, and How Steel was Tempered remained unchanged.
On the last day of 2022, news came from Yilin Publishing House that the Chinese textbook in the second volume of the eighth grade of the "Ministry Edition" had undergone major changes: the famous book Letter from Fu Lei was replaced by Zhu Ziqing's Classic Talk. This change has undoubtedly brought an impact on the famous books market in primary and secondary schools during the winter vacation and affected the sales of Fu Lei's letters.
At that time, the editorial board of Chinese textbooks for primary and secondary schools of the Ministry of Education did not fully understand the copyright ownership of Fu Lei's Letters, and thought that the copyright of this book had entered the public edition as a whole, so it was selected as the middle school textbook "Introduction to Famous Books". Among the masterpieces of "Introduction to Masterpieces" 12 in grades 7 to 9, only the book "Fu Lei Letters" has not completely entered the public edition.
In fact, I have always had reservations about Fu Lei's Letter entering the textbook as a masterpiece. Because the complete copyright of "Fu Lei Jia Shu" still belongs to the Fu Lei family, all kinds of Fu Lei Jia Shu on the market are not authorized and the content is incomplete. At best, it can only be regarded as a simple collection of fragments of Fu Lei's letters, and different editors have different orientations, so it is difficult to call them Fu Lei's letters in the sense of masterpieces.
As the copyright agent of Fu Min, I always insist that the complete copyright of Fu Lei's Letters is the exclusive publishing right granted to Yilin Publishing House, not the non-exclusive publishing right distributed by various publishing houses. This is to protect the classic value of Fu Lei's Letters by Yilin, which is convenient for readers to identify.
However, according to the sales statistics of these five years, the translated version of Letters from Fu Lei only accounts for less than 10% of the market, and most of the market is occupied by the so-called Letters from Fu Lei, which is really worrying.