In order to urge more, I infiltrated the author group

Chapter 146 VAM Contract (Subscribe)

After Pei Le finished speaking, Chen Wu immediately said strangely: "Mr. Pei, didn't I just say that I want to increase the royalty share for Xiaotian?
How about this, increase Oda's royalties to 15.00%, which is the royalties that only fairy tale kings can get in the Chinese literary world?

This can already be regarded as the ceiling of the physical publishing industry! "

After hearing Chen Wu's explanation, Pei Le picked up the mobile phone in his hand, shook it, and said:
"Mr. Chen, are you talking nonsense? According to the information I just found, the predecessor of your Yuewen Group, Shengda Literature, signed a physical book author with higher royalties more than ten years ago! "

Then Pei Le showed the phone to several people. It turned out that Pei Le just searched for an article on a blog posted by the King of Fairy Tales in [-].

The article reads like this:
"Learn from Hu Shizhi's 20.00%."

——Blue Star Diary, December 2009, 12

Fairy tale king
"Today there are media reports that the Chinese writer Han Gongzhi switched jobs and changed publishers. The new publisher offered a 20% royalty rate for Han Gongzhi's books.

The royalty system is an internationally popular payment method, that is, the author draws the manuscript fee as a percentage of the total price of the book.

The internationally accepted royalty standard is: the royalty rate should be 1% when the book is printed between 1.5 and 10 copies;
印数为1.5万至2万册时版税率应为12％；印数2万册以上时版税率应为14％。

20% is a sky-high royalty rate.Since there is civilization, literature and royalties on the earth, the last writer who enjoyed a 20% royalty rate was Hu Shi.

Back then, Hu Shi set a royalty rate of 15% for the first edition and 20% for the second edition. If it was lower than this standard, he would not publish it.

The royalty rate of my "Pipilu Story" is 15%. I also want to learn from Hu Shi and Han Gongzhi, and work hard towards 20%.

When a writer becomes rich, it is conducive to transforming into a philanthropist..."

(The article is very long, so I won’t repeat it here one by one. Interested readers can go to Baidu by themselves.

The meaning of the original text is that the king of fairy tales envied Han Gongzhi's 20.00% royalty rate, and posted an article that looked like a lemon, but was actually an article promoting the fight against piracy.

As a result, Lu Jinbo, Han Gongzhi's then queen economic man, sent a blog post and scolded him, and called the fairy tale king Zheng Dazui.

Back then, he was fired by Zha Lang in full swing, and the final incident came to an end with a response blog post posted by Han Gongzhi on December [-], [-].

How to say this matter?Anyway, when Lao Tian went to check these materials today, Lao Tian found it very interesting.

More than ten years ago, Gu Laotian happily ate for a day, so I won’t talk about it here due to space limitations. Readers can go to Baidu for the specific event process. )
As soon as Chen Wu saw that Pei Le had dug up this blog from more than ten years ago, he immediately felt very embarrassed.

Chen Wu only had a vague impression of this incident in his mind, but he couldn't remember the specifics.

Because he had just joined the Penguin Group in [-], and was not in charge of the entertainment sector at that time.

And at that time, he was already a high-level executive of the Penguin Group, which was just a trivial matter to him, and it was not worth staying in his mind for a long time.

Moreover, Yuewen Group had not yet been established at that time. Its predecessor, Shengda Literature, belonged to Shengda Company. It was not until [-] that Penguin Group acquired Shengda Literature and merged Shengda Literature and Penguin Literature. group.

So he was not very impressed with this matter.

But Chen Wu deserved to be in a high position for a long time, and soon said with a very normal expression: "Really? I don't know the specifics very well, because at that time, Mr. Pei, Xiaotian, please allow me to check!"

After speaking, Chen Wu called his secretary in, and ordered his secretary to find these materials for him.

After a while, his secretary came over with a tablet.

At this moment, after Chen Wu fiddled with the tablet computer brought by his secretary, he roughly understood what was going on.

So he stood up and said to Pei Le: "Young Master Pei, I have roughly understood this matter, these two things are not the same!
It seems that Han Gongzhi had already proved himself in the physical book market at that time. When this contract was signed, Han Gongzhi's early publication "Triple Window" had already published and sold at least 300 million copies.

Belonging to the best-selling author among the physical book writers in China at that time..."

After hearing Chen Wu's speech, Pei Le interrupted Chen Wu's words, and said excitedly:

"I understand what you mean, Mr. Chen, what you mean is that Lao Tian has not published a physical book yet, and has not proved his market appeal..."

Tian Yunxiao became more and more excited when he saw Pei Le, as if he was going to fight for his benefit.

So he quickly interrupted Pei Le and said:

"Mr. Chen, how about this? Let's sign a gambling agreement?"

After Chen Wu heard Tian Yunxiao's words, he said with interest: "Xiaotian, how do you want to sign this gambling agreement?"

At this time, Tian Yunxiao already had the manuscript in mind, and said, "Mr. Chen, how about this, how many copies of these two books did you plan to print for me?"

After Chen Wu heard Tian Yunxiao's question, he replied: "Originally, I wanted to test the waters with the first printing of [-] copies of each!
But I thought that this is the first time for you to publish a physical book, Oda. In terms of your achievements and reputation in Zhu Xian, I temporarily decided to print 20 copies of each of your two short stories for the first time! "

After hearing this, Tian Yunxiao said: "In that case, Mr. Chen, instead of calculating the royalties according to the international practice of 14.00%, start with 12.00% royalties. For every [-] copies sold, I will increase by [-]%. What about royalties?"

As soon as Chen Wu heard Tian Yunxiao's words, he made a plan in his heart.

"12.00 copies is 20%, 13.00 copies is 100%, ... 20.00 million copies is [-]%. In terms of the quality of these two books, the sales miracle of copying or even surpassing the "Triple Window" of the year is completely complete. It's possible!"

So Chen Wu immediately made up his mind, and said, "Xiao Tian, ​​I agree with your suggestion in principle, but there is an upper limit to the royalty share, let's set it to 20.00%!"

After Tian Yunxiao heard it, he thought about it, and it seemed that he couldn't accept it?

So I wanted to say yes.

Unexpectedly, Pei Le spoke again at this time.

"The upper limit of this share is a bit low, Mr. Chen, take a look at these two works of Lao Tian, ​​aren't they much better than Han Gongzhi's "Triple Window"?
You only give one and the royalties that Han Gongzhi could get more than ten years ago. Don’t you feel sorry for these two works of Lao Tian?
In my opinion, it would be better to change the share cap to 30.00%! "

After the confrontation between the two sides, they finally signed a five-year publishing contract with the first printing of two books of 20.00 copies each, and the royalties were divided into the upper limit of [-]%.

And Yuewen Group will also carry out omni-channel promotion in all channels of the group at the same time.

So after the two sides negotiated, they went to eat happily!

(End of this chapter)