What should I do if the system forces me to copy books?

"This is to become a platinum author, just like the supreme throne launching a powerful charge!"

Many people had this thought in their minds. It is a foregone conclusion that Yaoyang will leave Longteng anyway. Everyone has begun to accept that Yaoyang will not be in Longteng. Since the throne of the Supreme God is vacant, there must always be someone sit on it.

Everyone is looking forward to who is the author who will finally succeed in sitting on this "Supreme" throne. At least judging from the current situation of Longteng, Zhichun Zhigang should be regarded as the most likely and most popular one in everyone's eyes. !

Especially after the title was officially changed to a platinum author, the first book "Full-time Master" first set results came out, not only did there not appear to be any signs of instability in the godhead, but there were even faint signs that the godhead would gather countless beliefs to go further.

Thinking of this, many people's minds became active.

The first order of "Full-time Master" has just come out, Li Chungang heaved a sigh of relief, and at the same time, he was thinking of taking advantage of the time when the manuscripts on hand were still sufficient, and quickly agreed to Natto to open a new book. The preparatory work has been completed. Fortunately, "Sword Comes" is like "Fighting Swordsman in the Snow", it doesn't need to spend a lot of effort to prepare, the most is to save enough drafts in the early stage and then send it out.

Unexpectedly, just after finishing the afternoon class the next day, when she was about to go to the basketball court to sweat with her classmates, she received a message from senior sister Lin Meng:

"Someone asked us about the copyright of your new book "Full-time Master"."

Chapter 316

copyright! ?

"Full-time Master"! ?

To be honest, Li Chungang's first reaction was whether Lin Meng made a mistake. You must know that the physical publishing copyrights of all his works before that were almost all cooperated with Man Jinghua Publishing Company. One thing to say is that it fits well.Looking at the entire domestic publishing industry, there is no author who has a higher share of copyright fees and royalties than himself.

Lao Luo must be very clear about the relationship between him and Dong Sicheng, the boss of Manjinghua Publishing Company, and he should have mentioned their good cooperative relationship with Lin Meng and the others.Therefore, it is rare for Li Chungang to intervene in the issue of the copyright of the physical publication of his own works. As long as there are not too many mistakes in Manjinghua Publishing Company, the cooperative relationship between the two parties will continue.

Even under such circumstances, Lin Meng still raised this question, and there must have been some variables that Li Chungang didn't understand: "Are you sure the other party is asking about the copyright of "Full-time Master"?"

Lin Meng: "Yes!"

Li Chungang rubbed his chin. The other party came to the door so accurately and quickly. It seems that not only the news is very well-informed, but also there is a lot of confidence and confidence. Otherwise, he would not have cooperated with Man Jinghua Publishing Company. Still ask.

It is estimated that Manjinghua Publishing Company has cooperated with several books of its own, not only successfully restored the continuous decline of leading companies in the publishing industry, but also reaped huge dividends!You can think about it. In the first quarter, the royalties distributed to Li Chungang alone reached more than 2 million yuan. If calculated according to the proportion of royalties, Manjinghua Publishing House’s income will be around 3-5 million yuan. float.

A quarter can earn 3-5 million, and this is now that paper books are gradually declining, no matter who reads it, they will be envious!

"Which company is the other party? Which copyright do you want to buy?"

Lin Meng: "A Wanwan company named Menglong Media Co., Ltd. wants to buy the traditional Chinese publishing copyright of "Full-time Master"."

When Li Chungang heard it, he suddenly realized that it was no wonder that the other party would come to his door. At first, he thought that he had some confidence and courage to dare to challenge Man Jinghua Publishing Company. The company "eats" the rest of traditional publishing rights.That's right, if they showed enough sincerity, it wouldn't be a problem to sell them the traditional Chinese copyright of "Full-time Master". If things went well after the first cooperation, the traditional Chinese copyright of other works would not be unnegotiable.

Money is a thing, although there is no shortage, but no one has ever thought it was too much.

Taking advantage of the situation, he asked: "What about the other party's quotation?" The premise of reaching a cooperation is that the price offered by the other party is suitable enough to make him excited, so it is natural to sell the traditional Chinese copyright to the other party. Anyway, the current traditional Chinese market in the world is only Hong Kong and Macau. Traditional Chinese characters are still used in Taiwan, and this market itself has great limitations.

Lin Meng replied, "They offered 4500 for a thousand characters."

"..."

I'm afraid this is not a joke, Li Chungang was speechless after hearing the offer from the other party. The copyright fee, not to mention the real royalties, obviously the other party didn't mention a word and came here with the idea of ​​picking up the leak.

As far as this publishing price is placed on the Longteng Chinese website, perhaps some newly promoted Lv5 and master authors will rush to agree with the idea of ​​"It's stupid not to make money [beep]--", but for Li Chungang, this price is not enough. It's not much different from sending a beggar.No matter how the traditional Chinese market declines, as Hong Kong, Macau and the mainland are becoming more and more connected, it is still easy to sell 500 million copies.

The words "Zhi Chun Zhi Gang" are the best guarantee of appeal!

After thinking about it, Li Chungang felt that the other party probably didn't know much about the current domestic publishing industry's quotations for him, so he said: "It is estimated that the other party is not very clear about the price, senior sister, you can tell the other party a little bit about our relationship with Manjinghua Publishing Company. If the conditions for cooperation are reached, then the other party may be a bit off the mark."

Lin Meng was a little surprised when he heard the words: "Is it really okay to reveal the specific conditions of our cooperation with Man Jinghua Publishing Company? If this is leaked by the other party, I am afraid that Man Jinghua will have some bad ideas. Will you think it is We are deliberately leaking the terms of cooperation in order to deliberately increase the price or something."

Don't think that it is useless if the specific conditions of the cooperation are revealed, because it involves competition within the publishing industry. Afterwards, I suddenly realized that this price tag is really not high compared to the income, whether it is to win the "money tree" of Zhichun Zhigang for myself, or it is purely for disgusting and disgusting Man Jinghua Publishing Company or...

Competitors in these industries only need to make a cooperation offer to Zhichun Zhigang at a premium on this cooperation condition, so what will Man Jinghua Publishing Company think! ?No matter what the real thoughts in their hearts are, as long as they want to continue to reach a cooperative relationship with Li Chungang, they have to raise the price up, and this mention is not the kind that can be mentioned casually, but To raise the price based on the competitor's premium offer is tantamount to giving up a large part of the benefits for this purpose.

Things that can be solved by spending five yuan now need to cost six, seven, or even eight yuan. Who do you think will have no other ideas in mind?

Li Chungang is nothing like a novice who doesn't understand the ways of the world and doesn't understand business competition. He hasn't seen pig running or eaten pork. He hasn't personally experienced the intrigue of business competition. Dou Wen?When Lin Meng mentioned this a little bit, he naturally realized that his thoughts were indeed a little taken for granted and reckless.

Hastily remedied: "I'm the one who was confused! This way..."

"You don't need to disclose to the other party the specific conditions of our cooperation with Manjinghua Publishing Company, but to remind the other party that they are currently at the level of the top best-selling author in China in terms of treatment and conditions. What is the standard for the level of the top best-selling author? , you let the other party check and ask by themselves, if such a company doesn't even have this ability and connections, I think it's a waste of expression to sell the traditional Chinese copyright to them!"

"I understand. I will adapt how to say and how to do it."

"Okay, I'm still very relieved to leave it to you, Senior Sister!"

Chapter 317 I've become stronger and also bald!

Longteng official website.

On the best-selling list, the sales situation of 24 hours a day yesterday is clear at a glance. "Full-time Master" has ten chapters updated on the first day and the double bonus of readers' enthusiastic rewards. There are also several silver alliances generously donated by readers, including our old acquaintance - Sun Moon Qiankun Silhouette, following the Yimeng uploaded on the first day of the new book, is also supported by a silver alliance chat table, so it deserves to occupy the special situation when there are no other platinum or master authors publishing new books or finishing old books. Top position.

Although the position at the top of the list is unsurprisingly a one-day trip, it is enough to shock all kinds of melon eaters who don't know the truth. Everyone has long realized that the results of Platinum God's new book will not be too bad no matter what, but Didn't expect it to be so explosive!

Of course, tipping is a one-time outburst of support, and it cannot last for a long time. After all, there is a limit to the depth and thickness of readers’ wallets, and no one’s money is blown by strong winds. They can generously support once or twice. Even three times is already pretty good. What really pushed "Full-time Master" to the top of the list is the ten chapter updates. The average subscription of more than 100 million multiplied by ten is more than 1 million new subscriptions.

A thousand subscriptions cost 3 yuan, which means that the more than 1 million new subscriptions on the first day of listing have brought Li Chungang 30 subscription fees, which is 900 million a month, after deducting the 8: 2, which is why his monthly manuscript fees can always easily exceed the [-] million mark.

The manuscript fee for a single book can easily exceed the tens of millions mark, so what about the manuscript fee for four works?

To say a cliché without any exaggeration: Even if Li Chungang chooses to stop writing online articles after finishing "Full-time Master", the monthly manuscript fee for "gnawing the old" is enough for him to live extravagantly. live.

What really surprised him was that although "Ghost Blowing Out the Lamp" was the most completed book, it was still firmly in the top [-] of the bestseller list.Although none of the top ten appearances made it, you must know that this book is equivalent to Zhichun Zhigang's debut work. To be honest, the writing style is not very good. At that time, it was purely superior in new themes.

This is mainly due to the dramatization of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" with Huace Film and Television. Since the first season of Jingjue Gucheng, it has gained a lot of good reputation from readers who have read the original work or directly followed the TV series. , and recently, the "Longling Misty Cave", which is currently being frantically publicized and is about to officially launch the first season in the summer vacation, is created by the original crew and supervised by the original author.

Of course, Li Chungang hopes that Huace Film and Television's series of TV series "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" can continue to be filmed. This is beneficial to both parties. As long as it can continue to attract new readers, then he can continue to get money. , perfectly fits with my ultimate ideal: the ideal of making money while lying down, no matter how you think about it, it is full of happiness!

In addition, there is nothing to say about the new fan list and the reading index list. Although the ranking of "Swordsman in the Snow" has successively declined due to the completion of the book, No. 1 is still firmly established by his new book "Full-time Master". Occupy, unshakable.

"It seems that there haven't been any particularly famous masters publishing new books recently. They are probably waiting for the perfect time for the summer vacation. After all, there will be a busy review week and exam week in a short period of time. By then those Readers don’t have the time and mood to read novels! (Except for some masters and scumbags who don’t know what review and exams are)”

According to common sense, every June and July are the best time for great gods and newcomers to get together and open new books. There is no other reason, but because it is during the summer vacation, and the main force of reading novels in China is still students. Most of them, so if the author is not specially selected to publish the book on auspicious days, or the one who is eager to publish the book immediately, he will still choose to publish the new book in June and July if he can put it in June or July.

"Why don't my new books be released during the summer vacation?"

For some reason, Li Chungang suddenly had such an idea, but this idea was quickly dispelled by himself. In fact, for him, the summer vacation, which other authors think can be used well, is completely useless. dispensable.

I don’t think so much anymore, the code word code word——

Fortunately, he updated both "Medical Skills" and "Fighting Knife in the Snow" at the same time before, and he is used to the days when he has to code a large number of updates every day. Sometimes you don't know what a person's tolerance is unless you push yourself a little bit. Such resistance, but it is just a little bit faster on the already terrifying hand speed of tentacle monsters, a little less time for happy leisure watching dramas, and a little time for talking about love with Miao Miao...

Nothing less!

so close!Li Chungang almost made a principled mistake, can novels accompany you for a lifetime?No, it can't!But after a girlfriend is upgraded to a wife, it will be a lifetime thing!

Unlike many "wage earners" who always like to use the phrase "tired like a dog" as a mantra that often hangs on their lips to complain to those around them how hard they work every day, in fact...

Dogs have an easier life than you.

After finishing this bowl of poisonous chicken soup, do you instantly feel refreshed?

For Li Chungang, while there are still enough manuscripts in "Full-time Master" to maintain normal and stable updates for a long period of time, he should start from scratch and open a new book, and then save it A deposit of 50 million manuscripts is full of confidence.

If I don't have a deposit of 50 million yuan, I would be ashamed to go out and tell others that I have double-opened a new book.

I just don’t know if it’s an illusion, but when he’s taking a shower recently, he always seems to be losing a lot of hair. Does it just reflect the sentence: I’ve become stronger!But I'm also getting bald!

Just thinking about the honor of his thinning hair made him shudder instantly, and then he couldn't help but look up some healthy recipes on Du Niang that can prevent hair loss and promote hair growth, and wait until the weekend to return When you go to live in the villa, you must ask Chef Hu if he can cook. If you can, arrange it directly.

Recalling the painstaking and time-consuming preliminary preparations for "Full-time Master", watching "Sword Come", which requires no preparation at all, I wrote more than 2 close to [-] words heartily in one night, What a cool meow!

Chapter 318

After three days.

Lin Meng approached Li Chungang again: "Boss, where are you?"

"1"

This is already the default reply method of everyone in their Wensiquanyong studio. As long as they reply you with a "1", the meaning couldn't be clearer. To put it simply, it means that people are present and talk about things quickly.

Lin Meng: "It's like this. According to what you said, after I revealed your status and treatment level in the domestic publishing industry with Wanwan Company, the other party probably asked someone to check it out. Today Their person in charge personally called and made a second offer.

And I don't know if the Menglong Media in Wanwan has an internal employee who leaked the secret or was too careless when the news was snooped on. It was less than 10 minutes after the person in charge called to make a second quotation and hung up the phone. A person who claimed to be the person in charge of the Cape of Good Hope Publishing Company came to his door and said straight to the point that he wanted to buy your publishing rights in traditional Chinese. He said firmly that the price would be higher than that of Magnum Media. "

Li Chungang was a little surprised. To be honest, he was also a little confused about what happened to his book in Wanwan. The previous three books were finished and no one came to inquire. Instead, the new book "Full-time Master" "It's only been on the shelves for less than a week, and people have started to compete for traditional Chinese copyrights.

After all, it is a company from Wanwan, so it is inevitable that there is a little short-sightedness like sitting in a well!

I don't know where the Cape of Good Hope Publishing Company, which was killed out of nowhere, came from. I don't know what it is, but this tone is really not small. I don't even know what price Magnum Media is offering them. Dare to assert that the price will be higher than the other party.What if the other party is deliberately setting them up and quoting a sky-high price, then who will be embarrassed?

Li Chungang was a little puzzled: "You mean, now these two publishing companies from Wanwan are interested in the traditional Chinese copyright of my new book "Full-time Master" at the same time, and they are fighting for it?"

Lin Meng's answer came quickly and simply: "Yes, Menglong Media Company and Cape of Good Hope Publishing Company. The heads of the two companies are comparable in skill when they brag about themselves, but they are all about the good things. How many years of history, how many loyal users there are in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, what makes me feel outrageous is that both of them told me honestly on the phone that they are currently the most powerful publishing company in the Bay Area.”

It is not a day or two for Wanwan to be blindly arrogant and like to brag about himself.

Every night when he watched the TikTok videos, he often saw some so-called famous talkers in Wanwan. When they spoke, it was no different from bragging.

"What they say is their business, we don't care! Hearing what you say, these two publishing companies must have had a lot of 'festivals' in Wanwan, so it's good, and it's cheap for us. Snipe Clams compete for the fisherman's profit, let's talk about the quotations of the two of them."

Lin Meng: "The prices offered by the two companies are similar. The price offered by Menglong has increased to 6800 for a thousand characters compared to last time, while the price offered by the Cape of Good Hope is 7500 for a thousand characters."

Thousand characters 6800, 7500, this price is to buy the traditional Chinese copyright of an online work, if the average author probably sells the copyright to the other party without any hesitation, even Li Chungang still can't hold back the thumping However, he was heartbroken, and he didn't expect that the other party would be so sensible and raise the price to such a degree all of a sudden, just by raising the other side a little bit.

If it were simplified publishing rights, at this price, Li Chungang might not even have the idea of ​​talking to the other party, but you must know that the other party has always wanted to buy only traditional Chinese copyrights, especially since he really doesn’t know the current traditional Chinese publishing market. What is the situation, but from the perspective of the principle of business is business, since the other party dared to offer such a high price, it must have valued the profit.

Investment with only risk but no return, as long as you are not a fool, you will not choose it, unless you are a boy who spreads money.

However, this kind of heartbeat was quickly controlled by Li Chungang and he calmed down. Under the premise that he lacks a real and effective understanding of the entire traditional Chinese market, it is very unwise to agree to the other party's cooperation so hastily and hastily. After hesitating again and again, he said: "I think this price is too high for the traditional Chinese copyright, but I still think that we should not agree to it so hastily, and we also lack the understanding of the current traditional Chinese publishing market. To be safe, I don't think you should agree to the other party. The buyout price, but choose to take the share!"

Lin Meng was taken aback, thinking of the cooperation method between her boss and Man Jinghua Publishing Company, and immediately realized: "Boss, you mean to ask for royalties in the same way as the cooperation with Man Jinghua!?"

"Yes!" Li Chungang had a smug smile on his face. I don't know how much money you can make by returning the traditional copyright of "Full-time Master", but it doesn't matter. No matter how many books the publishing company sells and how much money it makes, he must be a part of it. "The signing price can be lowered a little bit, but it can't be the cabbage price like last time. You can negotiate with their publishing companies at an intermediate level. The main reason is that you must do your best to fight for the royalty share ratio. On this point, you have to make good use of the long-standing grievances between the two publishing companies. .”

"Ok!"

Just as the other party valued the great publishing market appeal that the four words "Zhi Chun Zhi Gang" can bring, Li Chungang is also very confident that his works should have a good market no matter which market they are in, so no matter it is Simplified Whether it is copyright or traditional copyright, he does not intend to take the pure buyout route, but a model of signing fee plus royalties.

Buyouts and royalties are very different.

Buyout and guarantee have the same meaning. For example, for a buyout of 1000 words, if the author writes 100 million words, it will be 100 million. After the book is officially published, except for the authorship, other income will be shared with the author. Nothing to do.No matter how much money the publishing company makes in the end, that is the business of other publishing companies. No matter how jealous your author is, it has nothing to do with you.

The royalties are a little more complicated, but they are actually easy to understand.This involves factors such as an author's royalty rate, the number of published works, and the selling price of the final published work.Assuming that the known conditions are 12% royalties, the number of first printed copies is 100 million, and the price is 30 yuan, then the author can get 360 million in the end. Of course, this is the pre-tax income.

Chapter 319 Sandpipers and clams compete for the fisherman's profit

In a word to the end:

Buying out is a conservative method, no matter what, there will definitely be benefits!

Royalty is the way to get ahead and take a little risk!

In the final analysis, whether the income from choosing the royalty share can exceed the buyout depends on how many copies of your work the publisher sells. The more you sell, the more the author's royalty share will naturally be.This is the difference between royalties and buyouts. As long as the book is still published, the author can continue to receive payment for the manuscript.

Moreover, online literature is completely different from general literature.Internet literature often has millions of words. According to the current number of words printed by the publishing house, it will be around 13 to 15 by default. Knife in the Snow" is currently co-published with Man Jinghua Publishing Company, and the amount of royalties shared by him in the second season is even more amazing than when it was settled in the first season.

5.47 billion!

It is almost more than double the settlement of royalties for the publication of the physical book of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" in the first quarter. This is mainly due to the fact that "Fighting Swordsman in the Snow" is indeed more popular than "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" Readers love it. You must know that those who really buy physical books for collection are almost all die-hard fans who have read this novel. In addition, Xuezhong is far better than Gui Chuudeng in terms of word count.

The word-of-mouth and influence of the words "Zhi Chun Zhi Gang" in the Internet literary world are no longer what they used to be!

Just like the box office appeal of the top domestic movie stars that we mentioned in the market, Li Chungang is completely the top movie star for the Internet literature and publishing industry, and his published books definitely have unparalleled appeal. Powerful.

In addition, in order not to affect the publication of the physical book of another work "Kyushu Misty Record", it is too urgent to be born from the same root. It is impossible for Manjinghua Publishing Company to do such a stupid thing, publishing two works of Li Chungang at the same time Let the left hand and the right hand fight on the same stage, so the publication speed and promotion of "Fighting Knife in the Snow" are the top priorities in Manjinghua Publishing Company. It will be published almost once a month. There are so many volumes, instead of one volume at a time as in "Kyushu Misty Record".

Does anyone know that Manjinghua Publishing Company's reader suggestion mailbox for external use is filled almost every day with a large number of "suggestion" emails from Zhichun Zhigang readers and fans. As for other published authors...

It may be a bit too inconspicuous to rummage through so many emails!

"Fighting Knife in the Snow" will publish six volumes on time almost every month or so. For readers who want to buy, they have already grasped the rules. Those who want to write letters and suggestions are nothing more than the special meow of Manjinghua Publishing Company. What I'm looking for is some hot chicken hand-painted interjections and character designs. After all, everyone has a personal understanding of the characters in the book, and no matter how skilled the painter is, it is impossible to draw enough to satisfy many people. chime in.

So similar to this kind of emails that seem to be more like complaints than suggestions, Manjinghua Publishing Company always uses "read and can't reply" for unified processing.

What really troubled them were the readers who were urging their publishing house to speed up the time interval for publishing "Kyushu Misty Records". It is good for these people to send emails to give suggestions, and those who have the ability and have the opportunity to practice directly I found them at the headquarters building of Manjinghua Publishing Company and blocked the door. There were also some who could not do it themselves but wanted to express their dissatisfaction and resentment. They resolutely mailed them how many boxes according to their company's address. blade.

Don't think that readers can't do the legendary posting blade reminder.

With two consecutive quarters of publishing royalties, coupled with the rising manuscript fees every month, it is no surprise that when the next quarter's income comes, Li Chungang's savings will be successfully "improved" by a single digit .Yes, you read that right, this kind of Hongyuan, which in other people's eyes may not be able to achieve in a lifetime, is just a small improvement of one digit in his opinion, and there is no other meaning besides that!

If it is a newcomer author, it is undoubtedly cost-effective to choose the former to buy out the publishing copyright, and all the risks will be borne by the publishing house.However, can Li Chungang be regarded as a newcomer and an ordinary author? If 90.00% of the publishing companies in China are not persuaded by the strength of Manjinghua Publishing Company, it is estimated that these publishing companies will be like sharks smelling of blood for the publishing rights of each new book. come rushing over.