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

Sometimes it is only when I open my mouth that I realize that there seems to be something wrong with what I wrote!

In order to write "The Lord of the Rings", Li Chungang suffered a lot.

I learned several new languages, I learned poetry, I learned how to draw maps, each of which requires years of immersion!

As the saying goes, the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold, and the sharpness of swords comes from sharpening. The "Lord of the Rings" with Li Chungang's style is also gradually formed through a little bit of polishing!

Chapter 566 Golden Time

"Speaking of which, Chun Gang, you are really amazing! If this year goes well, if all kinds of income are added together, it is estimated that this year's Forbes Huaguo Writers' Wealth Ranking's top position Yaoyang will be handed over to you. If "The Lord of the Rings" can sell well all over the world, it might even enter the list of the world's richest writers in one fell swoop!"

After learning the good news that Li Chungang's "The Lord of the Rings" has been completely completed, Lin Meng immediately asked his secretary to book the earliest flight ticket to Yanjing for the next day. Those that are dealt with should be dealt with first, and if it cannot be dealt with, arrange or assign others to follow up.

Then, after reading the whole book of "The Lord of the Rings", she stared at the young man who was slowly peeling grapes for his wife with a complicated expression. What about the most powerful climbing statement from the very summit of a mountain?

Li Chungang smiled incredulously: "How can you say such an exaggeration, my income can't be so high. Besides, people are afraid of being famous and pigs are afraid of being strong. Being on such wealth lists will not only let more people know that I have Is there any other use besides money?"

"Why isn't it so high? Since this year, your average monthly manuscript fee has reached more than 6000 million, and here alone has exceeded 7 million in one year. Not to mention the publishing royalties for the four quarters of this year, etc. After the TV series "The Sword Comes" of the same name comes out next month, the novel subscription plus publishing sales will explode in an instant? I seriously doubt that your income will be one billion epochs this year."

"One billion era? It's not that difficult. It's almost enough just to divide the royalties of Longteng into this." Li Chungang was a little puzzled.

"The unit I'm talking about is a US knife!"

Lin Meng felt that this was something that should be done, and there was nothing to make a fuss about. This is how writers earn their income, most of which come from their own works.The more works, the higher the income, especially those like Li Chungang who can't hold back their books and hit new highs repeatedly.

Digging a hole to write a new book does not mean that there will be no readers to subscribe to the old book!

Li Chungang is the only one who can regard the Longteng Three-Star Hall of Honor as a man who enters at his own doorstep, not to mention that after Longteng raised the fourth and fifth levels again last month, he has so many books. Among the works, "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" can touch the threshold of four stars, and the other four works such as "Swordsman in the Snow", "Medical Skills", "Full-time Master", and "Sword Come" all became the first without exception. A batch of works that directly enter the four-star hall of honor.

And "Sword Come" became the first novel to be included in the five-star hall of honor because it won the monthly ticket champion in April!

As long as readers enter the page of Longteng's Hall of Honor——

On the first column of the "Five-Star Hall of Honor" is the only book "Sword Lai".

Further down, among the "Four-Star Hall of Honor" works that do not exceed the number of hands in the whole station, there are as many as three works with the standard author "Zhi Chun Zhi Gang", directly accounting for one-third of them One, it's terribly frightening!

For example, a novel that can enter the hall of honor, regardless of whether it is a one-star, two-star, three-star or four-star or five-star novel, as long as there is one that can enter, basically you can rely on it for retirement, let alone a man like Li Chungang. Book.

Li Chungang started to worry now, "If I can really earn that much money a year, how should I spend it? Investing in real estate feels like it's useless to own so many houses, but this The money has been sitting in the bank for interest, and it feels like it’s taking advantage of others.”

Anyone who has an understanding of the "banking" industry knows that ordinary depositors deposit money in the bank to earn interest, and banks also use the money of thousands of depositors across the country to lend to others and earn money. Higher interest rates are equivalent to "middlemen" who earn huge profits without spending a penny!

Therefore, for any bank in the world, customers like Li Chungang are definitely their favorites. Not to mention the huge amount of income every month, but very little spending abroad, just like now He just threw more than one billion in deposits in the bank, and spending one hundred and eighty thousand a month is already considered too much, and when it was less, it even cost three dollars a month. Less than [-], tell me, can the bank not like it?Couldn’t it be that the president of the bank personally called to ask for his health during the New Year and holidays, not to mention that various gifts, gift certificates have not stopped giving out throughout the year.

"Hey~ You ask me how I know, I don't have such happy troubles as you."

It is also a tragedy to have money and not know how to spend it!

At present, Li Chungang is falling into this kind of tragedy. It was a kind of happy tragedy. The happiness of being rich is really unimaginable.

After Li Meng and Li Chungang confirmed some important arrangements, they were ready to leave.

At the same time, they also took away a small USB flash drive containing the content of the third volume of "Lord of the Rings" in Chinese and English.As for this USB flash drive, she immediately put it in her bag on the spot after she got it. You must know that if someone accidentally loses this USB flash drive and let the contents inside leak out, the loss caused by that time is It is calculated in "[-] million", so it cannot be overstated how cautious it is.

Moreover, "Sword Come" TV series with the same name will be broadcast on Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV for more than a month.

You must know that the three most famous satellite TVs with high ratings in China are Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV, Nanhu Satellite TV and Jiangsu Satellite TV. They can be broadcast on Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV, one of the three domestic ace TVs. The reason for the relationship is also that Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV are optimistic after watching some TV series sample episodes completed by Hou Yi.Otherwise, no matter how well-connected you are and how strong your relationship is, it’s no problem if you want to be on Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV, but if you want to broadcast at the prime time of 8 o’clock every night, don’t even think about it!

Wanxing Entertainment was also fully responsible for the broadcast rights purchase agreement negotiated with Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV, and Wen Siquanyong did not participate in it.

There are many and complicated clauses in the entire broadcasting right purchase agreement, but the ones related to Li Chungang are as follows: 320. Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV purchased the first-round broadcasting rights of the "Jianlai" TV series at a price of 3 million yuan per episode; 10. The TV series After the broadcast, if the audience rating reaches 3% or more, the price of the first round of broadcast rights will be at a premium of 0.2%; on the basis of the audience rating of 10%, for every 1% increase, the [-]% premium will continue to increase by [-] %.

This is already the greatest benefit that Gu Wan'er can obtain for the drama "Sword Come" after using her connections!

Chapter 567 Everything!

如果说《剑来》播放后收视率达不到3%的话，整体的收益就只有320*60=1.92亿，对于他们总共投入的1.5亿来说，已经是实打实赚了4000两百万的辛苦费。

It seems that a TV series that invested 1.5 million yuan in a large production and cost countless manpower and material resources to complete, and the ending is exchanged for a profit of more than 4000 million.

It must be known that what Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV purchased was only the first-round broadcast rights of "Sword Come". In addition, Gu Wan'er and Li Chungang, as investors, also jointly own the rights to broadcast the second round of this drama and countless subsequent rounds. The right to broadcast on the Internet is also a large source of income that cannot be ignored, even for young people, it is more profitable than watching satellite TV. The income from this piece may be a little bit more profitable than broadcasting on traditional satellite TV every minute. .

It's just that according to their agreement with Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV: the progress of the online broadcast must be later than that of Satellite TV!

For example: "Jiang Lai" will be broadcast on Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV every night at 8 o'clock prime time, every Monday to Friday, with two episodes per night. The video website with broadcast rights can only update and release 10 episodes at a time on Saturday or Sunday, and ordinary members can only watch two episodes. The membership service eliminates the trouble of watching advertisements, but there will still be hardcore advertisements that cannot be avoided in the middle of the show.

Anyway, it can be summed up in one sentence: as long as the drama is good, no matter whether it is a satellite TV or a video website, there are ways to earn enough profits.

It’s just that Satellite TV has confirmed that it will be broadcast on Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV, and the issue of the right to broadcast online is still in communication with several of the largest video websites in China. Situ Rui is currently in charge of this aspect. He would immediately report any new developments to Gu Wan'er and Lin Meng.

Hou Yi was working non-stop to complete the final production of "Sword Comes", Situ Rui was busy fighting with the video website company to maximize the benefits, and at the same time, the publicity department was also advancing hand in hand, with multiple blooming and overwhelming publicity.

"Sword Come" TV series official Weibo, "Sword Come" TV series Douyin account, "Sword Come" TV series Kuaishou account...

Almost all the regular software on the mobile phone has the figure of "Sword Come" promotion, such as the small tidbits of the filming process and the news of the stills, etc., which continue to maintain popularity, raising the expectations of domestic audiences.

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Time flies very fast, especially when a person is in a busy state, it is difficult to notice the passage of time. In the blink of an eye, it has come to June.

After continuous planning and operations by the Caitlin team at Random House, fantasy book fans around the world have reached their peak of expectations and curiosity for the book "The Lord of the Rings", and it is only waiting for the official global release on June [-] On that day, I vowed to grab it and see it as soon as I got it!

"The first print of 12 billion copies of the fantasy masterpiece "Lord of the Rings" will be released globally on June 6!"

"The oriental legendary author greets the world with his new fantasy work "The Lord of the Rings."

"Fantasy VS Reasoning! "The Lord of the Rings" VS "The Lost City of Time and Space"!"

"Global attention! Is "The Lord of the Rings", known as an epic fantasy masterpiece, just a show or is it worthy of the name?"

"..."

"The latest masterpiece "The Lost City in Time and Space" by the famous reasoning master Keppel Ron will take you to burn your brain to the limit!"

"The unmissable annual mystery masterpiece "The Lost City of Time and Space", which will be released globally on June 6!"

Whether it is Caitlin's "Lord of the Rings" or Oswald's "Lost in Time and Space", they are all in the middle of the final intensive publicity, and the two sides are like the tip of a needle. If there is a news report, I will immediately find another newspaper to report it, and I don't even want to be weaker than the opponent in the news headline.

There are still five days before the official release on June 6, but here at the headquarters of Random House in New York, you can smell the "smoke" in the air with every breath. A war will only truly end when one side falls!

After Li Chungang's "matchmaking", the Chinese version of "The Lord of the Rings" published in China was jointly published by Random House and Manjinghua Publishing Company. Act for Manjinghua Publishing Company, they only care about making money.

As early as a week ago, when "The Lord of the Rings" completed the first printing of all copies, Random House has notified the release time of the new book to various distributors in various countries and regions around the world.

"The Lord of the Rings" is the top priority of bookstore sales, and fantasy fans all over the world are looking forward to Wang Zha!

The total number of first prints of all language versions except the Chinese version is 12 billion, of which the English version alone accounts for 10 billion copies, and the remaining 2 million copies are French, Russian, German, and Spanish. , Portuguese and other language versions, and these language versions have been marked before release, some content will be different from the English version, it is recommended to buy the English version to read.

This is also a matter of no choice. Li Chungang is alone, and it is impossible to translate "The Lord of the Rings" in every language, so he has to complete it by the hands of Torlandon Bookstore. Therefore, the meaning of the translated words is the same as that of the English version and Chinese. Version differences are inevitable.

In this way, global distributors do not have to worry about insufficient supply.

You must know that the number of first printed copies of Keppel Ron's "Lost in Time and Space" announced to the public is only 6 million copies, which is only half of "The Lord of the Rings".

But this is actually a strategy of "advancing through retreat" that Oswald came up with.

Just think about it: on the one hand, the first printing of 6 million copies was sold out globally; It seems that it will inevitably give readers an embarrassing situation of boasting too much.

Full of confidence, the first printing of 12 billion copies ended up selling only [-] million or [-] million copies on the first day. If this is deliberately reported by "people with good intentions", it may become a laughing stock instead. This is where Oswald, the old fox, is so cunning. From the very beginning, it was already expected that it would be more difficult for the reasoning theme to win the popular fantasy theme, so the layout started a step earlier.

Snowflake-like global orders are flying towards Random House at the same time. Anyone who is not a stupid channel dealer knows that such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make money must never be missed, and the competition between Caitlin and Oswald That is also an internal matter of Random House, and it has nothing to do with channel booksellers like them. It doesn't matter which book "Lord of the Rings" or "Lost in Time" sells well, and which book overwhelms the other. relation?

The interests of the world of capital are paramount, and channel booksellers don't need to think about how to choose...

Of course I want them all!

Chapter 568 Presales Are Crazy

The word "Lord of the Rings" is one of the most popular search keywords in Du Niang and Google at home and abroad. Whether using mobile phones or web pages, more and more people can't wait to learn more about it. I want to know more about it, and want to know what kind of work it is.

The entire publicity plan created by Caitlin's team played a key role in it. The incident will always continue to ferment as the incident progresses. Various news media are reporting it. In foreign countries, it is Twitter, Facebook, In China, there are WeChat public accounts and Weibo. Both the former and the latter are marketing this matter as a complete event.

As long as there is a little bit of enthusiasm, the attention of fans will be the same as that of a calf on a rocket-the bull is going to heaven!

Wensi Quanyong Company behind Li Chungang has been working quietly behind the scenes, and Man Jinghua Publishing Company, which has obtained the cooperation with Random House in the domestic publishing market of the Chinese version of "Lord of the Rings", has not been idle.

Manjinghua Publishing Company took advantage of the last short period of time before it was put on the shelves, and was still signing agreements with sales channel booksellers non-stop, and at the same time, the printing houses with cooperative relations were still printing in large quantities every day, whether it was publishing Both distributors and channel distributors have fully attracted the experience of selling "Dragon Race" some time ago. If you hesitate, you will lose, and if you are decisive, you will give in vain. Therefore, each channel distributor is like crazy, regardless of whether Manjinghua has so many goods. If the other party is satisfied, he will cut the money first and then transfer the payment.

You took my money, so you have to ship it to me, right?

The most important thing in doing business is integrity!

"Speaking of which, Li Chungang is really a nobleman of our publishing house! His annual sales of works published by himself account for almost 40% of the entire publishing house. This year I have a hunch that this number will continue to rise by one percent It is not impossible to reach 50%, or even 60%, it is not an exaggeration to say that one person can support a publishing company, this is terrifying!"

In Manjinghua Publishing Company, Qin Xiaoxian, the general manager in charge of marketing and distribution, couldn't help laughing. It's no wonder that he was in such a good mood. Almost every time there was a work by Li Chungang to be published, their sales and distribution department followed The Chinese New Year is just as festive, and the channel sellers who originally begged their grandparents to sue their grandma would not give them face will turn around to curry favor with them at this point in time. Those who are not in this department cannot understand the feeling.

"Old Qin, tell everyone how the pre-sale of "Lord of the Rings" is going?"

Now it is the company's weekly regular meeting. Each department needs to report on the work situation next to each other, and no one can escape. This is also for the purpose of understanding each other between different departments of the company.

Qin Xiaoxian put away the smile on his face and said seriously: "Ouyang, please tell the leaders."

Ouyang Xiao, the deputy general manager sitting on Qin Xiaoxian's left, first stood up and bowed slightly to the leaders of the company, and then looked at the latest results reported by the employees above and below: "So far, the Chinese version of "Lord of the Rings" has The pre-sale in China can be described as a great success! The pre-sale volume on our company’s official website and the flagship stores of Momo and Xdong has reached 5000 million copies, and the pre-sale number in the official flagship store of Wensi Quanyong is slightly lower. One point is 3800 million.

In addition, the two genuine online bookstores of Dingdang Books and Moudong Books are 2300 million and 1900 million. In addition, Douban, Amazon, Huaguo Books Online and other websites have a total of 1300 million pre-sales. According to the incomplete statistical results of a chain of large physical bookstore groups, all pre-sales are 2.3 million+ volumes! "

As a writer in the company who is responsible for dealing with Li Chungang, Lao Xu carefully recorded all these figures. He knew that sometimes a good memory is not as good as a bad pen, and some things that should be recorded should be recorded honestly, and from these Looking at the data above, the situation is just as Ouyang's experience said, and the readers really support Li Chungang as always.

At this time, Dong Sicheng, who had been sitting quietly listening to nothing in the main seat, suddenly asked, "Is the figure of 2.3 million accurate? According to the data I got from Random House, "Lord of the Rings" is already in 2022." The book with the largest number of pre-orders in the world, the number of pre-orders in the US and English-speaking regions has reached more than 5 million so far, and it has also topped the pre-sale list on Kindle. There is no reason for our country to be the base camp of Chungang , but lost in the pre-sale performance to foreign readers who are not even fans for the time being?"

You must know that it has been less than a dozen hours since Manjinghua Publishing Company announced to the outside world that "The Lord of the Rings" will be officially released on June 6, but the pre-sale channel was opened on time after midnight in the morning. Reasonably speaking, it is difficult for Dong Sicheng to understand that there is only such a small amount of pre-sales, or there are some changes that he does not understand, or someone is deliberately hiding something.

As the top leader of the sales and distribution department, Qin Xiaoxian can only stand up for this problem: "The current pre-sale data can't explain anything, and now we have just hit the Internet boom, and the number of pre-orders is increasing rapidly almost every hour. , and according to the careful investigation of the researchers we sent out, we found that the reason for the pre-sale results is not because they have reduced their support for Li Chungang or no longer believe in Li Chungang's works, but because they compared to pre-ordering on the Internet, I would rather choose to go to offline physical bookstores to grab a glimpse of it as soon as possible on the day of release! And from the 1000 consumer questionnaires we sent out, there are more than 600 questionnaires in the suggestion column, suggesting that we add The number of first prints and the quota of offline physical bookstores will ensure that they will not wait in line for half a day and return empty-handed."

Dong Sicheng: "The issue of quotas for offline physical bookstores is exactly what I have been thinking about recently."

"About this pre-sale issue, your sales and distribution department still need to step up efforts and pay more attention to it, and contact those channel sellers and physical bookstores more. There are still a few days before the official launch, let the employees work hard After a few days of hard work, we must strive to have more pre-sales than Europe and the United States, even if we really can’t overwhelm the other side, we shouldn’t let the gap be so big, understand?”

"Okay, I'll make arrangements after the meeting."

"Is there any news about this year's Golden Bookmark Award?"

"The organizing committee has contacted us a little bit..."

"Then what do they mean?"

"What they mean is that awarding the Golden Bookmark to the same person every year will inevitably make people lose their expectations. This is what they don't want to see."

"Bullshit! What's wrong with the same person? Could it be that Chun Gang didn't win this award based on his ability? Just ask them who else can compare in the current domestic publishing market? Is it Han Dong, Xiaotian, or Ke Liang? "

Chapter 569 Killing Cheng Yaojin Halfway

The organizing committee of this year's Golden Bookmark Award is actually even more in a dilemma than Dong Sicheng and the others, and they are extremely wronged!

Judging from the current publishing results this year, just one copy of "Dragon Race" is enough to leave 90.00% of the publishing colleagues behind, not to mention that there will be "Fighting Knives in the Snow" and "Full-time Master" in the second half of the year. ", "The Sword Comes" three normal volume publishing plans, forget it, now there is "Lord of the Rings", which is even more powerful than Wang Zha, just because of the fact that it is published and released globally simultaneously, It's already a sure bet.

But at the same time the problem came -

For so many years since the establishment of the Golden Bookmark Award, there has never been two consecutive Golden Bookmark Award winners who belong to the same person. Possibly, this made the organizing committee completely paralyzed. Once you have given the same person for the second year in a row, will you give it for the third year or not?The same problem continued to the fourth, fifth and sixth years. The same person has won the award repeatedly, and it is necessary to consider whether other people will lose interest in this award because of this, so that the word of mouth accumulated over a century will collapse!

"Mr. Han, why don't we just give this little guy Li Chungang a Golden Bookmark Lifetime Achievement Award in one step, so that he can get it done once and for all!" Han Lao, one of the critics, suggested.

"It's a joke! To give a Lifetime Achievement Award to a boy in his early 20s, if word spreads, we won't be afraid that our Golden Bookmark Award will be laughed out of our teeth."

"Hmph! Don't let people keep winning the Golden Bookmark Award so that they won't be laughed out of their teeth? It will even make people in the country mistakenly think that Li Chungang is the only author in Huaguo, which has a vast land and abundant resources!"

"Bullshit!"

"You're the one talking nonsense."

Who would have thought that two of the members of the group committee members, two seniors with important identities in the literary world, would spray each other like old men on the street at the meeting. If it spreads out, it would be a shame.

"Okay! Shut up, both of you."

In the end, Mr. Han really couldn’t bear to see these two old bastards who had already stepped into the coffin continue to quarrel, and their faces were full of displeasure. Is this the organizing committee of the Golden Bookmark Award? After the meeting, he patted the table in front of him and said loudly: "There is no need to continue arguing about this issue. The Lifetime Achievement Award is a precedent that must never be given. Since people have such abilities, no matter if it is two, three, or four Five times are good, just take them all!"

"No rules no standards!"

"Since the rules are set, they are used to obey!"

After Mr. Han, the remaining two chief commentators all spoke in favor of Mr. Han's approach.