Chapter 78: The world's wind comes out of my generation
After thinking about this matter... but suddenly, Li Yuan never thought about continuing to be a copywriter.
But now that you have discovered this advantage, you don’t need to be polite, take the opportunity to get more benefits! Anyway, in order to make money, it is to make money for your children’s milk powder! Haha!
"Brother Yuan, our publishing house is willing to pay you a basic royalties of HK$150,000 and give you an additional 8% share. Do you think you can get it?"
This condition is quite sincere. No matter whether it can be sold or not, a signing fee of HK$150,000 will be paid first, and then every time a set of books is sold, 8% of the book price will be shared.
Of course, there must be room here, which would give Li Yuan room to negotiate the price.
However, just when Li Yuan was about to speak, he saw Ying Xin beside him who was eager to give it a try.
Okay! Since this silly girl really likes bargaining, let’s satisfy her once and let her have a good time! Anyway, I don’t understand the market in Hong Kong’s publishing industry, so I’ll let this silly girl find out first.
Seeing that Li Yuan's eyes expressed support, Ying Xin cheered up: "Boss Ruan, your price is too low, isn't it? Didn't you just say that more than 30,000 units have been sold in Hong Kong? You have already guaranteed harvests due to drought and floods.
Let’s do this! You give a little more, at least a basic royalty of 300,000, and a 10% share.”
Ruan Liangying immediately complained with a grimace: "Miss Ying, is this a concession? You can go to Hong Kong and ask, the terms are very favorable. If you don't believe me, just ask the third lady to see if I lied to you."
"Haha." Huang Jiaojiao made a gesture of disapproval, "You are all my friends. You can talk about whatever you want without thinking about me."
"Okay then!" Ruan Liangying "struggled" and made a concession, "Shall we pay 180,000 and get 8.2% of the distribution?"
"At least more than 250,000 yuan, 9.5% share!" Ying Xin has already rolled up her sleeves.
"No! Our publishing house is a small business..."
"Isn't the publishing house yours? Your big boss in Hong Kong is still so stingy..."
"..."
Li Yuan happily watched the two bargaining, and had basically determined the publisher's bottom line.
Of course, if this Aying is a top negotiator and has full acting talent, it will indeed give some misleading. But... it won't be so unlucky, right?
But it doesn't matter if you are unlucky, Li Yuan already has his own negotiation plan.
"Aying, let's take a break first." Li Yuan interrupted the negotiation between the two, "I just heard you say that after many people bought the book "Casino", they copied out the dirty words in it and recorded it.
In your own notebook?"
"That's right, Brother Yuan. They also called this thing "The Collection of Tasty Talks". Haha." Ruan Liangying smiled and nodded. This is also an interesting anecdote about "Casino".
"Then why don't we publish a book specifically like this?"
"Ah?" The three people exclaimed in unison. Ruan Liangying was the most familiar with the situation in the publishing industry. He slammed the table excitedly, "Ah! That's right!"
Seeing that the two women beside him were still a little confused, Ruan Liangying explained excitedly: "We only need to excerpt the dirty talk in the casino, and then we can directly print a new book. We can sell a book twice. Brother Yuan, I
I really admire you! Hahaha."
"hehe."
Li Yuan smiled slightly. In the future era of big IP, if you don’t go around squeezing out the last bit of residual value, why don’t you have the nerve to go out and say hello? Isn’t this just basic behavior?
"Aying, it's not just that. I remind you that "Casino" is a military history work after all, and its audience is relatively small. Moreover, it is a set of four volumes, and the price of the book is relatively expensive. On the contrary,
That "Collection of Taoist Talks" has a wide audience and is of high quality and low price. You just said that "Casino" is likely to sell more than 100,000. So this "Collection of Taoist Talks" should have at least 30
Sales volume of 10,000?”
Ruan Liangying hesitated for a moment: "Brother Yuan, those who bought "Casino" before will probably not buy it again, right?"
"Haha. This is simple. Readers should be interested in me as the author, right? Then add some photos of me, experience introduction, interviews and so on. Wouldn't it be enough to add a few sexy words?"
The three of them were all stunned. Is this... the businessman of heaven? There is no doubt that with the phenomenal performance of "Casino", this "Collection of Taoist Talks" will definitely become a best-seller.
Li Yuan continued with a smile: "The name "Collection of Taoist Talks" is too ugly. Let's call it... "The Love of the World Flows Out of Our Generation"! How about it?"
""The love of the world flows out of my generation"?"
Huang Jiaojiao on the side smiled and sighed: "Now I believe it. It is this kind of person who deserves to be beaten who comes up with so many unflattering words."
Ying Xin chuckled and said, "His nonsense words are just to deceive those ignorant people. Even if they were put in front of me, I wouldn't even look at them. Humph."
Li Yungle said: "Sister Xinxin, stop sighing. It's your turn. Let's continue talking?"
"Okay." Ying Xin rolled up her sleeves directly, "Boss Ruan, there are only two books now, we need to have a good talk..."
"Please! Miss Ying, please kill me!..."
"Hahaha……"
"..."
After a fierce fight, the two parties finally signed the contract.
The first is the exclusive Hong Kong publishing rights for the two books "The Vast Ocean Is a Casino" and "The World Is the Best".
The two books paid a total basic royalties of HK$500,000. "The Vast Ocean Is a Casino" received a share of 8.8%, and "The World Is the Best" received a share of 12%.
And "The Love in the World" will be released around the Spring Festival next year. At that time, Li Yuan will be obliged to go to Hong Kong to participate in on-site book signings, book fan meetings and other public events.
In addition, Daifook Publishing House in Hong Kong has obtained the overseas agency rights for two books within five years. They will receive a 10% agency commission.
In East and Southeast Asia, Daifuku Publishing House still has certain connections. Especially the Chinese publishing houses there have many business contacts.
As for giving Ruan Liangying and the others agency rights, it can be regarded as a little reward from Li Yuan!
After signing the contract, there are some trivial matters. Including the basic royalties of 500,000, and the first share of "Casino", totaling more than 713,000 Hong Kong dollars, which will directly open a foreign exchange for Li Yuan at the Bank of China.
Account.
By the way, in this era, mainland writers do not need to pay tax on the royalties they receive. Income taxes are basically all exempted. This is also one of the great things about writers.
At the end, Li Yuan pointed at Ying Xin with a smile and said to Ruan Liangying: "Let the reporter from "Feng Liu" find her! Xinxin is also a top student in the Chinese Department of Peking University."
Ruan Liangying understood immediately: "Of course it's a problem. We will give Miss Ying five thousand as a retouching fee."
Ying Xin was immediately dumbfounded: "Me? Reporter?"