1211: Don't let the Pang family play double standards!
Colleagues in the department talked about the gossip about Song Foxiang's beating, but Zou Weijun automatically filtered it out.
She is very busy today!
Zou Weijun wanted to talk to his boss about the publication of "Teenage Idol" today. The boss had a meeting in the morning, and now he was finally free. Zou Weijun quickly took the information he had prepared and knocked on the office door.
The leaders also heard about the beating of Song Foxiang.
Looking up, Zou Weijun was so calm. It seemed that it was none of Zou Weijun's business.
But "Teen Idol"...what kind of project is this?
"Xiao Zou, aren't you still in charge of "Hush, Little Secret"? Can you be busy?"
"Please read the manuscript first. This is a youth literature novel. It is not the same genre as popular science books. I personally think there is no conflict."·
Seeing that the leader was disapproving, Zou Weijun pulled up a chair and sat down. Judging from the posture, she was waiting for the leader to reply to her after reading the 120,000-word manuscript.
lead:"……"
When Xiao Zou first came to work, he wasn't such a bad tempered person.
It's all the fault of Editor Wan and Song Foxiang for irritating Xiao Zou.
The leader was now a little confused as to who was the superior, but as Zou Weijun watched quietly, the leader's hands were a little disobedient and he opened the manuscript on the table.
——Xiao Zou has a serious temper. It’s definitely impossible not to watch. Everyone works in the same department, and a harmonious relationship must be maintained.
——I will just read it casually, and then find a reason to reject Xiao Zou after reading it.
Once I opened it, I quickly read through 20,000 words.
Still haven't found the reason.
The leader read another 20,000 words.
...There is nothing wrong with this book, what should I do?
Then take a look further, there must be something wrong!
Twenty thousand words and twenty thousand words, and accidentally, all six twenty thousand words were read. The leader raised his head and said, "What next?"
Zou Weijun smiled softly, "Are you asking about the content behind it? This book is still being serialized in the magazine. What I show you is the content that has been published in the magazine. If we don't sign a publishing contract, the manuscript behind it will definitely
Can’t get it.”
She knew it.
You know Wen Ying’s novels can move people!
Although there are many things in the publishing department that make Zou Weijun dissatisfied, such as greasy male colleagues who like to talk in pornographic accents, female colleagues who like to gather in groups and gossip about others, and department leaders who are not very responsible...but there are also things that satisfy Zou Weijun.
In this place, the employee turnover in the unit is not strong, and there are no “outsiders” in the entire department. They are all people who have been immersed in the publishing industry for many years. Everything else can be bad, except for the vision.
There is no reason why the boss would not like the books she likes.
The leader asked Zou Weijun to wait and read the 120,000 words again.
It took the leader a full hour to see this.
An educated person can read ten lines at a time, which is already considered slow.
After reading it, the leader was silent for a long time and then asked Zou Weijun: "This book is different from the popular youth literature novels on the market."
——Everyone's youth is painful, but you are warm.
As a middle-aged man, leaders naturally prefer to see such works.
What are the pains of puberty? It’s purely because teenagers now live a life that is too comfortable. They don’t have to worry about hunger, so they have the energy to moan for no reason.
When people of their generation were young, they definitely had troubles in adolescence, but they were definitely not puppy love, lovelorn love, or abortion. They were thinking about their future, how to change their family's plight, and how to build the motherland...
..."Teen Idol" has a bit of the positivity of the leader when he was young, which reminded him of his own youth. He was a little sad and a little embarrassed.
When you are not capable, think about how you will overcome obstacles and shine brightly when you are capable.
After I became truly capable, I only thought about how to fight for power and climb up, and I had long forgotten my original intention.
"Teen Idol" tells a modern story, but it makes the leader's memory go back to twenty or thirty years ago.
"Of course it's different. If it were the same, I wouldn't be interested in planning and publishing it. There are so many writers writing the type of youth literature you mentioned, and there is no shortage of them in the market. But the one I found is special. I believe you have felt it.
arrive."
The publishing department has not planned and published a best-selling novel for a long time.
"Hush, Little Secret" is already an exception.
Of course, the publishing department is affiliated to the Chengdu Publishing Group, so even if it fails to produce best-selling novels, there is certainly no risk of bankruptcy.
The leaders of the publishing department were not happy to ask the leaders of the publishing department to lose face and praise so-called youth literature writers.
For something like "Teen Idol", the leadership is somewhat interested.
The writing is not pretentious and can be read by leaders.
Whether the market will accept it or not, leaders are not sure.
How about... give it a try?
The leader tapped his finger on the desk, "Xiao Zou, tell me what you think."
Zou Weijun explained his plan. The first printing number and royalties of the book were the key points. Although the leader wanted to try "Teenage Idol", the conditions Zou Weijun gave were too good - not for the publishing department, but for "Teenage Idol".
The author of "Teenage Idol" is great!
A fish against the current?
The boss has never heard of this pen name, so he must be a newcomer.
For newcomers, the royalties generally given by publishers are 8%. This 8% royalty does not refer to the taxes the author has to pay, but to the income the author receives from the publisher.
The author's manuscript fee is settled based on royalties. The calculation method is "number of printed copies of the book * book price * 8%". For example, the first printing of "Teenage Idol" is 10,000 copies, and the single copy is priced at 30 yuan, then the amount the publisher has to pay to the author is
"10000*30*8%", which is only 24,000 yuan.
The author still has to pay tax on this 24,000 yuan.
If the book cannot be sold and there are no additional printings after the first printing, then the 24,000 yuan will be the entire income from publishing the single volume of "Teen Idol".
After all, it is not as much as the royalties Wen Ying received after serializing 300,000 words in "Eige"!
It’s not that the leaders are particularly stingy and want to bully new authors, but this is the industry rule. Authors are paid based on the number of copies printed, and the publisher bears the risk. From planning to printing of a book, the publisher bears all costs.
, a book priced at 30 yuan, the publisher cannot make 30 yuan!
If the book cannot be sold, the publisher can only backlog it in the warehouse, and it is impossible to go to the author to return the income.
Publishers have to pay costs and bear risks, shouldn't they make more money?
Zou Weijun smiled and said: "Then do you think this "Youth Idol" only deserves the treatment of a first printing of 10,000 copies?"
——That’s not the case!
Let alone a new author, even if it is the most popular youth literature best-selling author, it is impossible for the first printing of their book to reach 1 million copies.
Their ability to be called best-selling authors and leaders in youth literature is indeed related to the sales of their works.
Some people have sold more than two million copies of a book, but they are not writing novels, they are printing money!
For an ordinary author, if he prints 10,000 copies for the first time and gets 8% of the royalties, that's pretty good.
Some new authors don't even deserve royalties, so they can just buy out the royalties with a pole.
