Chapter 23 Sooner or later, it is also a giant dumpling!
At 8:30 a.m. the next day, Zhong Yunqing met his editor in the hotel lobby and went to Qidian's office together.
However, with full expectations, he stepped into the office area of Qidian. To be honest, even though he had imagined the scale of many versions of the first generation of Qidian in his mind, he was still stunned by the sight in front of him.
Inside is a rented two-room apartment. In a large single room, there is a small office area separated by a screen. There are seven or eight desktop computers in it. There is a coffee table and a few chairs by the window in the living room, which should be a place to receive guests.
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Then another small room should be an office. The door is ajar, and only some simple tables and chairs can be seen... It can't be that the office and conference room are together, right?
This is the first office location of Qidian, which is known as the sacred place of Internet literature...
This place is probably less than 100 square meters, just a small studio. But who can imagine that such an ordinary place will grow into the largest genuine reading platform in the country in the future. (Fly Rs.
The starting point is still quite different.)
To be honest, if Zhong Yunqing hadn't come from later generations and knew the future achievements of this company! He might have turned around and ran away as soon as he entered! After all, people with normal thinking would probably feel that they had been taken to a certain MLM organization.
Secret hideout...
Immediately afterwards, He Guoting introduced him to a young man wearing glasses. There were originally five entrepreneurial veterans in Qidian, but the other four all went to run the business, leaving only one left behind.
"Hello, I'm Raleigh."
The other party reached out to say hello first. After all, Zhong Yunqing's novel has contributed a lot to the complete consolidation of Qidian's payment model. As a website manager, he still needs to express his gratitude to the author who turned the tide.
"I am Zhong Yunqing. I am very happy to grow up with you."
Probably seeing Zhong Yunqing's previous thoughts, He Luoli didn't care about his expression, glanced around, and then explained with a smile:
"This place looks a bit shabby, but the number of views on our website has increased significantly every day. You don't have to worry about whether continuing to cooperate with us will affect subsequent profits."
"No, you are worrying too much. I know that many great companies start from scratch! So what I just said is true. I think it is very enjoyable to be able to grow up from such an environment with you."
thing!"
Regardless of whether what he said is true or false, after all, he is now a contracted author of Qidian. Raleigh also showed the greatest kindness to him.
This is the benefit of being the head author. Even if you are the boss, you need to be polite to you.
"Let's sit over there for a while. People from the publishing house will arrive in a while. We have also negotiated the details of the contract. You can just confirm it and sign it in a moment."
Then he invited Zhong Yunqing to go to the coffee table and cooked and poured tea himself, showing him the utmost courtesy.
"This famous scene of having one of the five supreme gods from Qidian pour tea may only happen once in this life!"
Zhong Yunqing thought unscrupulously.
Of course, if you think about it, he won't forget the business.
In fact, no matter in his past or present life, Zhong Yunqing has never published a book, so naturally he does not know how to publish a book.
When he received the news that he could serialize and publish a book, he had given full authorization to Qidian.com to discuss it with the other party in detail. Because Qidian also had a share of the money he earned, the other party would definitely try his best to do this. He wouldn't do it.
You know how to pretend to know.
When Zhong Yunqing signed the serialization contract, there was a stipulation that both parties would share the profits fifty-fifty.
In other words, Zhong Yunqing writes a book at Qidian, and the website is responsible for helping promote it. In the future, whether it is subscription income or physical book publishing in the future, Qidian will take 50% of the publishing income.
This is also what it should be. After all, without the promotion of the website, no one can see Zhong Yunqing's writing no matter how good it is, so 50% is not unacceptable.
(I can’t find the terms of the previous physical book publishing. These are the current contract terms. New writers and websites will be divided 50-50. For masters, it seems to be 73-70. Novels are not so rigorous. Just take a look.)
Although it was left to the other party to negotiate, after all, his own profits were involved, so Zhong Yunqing certainly would not be a hands-off shopkeeper. He took a sip of tea before looking at Luo Li and asked:
"Mr. Luo, how much is the price for the first volume of the series?"
Luo Li adjusted his glasses before replying:
"Because your serial chapter only has 350,000 words, and the initial price offered by the other party for the first volume was only 80,000 yuan. After two rounds of negotiations, we finally negotiated 100,000 yuan. This income will be written in black and white in the contract, and we will not receive any kickbacks.
, you can rest assured about this.”
When it comes to money, brothers have to settle accounts clearly, so Luo Li should explain the situation first to prevent Zhong Yunqing from misunderstanding and affecting subsequent cooperation.
Seeing Zhong Yunqing's calm expression, he continued:
"However, since the first volume is just a test of the waters, we judge the price based on the subsequent readings and feel that the price is still very reasonable. If the subsequent readings are better than the current one, we will meet with the other party again in the next volume of the series.
Let’s discuss carefully the price of subsequent works. You can rest assured that we will do this with care when it involves the interests of both of us.”
"Okay, I know."
After listening to his explanation, Zhong Yunqing nodded slightly.
"One hundred thousand!"
After reciting this number silently in his mind, Zhong Yunqing couldn't help but sigh in his heart!
Liu Sisi, a new actor, was only paid 26,000 yuan for a TV series with a female protagonist. The first volume of his novel only had 300,000 words, and he earned 50,000 yuan once it was published! (50-50 split)
It’s really fun to think about it!
In fact, for a newcomer, this price is quite reasonable. Because online novels are now published in paper version first and then distributed in various rental bookstores. The publisher needs to see the final number of printed copies to judge subsequent profits.
For Zhong Yunqing, the small amount of money earned after publishing the first volume of his book is secondary. The main thing is to be able to open up the situation quickly! You must know that in future generations, a high-quality pen name is the greatest guarantee of income!
As long as the physical book is successfully published, the author's name "Big Zongzi" will be accepted by more readers as the number of readers continues to increase! In this way, if he writes new books in the future, the performance of various novels will rise steadily.
You must know that for reborn people, time and good ideas are the most precious! In comparison, money is not!
"Hey, Guo Ting, you are on duty again today, and you have become much more beautiful recently..."
Zhong Yunqing was discussing details with Luo Li when he heard a male voice greeting his editor from the other side of the screen.
Xun Sheng looked over and saw a little fat man. Hmm, this guy seemed a bit familiar.
Then he vaguely thought of the second book "Tianpeng Zongheng" that He Guoting had talked about with him, which was to be published as a physical book, and combined with this person's appearance.
Well, isn't this the Toad Giant when he was young?
In later generations of Zhihu, this guy was hailed as the number one traffic topic in the online article topic section by the authors of Pup Street! But these are not ridicules, but real respect, because he is the ancient giant who likes to support newcomers most.
The street people answered all questions and provided a lot of explanations.
Whether these ideas are useful varies from person to person, but his willingness to help others still needs to be affirmed.
It turns out that when Toad Giant was young, he was still a little fat guy...
Zhong Yunqing couldn't help but smile.
After a while, the young giant toad walked over on his own. He first greeted Luo Li, sat on the chair opposite Zhong Yunqing, and then stretched out his hand:
"Hello, I am Wang Chao. I heard that you are the author of "Infinite Film and Television Style"?"
"Well, hello. I'm Zhong Yunqing. If you like, you can call me Da Zongzi!"
Zhong Yunqing looked at him and stretched out his hand to say hello. He also stood up, smiled, shook hands with him and responded.
When he heard the other party asking him to shout "big zongzi", Wang Chao grinned and continued:
"Your book is very good, and the creativity is very good! Let's sit down and chat together if we have the opportunity."
Of course the creativity is good, this is an unlimited flow! This theme has been popular in later generations for more than ten years, and it still remains popular!
But after all, he copied the biggest idea, and Zhong Yunqing is not that arrogant character. He and the other party started a business exchange of mature men:
"No, no, I've also read your Canopy Zongheng. The writing style is very unique. It's a rare masterpiece among immortal novels. It's very enjoyable to read!"
"Okay, you two, stop complimenting each other, it makes my teeth ache." Luo Li interrupted the exchange of compliments at the right time.
Half an hour later, someone from the publishing house came over with the contract. Zhong Yunqing read it carefully and found that there was nothing wrong with the numbers and other things, so he directly picked up the pen and signed his name.
As the saying goes: wait one hour, sign the contract in five minutes.
After coming out of the starting point, Zhong Yunqing met Toad Ju who was going to pick up his car again. His car was a Zongshen motorcycle.
Now that they know each other and both publish books together as the front of Qidian, it is certainly worth going for a drink together.
"It's rare to meet such an interesting person like you, why don't I treat you to dinner today!"
Although what he said was serious, it still made Zhong Yunqing want to laugh for no reason.
However, he still responded on the spot:
"Okay, then I won't be polite to you anymore! You treat me to this meal, and I'll treat you to it when we meet again in the future!"
Looking at Zhong Yunqing's pure eyes, Toad Ju thought in his heart:
I was just being polite, but you didn't even refuse! Even if you were polite and asked for your invitation, I would just accept it! It's really...
Zhong Yunqing doesn’t care what he thinks!
After all, in the online literary circle of later generations, the legend of him as a great god is circulating! Today, which great god and which platinum rice are the rice of him, and tomorrow, which emerging god will be the rice of...
To be honest, I have never heard of him taking the initiative to invite someone to dinner! Since he is so "kindly inviting" now, of course he can't not give face to him!
And in later generations of Internet literature circles, there is an unwritten saying:
Toad Giant is a human-shaped "great god identification tool". Authors who can dine with him in future generations will either become platinum or become great gods in the end!
In short, those who can have dinner with him are all talented people in the Internet literary circle, without exception!
As for Wang Chao, he is not really a stingy person. Since Zhong Yunqing has agreed to have a meal together, he did not say anything to spoil the fun.
"Okay, who told us that we are now the "unparalleled two prides" of the starting point! Let's go and have a drink."
Afterwards, Zhong Yunqing also got on his motorcycle, and the two of them went directly to a place to drink.
To be honest, he himself never expected that when he first came to Yanjing, he would have a meal with Toad Ju, the "great appraiser" who loves to eat!
No one may believe it, but this is indeed a good sign!
However, this kind of emotion seems a bit redundant in front of the reborn! Isn’t it just a meal of the giant toad?
All you need to do is keep writing. I believe that in a few years, those readers who like to read his books will also call him a giant rice dumpling! (Hehehehe, Crayon Shin-chan’s laughter.)