Chapter 193 Signing a contract, publishing, publishing (seeking a monthly ticket)
Sun Quan: "Yes, thank you!"
Sun Quan replied a message to Qinghe. After a while, Qinghe replied with a smiley face emoticon, and then replied: "You're welcome! You don't have to be so polite. By the way, let me tell you now about the remuneration package we will give you this time.
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Sun Quan: "Say!"
Qinghe: "In view of the good sales volume of your last book after it was published, we could have mentioned 8,000 per episode to you this time, but because you are unwilling to publish under your original pen name this time, the remuneration for each episode must be
Can it be lowered to 7,000 per episode? Do you think that would be okay?"
"Eight thousand...seven thousand..."
Sun Quan frowned and muttered, smiled, and replied to her: "Seven thousand is definitely not enough! I don't know the specific sales figures of "My Decathlon" at your place, but I was on the monthly ticket list at the starting point.
The top ten, so I can’t sign for 7,000 per episode!”
Qinghe first sent a frowning expression, and then asked: "Then tell me a price! I'll go and apply with the president!"
Sun Quan: "Twelve thousand."
Qinghe directly sent a tearful expression, and then said: "Brother, can I call you brother? Don't embarrass me so much. I really want to continue to cooperate with you, but your price is scary."
My liver trembles! Show mercy! Show mercy!"
Sun Quan smiled, but it was impossible to show mercy, and he had no grudge against Qian.
His psychological price is not less than 10,000 per episode, but the asking price is naturally higher. Otherwise, how can he still get the price of 10,000 per episode if others continue to bargain for it?
So, he replied: "Sister, I am younger than you! Don't lie to me! I know you have dealt with many best-selling books, but I have never seen any price? Is 12,000 high? You have to touch your conscience!"
After sending this sentence, he also added a smiley face emoticon. It’s not just about being cute, he can do it too.
After a while, Qinghe replied: "Ten thousand! Let me quote you ten thousand per episode and give it a try. If it's ten thousand, I really don't have any confidence at all, really!"
Sun Quan: "If I only have 10,000 yuan, I believe other publishing houses would be willing to give it to me. What do you think, sister?"
This time, after a while, Qinghe replied: "Okay! Then let me apply for you and give it a try! But I can only say give it a try, I guess the president will not approve it."
Sun Quan: "Sister, don't be humble, my brother believes in you!"
When he was done, he sent another smiling emoticon.
Qinghe gave him a tearful expression in return.
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The next day, Qinghe contacted him again.
Qinghe: "Beautiful boy, the president really didn't approve the price you quoted. Please be kind and lower the price!"
This woman's information stated that she was 28 years old. She was quite serious when chatting with Sun Quan in the past, but she didn't expect that now that she has become acquainted with her, she is always acting cute.
Sun Quan was speechless about this.
Sun Quan: "How much?"
Qinghe: "Nine thousand!"
Sun Quan pouted, knowing what she meant, but he still deliberately misinterpreted it to her, "Nine thousand? Three thousand per episode? Sister, are you serious?"
Qinghe sent a black face emoticon, followed by the reply text: "It is reduced to 9,000 per episode, handsome boy. This is our greatest sincerity. After all, you are changing a new pen name this time. The reason why we publish your book is to
If you bear certain market risks, if we have not cooperated before, if you submit articles under a new pen name, you will definitely be treated as a newcomer."
Sun Quan frowned and thought for a while, then suddenly asked: "What if I allow you to continue publishing under my original pen name? Is there any problem with Ten Thousand?"
After a few minutes, Qinghe replied: "If you can keep your original pen name, maybe I can help you fight for it. Are you sure you want to keep your original pen name?"
Sun Quan touched a cigarette and lit it, frowning in thought.
——The publishing market in Taiwan and Wan will gradually go downhill. The future of publishing there in the future can be said to be bleak. Therefore, you should take advantage of the fact that the market there is still hot and earn as much as you can.
Moreover, even if someone knew that "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon" was Sun Quan's new book, it wouldn't matter. He didn't steal or rob him, so why would he be afraid of being discovered?
After thinking for a moment, he replied: "Well, if you can give me 12,000 yuan per episode, then I can allow you to continue to use my original pen name."
Qinghe: "Okay! I'll help you fight for it right now, please wait a moment!"
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About twenty minutes later, Qinghe sent another message: "Congratulations, the president has approved the price. I wish us a happy cooperation again!"
After the message, she added a smiley emoticon in a vulgar way.
Sun Quan: "Happy cooperation! Send me the contract!"
Qinghe: "Wait a moment!"
While waiting for her to send him the contract, Sun Quan was already silently calculating how much money he could make from traditional Chinese publishing.
The manuscript for each episode is 65,000 words, and each episode is 12,000 words. With the more than 200,000 manuscripts I currently have on hand, I can probably produce four episodes, which is nearly 50,000 yuan.
In contrast, the more than 200,000 words were sent to Qidian, except for a small reward, but they were all free.
Of course, this is the current situation. He knows very well that with the development and growth of Qidian.com, in a few years, the royalties that popular authors can earn on Qidian.com will definitely be far better than what they can earn from publishing.
royalties.
Therefore, the focus must be on the starting point.
In the memory of his rebirth, there were several great masters of the past who made the wrong choice when they made this choice. They focused on traditional Chinese publishing, or even completely gave up on the Qidian market. Then a few years later,
When those great gods saw that the royalties from electronic subscriptions at Qidian were rising steadily, and they could even sell the rights to adapt games, movies and TV series, these great gods returned to Qidian, but there were only a few who could truly condense their godhood again.
Therefore, sometimes people's choices are more important than hard work.
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After signing the contract, Sun Quan sent the other party the manuscripts for the past three episodes of "The Immortal Dragon Ring". A few days later, he received the royalties for the two episodes from the other party, totaling 24,000 yuan.
As usual, Pioneer Publishing House still deposited the royalties for one episode of his manuscript.
And the fact that he was able to publish three episodes from the very beginning this time was naturally due to the best-selling "My Decathlon".
On the night when he negotiated the contract with Pioneer Publishing House, Sun Quan created a new author account on Qidian and uploaded two chapters of the manuscript for review by the website.
New pen name: Struggle Salted Fish.
Before uploading the two chapters of the manuscript, he did not contact any editor at Qidian. He just wanted to see the real comments from readers after the book "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon" was published.
If the reputation and popularity are good, he can announce at any time that "My Old Sun" and "Struggled Salted Fish" are his pen names.
If the results of "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon" are good enough, he believes that when he announces that these two pen names are his, the reaction in the circle will be very interesting.
Will there ever be such a day?
He is looking forward to it.
One day later, "The Immortal Dragon Ring" passed the review of the website, and he could serialize the book on Qidian every day.
On the first day of review, all the data for "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon" were very bleak. At the end of the day, there were three or four advertising posts in the book review area, but there were no serious posts commenting on this book.
There are only a pitiful 7 collections, 26 clicks, and 8 recommendation votes.
Sun Quan was not in a hurry. He knew that this was a normal phenomenon. He kept updating two chapters a day without being too hasty or too slow. He was not arrogant or impetuous. He was waiting for readers' true evaluations after the number of words in the update gradually increased.
Before and after his rebirth, he heard many new writers complain that the new book period was difficult.
Because the early stage of a new book for a newcomer is like playing a stand-alone game. There are no readers to interact with you, and there are no people to even scold you. Newcomers with lower psychological endurance will easily lose their mentality, especially when they look at those big players.
The data of popular works exploded, and the book review area was bustling with activity. However, my own data was not even a fraction of others, and the book review area was filled with advertisements. That feeling of disparity...
But many people have said: Qidian will not bury any good book. A truly good book will definitely stand out at Qidian.
What kind of situation did "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon" encounter?
Long-term single-player gaming?
still?
What Sun Quan saw was this: On the third day after "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon" was published, there were several real comments from readers in the book review area.
The first one was posted by an ID named Pudong Taotao: "There has been a book shortage recently, and I have been browsing through the library. I even read such a young new book. After reading it, I regretted it! Why should I be so mean? This
It’s only a few chapters, and I want to start catching up on it from now on... Who can save me?"
The second one was posted by a user with the ID name Xuanzhanlx: "Because I was curious about the title of the book, I read the introduction, and because I was curious about the introduction, I read the current six chapters of the update, and then I started to be curious about the following chapters.
Content, but... what about the content at the end? It’s gone? It’s gone? I’m going crazy..."
The third article was posted by a user with the ID name YouqinのSiwang: "After reading the first chapter, I quickly looked at the book review area, and then I saw the two brothers crying above. Hehe, I chose to emergency brake! This
It must be a new book written by some veteran in a vest. With this writing style and plot, I’ll bet two packs of spicy strips! This account is definitely not a pure newcomer! I’ll wait until I get fatter to read it again! Hehe.”
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It was also from this day on that the single-digit daily collection growth of "Undead Dragon Ring" turned into a double-digit daily growth rate.
A week later, when the total number of words in the book exceeded 30,000, when Sun Quan logged into the author's backend, he received a text message from Qidian.com.
This book is available for signing.
At this time, the number of collectors of this book has reached 322.
I have to say that in the Internet literary circle in 2007, or Qidian.com, it was relatively easy for newcomers to publish new books to get ahead, unlike more than ten years later, when a large number of newcomers and new authors were drowned in the new book period.
The number of serious book reviews in the book review section of "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon" has been increasing. When Sun Quan received the contract message from the contract site, the number of book reviews already reached 114.
At this point, Sun Quan's heart, which had been hanging before, was slightly relieved.
He was already aware of the book's quality, and his own judgment seemed to be correct.