At this time, Sun Quan's memories before his rebirth came in handy.
He remembered that the filming and release of "The Legend of Wukong" was actually quite late. It seemed that it was only released two years before his rebirth. In other words, the film and television adaptation rights of this book should have been sold very late.
At the beginning, the film and television company had no idea of this book.
Sun Quan can probably think of a few reasons.
For example, "The Legend of Wukong" was written too early. It left a deep impression on the earliest batch of online readers and had a good reputation. However, precisely because it was too early, its popularity slowly dissipated and was gradually replaced by later readers.
Forgotten by readers of online articles.
For example, the number of words in this book is too small, and it is different from the best-selling IP works during the period when IP was extremely popular. When the IP concept was extremely popular in the film and television industry, what kind of IP copyrights were the best-selling works? Or were they the best-selling books of female videos?
, or those long stories on male videos that often have millions of words.
And how many words does "The Legend of Wukong" only have?
In Sun Quan's impression, this book seems to have only a few hundred thousand words in total. Such a short length, in the subscription period, is not enough for the new book issue to be put on the shelves for sale.
I guess at the beginning, even the original author himself never thought that such a short book could sell film and television adaptation rights?
With this information flashing through his mind, Sun Quan said to Lei: "Lower the price! If the price can be lowered very low, I will think of ways to get some funds to buy it. If the price cannot be lowered much, then let's talk slowly.
, let’s talk for a few months, wait until I make money here before buying, there’s no rush anyway, understand?”
Fu Lei didn't know how he made this decision. She just thought that he had no choice but to make such a decision. She nodded, "I understand! I know what to do, so I'm going out?"
Sun Quan: "Yeah."
After Fu Lei left, Sun Quan walked to his desk and sat down. After pressing the computer start button, he started boiling water to make tea.
As the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. This is true. He has already developed the bad habit of making a pot of tea before typing, and his life is a bit too particular.
The water hasn't boiled yet, the computer has been started up, and Sun Quan logged into QQ.
Before the new book is published, he plans to submit it to publishing houses, Pioneer Publishing House in Taiwan and Dongguan, and Changjiang Baihua Publishing House in mainland China.
Nowadays, when he writes a book, he has several more ways to make money than the average author.
For most online writers, it is not easy to have their works printed in type and published in Taiwan, Dongguan or China. Many people do not know how to submit manuscripts, and those who know how to submit manuscripts have a low rejection rate.
In comparison, it was much easier for Sun Quan to submit his manuscript to the publishing house.
Because he has proven himself in the publishing market in Taiwan, Wan, and Mainland China. The two books he published successively had good sales and reputation, making both publishers who published his works make money.
If it can bring benefits to the other party, it will naturally not be difficult for his new work to be published.
Even if he breaks up with the two publishing houses he previously cooperated with, other publishing houses should be interested in publishing his new book.
In fact, Pioneer Publishing House and Changjiang Baihua Publishing House are very interested in his new book.
As early as when the manuscript of the last episode of "The Ring of the Immortal Dragon" was delivered to the two publishing houses, the receiving editors of those two publishers unanimously expressed their expectation for his new work and for their cooperation again.
QQ login successful.
Sun Quan found the manuscript of his new book from the computer hard drive, simply compiled it into an attachment, and sent it to the two receiving editors with whom he had previously cooperated through QQ mailbox.
After sending it, he sent a message to the two people respectively.
"The manuscript of the new book has been sent to your QQ mailbox, please check it!"
Just a short sentence with a smiley face at the end.
Soon, I won’t mention the bridge this time.
Qing He, the receiving editor of Pioneer Press, replied with a smiley face emoticon, followed by a sentence: "Thank you for the manuscript. Well, the manuscript has been received and has been forwarded to the email of the review editor. I will inform you as soon as possible when the review results come out.
Yours, may your talents and ideas flourish and your family be happy!”
Sun Quan smiled and replied: "Waiting for good news!".
He was not interested in chatting with Qinghe until the manuscript review results came out.
Just in time, Tao Zi, the receiving editor of Yangtze River Baihua Publishing House, also sent a message.
Taozi: "Okay, thank you, thank you. There should be no problem in passing the manuscript. Let's talk about it after the reviewer gives us the price?"
Sun Quan: "Okay."
…
For Sun Quan, the matter of submission was settled just like that.
No need to talk nonsense, no need to please the receiving editor, just wait for the review results to come out.
Just as the water was boiling, he started to make tea. While making tea, his mind was already on the early plot of the new book.
After the tea was brewed, he began to patiently review the tens of thousands of words in his new book manuscript chapter by chapter, occasionally correcting one or two typos.
When typing on a computer, it is always easy to make manual mistakes, and sometimes you don’t notice it at all when writing.
He didn't read very fast, and sometimes he would go back and read it again.
Someone may ask, he just submitted the manuscript to the publishing house, and now he is revising the manuscript, is it in the wrong order?
actually not.
Because he had read the tens of thousands of words at the beginning of this book several times, he always felt that there was no big problem. It should pass the review of the two publishers and there should be no problem.
The changes he made at this time were actually very small, and most chapters did not need to be changed.
His purpose of reading through and reviewing it again today was mainly to become familiar with the chapters and plots that had already been written.
After all, he had been out with his wife and the others for several days recently and had put this book down for half a month. Although he had written it himself, he had forgotten some of the details of the plot since he had not touched this new book for so long.
Reading it again will help him regain his previous thoughts and feelings.
Moreover, even if he suddenly discovers some problem and the changes are relatively large, when he goes back to publish, he can just send the revised manuscript to the receiving editor of the publishing house.
No publishing house would despise an author's pursuit of excellence and take the initiative to revise his manuscript.
Sun Quan read the manuscript of tens of thousands of words for more than two hours.
After reading it, he went to review the already completed outline and the unfinished details. It must be said that this method of letting it sit for a while and then going back and reviewing it again was indeed fruitful.
The plot content, outline, and detailed outline had been somewhat forgotten. When he read it again today, he had the illusion that he was reading someone else's manuscript, outline, and detailed outline.
As a result, his position becomes objective and he can examine the things that have been written from the perspective of a reader.
Needless to say, he actually discovered some minor problems.
Sun Quan revised them one by one.
What pleased him was that even though he had put down this new book for less than half a month, he was still very interested in the story.
He made sure he still had the passion to write the book.
after lunch.
He went out for a walk, not only to eat but also to think about things.
Is he thinking about sending the book out today?
Before his rebirth, every time he was about to publish a new book, he would think about it again and again. Gradually, it became a habit of his.
What he needed to consider at that time was mainly to see if any great masters would publish new books in the near future.
If one or two great masters publish new books at the same time, he is not worried, because one or two great masters can only occupy one or two positions on the new book list. As long as the quality of his book is sufficient, there is still room for him to dominate the new book list.
Even, in his opinion, if one or two great masters publish new books at the same time, not only is it not a bad thing, it is also quite good.
why?
Have you ever seen the picture of the beasts retreating when they are on the move?
In Sun Quan's view, every time a top master releases a new book, there will be many middle-class masters who were planning to release a new book, and popular authors actively avoid that schedule.
There are still a bunch of less powerful authors on the new book list.
At this time, if he, Sun Quan, chooses to publish a book, although he will not compete for the top spot on the new book list at all, it will be much easier to win over new books by other authors on the new book list.
In contrast, if there is no top master in a period, the competitive pressure on the new book list may be much greater.
There will be many powerful and slightly famous authors filling the entire list. Maybe you think this author is not famous and is nothing to worry about, but in fact, this author is very powerful. He may have been brilliant in the past, or he may not have been.
So brilliant, but his writing skills have been fully developed and he is about to rise.
Of course, those are all issues that Sun needs to consider every time he publishes a new book before he is reborn. Today, looking at the entire starting point, there are not many great gods that he needs to deliberately avoid.
Those middle-level authors are no longer the ones he needs to avoid.
It’s not that he is arrogant, he believes that as soon as his new book is released, many authors who are preparing to release the book at the same time will definitely delay the release of the book when they see his new book.
What he needs to pay attention to now are the famous gods.
Take a walk around the community and return to the studio.
Sun Quan looked at Qidian’s current new book list.
I didn’t see San Shao, Tomato and others releasing new books.
But I saw a new book "Xiao Ji" written by a former top master, Hong Xue, firmly sitting at the top of the new book list.
It is impossible for Sun Quan to forget this great god. He was the first great god in the Internet literary world to earn one million yuan in royalties. Before 2006, he was one of Qidian's signature great gods.
At the peak, there were few opponents.
But after 2006, when he was at his peak, he went to the digital website that had just been established. Now two years have passed, and the once-aggressive digital website has fallen into operational difficulties. A number of big and small gods were poached from the starting point at high prices.
The authors, including Hongxue, Tiantianyun and others, and Digital Station will not renew their contracts in order to save website expenses.
Therefore, Hongxue and others had no choice but to find another way out.
A group of authors returned to the starting point, a group of authors went to other places, and a group of authors simply disappeared from this circle.
And Red Blood... the master who once made the most money at Qidian has apparently returned recently and opened this new book at Qidian.
Sun Quan frowned. He knew that the popularity of Hongxue's "Xiao Ji" was much lower than that of his peak works, but even so, he was still a little depressed when the new book issue collided with Hongxue's.
In contrast, if he bumped into another great god Tian Yun this time, it would not matter to him, because he remembered that Tian Tian Yun's works after returning to the starting point had been relatively bleak in popularity and had completely lost the image of a top god.