Li Qing nodded. He could indeed discuss this matter with Bloomsbury Publishing House and ask for the Chinese copyright back.
"Harry Potter" is now popular in Europe and the United States, and its influence continues to rise. Now with the continuous reporting and exposure of domestic media, "Harry Potter" has also aroused the interest of many domestic readers.
Other text versions are planned by Bloomsbury Publishing House and will follow up sooner or later. If it is just a Chinese copyright, Bloomsbury will naturally not be at odds with Li Qing because of this matter.
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After all, "Harry Potter" is not just three volumes, there are several more that are waiting to be co-operated with Bloomsbury. If the original author is unhappy and the cooperation is interrupted, the losses will be heavy.
"But Mr. Fang..."
Li Qing spread his hands and said: "I think you have also heard that many publishing house staff are contacting me, and even many of my publishing house friends are urging this matter. Originally, based on my plan,
, I want to put this copyright up for public auction..."
"Public auction?"
Fang Sihai's expression changed and he quickly said: "Comrade Li Qing, the royalty rate is 31%. I don't think any publishing house can give this royalty rate in the current mainland market. Even if there were, they wouldn't be able to give it."
It has the market size of our Tang Dynasty Publishing House."
Seeing that Li Qing seemed unmoved, Fang Sihai gritted his teeth and said, "In this case, I will add two percentage points to the 31% royalty rate. Comrade Li Qing, you have to believe me, with this royalty rate,
Our publishing house is no longer making money. If it were not for the purpose of expanding the market, I would not give this figure anyway."
Li Qing smiled and waved his hand: "Do I seem to be such a greedy person?"
"Don't, Comrade Li Qing, even if it's a brother, you have to settle the score clearly!" Fang Sihai said with a smile, but he started to curse in his heart. If you weren't such a greedy person, you would still be with me.
What are you dawdling about!
"Since Mr. Fang is so generous, I can't refuse his kindness, so I'll accept it reluctantly." Li Qing sighed.
Fang Sihai smiled a little reluctantly. After discussing the publishing details with Li Qing, he took out his phone and prepared to ask the company to sort out the documents in the next two days and send someone to Hanhai to sign the publishing contract.
"I almost forgot, there is actually one more thing."
Fang Sihai said: "The copyright of the novel "Ghost Blowing the Lamp: Longling Labyrinth" should still be in the hands of Comrade Li Qing, right?"
Li Qing nodded, and then said: "I have finished the third and fourth parts of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp". Mr. Fang, please take this opportunity to sign the contract together!"
Fang Sihai was suddenly surprised: "Ah? Is it okay?"
Although the sales of "Ghost Blowing Lamp: The Ancient City" were sluggish in Hong Kong and Taiwan, it was a huge hit in the mainland, making Tang Dynasty Publishing House a lot of money. Fang Sihai naturally looks forward to the continuation of the next story of "Ghost Blowing Lamp"
Published by Tang Dynasty Publishing House.
And Fang Sihai also knew that the second part of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" had been serialized on the Internet a long time ago.
During that period, under the constant pressure from book fans to update the book, Li Qing quickly completed the second part of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" and uploaded it to the "Internet Literature Association Forum", then hurried to Yunsheng to film the movie, without any further details.
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Three months have passed, and readers of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" are already hungry and sharpening their knives, and a new wave of updates has begun online and offline.
The huge number of people who requested updates made many publishers jealous.
There are huge business opportunities here!
Many people also applied to Hanhai to obtain the offline publishing copyright of the second part of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp".
But because Li Qing was in a busy period, he didn't pay much attention to this matter.
When filming in Yun Province, Li Qing would take out a new laptop on the market to code when he had free time.
Although the hard keyboard more than doubled the coding speed, it did not hinder Li Qing's creative passion.
In these three months, he wrote "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: Cloud Province Worm Valley" and "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: Lun Kun Shen Gong" in one breath, with a total of more than 400,000 words, and even the subsequent "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: Huangpizi"
Grave" also wrote a third of it.
At this point, half of the story of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" has been completed.
Li Qing had cooperated with Tang Dynasty Publishing House for a long time. In addition, Tang Dynasty was indeed the largest publisher in the mainland and had abundant offline channels. Li Qing was too lazy to communicate with other publishing houses and decided to publish "
The second, third and fourth volumes of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp" were handed over to Tang Dynasty Publishing House for publication.
In the contract that the two parties were preparing to sign, Li Qing also proposed the concept of an electronic version for the first time.
He decided to publish "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" online and offline simultaneously. Of course, now that he has a rich collection of manuscripts, publishing comes first.
The electronic version will be released one month after publication.
Fang Sihai didn't care much about the electronic version. He was just pleasantly surprised by Li Qing's sudden investment of more than 400,000 words in manuscripts. He was not worried that these manuscripts would not be returned, because the name Li Qing was more valuable than the 400,000-word manuscripts.
More valuable.
As a famous writer with huge popularity, he will naturally cherish his own feathers very much and will not easily write unreliable works.
Editor-in-chief Fang, who was originally worried about the 33% royalty rate, was laughing from ear to ear.
He didn't intend to make money, but even if he didn't make any money, he still had to make some profits to support the company's employees, right?
And now you have signed a contract with Li Qing for three Chinese versions of "Ghost Blowing Out the Lamp" and three "Harry Potter" films. How can you not make him unhappy?
Even if the profit is pitifully small, small profits but quick turnover!
He made a lot of money!
In this way, the name Li Qing will be imprinted on the name of their Tang Dynasty Publishing House for a long time.
You know, Li Qing is not a simple writer, he is also the most popular superstar in China!
The sales of his works are no joke!
If the publishing house cooperates with major bookstores to hold a few more welfare events and sell some peripheral products of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", "Harry Potter" and other works, it will be a huge profit!
Of course, in this regard, copyright communication still needs to be carried out with Hanhai.
Next, Li Qing personally negotiated with Bloomsbury Publishing House. In just two days, he successfully obtained the Chinese copyright of "Harry Potter" and negotiated with Tang Dynasty Publishing House.
Signing of contract.
After the signing of the "Ghost Blowing Lamp" series and the "Harry Potter" series was completed, Tang Dynasty Publishing House immediately announced the news online and offline.
In an instant, the two book titles "Ghost Blows Out the Lamp" and "Harry Potter" began to trend on major Weibo searches, and made headlines in offline media, causing countless book fans to howl like wolves with excitement.
After the matter was resolved, Li Qing, whose pressure for reminders was slightly reduced, began to return to his normal work track.
In the singing practice room.
Li Qing took a stack of lyrics and music books and asked the dubbing artist to produce them while walking into the soundproof room under the expectant eyes of Bao Yunyun, Han Han, Marsh and others.
"It's finally started." Cai Li's eyes were a little excited. Although she had heard that the boss's new album was about to be recorded, and she had been looking forward to his new songs, but now she could hear the birth of the boss's new songs with her own ears, and she immediately recommended it.
I dropped all the announcements and dedicated a whole morning to the company's singing room.
Qin Hai, Wang Zhong, Bao Yunyun and others also had the same purpose as Cai Li.
Li Qing didn't pay much attention to the confidentiality of his songs, and since they were all members of his own family, he generously allowed a few people to watch.
In front of the microphone.
Li Qing stretched his hands and warmed up a little, then put on his headphones, lowered his head and opened the lyrics book on the music stand, preparing to choose a song to practice opening his voice.
The new album is still a continuation of the previous album, and the music styles are varied, but without exception, they are all the best among the best. In addition to "Anhe Bridge", there are many famous songs for him to choose from.
Which one should I choose?——
Thanks to Bing Ping Yu Tian, Tat Xixit, Kane, and Wind Whisperer for their rewards.