In an office building in Shanghai, Zhang Fan couldn't help but laugh when he looked at the company's sign.
"Haha, you will be my brother's from now on."
Zhang Fan couldn't help but laugh. In another world, Zhang Fan was still a street writer at Qidian.
Zhang Fan was very envious of the master of Qidian. Now, looking at the website he built, Zhang Fan couldn't help but think of another world.
Of course, these two websites cannot be compared at all now. In the last world, it was the number one website for Chinese online articles.
The website he built now is just an empty shell. But Zhang Fan believes that sooner or later, this website will become as big as the other world, or even surpass the other world.
“How is the website working?”
Zhang Fan walked into the company and laughed when he looked at the employees.
"Brother Fan, everything is normal in the internal testing."
The technician said with a smile. The website was built by Zhang Fan. It is safe, powerful, runs fast, does not have any advertisements, and the page is very beautiful.
Not only that, the company's servers are even more powerful. The powerful servers ensure that no matter how heavy the traffic is, there will be no fear of server crashes.
If you want to do what you want, do the best. Zhang Fan has always followed this principle. Now the framework is set up, but the entire team is immature.
After all, everyone is not very familiar with e-books. You must know that the copyright awareness in this world is very strong. Everyone has long been accustomed to paper books.
All writers are accustomed to this business model, writing, publishing, and earning royalties. Since there is no piracy, the income from paper publishing is very considerable.
This kind of copyright awareness limits the development of e-books. In another world, due to serious piracy, this kind of piracy has promoted the rapid development of the e-book industry, and at the same time created China's unique online culture.
"Copyright Department, what's going on here?"
Arriving at the copyright department, Zhang Fan asked loudly. When starting a new website, the most important thing is the library. It is wishful thinking to build a website with just one or two books.
"Boss, in the past few days, we have followed your instructions to acquire a large number of copyrights to expand our library. So far, we have acquired the copyrights of 32,132 books, including martial arts novels, romance novels, historical biographies, character biographies..."
Gao Lei, the head of the copyright department, began to report to Zhang Fan what he had gained in the past few days. Copyright: In the past few days, the copyright department has purchased a large number of electronic copyrights of books on the market.
Especially those long novels, these books may not necessarily make money. But they can expand the library. The more books in the library, the greater the potential of the future website. The copyright department directly contacts major publishing houses and through major publishing houses
, they quickly obtained a large number of e-book copyrights, and they were exclusive copyrights with a term of up to fifty years.
"Continue to make all-out acquisitions, money is not an issue..."
Zhang Fan nodded with satisfaction. He was very satisfied with having obtained so many copyrights in just a few days. Especially among these copyrights, there were also a large number of copyrights for martial arts novels and romance novels. These copyrights were huge for Qidian.
Very useful.
At present, the e-book industry is still a blank area. No one has explored this commercial blank area, and no one is aware of it. For Zhang Fan, this is a big piece of cake, and he can eat it first.
This is virgin territory, so be the first to gain the upper hand. Currently, there are not many acquisitions of e-book copyrights. In the future, as the industry develops, the price of e-book copyrights for these books will increase many times.
This copyright is the same as the copyright of video websites. The fierce competition among video websites now will be the fierce competition among novel websites in the future.
Even in another world, an era when piracy is everywhere, there are still capital giants such as Tencent, Alibaba, and Perfect entering this market.
In this world, when this virgin land is developed, there will probably be more capital predators entering this market.
"yes……"
Gao Lei nodded. It is not difficult to acquire copyright now. Because many writers do not value e-book copyright. In the eyes of those writers, e-books are dispensable. This kind of thing that usually makes no money at all,
Now that someone is spending money to acquire it, it is a good thing for them.
In their view, there are paper books, but who will read e-books? If you want to read anything, you can go directly to the bookstore and buy one, or buy one online. The price is not expensive, and the courier will deliver it directly to your home.
Everything has good and bad sides. The world has a strong sense of copyright protection, which has made the publishing industry very developed.
However, this kind of protection has hindered the development of electronic books. Although it is already 2016, the development here seems to be in the 1980s in another world.
The novels are mainly about romance and martial arts. When reading, you should still read paper books. This situation is like mobile payment in another world. In another world, Chinese people use mobile payment on a large scale, which is convenient and fast.
But in the United States, few people use mobile payment. Because in the United States, credit card consumption has become very mature and convenient, and everyone has become accustomed to the uniformity of credit cards, but the more convenient mobile payment is not very popular there.
After returning home from the company, Zhang Fan turned on the computer and sat down, and then began to carefully divide "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" into chapters.
The original chapters were about 30,000 words each. These were the chapters divided by Mr. Jin. But now Zhang Fan has divided these chapters in more detail.
It used to be one chapter with 30,000 words, but now it is one chapter with 3,000 words. Originally, the book only had 40 chapters, but after re-dividing, the number of chapters reached 400.
Zhang Fan was very busy re-dividing chapters and re-layout. Previously, Shooting Condor had updated 210,000 words and 70 small chapters.
In the past few days, Zhang Fan took the time to write hundreds of thousands of words. Looking at the divided chapters, Zhang Fan laughed.
"It's too inconvenient to update Weibo. If you want to watch "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", please move on."
After a few days of interruption, there was activity on Zhang Fan's Weibo again. Seeing this activity, fans took action.
"Wow, Brother Fan is finally alive again..."
"I thought you died?"
""The Legend of the Condor Heroes", finally know the name of this book?"
"What the hell?"
"Go and see..."
Many people click on the link directly. Click on the link to go directly to the home page.
On the home page, there is a huge recommendation. This recommendation that takes up half of the page is the big recommendation. The novel currently recommended by the big recommendation is "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".