Of course, Fang Xingkai's rhetoric could not convince Zhang Zhong. At the beginning, Zhang Zhong might have relied on the resources of Provocative Literature, but now, there is no need for this.
Unless Agitation Literature now tells him that it can sell "The Conspiracy" for 20 million, and then give him a 28% split, then he can consider it.
But if the guarantee is only 8 million, it will not meet his expectations at all.
"Let's talk about the adaptation rights later. It's getting late now and I want to rest."
Zhang Zhong took the initiative to end the topic, and after hanging up the phone from Fang Xingkai, he returned to the living room.
Pengpeng was lying on the sofa watching TV, and Zhang Zhong sat next to her, thinking about the future.
As he produces more and more works and becomes more and more famous, there will definitely be more things to deal with. Things like today will definitely come one after another. He needs an agent to help him now.
Deal with these things.
Most famous writers have a writer's agent.
Back on Earth, Chinese writers rarely had agents because book profits in China were much lower than abroad, and it was difficult to reflect the commercial value of writers.
In Zhang Zhong's world, whether in China or other countries, the system of writers' agents is already very complete.
Giving work to professionals is the biggest advantage of social division of labor, and it is also the significance of the emergence of writers' agents. Most writers are not good at socializing and socializing, and they have difficulty handling complex copyright authorizations, but agents are just good at this.
When the two parties cooperate, all these things only need to be done by the agent, and the writer only needs to concentrate on creating the work.
Writers' agents are somewhat similar to football players' agents, but they are not exactly the same. Most writers' agents are paid a share of royalties, and the amount of the share depends on the contract between the writer and the agent.
It is said that some more successful writers' agents have abundant resources and can get 50% of the commission when signing contracts with some writers.
And these agents also have more than one writer on hand, so they make much more money than the writer himself.
However, a writer of Zhang Zhong's level would definitely not sign such a 50-50 contract. Even when Zhang Zhong thought about it, he didn't want to sign a 50-50 contract with his agent at all.
He doesn't need the channels and resources of an agent, all he wants is someone to help him take care of the chores.
Therefore, the well-known writers' agents in the publishing industry were not among his considerations.
In this case, he would have to put a lot of effort into finding a satisfactory agent. However, Zhang Zhong knew that sharpening the knife did not waste time chopping wood. If he put in a little effort now, he would save a lot of effort in the future.
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After putting Pengpeng to sleep, Zhang Zhong went to the study room and turned on the computer.
He found a website called "Genius Catcher Network", which is the world's largest gathering place for writers' agents. Most of the world's writers' agents have accounts on this website.
Although many writers will be introduced by acquaintances when looking for an agent, and those writers who are famous will also be contacted by a large number of writers' agents, but there are also some writers who are not well-connected and not well-known, and will find agents on this website.
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To log in to the website, you first need to register an account and fill in your personal information, works, etc. Fortunately, these things are not required, so Zhang Zhong did not fill in any of them.
There are many posts on the website, some of which are writers looking for agents, and some of which are advertisements for agents.
[The martial arts novel author, who has written works such as "Nancheng Sandstorm" and other works, is in urgent need of an agent. If the profit exceeds 20, don't bother. 】
[The author of science fiction novels, whose works have sold over 100,000 copies so far, needs an agent and accepts a 15% share.]
[Senior writer agent, cooperating with major publishing houses...]
On this website, Zhang Zhong can see another side of the publishing industry. Both authors and agents have clearly marked prices.
After browsing through the posts for a while, Zhang Zhongzheng felt a little bored when he saw a title that interested him.
[I am a lawyer and hope to become a professional writer’s agent. Does anyone have any advice? 】
This post is very dismal, I posted it an hour ago and still haven’t received a single reply.
The reason why Zhang Zhong noticed this post was mainly because this person was a lawyer. In addition to understanding the publishing industry, the most important thing for a writer's agent is to understand legal knowledge.
As long as he understands legal knowledge, even if he doesn't know much about the publishing industry, Zhang Zhong can teach him. Moreover, for such a newcomer, it is easy to communicate with him about salary and other matters.
Zhang clicked on the poster's avatar and sent a private message.
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Chen Qing had just come out of the bathroom after taking a shower when he saw Zhang Zhong's private message. He had posted a message before and waited for a long time but no one responded. He was a little frustrated, but he didn't expect that someone would chat with him privately.
"Do you want to be a writer's agent?"
However, after clicking on the other party's avatar, Chen Qing was a little disappointed because the other party had no information at all, and it was a new account that had only been registered for a day.
He replied with some aloofness: "Yes, what can I do?"
"Do you understand intellectual property laws?" the other party continued to ask.
"certainly."
Chen Qing pouted. If he didn't even understand intellectual property rights, why would he want to be a writer's agent?
"Okay, I have a writer here who needs an agent. The basic salary is 20,000 yuan. You can consider it."
A basic salary of 20,000? Don’t writers and agents get paid based on their share of the profits?
Twenty thousand yuan is quite high for Chen Qing. He is currently working as a legal and non-litigation lawyer, and his average monthly salary is just over ten thousand yuan. Some of the veterans in his firm only earn twenty or thirty thousand yuan a month.
So this job is certainly very tempting for Chen Qing, but looking at this person's blank profile picture, it always feels a bit unreliable.
"Let me think about it." Chen Qing thought for a while and replied.
"Okay, please reply to me after you think about it."
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Zhang Zhong searched on the website for a while, but couldn't find anything suitable, so he went offline.
While Zhang Zhong was sleeping, Zhuang Yu, who was a thousand kilometers away, had just gotten up.
Although he is already quite old, Zhuang Yu is still used to working when darkness falls, and this has not changed over the years.
For a great writer like Zhuang Yu who has won many domestic and foreign literary awards, he always has some quirks of his own.
However, he has not published a new work for two years. In the past few years, there were high calls for him to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. However, he had high hopes every year, but in the end he could only fail. He also expected it at the beginning, but it took a long time. I felt relieved. I had better leave it to fate to win an award. Thinking about it every day would shorten my life.