Chapter 876 Inspiration Class for Internet Authors
Pei Qian took a sip of tea and continued: "We only offer buyout contracts to the top authors on our website."
"Because the conditions of this buyout contract are relatively good, it is equivalent to a benefit for the authors of this site. We will not provide this kind of benefit to the authors of other sites until they prove their strength."
"The entire book is bought out. The total word count of the book is between 100,000 and 500,000 words, and cannot exceed 500,000 words."
"The buyout price is calculated based on three times the author's income from previous old books. For example, the original subscription income of the author's old books was about 1,000 words per thousand words, then the buyout fee for this buyout book is 3,000 per thousand words."
"There is no minimum daily update requirement. You can write as much as you like. Work slowly and carefully."
"Moreover, we do not accept completely original works, we can only write customized articles, and we provide IP for the author."
After Pei Qian finished speaking, he couldn't help but be impressed by his intelligence.
Buyout + customization, wouldn’t this wipe out all the great writers at the end point and make them all useless?
Anyone who often reads online articles knows that buyout + customization is the most likely model to produce junk works.
Because if you want to create good works, the first prerequisite is freedom.
Only if an online article author is free to write about the subject matter he is good at and has a strong driving force, can he write excellent works.
If an author who is good at writing science fiction subjects has to write romance, what he writes will definitely be terrible.
Customized works are often works for which Party A has certain commercial promotion needs. At this time, the author's creative ideas will definitely be restricted by Party A.
In order to make the work meet its own requirements, Party A will definitely put forward some suggestions for changes or interfere with the author's outline; but the author cannot completely create according to his own ideas, and will have a confusing attitude, and it is impossible to produce 120% of the creation.
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Because the first target of customized writing is Party A rather than readers, there is a high probability that it will not be liked by readers.
On the basis of the limited subject matter of customized articles, coupled with the buyout, it will further dampen the author's enthusiasm for creation.
Because the buyout means a guaranteed harvest regardless of drought or flood, and the asking price for the buyout of customized articles is very high, the author only needs to use his brain a little to write the work to about 60 points to complete the requirements of Party A and fool Party A. There is no need to work hard to write the work to 80 points or even 100 points.
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Or even if he wanted to write 100 points, he simply couldn't do it because of insufficient creative freedom, lack of expertise in the subject matter, and other reasons.
Therefore, Pei Qian released this trump card of customization + buyout, just to "buy out" all the top authors of the terminal.
For these top authors, whether they are writing subscriptions or buying out, in the final analysis they are all about making money. How to choose depends on which one makes more money.
It’s easier to write custom-made books, and the fee based on the number of words is almost doubled. If you just write and fool around every day, you can get the same amount of money as before. Why not?
If the previous manuscript fee was 1,000 per thousand words, you could earn 300,000 by writing 300,000 words per month; but according to the buyout, the manuscript fee would be tripled, and you could earn the same amount of money by writing 100,000 words per month.
But the workload has been greatly reduced!
Although this buyout system is voluntary and not mandatory, Pei Qian feels that no one can refuse such a superior condition, right?
Who can have trouble with money?
In this way, the author's income will not be affected, but the website will suffer losses, and Pei Qian's purpose will be achieved.
Ma Yiqun obviously knew this truth very well, so his expression was a little shocked, and he didn't know what kind of medicine Mr. Pei was selling in his gourd.
Although it is the author's free decision whether to write a buyout, but at the current price, I am afraid that only a few of these leading authors will refuse.
Of course it is a good thing for the author, but for the website... it seems to be very risky, and if you are not careful, it will cause great losses.
Ma Yiqun thought for a moment and asked: "Mr. Pei, are there any other restrictions on this buyout system? What if no one reads what the author writes? Can he be asked to finish the book in advance, or am I forced to revise it?"
Pei Qian shook his head: "There are no other restrictions, but there are requirements for the number of words, that is, each book must have 100,000 to 500,000 words. If it exceeds 500,000 words, there will be no money, and another book must be opened."
The reason why the word count requirement is set is mainly to create difficulties for these authors who are used to writing long articles.
The current standard word count on the Internet is 2 to 3 million words. No matter how long it is, there are many people who write 5 million or more words.
Therefore, when the authors first decide on the outline of the story, they are used to setting the full text to more than 2 million words when making the outline. Great authors who are famous for writing must be more familiar with this.
At this time, they are asked to compress the story to 100,000 to 500,000 words and write short stories. This is a creative method that they are not very good at.
As for online readers, most people also like to read long works and are not very interested in short stories.
As a result, the possibility of making money is further reduced.
Ma Yiqun asked again: "Then if the author has published several books and they are all rubbish, we can also terminate the buyout contract, right?"
Pei Qian originally wanted to say no, but he felt that this made no sense. An author had obviously been producing garbage, but the website still kept paying him extremely high royalties. This was a bit too unreasonable and unjustifiable.
So, he thought about it and adopted a relatively compromise plan: "If the results of two consecutive buyout books are poor, let him go back and write the share. After the share is written, he can continue to write the buyout."
In this way, the author who wants to make a living can continue to write about buying out and cheating money after writing a book about profit sharing. The rules of the website will not write "come and cheat me out of money" and "people are stupid and have too much money" written on their faces.
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Ma Yiqun asked again: "I only write customized articles. What kind of customized articles are they?"
"Can I pick up customized documents from outside companies?"
Pei Qian immediately shook his head: "No! We can only write about our own IP owned by Tenda."
A group of horses: "..."
If you can receive customized articles from outside companies, then this kind of buyout may still be profitable.
For example, if some popular online games need to be promoted, then Ma Yiqun can recommend their excellent authors, ask the company to pay, and then let the authors write buyouts, so that the terminal can earn an advertising fee from the middle.
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But Mr. Pei rejected this possibility of making money on the spot!
According to Mr. Pei, the subject matter restrictions of this customized article are quite bizarre.
It cannot be purely original, nor can it be customized by outside companies. It can only write Tenda's IP.
What are Tenda’s IPs?
Ma Yiqun took a brief inventory, including various games currently developed by Tenda, such as "Back to Shore", "Sea Fortress", "Struggle", etc.;
Including short videos and movies that have been shot by Feihuang Studio, such as "Better Tomorrow" and "Mission and Choice" that are currently being shot;
Including various purchased IP images in the GOG game, as well as original hero characters such as Modeste and Ruan;
Including various superhero characters from purchased works of Hurricane Comics;
In addition, some hot spots at the finish line and other miscellaneous things can also be regarded as Tengda’s IP.
It does seem like a lot, but what’s the point of writing these things as customized?
The only function may be to enrich the story reserve of the entire "Tengda Universe", but many of these IPs do not need to be enriched at all: the content to be expressed in the original work has been expressed very clearly and thoroughly, so why should it be continued?
Can these authors write stories that are comparable to the original works if they write seriously? Ma Yiqun doesn't think so at all, because many of the original works were written by Mr. Pei himself, and these authors can't keep up.
What's more, compared to the money spent to buy out these works, it is still a huge loss.
Because this buyout strategy is not just for one author, but for all the top authors of DIM. If these authors are determined to fool and defraud money, then DIM will spend a lot of money to buy garbage, which will be very difficult for DIM.
It is difficult to guarantee the interests of the website.
Ma Yiren thought about it for a long time, but they were still confused about President Pei's decision this time.
But seeing Mr. Pei's confident expression, Ma Yiqun didn't say much.
After all, Mr. Pei’s actions are always so unpredictable, and no matter how outrageous or strange the decisions made by Mr. Pei may seem at first, it turns out to have a deeper meaning in the end and is a great success.
Therefore, Ma Yiqun nodded: "Okay, Mr. Pei, I will make arrangements soon."
Pei Qian was very satisfied with his attitude: "Yes, very good."
"Also, there is one more thing about the author study class."
"This study class has been running for a while, and it's time to make some improvements."
"My idea is to hold an 'inspiration class' based on this study class."
"Gather those top authors, especially those who have decided to write customized buyout articles, to participate in this inspiration class."
"In the inspiration class, we prepare a large number of movies and games for them, allowing them to collect materials from them every day, and then exchange a lot of writing skills and knowledge, and recommend each other games or movies that they think are fun."
"This inspiration class definitely requires some initial investment. For example, the monitor must be large, the headphones must be good, and the seats must be comfortable. We will directly purchase genuine, ultra-high-definition Blu-ray discs for the various resources in it.
To provide everyone with the best movie-watching experience.”
"In the previous study class, the authors could only code and look up information, and could not do anything else; but in this inspiration class, the authors could only do things related to collecting inspiration. Every day in the inspiration class, the most they could do was to collect
Give me 2 hours to code."
The group of horses was stunned again: "Ah? This..."
What kind of inspiration class is this? It's obviously a class for enjoyment and fishing!
A very important reason for the success of previous study classes is that through the "small dark room" method, these authors with poor self-control ability can concentrate on their creation in this environment, and many excellent works have been produced.
But now, everyone can watch movies if they want, and play games if they want. Not only are they not locked up in a dark room, but their coding time is also limited, with a maximum of 2 hours of coding per day?
Doesn’t this encourage them to fish?
What's more, Mr. Pei also said that this inspiration class is mainly for those authors who have decided to write customized buyout articles. These people's update requirements are already very low, and their creative enthusiasm is not expected to be very high. We will arrange it for them.
Such a comfortable and enjoyable environment...
I'm afraid this group of people will be ruined!
They are all the top authors of the terminal, mainstay figures. If they are abolished, it will not only affect the website's income, but also affect the number of excellent works on the website and readers' evaluation of the website...
Ma Yiqun hesitated and said, "Mr. Pei, is this environment too relaxed?"
Pei Qian chuckled: "Just be relaxed!"
"For these top authors, they have no shortage of skills and strength. If they want to go further, they need more inspiration, slow down, and work slowly and carefully!"
"Nowadays, many books often have millions of words, and thousands or more than 10,000 are updated every day. In the face of such huge update pressure, how can it be possible to write high-quality books?"
"Tell them to slow down and polish!"
The horses opened their mouths and wanted to say something more, but in the end they couldn't.
Obviously, Mr. Pei’s idea seems a bit unrealistic. This is the Internet. It is meant for entertainment. What if you slow down and polish it? Can you polish it into a masterpiece?
But Mr. Pei's idea cannot be said to be wrong. It can only be said that Mr. Pei sees things at a higher level than himself and has more ambitious goals.
Ma Yiqun hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded: "Okay, Mr. Pei, I'll make arrangements right away!"