Xue Ling asked in confusion and worry: "Lao San, what's wrong?
Are you suddenly so angry?"
Cheng Huanchong's face turned red with anger, and he loudly said: "The editor suddenly came to me and told me that after tomorrow's book signing, we must hold an interactive meeting with fans. He also said that he would shoot a big poster of me for promotion, shoot a video for live broadcast, etc.
.
The publisher hopes that I can cooperate with the promotion because my appearance is outstanding and I can attract more fans."
"This...is not good."
Xue Ling gave up: "Don't make photos of real people, and don't make random big posters."
Family members should try not to be too arrogant, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous.
What happened to Xiaoxin not long ago scared everyone so much that they are still in fear and must not do it again.
Cheng Huanchong explained excitedly: "When I first signed the contract, I said that I would only cooperate with part of the publicity and it was impossible to do everything they said.
Okay now, come and explain to me what other promotional terms there are that I must abide by! Isn’t this trying to trick me?
Tomorrow is the autograph session, and now you come to tell me that there will be a fan meeting in the afternoon! This is obviously just trying to catch up!"
"Don't be angry, don't get excited."
Xue Ling said calmly: "Speak slowly if you have anything to say, and think of a way to solve it. Getting angry won't solve the problem. It will only increase your anger and make you lose your cool. It is even less likely that you can come up with a good solution."
After all, Cheng Huanchong was young and at a young age, so he could not calm down.
"What other royalties do they want to threaten me with?
!I just said that the more fans I have, the more people will buy my works and subscribe to my works, and the more my royalties will be! This is Chiguoguo’s threat! What?
Without that little royalties, would I starve to death?
! If I just buy a house under my name, I can’t even afford it with more than ten years of royalties!"
"Shush!"
Xue Ling comforted: "Don't yell, calm down."
Cheng Huanchong took her hand and said aggrievedly: "Mom, this circle is really getting more and more annoying! Yes, there are many people who like comics, and there are millions of people who like my works and remain my fans.
I signed a contract with them, and it said it was 50-50, but the company didn't make money through more than one channel! Many channels refused to give me any data on how much they earned, and they didn't dare to disclose it to me! The company did give me a platform.
, give me traffic and publicity, but this is what they need, otherwise why should I give them my works?
!The author is obviously the foundation of a platform, but they treat us as the weakest, lowest-level people who can be bullied!"
"OK OK."
Xue Ling reassured: "Don't get excited, speak slowly."
Cheng Huanchong was extremely aggrieved and angrily said: "My works are not brought by strong winds. No matter how hard I study and how many homework and test papers I have, I have to use my sleeping time to write out one or two chapters every day! Five or six years of study and persistence are not
A few months, not four or five days! The author worked so hard, and the money given by fans was given to the platform, but the platform never disclosed the specific income data, how much publicity fees were deducted, and how much was divided between us - nothing! Just one
Give me the royalties after tax has been deducted! If there is nothing fishy, why are they so afraid to make it public?
!”
"They are obviously making money from us authors, but they only want to extract money and change the contract as they please. They all look like capitalists and show themselves to be condescending, as if you don't come to my platform anyway, there is nothing."
Our publicity, your attitude is nothing! The author circle is full of resentment all day long, complaining about heaven and earth, and it’s not all about having a bad life! It’s so frustrating!”
“When you learn to paint, you have to pay money from the beginning. Brush, paper, paint, etc., everything costs money, and it gets more expensive year by year.
In order to think of the plot and to draw more vivid and vivid pictures, the author is really on par with the so-called "exhausted effort", which is not exaggerated at all! We all stay up late to draw, and use the time we can play to draw
, some people even give up studying and reading, just to stick to the dream of comics - but we are extremely wronged! We are squeezed out by the platform and can't move, with all kinds of urging and deduction of royalties, and we even have to cooperate with you in everything you do!
"
"I just want to draw comics well and share my works with my fans! They asked me again and again to make self-recommendation videos, find friends to attract traffic, and find fellow authors to recommend each other.
I make all kinds of demands and act like a monster! I just want to create well and don’t want to do some rubbish that has nothing to do with creation! I’m selling my works, not my body, so don’t do this!”
Xue Ling patted his shoulder, frowned and said, "Okay, okay, don't yell.
When I get excited or angry, I just say whatever comes to my mind regardless of logical reasons or context, and your mother will almost faint from hearing it."
"Mom~~" Cheng Huanchong hugged her arm coquettishly and said: "Hurry up and ask your lawyer He to help me! I want to terminate the contract with them! You dare to threaten me with my royalties. Am I the kind of person who accepts threats?
?
!Which one of us from Xinyuan needs to give up for five buckets of rice?
None of them are, nor can they be!”
Xue Ling smiled slightly and said calmly and gently: "Don't get excited, I will analyze it with you first.
First of all, your creation is not really for money, you are doing it for your own hobbies and your fans, right?"
"Um."
Cheng Huanchong nodded.
Xue Ling continued to ask: "Then tomorrow's autograph session will be all your fans, right?
Probably most of them?
Including those who are curious and want to see your beauty in your prime?"
Cheng Huanchong was slightly embarrassed and hesitated: "Most of them are my true fans, and many of them are old readers.
I haven’t published many of my photos, and even the videos I took were intentionally blurry.
The so-called prosperous beauty is just a random promotion by the platform itself."
"But most of them are your fans, right?"
Xue Ling asked again.
Cheng Huanchong answered seriously: "Yes."
Xue Ling said warmly: "In this case, you can't let your fans down at tomorrow's event. Just go and go.
You are here to introduce your new work to your fans, not to please them.
As for fan interactive exchange meetings or live broadcasts, you don’t have to go.
Just sell books, don’t do anything else."
"Then what should the platform side do about the contract?"
Cheng Huanchong muttered in annoyance: "I don't want to continue to cooperate with them."
Xue Ling thought for a while and asked: "Without the promotion of the platform, can you still have so many fans?
The essence of every platform is the same and has only one purpose - to make money.
Of course, some people amass money in a very excessive and disgusting way, so this needs to be discussed separately."
"If there's no publicity, then there certainly isn't."
Cheng Huanchong said in a low voice: "During the rising period, publicity channels are still very important.
However, my current fan base is very stable, and they all really like my works and follow me."