"Let me talk about the current development of the Chinese network.

First, the number of visits to Qidian Chinese now ranks among the world's top 500 and the top 100 in China.

Second, Qidian Chinese participated in the national personal website competition in October last year and won the first place!

Third, the VIP excellent works of Qidian Chinese Network have reached the level of 20 yuan / 1,000 words, and the authors with the best subscription results have earned more than 1,000 yuan in manuscript fees this month.

Our VIP fee system has been a success, and other major literary websites have begun to follow the layout and VIP fee system of Qidian Chinese website. Wu Wenshen said.

The domestic online bookstore appeared at the end of 1997, and the initial online bookstore was mainly reprinted, and the awareness of copyright was weak.

Some websites enrich the content of the website by scanning physical books such as martial arts and romance onto the Internet, while more websites are reprinted directly from other websites.

During this period, serialized works such as "Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty", "Star Wars Heroes", "Weishilu", and "The Legend of Enma" became the killer tools for various book stations to attract readers.

Many new readers are exposed to the Internet in order to catch up with Huang Yi's "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty".

In the early book stations, Crouching Tiger Ju's proofreading reputation was the best, and the proofreading of its included works was exquisite, and it became the first choice for netizens to include it for a while.

However, due to the small overall number of works in the collection, the traffic of the website has never been comparable to that of those comprehensive bookstores.

Instead, the Golden Book House, which adopts the Crouching Tiger Ju sweeping version, has become one of the top ten most influential individual sites in Chinese mainland relying on its massive works and detailed classification.

In addition, at that time, portals were the mainstay, and readers wanted to discover new literary websites through portals such as Yahoo, or friendly links to literary websites, so it was difficult for new websites to get ahead.

As a result, Golden Book House has become the first generation of literary website bosses in the mainland.

Judging from the situation at that time, it was difficult to shake the status of the Golden Book House, but it was a pity that capital changed everything.

In December 1999, Duomilai Literature Network acquired 16 of the top 20 NetEase personal websites for 4 million yuan, including Golden Book House.

After the literary website became bigger, because of copyright issues, it did not dare to plagiarize and copy too blatantly, and the originality was weak, and it gradually lost its hegemony.

At the same time, the Boku in the United States was founded, and then came to the mainland to wave checks, and the momentum was huge, but the spirit of downloading and reading for a fee advocated by it did not work in the mainland in the free era.

In the end, due to the difficulty of making profits, the capital directly withdrew its investment, announcing the failure of the first ebook fee in the mainland!

After the dot-com bubble in 2000, when free space disappeared and personal websites went out of business, BBS in the Western Continent became the new center of online fantasy literature at a low price.

In 2001, many literary forums withdrew from Xilu BBS and joined Longkong!

Because of the disappearance of the online book station, the Phantom Sword Book League is still running around to find space, and Longkong has gradually taken over the leading position of the Golden Book House!

The prosperity of the dragon sky, like the sun!

It's just that with the increase in traffic, Longkong's server failed, and then Longkong chose a path that he regretted for life, gave up the development on the network, and chose physical publishing!

This choice made the online literature at that time directly depressed, and the popular works were all bought out and could not be serialized online, and all of them were waiting for physical publication!

At the same time, climbing and cuiwei have risen.

The third-generation alliance leader of online literature is the Phantom Sword Book Alliance!

In 2001, the Phantom Sword Book League finally found space and stabilized, and then the authors and readers who were lost due to the speed of the Dragon Sky Internet flowed into the Phantom Sword Book League!

At this time, space fees are becoming more and more expensive, the online advertising business is sluggish, and literary websites can only make a profit by publishing, but readers do not buy it.

Then, the reading network launched paid reading (not called VIP), but because the charge was too early, the exploitation of the author was serious, and the problem of SMS charging too much ended in vain.

At the end of 2002, a group of online writers such as Zhonghua Yang and Su Mingpu left Iron Blood and established "Mingyang Global Chinese", which first proposed the concept of VIP.

But because of piracy and too much reliance on one work, it still didn't work out.

Therefore, when Qidian Chinese Network proposed the VIP fee system again in 2003, peers scoffed!

However, the traffic of major literary websites began to grow rapidly in mid-2003, especially in the three months before the launch of Qidian, the ranking of alexa jumped from more than 5,000 to 1,500, which is almost the same as Phantom Sword.

Among them, "The Legend of Little Soldiers", one of the three major divine books in the online literature flood period, was the starting point and attracted a large number of readers.

It was only in October 2003 that when Qidian was preparing to launch the VIP system, it encountered the biggest crisis.

Because of someone's departure, many of the works that were supposed to be put on sale have been transferred to other websites, resulting in only 23 VIP works in the first batch of Qidian, which is the result of a one-month delay.

Fortunately, because of an author, it can almost be said that he saved the VIP system of Qidian, he is the toad who wandered to Qidian, and a "Tianpeng Vertical" was a big hit, bringing many paid authors.

In the meantime, the early leakage of the VIP chapter of "Tianpeng Vertical" once caused the starting point to be very passive, but fortunately, Toad quickly modified the plot and eliminated the adverse effects by releasing a different version from the leaked chapter.

Coupled with the price of 2 points/1,000 words launched by Qidian, and the first month membership is free, the VIP fee system is finally maintained!

In the first month, some authors got a remuneration of 1,000 yuan, and once it was announced, it attracted many authors to join Qidian.

At the same time, it also stimulated other literary websites, which began to follow Qidian to carry out a VIP fee system, and a VIP movement swept the entire online literature circle.

However, several of the main competitors of Qidian have made various mistakes or have different shortcomings, resulting in being left behind by Qidian.

Cui Weiju was the first to follow the VIP system, and even offered a price of 6 points/1,000 words, but Cui Weiju has too many color texts, and the old authors have a bad impression of it, resulting in many authors being reluctant to join.

At the same time, the price was too high, and readers were unwilling to pay, so they left Cuiweiju one after another.

Skyhawk took into account the operating costs and offered a price of 3 cents per thousand words, which attracted some authors, but the overall popularity was not high, and the VIP system did not progress smoothly until the online game boom came.

Climb wants to cooperate with the old VIP website Mingyang Bookstore, but for some reason, the cooperation between the two sides has been delayed for several months, and finally broke up, resulting in a delay in time, and the launch of VIP has missed the staking period.

However, the Phantom Sword Book Alliance, which inherited the dominant position of the Dragon Sky Alliance, has been oscillating between literary and commercial due to positioning problems, resulting in a slow response.

Until the end of January, the VIP system has not been launched, and it is obviously going to be cool.

Now it can be said that in the cruel competition of many well-known websites, Qidian Chinese Network has taken the lead by one position!

However, the competition faced by Qidian is still brutal, so it needs to continue to invest in solid results and position. Wu Wenshen said.

Chen Hao nodded when he heard this, he had already been mentally prepared, "How much?"

"At least 3 million!" Wu Wenhui said.

Last year, Chen Hao invested 1.5 million yuan for promotion after acquiring Qidian, and this year is a good time to chase after victory, and it is definitely not possible to have no money.

"Okay, I'll give you 5 million!" Chen Hao nodded.

The future value of Qidian Chinese Network is immeasurable, and the current investment is nothing at all.