Chapter 60: Encountering Pirated Copies

Leaving the book printing workshop, Chen Wen came to the bus stop to find Su Kangkang and told him about Fang Cai's experience.

"Wow, Brother Wen, you are so powerful! The original manuscript can still be sold for so much money! Thousands of yuan!" Su Kangkang was excited.

"Now it's certain that other people are pirating our books, and it's going to be harder and harder for us to sell them. Chen Wen is still very calm.

"Brother Wen, do you mean that if we sell books next, the market will not be as good as before?" asked Su Kangkang.

Chen Wen nodded and said, "It will definitely not go so smoothly again." But we have three advantages. ”

Su Kangkang asked what the advantage was.

Chen Wen explained: "The first advantage is that I am an author, so I have the advantage of manuscripts. The second advantage is that our books are printed from this workshop, and the manuscripts are sold to this company, and we can get the goods at a low price, which has a cost advantage. The third advantage is that we have the best quality when we copy the original. Our opportunity is to race for time. ”

After the roadside restaurant finished lunch, Su Kangkang continued to hide, and Chen Wen returned to the book printing workshop.

Boss Wang said: "The factory is very busy now, and several people can't leave, so they can't drive your brother to you." ”

Chen Wen smiled: "You're welcome, I'll figure it out myself." ”

Chen Wen ran twice, moved five bundles of books to the bus stop, and took the bus to the Polytechnic University with Su Kangkang.

Minhang and Polytechnic University are not in the central area of Shanghai. Minhang is in the south, Polytechnic University is in the northeast, the distance is quite far, Chen Wen and Su Kangkang took two and a half hours, two transfers, nearly three o'clock, to arrive at the gate of Polytechnic University.

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As soon as he arrived at the gate of the Polytechnic University, Chen Wen found that something was wrong, there were already street vendors selling "President One", and the lyrics for sale were exactly the same as Chen Wen's original version.

A young man in his twenties shouted hard: "Don't miss it when you pass by, the latest masterpiece of Miss Su, a great writer of romance novels, is free to read for 10 minutes." ”

What's even more excessive is that this vendor even copied Chen Wen's creativity in terms of sales model, free trial reading, fishing and bait! So angry that Su Kangkang almost rushed up to beat someone!

Chen Wen didn't set up a stall immediately, but began to think.

If he and Su Kangkang go to the gate of Polytechnic University now and set up a stall to sell, it is likely to cause disputes and even friction with that vendor.

Nine times out of ten, the other party is a native of Shanghai, although there is only one street vendor, Chen Wen guessed that the other party must not be alone, there must be accomplices, and even they were originally an organized gang.

Two fists are hard to beat four hands, there are only two people in him, and he can't figure out how many people there are on the other side, he will definitely suffer a loss when he fights, and Chen Wen will not do anything that suffers.

Once the fight starts, if it is not good, you will end up at the police station. Chen Wen knew that the little emperor uncle he sold belonged to the target of the attack, and he was still the original author, in case he was dug deep by the public security, his trouble would definitely be greater than that of those street vendors.

Therefore, it is not possible to sing against each other and grab the market face-to-face!

Immediately transferred to the sports academy? Chen Wen immediately gave up this idea. The reason is very simple, there is a pirated version of "President" at the gate of the University of Science and Technology, and it is very likely that there is already one at the gate of the Sports University, and there should also be a pirated version at the gate of Fudan Tongji, which is planned to go tomorrow, and the schools such as Jiaotong University that I have been to before should be the same.

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After thinking about it for a long time, he didn't come up with a good solution, Chen Wen decided not to think about it for the time being, he asked Su Kangkang to guard five brown paper bags at the bus stop, and walked to the bookstall by himself to touch the situation in person.

A vendor in his 20s holds a large cardboard in his arms, which reads: Miss Su's latest masterpiece, free trial for 10 minutes.

The vendor shouted Chen Wen's original lyrics, several readers were trying to read it, two readers had reached the time to try to read, the book was taken back, and two paid for the book.

The same routine, the same cutting leeks.

Chen Wen looked at the books on the ground in front of the vendor, and there was only a bundle of books unwrapped in kraft paper, and there was no other kraft paper packaging nearby, which means that the quota for this vendor was 100 books.

Chen Wen thought about it, the old man he met in the workshop in the morning, he used a tricycle to pull away a thousand copies, that old man may be the leader of the gang or an errand runner, if their 1,000 copies are divided into 10 copies, 10 people will sell them at the gates of 10 universities.

Chen Wen continued to ponder that not only the old man, but also there might be more gangs, who reprinted them separately in different book printing workshops, and then distributed the pirated copies of "President I" through their own channels at the gates of all colleges and universities.

Chen Wenchang sighed, he was weak and couldn't fight against the gang!

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His brain hurt so much that Chen Wen unconsciously walked to the bookstall and involuntarily picked up a copy of "President One", which was indeed the kind of pirated copy he saw in the morning, dirty, and full of ink marks of different shades.

After looking carefully, Chen Wen found that the pirated copy in his hand was different from the pirated copy seen in Boss Wang's workshop, in terms of details, and the law of ink marks was obviously different.

Chen Wen can judge that this pirated copy was not printed by Boss Wang, it was not pulled away by the old man with a tricycle, it must have been printed by other pirated booksellers looking for other workshops!

Chen Wen smiled secretly in his heart, this kind of book printing is so poor, how can it compare to his own genuine and clean version.

Chen Wen suddenly came up with a way to break the game.

Chen Wen put down the book, walked briskly back to the bus stop, opened a bag of books, pulled out a copy, and returned to the bookstall again.

Chen Wen handed the genuine book in his hand to the vendor who was shouting hard: "Brother, look at my book." ”

The vendor looked puzzled, took the book and looked at it, and immediately scolded: "Damn, where did you get this book?"

The vendors recognized it at a glance, the book was very different from their own goods, and the crisp and refreshing pages were so beautiful. Look at your own goods again, there are ink marks everywhere, and in some places the ink marks even cover the text.

This "President One", the vendor himself also read it, and it was written too well, but some words were covered by ink marks, and he relied on guessing to complete the brain supplement, which was too tiring.

Holding Chen Wen's original version, the vendor hurriedly turned to page 15, the pirated book has a large piece of text covered by ink marks on this page, and it is also a description of the key behaviors of the male protagonist and supporting actress, and the vendor can't wait to know if the text he guessed is correct!

Can't even take care of business, the vendors are immersed in the unobstructed and uncensored experience of the original book, and the happiness index is ten stars.

After the experience, the vendor let out a sigh of relief, glanced at Chen Wen, and asked, "Brother, where did you buy this book?"

Chen Wen said: "This is the original version of me, and you have reprinted these books from my books." ”

At this time, a reader took the original book from the vendor, looked at it twice, and immediately exclaimed: "Boss, I buy this book! ”

The vendor hurriedly said, "This is not mine, it is someone else's." ”

Chen Wen smiled and said, "Brother, I gave you this book, you can sell it to this customer." ”

A genuine book was bought by the reader, and Chen Wen didn't ask for the five yuan, so he stuffed it into the vendor's pocket.

The vendors decided to close their stalls for the time being. He picked up the remaining half bundle of books, carried a large cardboard, and invited Chen Wen to the corner of the roadside, and the vendor said, "Brother, let's talk." ”

Chen Wen nodded and followed the vendor to the corner.