"Hello Skywalker, I am the editor-in-chief of the Daming Royal Bookstore. Congratulations, your novel The Legend of the Condor Heroes has passed the final review for publication, would you like to sign a contract with our publishing house to publish it?"

Of course Chu Tianxing was willing.

He deliberately checked on the Internet, and the Daming Royal Bookstore is indeed a royal industry, with a deep background and strong strength.

If you can review and publish a book in the Royal Bookstore, you don't have to worry about publicity, sales, royalties, etc., everything can be arranged properly.

If the sales are hot and the influence is enough, the film and television adaptation can be properly arranged by the Royal Bookstore - although the Ming royal family has no real power, it still has a great advantage in business.

For the sake of reputation, the Ming royal family has never been involved in controversial industries such as real estate and finance, and its main business is the cultural and entertainment industry, as well as the booming Internet industry.

The largest publishing houses in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Royal Bookstore occupies a place in it.

The largest film and television entertainment companies, the "Huangming Pictures" run by the Ming royal family, also occupy a seat.

Therefore, if you can sign a contract with the Royal Bookstore, and the Royal Bookstore will be responsible for publishing the novel, then the film and television adaptation will be greatly facilitated in the future, which is very good for Chu Tianxing, who is afraid of trouble.

At that moment, he replied without hesitation: "My novel is naturally entrusted to your bookstore for publication, please take care of it in the future." ”

The editor-in-chief of the Royal Book Shop replied:

"Let's take care of each other. We have researched, based on the popularity of your novel on the Internet, and the online sales since the early hours of the morning, we believe that your book has the potential to explode. Publishing your novel should bring us a lot of money from the Royal Bookstore. Publishing this book is a win-win situation for you and me.

"Also, what do you ask for royalties?"

Chu Tianxing thought for a while and replied, "According to the news I found on the Internet, it seems that the royalties given by the Royal Bookstore to new authors are generally six percent?"

The editor-in-chief of the Royal Book Shop replied:

"Yes. Generally, novice writers who have just debuted, because they have no historical achievements, we generally only give six percent of the royalties. But even so, the authors of any novels that we are optimistic about and signed can get extremely rich profits. After all, our Royal Bookstore is unquestionably strong in the area of physical publishing. ”

With the exception of buyouts, royalty income from physical publishing is generally calculated by multiplying the book price by the total number of copies printed or sold, and multiplied by the royalty rate.

For example, if a book is priced at 20 and sells 10,000 copies, with a royalty rate of 6 percent, then the author can get 12,000 royalties.

If one million copies can be sold, then the author will receive 1.2 million in royalties.

Therefore, the author's royalty income is linked to the sales volume, and the more sales, the more the author's income.

As the editor-in-chief of the Royal Bookstore said, the Royal Bookstore has a deep background, strong strength, and a huge number of publicity channels and sales networks.

And for the sake of the reputation of the royal family, the Royal Bookstore will never hide the actual number of sales to pit the author.

In addition, Daming attaches great importance to intellectual copyright and cracks down on piracy very strictly. At least in terms of physical books, there are few pirated copies on the market.

Daming has a supermarket with a population of 1.6 billion, and the Ming civilization radiates to the surrounding areas, surrounding Goryeo, Fusang, Annam and other countries, and the Ming culture is extremely sought after. The popular novels that can sell well in the Ming Dynasty can also sell well in most of the surrounding small countries.

Therefore, as long as the novel is favored and signed by the Royal Bookstore, even if the royalty of the novice level is only 6%, the newcomer author can basically make a lot of money.

Originally, Chu Tianxing, as a novice author with no historical achievements, would only give him a six-percent royalty according to the consistent rules of the Royal Bookstore.

However, the editor-in-chief of the bookstore seemed to be particularly optimistic about his biography of the Condor Heroes, and after explaining to him the rules of the Royal Bookstore, he continued:

"However, our editorial department is particularly optimistic about your novel, and unanimously believes that your novel will definitely be able to become popular, and it is also particularly suitable for film and television adaptation. Out of optimism about your future potential, we have decided to break with the convention and improve the treatment we give you.

"As long as you promise that your next novel will be published by our bookstore, we can increase the royalty of your first novel to 7% - the emphasis is on the 'first book'.

"You should have a million words in this Condor Shooting, right? The royalty for the first volume of Condor shooting is seven percent, and if the sales are as expected, then the royalty will gradually increase from the second volume of the Condor shooting. It is 8 percent for the second volume, 9 percent for the third volume, and 10 percent for the fourth volume. ”

As a rookie author, this treatment is already quite generous.

Chu Tianxing thought for a moment and asked, "Excuse me, what does it mean that 'sales meet expectations'? How many copies of the first volume must be sold to meet expectations?"

The editor-in-chief of Royal Bookstore replied: "As a new writer, I only need to sell 100,000 copies in the first month, which is considered to be in line with expectations. ”

100,000 copies in the first month?

Could it be a little too much?

However, it is not much.

The huge market of 1.6 billion people, the environment in which there are almost no pirated copies of physical books, and the habit of Chinese people who have always loved to read have made the bestseller market in Daming develop very well.

Last year, a novel topped the book sales list, with a total annual sales of more than 12 million copies. On average, more than one million copies are sold every month.

Of course, that's something that only a famous best-selling author can have.

However, even if the newcomer author is not famous, it is not impossible for the new book to sell 100,000 copies in the first month of its release, thanks to the strong channel of the Royal Bookstore.

Of course, this is a requirement for the potential fire book.

If it weren't for the extremely high expectations for this Condor Shooting, and the high treatment that Chu Tianxing had to break the convention, then as the debut work of a pure newcomer author, it could sell forty or fifty thousand copies in the first month of the book, which could be regarded as a sales book.

As for whether he can achieve the sales target, Chu Tianxing is very confident.

Isn't it 100,000 copies in the first month?

It's just a small goal.

"Then it's settled. He replied to the editor-in-chief of the Royal Bookstore: "I trust the reputation of the Royal Bookstore, and the next novel is naturally ready to be published by the Royal Bookstore." So, can we sign a contract now?"

The editor-in-chief of the Royal Book Shop immediately sent the contract over.

Chu Tianxing received the document, opened it and browsed the text of the contract, and found that it was a book publishing standard contract with a model on the Internet. I looked at the annex to the contract again, and it was a priority authorization agreement.

Under the terms of the agreement, Chu Tianxing promised to hand over the physical publishing rights of his next novel to Royal Bookstore, and Royal Bookstore therefore gave him the "super newcomer treatment" of his first novel.

The specific terms of the treatment of super newcomers are the same as what the editor-in-chief said - the royalty of the first volume is 7%, and if the sales volume of the first month exceeds 100,000, the royalty of the second volume will be increased to 8%, and so on, until the maximum royalty amount stipulated by law is capped at 10%.

Seeing this appendix agreement, Chu Tianxing knew that the Royal Bookstore had been prepared for a long time. However, this shows that the Royal Bookstore is optimistic about the potential of his novel, and even the potential of his next novel.

Since the other party is so optimistic about himself, the treatment is super newcomer-level, and the historical reputation of the Royal Bookstore has always been excellent, then Chu Tianxing has nothing to be picky about.

Then I found the model standard contract for book publishing on the Internet, read the contract carefully, and confirmed that it was really a standard contract, and there was no text trap, Chu Tianxing immediately made a decision:

"Very good, the signing of the contract is settled, and I will go out to print the mailing contract immediately. ”

The editor-in-chief of the bookstore replied with a big smile: "As soon as we receive the contract, we will immediately start the publicity." In no more than half a month, the first volume of the novel will be on the market. So, happy to work with?"

"Happy working together!"

After finishing the conversation with the editor-in-chief of the bookstore, Chu Tianxing prepared to go out to send the contract.

I had just changed my shoes and hadn't gone out yet, when I suddenly received a call from Qin Ling: "Tianxing, the class is going to organize a three-day graduation trip, and we will leave early tomorrow morning, do you want to participate?"

Chu Tianxing said: "Graduation trip?

Qin Ling said: "I'm going to go our separate ways soon, this may be the last collective action of our class, as the leader of our class, I naturally want to participate." ”

Chu Tianxing said: "But today is the 10th of July, and the 15th of July is the day of the martial arts conference, aren't you busy preparing to participate in the martial arts conference?

Qin Ling said: "It's just a three-day trip on a cruise ship, and most of the time is at sea, and it won't delay my cultivation of internal strength, of course you can participate!

Chu Tianxing thought for a while, and asked cautiously: "Will it be dangerous to go to sea by boat......?"

"Chu Tianxing, what are you thinking about all day long? What pirates are coming from around my Daming? Also, what is the giant kun?"

"Haha, a fantasy creature, terrifying...... I'll think about it first, and we'll talk about it when you come in the evening. ”

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