Chapter 41 Solicitation
Just when Wang gradually considered whether to accept Jack Dorsey's advice and convert the other party's contribution to the construction of the website into 15% of the website shares.
Tom had another piece of good news for him.
The royalties for the second edition of "I Am the Archmage" are about to be settled by Scholastic Press.
Of course, only the 7% royalty share of the US domestic version will be settled, and overseas royalties such as French will have to wait until around the New Year.
When Wang and Tom came to the office building of Scholastic Press.
He was surprised to find that there were many fewer authors who had been rejected all year round.
Wang gradually asked Tom, who was following behind him, a little curiously.
Tom nodded, and went to the authors, who were still holding their manuscripts.
A moment later, he walked back to Wang Yan with a strange expression.
"What's going on?" Wang gradually looked at Tom's expression and asked suspiciously, "Have all the authors of this wave given up?"
Tom said with a tangled face, "They... Some of them, it seems, went to the post..."
"Is that my website?" Wang gradually looked surprised.
"That's your website!" Tom looked at Wang gradually and said, "They say, there is also the author of "Arcane Constellation", who provides writing guidance online, for free. ”
"Jack Dorsey?!"
Wang gritted his teeth, thinking that the computer genius was like a jumping husky.
Under his guise of himself, he impersonates best-selling authors on the Internet, guiding writers who have been rejected until their confidence has collapsed.
And those writers, taking the words of this computer professional, as if they were the golden rule, revised their own manuscripts.
He instantly felt a toothache.
Forget it, forget it.
Wang gradually tried to shake this strange picture out of his mind.
Then, take a deep breath.
The most important thing at the moment is to settle the royalties for this installment first.
For the rest, we'll talk to Dorsey when we get back to the apartment.
In this way, the two walked into the office building of Scholastic Publishing House with a lot of thoughts.
As a result, I was confronted by a group of high-level executives of the publishing house, accompanied by a bald head walking out of the building.
The high-level and bald heads of these publishing houses chatted happily about something.
And the target of Wang Gradual's coming today, Roy followed behind this group of people.
The bald head was gradually passing by the king, and suddenly his steps stopped.
He first looked at Wang Jian suspiciously, and then, as if he remembered something, he pronounced Wang Jian's name in a strange voice.
"Wang Gradual?" the bald head stretched out his hand to shake hands with Wang Gradual, and asked, "Are you the author of "Arcane Divine Seat" and "I Am an Archmage", Wang Gradual?"
"I am. Wang gradually looked at the bald head suspiciously, trying to remember whether he knew each other.
The bald head looked at Wang Gradual's expression and said with a smile: "I am the chairman of Amazon, Jeff Bezos." ”
"It is Chairman Cadabra, who was strongly criticized with you in this turmoil. ”
"Oh. Wang gradually nodded abruptly and asked, "Is there something wrong?"
"That's right. Bezos glanced at the people behind him and hesitated for a moment.
In the end, he still spoke: "The electronic copyright of "Arcane Throne" is not in the hands of Random House, and I want to sign an agreement with you. ”
"Sell this novel, and all your novels in the future, on my website. Even if you don't sign a contract with a publisher, our website can pay to help you publish your book. ”
"And I can guarantee that I will give you the highest guaranteed royalty of any publisher and no less than 20% royalty. ”
"We can even buy your small website at a high price. ”
The senior management of Scholastic Publishing House who heard this looked at each other for a while.
And Roy, who was standing at the back of the crowd, looked at the young Asian Americans who were dug by himself and let go by himself, and his face turned pale all of a sudden.
Of course, the biggest impact is Wang Yan, who is one of the protagonists of the dialogue.
He even began to wonder if pie could really fall from the sky.
But the problem is, even if you really drop the pie, you don't dare to eat it!
This is Manhattan, and across the street is Jeff Bezos, who used to be a famous figure in the financial world.
How many people in the world can get rid of Wall Street?
He couldn't help but wonder what kind of trap there was.
But he didn't know that Bezos didn't value his writing ability.
It's your own drainage.
Whether intentionally or unintentionally, the publication of the two books "I Am the Archmage" and "Arcane Throne" has transcended the circle of literary publishing and attracted great social attention.
And as the author of these two books, Wang Gradual.
It not only brings a novel writing technique for the purpose of pleasing the public, but also has a strong topicality and drainage ability.
And this ability to drain may be a mixed bag in literature.
But in terms of website construction, it is exactly what Amazon urgently needs at the moment.
You must know that because of Wang Gradual's relationship, Amazon, which has the authorization of major publishing houses, has even less than that of that small personal website in terms of the current number of hits.
Wang gradually looked at the bald Bezos with a sincere face, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Please give me some time, let me think about it." ”
Bezos took out his business card, handed it to Wang Yan, and said with a smile: "Your news is always welcome." ”
At the moment, Jack Dorsey is enjoying the pleasure of pointing out others, while looking at the clutter of messages on the message board of the website.
The novel I just read called "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", what page is it on the message?
After thinking for a moment, he opened the backend of the website and began to crackle and type the code.
After a few hours.
The website suddenly stopped.
Many authors who were typing instantly hit the keyboard in a frustrated manner, pressing refresh over and over again.
After a few moments, the website was back to normal.
And these writers have also found that there is a lot of new content on this site.
For example, create a new catalog.
They can re-upload their work, and then have a separate title-table of contents, just like Arcane Throne.
You don't have to put your own work under the message board of Arcane Throne.
They were ecstatic to find this discovery, and they tapped their work on the website and called their relatives and friends to get them on the website and admire their work.
Dorsey, on the other hand, was pleased with the new website and the rapidly increasing number of clicks on the site.
I started to wonder if it was time for the best-selling author to come up with some more money and change the site to a bigger server.
PS: Thank you all for your encouragement.
I deliberately looked at the new book list and found that so many investors... I really don't dare to break the change.