The reason why Li Tianlong's point of view is a bowl of poisonous chicken soup is because Tianlong Literature Network has currently received five million financing, and it can also continue its free model through these funds, but for other small and medium-sized literary websites, they do not have enough financing capacity, and if they maintain the free model, they will soon be crushed because of the broken capital chain.

However, since Li Tianlong has fallen to the free model, once other small and medium-sized literary websites start charging, it will cause readers to gather to Tianlong Literature Network.

In other words, this is a protracted battle to see who can withstand it, who can carry it to the end, and who retains more readers will become the ultimate winner.

Once a winner-takes-all situation is formed, it means that the integration of online literature is completed, the market has entered a mature period, and there will be no opportunities for others at that time.

Therefore, Li Tianlong's simple words have made the entire venue full of murderous energy.

I saw that many founders of literary websites broke out in a cold sweat on their heads, which was the last thing they wanted to see, but they didn't expect that this online literature conference would have a turbulent undercurrent and Li Tianlong had already prepared for it, and everyone was caught off guard.

If you want to maintain the competition with Tianlong Literature Network, you can only be forced to embark on the road of free mode, but now that you can't raise funds, this protracted war can't be fought, and when you run out of ammunition and food, you can only surrender your guns.

Therefore, the founders of the literary websites here have mixed tastes, and they are very uncomfortable in their hearts.

Many of them are running online literature as a business, not as a simple business.

From a business point of view, if the website is in difficulty, it can be sold as a whole, and even if it loses money, the loss will not be too big.

But if you run it as a business, it's a different story.

After all, the largest Tianlong Literature Network adopts a free competition strategy, and no one can bear it, and when the time comes, it may collapse the website that it has worked so hard to manage.

Neither path is a good path for these founders right now.

Either follow Li Tianlong and go through the free model together, so that the website can only barely operate and make a living on meager advertising revenue.

Either take the charging model, but in the case of free Tianlong Literature Network, the charging model has encountered challenges, and it is still a problem whether it can be walked out. Once the charging model is hastily opened, it will lead to the loss of a large number of readers, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

Seeing the expressions of these people, Li Tianlong's heart was secretly proud, as long as Tianlong Literature Network continued to maintain the free model, he could firmly grasp the dominance of the industry, and other small and medium-sized literary websites did not dare to open fees at all, so they could only continue to maintain with meager advertising revenue.

In this way, the development of these small and medium-sized literary websites has been restricted, and there is no more money to invest in website construction and talent recruitment, and it is simply impossible to become bigger and stronger.

Tianlong Literature Network has obviously taken the lead, and it is very likely that they will be defeated in the future competition, and eventually become the overlord of the industry.

This strategy was decided by Li Tianlong immediately after receiving 5 million venture capital, so it is not unreasonable for him to rush to convene this national online literature conference, the purpose is to kill those small and medium-sized literary websites through vicious competition.

Li Tianlong's Sima Zhao's heart, how can everyone not know that this person has always acted ruthlessly, never thinking about the life and death of others, and he didn't know that it was the venture capitalist with a hole in his brain who invested five million in them, otherwise he wouldn't be so embarrassed.

Everyone hated it in their hearts, but they didn't dare to show it on the surface, and they were as docile as little sheep.

Feng Binghe, the founder of Qishu Literature Network, finally couldn't sit still, Lao Feng moved his fat body, picked up the microphone and said: "Mr. Li, free is certainly the biggest magic weapon to attract traffic, but the free model also has fatal shortcomings, which is that he greatly compresses the profitability of websites and writers. According to you, what will our literary websites be profitable in the future?"

For this question, Li Tianlong seemed to have been prepared, and he smiled slightly: "Lao Feng, your question is very good, we also have to eat when we make a literary website, and it is impossible to be free forever." Therefore, how we will make profits in the future, I think the main way is to expand the industrial chain, to physical book publishing, sales of film and television copyrights, etc. As long as we have a long cultural industry chain, literary websites will have the ability and space to make profits in all links of this industry chain. ”

Li Tianlong's point of view has been recognized by everyone present, and it is an effective way for literary websites to make profits by growing the cultural industry chain, and websites can make profits by charging commissions from physical book publishers and copyright commissions from film and television companies.

Moreover, as a business model for the future IP economy, the core resource of the Internet, the IP, can indeed be profitable by selling copyrights, and this profit is larger than paid reading, in this regard, Li Tianlong is actually not lying.

Li Feng, who was sitting on the side, sneered in his heart after hearing this, although this exposition is the Tao, but in the current period of wasteland, the IP economy is far from appearing, and Li Tianlong's expositions are undoubtedly serving the second bowl of poisonous chicken soup for everyone.

Why is this also a bowl of poisonous chicken soup, because it is very difficult to do a long cultural industry chain, not only requires their own efforts, but also must continue to improve the country's macroeconomy.

Therefore, only when the economy develops and people's living standards improve, can we have the ability to devote more resources to the field of spiritual and cultural consumption.

In 2002, China's overall economic strength was not enough to support a huge cultural industry chain, and people's spiritual and cultural needs were not as huge as they would be in the future, so there was no way to talk about anything else.

Taking a step back, even if the cultural industry chain is really long, there are very few online literary works that can be published as physical books or film and television copyrights, and they are only sporadic dozens every year, and in the face of thousands of online authors, this is not an inclusive profit path.

Probably out of a thousand web authors, only one person's book gets physically published. One out of 10,000 online authors can sell film and television rights for their books. But for the thousands of web writers who are left, how can they provide for their families?

Analyzing Li Tianlong's entire logic, his biggest loophole is that he completely ignores the interests of the online author group and forgets that the online literature god is the best resource.