Dong Xiaoxue is also a resolute person, as soon as she returned to her office after the meeting, she picked up her mobile phone and looked through the address book.

"Lao Liu, what have you been busy with lately, are you still working in the publishing house? Please do me a favor, it's like this......"

"Hello Brother Hu, I'm Dong Xiaoxue...... , no, no, what a fortune, it's just a part-time job. So, you're still working as the editor-in-chief of the publishing house, and I want to ask you for help with something......"

"Editor-in-chief Li is good, my Xiao Dong, Dong Xiaoxue. Where, where, just mix and eat. How can you compare to the editor-in-chief Li, the chief editor of the leading publishing house in China! I have something I want to inquire about......

After a phone call, Dong Xiaoxue put down her phone in disappointment.

With the decline of the publishing industry, the original endless stream of young writers do not know what to do.

Especially female writers, there has not been a decent newcomer at all in the past two years.

The male writer is a little better, two years ago, Yu Wenfei and Lao Han were on top, and now although Yu Wenfei has sealed his pen, Lao Han is still active in the literary circle.

However, the book he wrote is not suitable for adaptation into a series.

There are too few famous authors like Yu Wenfei's style.

Otherwise, Dong Xiaoxue would not have been looking for two or three years before waiting for Yu Wenfei to appear!

Let's not talk about the old famous writers, to be honest, Dong Xiaoxue can't look down on the books they write, it's not that it's bad, and it's out of touch with the times, especially with young people.

If you make a series and play it on Facebook video, it will only be a waste of money, and it may leave a bad impression on users.

She wants the kind of young and energetic new generation of writers!

Where have all these people gone......

Dong Xiaoxue has been thinking about this question.

Until her assistant Li Yaqin walked into the office.

"Mr. Dong, Facebook has transferred a business letter, it is a website seeking investment or acquisition, and Facebook said that it is more suitable for our business department to follow up, let us see if it is worth talking about. ”

As she spoke, Li Yaqin handed over a large envelope.

Dong Xiaoxue was a little surprised, there are also websites that take the initiative to seek to be acquired, how miserable is this!

This kind of spam website, why did my colleagues on Facebook deliberately transfer it to their side, is this website still valuable?

When I opened the envelope, I saw that it was a website called Qiqi Chinese.com, and sent a business letter seeking investment......

Dong Xiaoxue is a publisher and a literary circle, so she certainly has an understanding of the so-called online literature that has emerged in recent years.

However, their traditional literary circles have always looked down on online literature.

Can anyone do literature?

On the Internet, I don't know who I dare to call it literature if I write some unsightly little H essays?

However, after joining Facebook, as she learned more and more about the Internet, Dong Xiaoxue changed this inherent impression.

Especially in charge of the Facebook Entertainment Division, Dong Xiaoxue has a new idea.

If you don't think of online literature as literature, you should treat it as a part of Internet entertainment.

In this way, it can really become a piece of the puzzle for Facebook Entertainment.

Originally, she wanted to wait for Facebook Video and Facebook Film to stabilize before starting to do this.

But now that this starting point Chinese sent to the door, you can find out......

............

In the capital, in a dilapidated office building, there is a small company.

There is a sign on the door of the company that reads "Starting Point Chinese Network", which is the starting point company.

It's a three-year-old company, and it's obviously not doing much, and it has only a dozen or so employees, including six founders.

"Hey, Lao Wu, it's time to pay this month's computer room hosting fee, have you found a company that is willing to invest?" asked Lao Lin with a sad face.

The predecessor of Qiqi Chinese Network was called "Fantasy Literature Association", which was founded in November 2001.

It was Lao Wu, Lao Lin and other six people who started it together, and the six of them met on the Internet at that time, and they had never met in reality.

Everyone likes to watch the Internet and has the same hobbies, so they simply set up a forum by themselves.

At that time, everyone had their own legitimate careers, and Lao Wu still graduated from Peking University and worked as a programmer in a good company, earning quite a considerable income.

The following year, in 2002, with the rise of online literature, everyone felt that the industry had a future.

So they broke the kettle, quit their jobs, came to the capital together, registered a company, and officially commercialized it.

This website is called "Starting Point Chinese Network"!

The newly established starting point Chinese network is not very famous, and there are no well-known network authors.

At that time, in the online literature circle, the more famous and influential websites were Longkong, Fantasy Sword Book League and other websites.

The authors who are a little famous are concentrated there, and no one wants to start because there are no readers.

Seeing that the company is going to be unable to sustain itself, if you want an author without an author, if you want a reader, if you want a reader, you have no money.

The money that everyone made up in the early stage was almost spent, and there was no income at all.

Relying on the little advertising revenue placed on the website, it is completely impossible to make ends meet.

Forced into desperation, several founders discussed and prepared to make an innovation!

That is, online literature paid reading!

In fact, this is not their initiative, before this, there were paid reading websites in China, but they didn't do it.

But this model, Lao Wu and they all think it is good.

Because since online literature wants to develop commercially, it must have income, and what can it rely on?

Naturally, like movies and traditional literature, the audience and readers pay for it.

Moreover, when online authors have income, they will have greater passion and motivation to devote themselves to literary creation, and more and better online literary works will emerge.

............

In October 2003, the starting point officially launched the first batch of VIP electronic publishing works and launched the VIP membership program.

Moreover, the reader's membership fee is divided into three or seven shares and shared with the online author.

Thirty percent of the revenue is used to sustain the website, which is used for computer room rental, broadband expenses, personnel rent expenses, etc.

The other 70 percent will be given to the online authors, and at the same time, the original creators will be profited, and the quantity and quality of the works will be guaranteed with material incentives.

In the first month of the implementation of the fee, there were only 23 VIP works on the starting point Chinese website, but due to the full payment system, there were authors who paid more than 1,000 yuan in the first month. In the same year, the average salary level in the capital city was about 2,000 yuan, and the average house price was 4,000 yuan per square meter.

As a result, the starting point is to become popular in the online literature circle!

The web authors who used to "generate electricity with love" suddenly found that they could still make money from these things they wrote!

And it seems that the income is not bad!

Web authors who think they have a good level, or are a little famous, are starting to flock to the starting point.

Who doesn't want to make a little more money.

At this point, the starting point is to solve the author's problem, and I no longer have to worry about finding the author to publish the book.

Instead, it raises the threshold for signing a contract, and it is not a high-quality work, and it is impossible to sign a contract for you to sell it for money.

In those years, if you can sign at the starting point, you can brag to others.

Because that means that you are at least a well-known figure in the online literature circle!

When you have a good author, you will naturally have good works, and when there are more good works, readers will come.

It seems that the starting point is about to enter the stage of a virtuous circle, and it has begun to grow and develop.

But......

A serious problem that all content producers in China had to face at that time was also placed in front of the starting point.

That's piracy!

If you want to pirate online literature, it is much simpler than film and television dramas and music.

And the reader's sense of payment is not strong.

Baidu search, all of them are pirated stations, why should people pay you for the starting point.

Readers who are willing to take the initiative to pay are always in the minority.

The starting point has a large number of high-quality resources and a very large number of readers, but the revenue is still bleak!

Moreover, there are more readers, and the demand for hardware such as servers is increasing geometrically, and the expenditure in this area has increased significantly.

Lao Wu and they were surprised to find that Mingqi Chinese Network has become the largest online literature website in China.

But it seems that his company is about to go bankrupt.

As a result, several people also panicked and began to look for investment everywhere, wanting to learn from other Internet companies and use venture capital money to spend for themselves.

Unfortunately, many venture capital firms do not recognize the so-called online literature.

And because domestic piracy is so serious, the starting point fee system does not seem to have much effect.

Venture capitalists were reluctant to invest money, and in desperation, Lao Wu and his team began to send business letters to several well-known Internet companies in China.

Actively seek to "sell yourself......