The winter vacation passed quickly, and it is worth mentioning that Zhuo Ziyuan's birthday was February 9th, and after this winter vacation, Zhuo Ziyuan officially turned 16 years old, so he went to the police station to get his ID card.

Zhuo Ziyuan thought that he might have the opportunity to go abroad, so he went to the city's exit and entry administration office to apply for a passport, which took three weeks, and on the second weekend after the start of school, Zhuo Ziyuan got his passport as he wished.

Twilight-Twilight also completed the English version at the end of the winter vacation, Zhuo Ziyuan directly handed over the English version to Lu Tao, and entrusted it to the law firm to complete the follow-up publishing matters, requiring the same as before, the publishing house only has the right to publish physical books, and has no rights such as online dissemination, compilation and publishing, film and television adaptation, electronic and audio and video recordings, etc., and there is the right to publish in mainland China and Hong Kong and Taiwan, and emphasized the VAM agreement with Lu Tao, less than 50,000 copies only charge 5% copyright fees, and 5~200,000 is 10% , more than 200,000 copies, 15% of the copyright fee, if more than 500,000, then try to get as many as possible, it is best to get the highest 25%.

At the same time, Lu Tao also helped Zhuo Ziyuan apply for an overseas bank card, which can be directly deposited with a US knife, and if you want to use it in the future, you can use it if you want to, and if you don't want to use it, you can exchange it for RMB. If the money is directly transferred to the domestic card, then I'm sorry, now the country is forced to settle foreign exchange, that is, the US dollars given by the other party, and Zhuo Ziyuan only received RMB.

Zhuo Ziyuan sent the electronic manuscript to Lu Tao in mid-February, and Zhuo Ziyuan gave himself an English pen name, "Phoe."

ix", meaning phoenix, phoenix, corresponding to the Chinese pen name.

Lu Tao's efficiency is very high, in a week, he finalized the contract with the other party, and gave the contract to Zhuo Ziyuan to sign, the only thing that is different from Zhuo Ziyuan's expectations is that the other party only gave a maximum of 23% of the copyright fee, Zhuo Ziyuan doesn't care, as long as he can open this sales channel first, Zhuo Ziyuan signed very happily. The price of Twilight is 14.99 US dollars, which is basically the same price as ordinary domestic novels, but one is American knives and the other is RMB, a difference of 8 times.

Happiness is so unexpected, and as expected, the first issue of the American Imperial Publishing House only published 50,000 copies, but the market response was very good, in just 2 weeks, 50,000 books were sold out, and the publishing house urgently issued 150,000 copies.

As a result, the 150,000 copies were sold faster, and it took three weeks for the publishing house to issue another 300,000, which still could not stop the enthusiasm of the American imperialist people, so it had to continue to issue more, and at the same time published 50,000 hardcover copies priced at 24.99 US dollars, which means that Zhuo Ziyuan can get the highest royalty in the contract.

Zhuo Ziyuan calculated the account, according to this rate, it is not a problem to sell 1 million copies this year, which means that he can get more than 3 million US dollars, counting the exchange rate of more than 8 points, then there are more than 20 million, this is really a step in place, and this income will continue to increase in the future, and Zhuo Ziyuan signed a contract with the US Imperial Publishing House, which has cooperative publishing houses in all major countries in the world, it is foreseeable that Twilight will be sold in many countries, and with the name of the US Imperial bestseller as publicity, I believe that it will also sell well in other countries, and the theme of Twilight is vampires, which is more popular in Europe。

Zhuo Ziyuan suddenly didn't want to publish books in China, but the income from publishing books in China was not even a fraction of this.

At the same time, Zhuo Ziyuan wondered why the book could sell so well when it arrived in the United States, and later communicated with Lu Tao to understand the situation.

It turns out that the US imperialists attach great importance to copyright, and in the US imperialists, it is almost impossible for you to see pirated books, and the emphasis on intellectual property rights has also led to the fact that the US imperialists' books are very expensive, 14.99, a small number, but seven or eight times that of the country. Also, in the United States, it attaches great importance to reading, whether it is a novel or something, I remember that someone in the previous life counted that the per capita reading volume of the American imperialists in a year is 10 times that of China. In addition, there are no bookstores to rent in the United States, but there are disc shops. And because the American imperialist books are very expensive, and there is no bookstore rented, there is another industry that is very developed, that is, the second-hand book market, which is rarely seen in China.

And Zhuo Ziyuan's novels only sell more than 100,000 copies in China, is there really only such a few people to read, far more than that, in fact, Zhuo Ziyuan's novels are very popular, ten miles of peach blossoms have been on the market for two weeks, there have been pirated books on the market, those who have a conscience, will keep the original author Wutong, those who have no conscience, directly change the authors, the rental bookstores near the major schools are all pirated books, a book only costs five or six yuan, and it only costs 5 cents a day. If this kind of bookstore appears in the United States, not to mention that no one will come to rent books, and they will be immediately fined and bankrupt, this is the influence of a society's values.

If you count these pirated books, Zhuo Ziyuan's ten miles of peach blossom sales in China, absolutely more than one million copies, in addition to renting bookstores of different people to rent, then the number of readers has to double several times, if they are all sold in genuine editions, a book will have more than one million income, this is also the sadness of domestic authors, overpopulation, resulting in the implementation of various plans to invest a lot of manpower and time, the official wants to manage, but many times there is a weak heart, this phenomenon has been very much improved before Zhuo Ziyuan's rebirth, at least no one dares to blatantly sell pirated copies。

It is said that money can make ghosts grind, clothes are the power of people, and money is the courage of people, Zhuo Ziyuan now has a deep understanding of this sentence, before Zhuo Ziyuan was still thinking about saving money to 04 years and making a fortune by buying stocks. Now that he has reached the expected goal of 10 million, and it is more than enough, and there will be more in the future, Zhuo Ziyuan feels that he should do more. Otherwise, would it be better for the money to stay in the bank and get moldy?

Zhuo Ziyuan, who knows the trend of housing prices in the next ten years, certainly knows that this is a good choice, but the problem is that buying a house is not as fast as the appreciation of his two stock portfolios, and in the past few years, the increase in housing prices is also limited.

Zhuo Ziyuan thought of the supermarket chain plan at the beginning, the logistics plan, and the bottom-buying plan of the Internet crisis, he suddenly felt that these things were not so far away, and he should make good use of this windfall from the hands of the US imperialists, and maybe he could create a career in this life.

This wealth did make Zhuo Ziyuan's ambition swell, but no matter how Zhuo Ziyuan's ambition swelled, his main task now is to study, he doesn't want to give up studying because he has money, Zhuo Ziyuan knows that no matter what he does in the future, it will not be wrong to continue to go to college.

With this money, Zhuo Ziyuan's need for money is not so urgent, Zhuo Ziyuan's writing progress is also slowing down, he is now focusing on studying, at least the midterm exam can not be worse, the sub-subject needs to spend time to review, and history and geography take up a lot of time.