Regarding the development of the Sahara Publishing House, Yang Yi also came up with the idea from Xixi's children's books. Although he can write some beautiful storybooks for Xixi, after all, it is also a large number of words, which is not easy for children to read, and his efforts alone cannot change the current situation of the lack of children's books in China!

"Old Lu, do you know who writes fairy tales for children abroad?" Yang Yi said to Lu Benjie.

Lu Benjie shook his head, he originally didn't know much about children's literature at all, that is, in the past two years, Yang Yi published a fairy tale book, and Lu Benjie was involved in this field. However, if he were to say that the situation of children's literature in China was fine, he would be blind when he said that he was abroad.

"In foreign countries, most of the people who write fairy tales to children are young parents, not professional children's writers!" Yang Yi said.

For example, the author of classic Swedish children's literature, "Pippi Longstocking" and "Emile the Naughty Bag", was inspired by the story of her sick 7-year-old daughter, Karin, when she wrote "Pippi Longstocking"!

When J.K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter, although she didn't get the inspiration when she was telling stories to her daughter Jessica, she often brought Jessica with her when she wrote in a café in Edinburgh. And on the title page of "The Philosopher's Stone", Rowling also wrote: "I dedicate this book to Jessica, she loves this story......"

"The vast number of parents are also the most potential creators in the field of children's literature, they have their own children, and in the process of interacting with their children and racking their brains to tell stories to their children, there will actually be a lot of wonderful inspirations!" Yang Yi said to Lu Benjie, "It's just that few people thought that these broken inspirations would be expanded and published into books." ”

Lu Benjie understood, and he asked, "You mean, we should dig up this type of author?"

"Yes, we don't just want to excavate, but also support and give them creative support! Especially for some mothers who have the ability to create but are worried that they will not have the financial income to write books, we should give them a little confidence in the early stage of writing!" Yang Yi said.

Subsequently, Yang Yi talked to Lu Benjie about his idea of setting up a children's book creation fund, which is suitable for children's reading and non-adult perspectives as the basic benchmark, encouraging young parents, or authors who have not yet found their direction, to create children's books for children aged 0~8.

"Based on their outline and the content of the first three chapters, they can use it to apply for creative funding from our fund. For example, there is a mother who wants to earn some money for milk powder for her child, and she has a good story, and she promises to write this story into a book and authorize us Sahara Press to publish it, and we will give her 5,000 to 50,000 yuan, depending on how wonderful the story is. Of course, the later book sales share can be executed in accordance with our normal contract, and we will not deprive the other party of the benefits they deserve. Yang Yi said to Lu Benjie.

"We should also give her a limited amount of time to create, and she can't just take the money and stop writing. Lu Benjie said.

"These details, you will discuss and improve later!" Yang Yi nodded, smiled slightly, and said, "I will invest 10 million as the first phase of funds now, and when I run out in the future, I will add it according to the situation." ”

Lu Benjie nodded excitedly, Yang Yi's words really pointed him in the direction. If, as Yang Yi said, it can stimulate the creative desire of parents and change the status quo in the field of children's literature, then Sahara Press can become a benchmark in the field of children's literature publishing, even if it cannot become a leader among publishing houses!

"One more thing, I want the publishing house to add a picture book department and recruit a group of comic artists with high salaries. You don't need to have your own creative ability, such as cartoonists who can publish comic books by themselves, but assistant artists who work for some cartoonists, especially those who have drawn children's comics, are the people we want to recruit. Yang Yi said to Lu Benjie.

"Do you want them to draw children's books?" Lu Benjie suddenly understood Yang Yi's thoughts.

"That's right!" Yang Yi snapped his fingers and said with a smile, "In the early days, their task was to draw different stories based on my previous children's books and make them into small picture books suitable for younger children. ”

Of course, there is no problem with Yang Yi to draw, but how can he have time to draw and color one by one? There is a professional team with experience in drawing comics to help design the storyboards, assign the plot of each painting, and finally complete the picture book, and Yang Yi only needs to do the character prototype design, which is much simpler, and the progress of the book will be much faster.

Lu Benjie nodded as he recorded.

"Later, they will also communicate with the children's book authors we support, and will be responsible for helping them with illustrations and even subsequent picture book adaptations. Yang Yi said.

"This has formed a complete industrial chain!" Lu Benjie clenched his fists and said with some excitement, "The picture books we publish are suitable for children aged 0 to 6 years old, they can read these picture books with a small amount of text and a large number of color pictures accompanied by their parents, and the literary works with more words and fewer illustrations can be provided to older children after literacy!"

Yang Yi's idea is indeed the same!

Of course, in the middle, he will make less money, because he invested a lot of support funds in the early stage, funding a large number of authors with ideas, most of the authors' works may not be able to sell much money, maybe Yang Yi's investment will be at a loss, after all, the market competition is also fierce, and he does not set up this fund for the purpose of exploiting the interests of authors, even if it is an adaptation of picture books, most of the money earned will be distributed to the original authors and the artists in the comic department.

But even if you can't make too much money, it makes sense to do this, Yang Yi's children, Xi Xi and Yu Yu, there will be more wonderful stories to listen to in the future, and more interesting picture books to read.

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Yang Yi is only responsible for providing ideas and funds, and the rest of the actual operation is, of course, handed over to Lu Benjie and the people of the publishing house.

After leaving the Sahara Publishing House, Yang Yi came to the coffee shop, just in time, Yang Huan had no classes in the afternoon, and she helped Ding Xiang in the coffee shop.

"Ah, big brother, why are you here?" Seeing Yang Yi suddenly appear, Yang Huan, who had a ghost in his heart, was startled and said weakly.

"I can't come yet?" Yang Yi asked with a smile, "You shouldn't have secretly talked about your boyfriend and don't dare to let me know, right?"

Yang Yi was still teasing Yang Huan, deliberately turned his head to look at Ding Xiang, and said, "Ding Xiang, tell me, which daring stinky boy is I'm going to break his leg!"

Ding Xiang covered his mouth and snickered and did not speak.

Yang Huan rolled her eyes, but at this time, she had a weak heart and didn't have the courage to talk back, so she just said with a smile: "How can you secretly talk about a boyfriend? My ideal boyfriend is a big hero who stands up to the sky, and I don't know where it is yet!"

After listening to Yang Huan's words, Yang Yi inexplicably thought of the classic dialogue in "Journey to the West", and wanted to say: "Do you still want him to wear a golden armor and step on seven-colored clouds to marry you?"

Of course, Yang Yi didn't say anything, just shook his head, patted Yang Huan's head, and said: "I came out today for some business, and I came to the coffee shop to tell you that tomorrow is the winter solstice, remember that if you don't have classes, come home early, and your parents said that this year is a rare opportunity for the whole family to spend the winter solstice together, and they have to come back for dinner." ”

"Winter solstice!, is mom going to make pumpkin pie again?" Yang Huan said excitedly, "Mom's pumpkin pie is the best!"

"In previous years, we would have eaten. Yang Yi said with a smile.

"By the way, Ding Xiang, if you have nothing to do, come with Huanhuan!" Yang Yi turned his head and said to Ding Xiang.

Ding Xiang was stunned for a moment, hurriedly waved his hand, and said, "No need, I still have classes tomorrow!"

Ding Xiang actually didn't want to disturb Yang Yi's family's family dinner, after all, he was still an outsider!

Yang Huan persuaded for a while, but Ding Xiang just didn't agree, and made excuses to shirk it in every possible way.

"Okay then, I'll bring you pumpkin pie when I come back tomorrow night!" Yang Huan said regretfully, "Let me tell you, my mother's pumpkin pie is delicious!"

"You'll have to stay home with your parents tomorrow night and go back the morning after tomorrow. Yang Yi smiled slightly, "But it doesn't matter, don't talk about pumpkin pie, I'll leave you a copy of the other delicious ones, and bring them back to eat with Ding Xiang the day after tomorrow." ”