Chapter 62: Buying out the rivers and lakes

Tang Jun listened to Liu Jingchen before he said: "One million words is said to be a normal online work with millions of words, and the total number of words is already a small number. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info And there are so many free chapters in Xiaoao Jianghu, and there are almost not too many paid chapters left. From the perspective of online distribution, I am afraid that the company is no longer profitable, and now it can only move to the physical market.

But everyone knows what the current physical market is like.

In the past two years, the overall domestic economic situation has been sluggish. The physical book market is sluggish, and the works with a circulation of millions in previous years are basically gone. Recently, the market can sell 100,200,000 yuan, and it is already one of the top ten best-selling books.

Judging from my past experience, this kind of rookie author can sell 57,000 yuan, but I'm afraid it's his limit. Just hit it with excellent quality and can sell 70,000 sets.

After printing and typesetting, there are only about four or five copies of each set of million-word works. Plus the benefits of the website and the wireless terminal...... Let me do the math, huh...... The overall gross income of the text should not exceed one million yuan.

Even if we buy out according to the price of the newcomer's top works, then the buyout price should not be higher than 500,000 yuan, which is about 500 yuan per thousand words, which is within the range. Well...... From my point of view, that's probably how it should be!"

Yuan Bingwen nodded when he heard this, turned to look at Liu Jingchen again, and said, "Xiao Liu! I know you are a fan of this author." Can you tell us more about this author and his work from other perspectives?"

Liu Jingchen said: "That's how I see the vice president!

The author's popularity on Feilong.com is very high at the moment. Not only has an independent program channel, but also has the right to recommend the homepage, and is now one of the gold anchors of Feilong.com.

Now the total number of authors' followers on Feilong.com has reached hundreds of thousands, and when he is usually broadcast live online, as long as he is online, hundreds of thousands of people are very normal, and I think he is still on the rise at the moment.

I calculated the author's income, of course I'm not an anchor, it's just a vague calculation, which can be regarded as an estimate. I estimate that the author earns more than one million per month, and it can only be high and not low. It can be said that in terms of the current income level of authors, among all the authors on our platform, they already belong to the high-income and top crowd.

Judging from the quality of Xiaoao Jianghu's works, the author's creative techniques are exquisite, the penmanship is sophisticated, and the rhythm of almost every climactic plot is in place, and the plot direction is perfect. Judging from this, it is unlikely that the author's work will deviate in the later period.

According to my personal inference, I am afraid that this book can already ignore the restrictions of the category and interpret it from a classic perspective. Therefore, I am very optimistic about the film and television prospects in the later stage of the work.

But the author has now sold the right to the audio and video version of the webcast to Feilong.com.

I inquired, and the authorization method is for life, and the authorization amount is one million. But this is only an authorization, which does not include his salary, basic salary, share and bonus, in other words, although the author authorizes the copyright to Feilong.com, the joint and several benefits generated still belong to the author himself. That's all I know and what I think!"

Yuan Bingwen nodded and said, "Hearing you say this, this author is already an author with a monthly income of one million!

I also read it, and the author is indeed very well written. The style of writing is exquisite, the sense of rhythm is strong, and the grasp of scale is also first-class.

Just now, Editor-in-Chief Tang analyzed it from the perspective of the normal market, and I agree. Speaking from experience, if I analyze it, it is basically the same as the idea of Editor-in-Chief Tang.

But there is an exception to this, where the author already has a certain audience on platforms other than ours. You know, fans are such a thing, but they can be converted into a reasonable resource of purchasing power.

The author's data in our backend has also been accessed recently. Although Xiaoao Jianghu has not yet been put on sale, the author has received a large number of tips. There are more than 800 accounts at the main level of the Light Alliance, plus a number of accounts at other levels. The total amount of tips in the backstage of Xiaoao Jianghu alone is around one million.

A large part of the reward accounts are newly established recently, and I think it is very likely that these resources come from Feilong.com. It can be seen that the fans of this author are a kind of fans with high stickiness.

Since the author is an author with such a high audience and fan stickiness, the total revenue of physical distribution is around one million, which seems to be a bit underestimated at the moment.

According to my speculation, after the release of this book, the sales scale should be between 300,000 and 500,000. As for the total income, it should be no less than 4 million to 5 million.

So from my point of view, this author, called Octopus, is very important in terms of promoting new customers on our platform and physical book sales. ”

Tang Jun and Liu Jingchen, while listening and nodding, both felt that Yuan Bingwen's analysis was extremely reasonable.

Yuan Bingwen picked up the water cup on the table, took a sip of water, and continued: "According to the current future potential of the work! According to the company's traditional sharing model, it is generally divided into five or five accounts. Some excellent authors can enjoy four or six accounts. In other words, we can put forward a price of up to 3 million yuan to buy out the physical copyright of Xiaoao Jianghu. Editor-in-Chief Tang, what do you think?"

Tang Jun pondered for a moment and said: "The vice president's analysis is reasonable! But if the author is really a big author with a monthly income of one million, then if I want to see it, I am afraid that the benefits of these three million will be difficult to impress him to sign up with our physical sales platform."

Because with the author's current total income, the author is fully capable of independently publishing physical books that are proud of the rivers and lakes. Making five million, after all, is a little more than making three million.

Of course, this also includes the fact that the author does understand the publishing and sales process of physical books very well. If the author is a white hat, it will be even more difficult. There are often authors who sell their works for a sky-high price, if he also thinks so. He is likely to think that he will be proud of the rivers and lakes and have a total profit of more than 10 million. If that's the case, it's not that simple. ”

Yuan Bingwen nodded and said, "The thing you said is, of course, a common phenomenon in the current literary world. Indeed, there are many authors who are not very clear about the distribution process and the scale of profits. But in essence, the buyout price of 3 million yuan has reached a sky-high price of 3 yuan per word. This price is already the price of domestic first-line writers. For a rookie author, it is indeed unprecedented.

What's more, what we think is the possibility of issuance is only an estimate. In case if this book is launched to the market, the response will be mediocre, and we may face huge losses at that time, and we have not encountered this kind of thing. So at the moment, the buyout price of 3 million is already a high-risk price, and for us, it is already a price red line. ”

After Yuan Bingwen finished speaking, the room was silent for a while......

Liu Jingchen thought for a while and said, "Vice President Yuan, otherwise, we should sign an entity sharing agreement with the author." Since the average author is not very clear about the publication and distribution. Then the sharing agreement can fully meet the author's expectations and imagination of the future prospects of the work.

When the time comes, the more it will sell, and the author will naturally earn more. If there are fewer sales, he himself will know what the physical book market is like, and we will only be branded and complained.

And we can also add a part of the supplementary agreement to the agreement, and spread the risk of issuance cost to the final share. I believe this is also a good way for an author who doesn't want to buy out and wants to publish. In case the market sales of Xiaoao Jianghu are hot, then it will not be a loss for the company. ”

When Yuan Bingwen heard this, he nodded, pondered for a moment, and said, "I think so! Let's meet this author tomorrow. If you can, I still stick to the opinion just now, it is best to buy out the works of the network and entity for 10 years.

If the author does not agree to the buyout, then try to talk about the split again. In fact, I am also very interested in the film and television rights of Xiaoao Jianghu. If the author agrees, the company is willing to pay 3 million plus 1 million to buy the distribution rights and film and television rights of the online entity for 10 years.

You must know that most of the excellent online novel film and television copyrights are sold for hundreds of thousands at most. It is already rare to be able to sell millions of film and television copyrights. So you'd better advise the author to think about it more!"

Tang Jun and Liu Jingchen carefully recorded Yuan Bingwen's words in the book, so as not to forget them when the time came.

Several people discussed some more details, and finally the meeting was dismissed.