Lai Feiyu sat in the office and stared at the text on the computer screen seriously.

As an editor at Open Book Publishing, his main job is to find new works and plan for their publication and distribution.

The market for physical books in a superpower with a population of more than one billion people is particularly huge, and the country has always called on its citizens to read more.

In addition to all kinds of teaching materials and popular science books, literary works and novels are relatively popular genres, such as professional genres that only certain groups of people will buy.

The most profitable is children's books, and parents obviously prefer to buy books and stories for their children rather than games and toys. If a children's book becomes popular, it will continue to be printed for decades to come.

Good literature is hard to come by.

Novels have always been a major contributor to the bestseller market.

The average Chinese read 10 books a year, and 200,000 new books are released on the market every year.

Counting the old books that are constantly being reprinted, more than 3 million books are published every year!

The amount is staggering!

In the past, only a handful of pure literary novels made it to the best-selling list, and the vast majority of best-selling novels were plot-driven popular readings.

Fiction authors have more than 80% a chance of writing another best-selling novel if they have a book on the list.

However, in the non-fiction genre, authors with two or more bestsellers are rare.

Some authors are even able to write only one highly specialized bestseller in their lifetime.

It's easier and easier to build a best-selling fiction author.

The 28 effect is very obvious in physical book sales, where important factors usually account for only a few, while unimportant factors account for the majority. There is an imbalance between input and output, effort and reward, and this benchmark is the relationship between 80 and 20.

For example, about 80 per cent of the world's resources are consumed by 15 per cent of the world's population, and 80 per cent of the world's wealth is owned by 20 per cent of the world's population.

It can also be applied to the field of physical book sales, 80% of sales are provided by the 20% of novels, and these 20% of novels are called bestsellers, and the proportion of bestseller sales accounts for more and more of the total sales of physical books!

China's cultural, economic, political, and military strength is exceptionally strong, and the physical book market has not fallen in the impact of the e-era, but has maintained a dynamic stability.

The market is big, and so is the competition.

Publishing companies of all kinds are popping up one after another.

Authors and works have become scarce resources, especially excellent authors.

No company is satisfied.

They are willing to pay a lot of money to sign the author of the novel, and want to tie them to the same chariot.

The small number of physical book writers and the slow speed of creation cannot meet the needs of the vast market!

Therefore, online novels have entered the eyes of publishing companies.

Excellent online novels are highly popular and have passed the market test.

In recent years, paper books that have turned from online novels to physical novels have created the myth of traditional publishing, and have become bestsellers printed and reprinted!

Good online novels also need to be grabbed and started quickly.

The gods who have become famous basically have a fixed cooperative company, and it is difficult to dig into the corners unless they pay a huge price.

The Open Book Publishing Company used to be a glorious company, and it was a big company more than 20 years ago, but it has since gone from bad to worse.

This year, it has just changed hands again, and I don't know how many times it has been sold in the middle.

Lai Feiyu has been working for four years and has changed five bosses, and he is not surprised.

Each boss is initially ambitious to save Kaishu and want to make a career, and in the end they all get bogged down.

If you can't dig up good books, the publishing company can only continue to lose money.

"Alas, the new boss doesn't know how long it will last. ”

Job-hopping also requires qualifications, such as Lai Feiyu, who has been an editor for four years but has not produced a single bestseller, and cannot go to work in those large publishing companies at all.

I can only stay in the open book, hoping to dig up a piece of jade.

He is accustomed to looking for new books by less well-known authors on the Huayue website, and if the previous content is appropriate, he will take the initiative to ask for it.

There is generally not much competition for new books, and large companies are not interested in newcomers or veterans.

Not one out of ten times will be published.

Even if it was published, it didn't sell well.

"This book "People Grow and Hate Water Changdong" is very well written, and it looks particularly suitable for publication!"

Lai Feiyu's eyes lit up, this is a peerless seedling!

He saw that the book will be "Getaway" on the new book list**, and the author is still too new to update.

I thought it would be a kryptonite warrior.

After reading carefully, I found that the author was too powerful in mobilizing the plot and emotions!

After reading the first few chapters, Lai Feiyu had an idea: he must sign this book!

However, he went back to look at the introduction, look at the book review area, and then look for the author, but he couldn't find the account of the official book friend group.

"Isn't it, such a popular book doesn't open a readership, is the author afraid that it will be too hot to fit so many people?"

Lai Feiyu's heart was itching.

There are so many pairs of eyes in the whole Huayue, and he is not the only one who has this judgment.

If you don't seize the opportunity to sign quickly, you are likely to be preempted by others!

If "People Grow and Hate Water Changdong" was just uploaded when it was just uploaded, it is now famous on the new book list, click list, and blade list, and the reader's forum in Huayue's own readership and the Qianlong forum dedicated to online authors have been discussed overwhelmingly.

The jade has bloomed and cannot be concealed.

Lai Feiyu didn't dare to ask with great fanfare, afraid that his actions would instead remind the rest of the competitors.

Originally, the most suitable way was for the open-book publishing company to go to Huayue Official, and the two companies would conduct business docking.

But the strength of the open book is a little weak, and the asking price of Huayue is very high.

If you go to a writer to sign a book publishing agreement through Huayue, the starting price and print run will have to go up to the sky, otherwise there is no commercial value.

Publishing companies basically contact writers privately, one is to help writers save the commission of the novel website, and the other reason is that they can handle new writers very well, and they can buy them at the price of cabbage.

Most newcomers don't know much about the publishing industry, and they get dizzy when they blow it a little.

Lai Feiyu sighed and continued to read later, he planned to go to his signed author and ask if there was anyone from Huayue, maybe he could give some clues.

"There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it!"

After reading a few chapters in a row, Lai Feiyu suddenly saw a familiar novel at the end of the chapter.

[I recommend a cool article written by a friend "God of War", which is a real cool article. You can check it out. 】

Lai Feiyu's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly opened the TT chat.

The "God of War" recommended by Qin Chuan is the online publishing book he signed a contract!

Although the name is loud, the sales are really average, and it may not be able to come out after more than ten episodes.

Generally, due to the long number of words, physical books may have dozens or even hundreds of episodes, which is quite long.

Since the novel is recommended, it proves that these two must be connected!

He hurriedly found Liu Yi and silently prayed that the physical publishing rights of his life had not been sold.

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