After sending the contract at the Nanping Post Office, Wei Mingrang took a car back to the Lanhutian business district, found a hot pot restaurant, and then called three roommates and asked them to come over for dinner.

This is what Wei Mingrang promised his roommate in the afternoon, and he was treated after the work was signed.

To be honest, everyone admires Wei Mingrang's fact that he earned 80,000 yuan in the first three days of school, including Wei Mingrang's three roommates.

But for him, a pure newcomer, the work has just been uploaded, and before he signed the contract, he took out nearly 20,000 yuan in cash to hype up the reply post with a prize, and the three of them didn't understand.

Although they have read Wei Mingrang's book and find it a little attractive, they can't see what Wei Mingrang claimed in the introduction as "the originator" and "a book is a god".

For such an ordinary online novel, it is a question of whether it can be signed, let alone become a god and make money?

Even Yu Yongqiang, who reads novels every day and knows something about online novels, is a little unconvinced.

Even though he knew that there were authors such as Blood Red who made more than a million dollars a year, it was still hard to believe that such authors were around him.

After all, there are many people who write online novels, but there are still very few who can really sign contracts, put them on the shelves, and make money.

Whether it is the starting point or other novel websites, the library is full of a large number of eunuch works of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of words, or even millions of words that have not yet been signed.

But Wei Mingrang's book was uploaded yesterday, and after he really signed the contract today, Zhou Yi, Chen Hongliang, and Yu Yongqiang were a little surprised, and they began to face up to it.

During the meal, the three roommates all asked curiously about Wei Mingrang's writing of the novel.

Zhou Yi asked, "Brother Wei, can you start making money after signing a contract for this novel?"

Wei Mingrang shook his head and said: "No, after signing the contract, I just have the qualifications for the recommended position, which is similar to the advertising position." And the recommendation position is not continuous, and it needs to be promoted from the PK of the classified small recommendation position level by level. Only when the collection and recommendation vote increase are in the forefront of the same recommendation position in the same period can you be promoted to a better recommendation position, and then put it on the shelves when you have about 300,000 words. When the website blocks the follow-up VIP chapters, readers can only see them if they pay for them, and then the author and readers share it in half. ”

Three roommates, even Yu Yongqiang, who reads online novels every day, because he doesn't write and has never been in contact with it, only knows a little about the author's field.

Wei Mingrang gave them a good science popularization, so that they could prepare for their high income in the future and get vaccinated.

When Wei Ming asked the senior VIP readers who said that the starting point only paid 2 cents and 1,000 words to read the book, and the author could only get 1 cent for 1,000 words, Zhou Yi and the three of them frowned a little, feeling that the price was so low, how could Wei Mingrang earn back nearly 20,000 yuan?

But when Wei Mingrang gave an example of how if an average of 10,000 readers subscribed (all subscriptions), the author could get a price of 100 yuan per thousand words.

According to Wei Ming's daily update of 12,000 words, there is an income of 1,200 yuan per day if the average subscription is more than 10,000, 36,000 yuan a month, and more than 400,000 yuan a year.

The three of Zhou Yi were shocked next time, and they also understood that online novels rely on small profits and quick turnover.

Although the price of a single reader reading a book is low, as long as there are many people, let alone 10,000 orders, it is also a good income.

Wei Mingrang also revealed that the income of online novels is not limited to electronic subscriptions, but also film and television adaptations, game adaptations, physical sales, and so on.

Although the concept of online literature IP operation has not been proposed at this time, there are still some precedents for copyright sales for the sale of the physical book of "First Close Contact", the game adaptation of "Zhu Xian", etc.

In particular, Wei Mingrang used Jin Yong's novels as an analogy, saying that Jin Yong's novels were serialized in newspapers, and online novels were serialized on websites, but the carriers were different, in fact, they were the same popular literature.

After writing the Fire Book, in the future, it will not only be a game and physical publishing, but also TV series, movies, animation, comics, audio novels, foreign language licensing, and so on.

These are all things that Wei Ming only knew with the consciousness of rebirth, and Zhou Yi and the three of them didn't expect that there would be these ways out of writing online novels.

Perhaps even the head of the starting point has not yet realized these ways out.

Although he was skeptical, the full copyright operation that Wei Mingrang said did open the eyes of the three roommates, and he was not so incomprehensible about Wei Mingrang's investment of nearly 20,000 yuan.

In fact, Wei Mingrang didn't tell them that the sale of copyrights is the business of top writers, and it has little to do with hitting the streets.

Including Wei Mingrang in his previous life, except for the adaptation of "Urban Almighty Superstar" into an audio novel, and the full copyright of "Yipin Food" sold at a low price, there is no other copyright for sale.

Wei Mingrang's dream of publishing a physical book in his heart and then taking it home to his parents has never been realized.

Wei Mingrang told his roommates about this, just because Wei Mingrang after being reborn has owned countless classic online novels for more than ten years, and the future copyright sales will be eye-opening.

After eating, I returned to the dormitory, and it was already past 19 o'clock in the evening.

Zhou Yi and the three of them went online separately, and Wei Mingrang updated today's fourth chapter, and then continued to code words and save manuscripts.

Two days later, on Friday, September 16, there was no class in the afternoon, and Wei Mingrang continued to save manuscripts in the dormitory.

"Buddha is the Way" has been updated with more than 40,000 words, the collection of naked running has reached more than 3,000, and the book review area is very lively, but there is no short station in the background where the contract has reached the starting point, and the page has not yet been signed, and the authorization status is still "exclusive work".

However, after 16 o'clock in the afternoon, Wei Ming refreshed the author's background after finishing a chapter, and a short reminder actually popped up.

Wei Mingrang was overjoyed, clicked on it and took a look, sure enough, it was a notice that the contract had arrived at the starting point, thinking that although this EMS was not as good as SF Express, it was not too slow, after all, it cost so much money.

However, the authorization status of the page has not changed, so Wei Mingrang has always been a little distracted, and the speed of the code word has been greatly reduced.

After another chapter, the time passed 17 o'clock, Wei Ming asked him to save the manuscript, refresh the pages again, and then was pleasantly surprised to see that the authorization status had changed from "exclusive work" to "A' level contract".

Wei Mingrang immediately sent a screenshot of the authorization status to the editor in charge.

Mingqiao: The light and shadow are great, the contract has reached the starting point, and the authorization status has been changed to A' level signing.

Light and Shadow: Okay, but this week's recommendation has been arranged, and I will give you a recommendation next week.

Mingqiao: Understood, it's fine.

Light and Shadow: Also, your update speed is too fast, why don't you update it slowly? Otherwise, when you put it on the shelf, I'm afraid it will be three or four hundred thousand words, and the number of free words is a bit much, which is a bit of a loss!

Mingqiao: It's okay, the number of free words is more, and it is good to attract more readers.

Light and Shadow: Well, as long as you want to.

Ending the conversation, Wei Ming asked him to continue to save the manuscript.

As for the matter of the recommended position, it can only depend on luck, and the light and shadow will not tell him this in advance.