Chapter 92 Physical Publishing
With 6 experienced programmers, plus Wei Mingrang's guidance, the website production of the school intranet is much faster.
Wei Mingrang himself has already made almost it, and Gu Bo and the others are actually using their experience to help Wei Mingrang check and fill in the gaps.
Within a few days, the webpage was basically completed, realizing many of the functions that Wei Mingrang wanted, much more than when he opened the school intranet.
Many of the functions that came later on the school intranet were added by Wei Mingrang.
Even if the opponent changes his name and continues to open the station, many functions are not as good as Wei Mingrang's intranet.
Moreover, Wei Mingrang also deliberately opened a music sub-channel, where netizens can upload songs by themselves, which is actually equivalent to the function of a music website.
In order to prepare for the opening of the station, Wei Mingrang is already working on a second single, which will be released on the school intranet at that time, using his fame in the music and fiction industries to attract traffic.
The same type of campus dating sites as the school intranet are not only the school intranet, but also 5Q intranet, Luyan.com, Yiju.com, Yiduo.com, and so on.
After the opening of the school intranet, these websites were also opened one after another, and the school intranet only won the competition later.
Of course, this has a lot to do with the name of the intranet.
However, no matter how many competitors there are, Wei Mingrang occupies the prophet, and many popular features that only he knows, such as Happy Farm, are the killer features in his hands.
At the beginning of the site, he can also use the first song to attract popularity, which other websites can't do.
The campus interactive communication community is a winner-takes-all market, and like instant chat communication, when all relatives and friends are using QQ, other MSN, UC and the like are gradually unused.
As long as he opens the market and takes the lead, it will be difficult for the competitors behind him to catch up with him.
Before the end of the month, the company's business license, tax registration certificate, website registration and other related procedures and certificates were obtained, and the server was also completed by installments.
When everything was ready, Wei Mingrang decided to open the school intranet on December 1.
On November 30, the last day of November, "Buddha is the Way" defended its title on the monthly ticket list with more than 5,000 monthly tickets, "Blasphemy" was second, "Evil Wind Song" was third, "Face-Changing Samurai" was fourth, and "Chu's Spring and Autumn" was fifth.
In November, three unusual novels were put on the shelves, and Tang Sanshao's new book "Only I am an Immortal" entered the top ten in the first month of its release, ranking tenth.
There is also the famous "Legend of the Evil God", which was also released this month, ranking 12th on the monthly ticket list in the first month of its release.
Finally, it was the first novel with a high order of more than 10,000 at the original starting point, "Dragon Domain" of all beings, which was also put on the shelves this month, ranking 24th on the monthly ticket list.
However, these three novels were overshadowed in front of Wei Mingrang's "Buddha is the Way".
With more and more exciting content and tens of thousands of words updated every day, "Buddha is the Way" has firmly established the title of the hottest novel on the current Internet, and the second place "Blasphemy" is more than 2,000 monthly tickets behind "Buddha is the Way".
With the successive appearances of ancient flood characters and magic weapons, book friends are deeply trapped in the flood world of "Buddha is the Way" and cannot extricate themselves, and everyone has recognized Wei Mingrang's statement in the introduction that the originator of the flood flow is the originator.
This is an unprecedented mythological system that absorbs the heritage of traditional Chinese mythology and successfully integrates "Romance of the Gods", "Journey to the West", "Classic of Mountains and Seas", "The Legend of Shushan Swordsman" and many chaotic folklore, which has opened the eyes of all readers.
Baidu searched for "Buddha is the Way", and the number of links that popped up has exceeded 1 million, and even entered the top of Baidu's search list, challenging the popularity of various entertainment stars and variety shows such as "Super Girl" with an online novel.
On the first website alone, the average subscription of "Buddha is the Way" at the starting point has exceeded 20,000.
According to the estimate of the new subscription, Wei Ming's electronic manuscript fee will exceed 100,000 yuan in November.
Not only that, but the starting point also helped Wei Mingrang negotiate the matter of Taiwan's traditional Chinese publishing.
Wei Mingrang has already published more than 1 million words on the Internet, so the publishing house publishes 65,000 words per episode, and prints 10 episodes of about 650,000 words to see how the market responds.
5,000 copies are printed at a minimum of 5,000 per episode, and a total of 50,000 copies are released to the market with a royalty of 10%.
Although "Buddha is the Way" is very popular on the Internet, after all, it was published later than the online serialization, and Wei Mingrang is the first time to publish a book in the publishing industry, and I don't know how the sales will be, and the publishing house has also taken a considerable risk.
Therefore, the royalties only barely met Wei Mingrang's bottom line requirements, and only after this time the publishing market was hot, the next book could increase the royalty treatment.
The initial print run is 50,000 copies, and each copy is priced at NT$200, which is about 40 yuan per month.
This price is naturally expensive in the mainland, and it is super expensive, and a 200,000-word published novel in the mainland is only twenty or thirty yuan.
A 65,000-word traditional Chinese novel in Taiwan is equivalent to three copies of a book in the mainland, and readers can buy a 200,000-word novel in the mainland for only 20 or 30 yuan, but in Taiwan it costs 120 yuan.
However, this is also because the Taiwan market is small and the number of copies is small, and many new writers only have one or two thousand copies for the first printing, and the price is not high, and the publishing house cannot make money.
On the other hand, Taiwan's publications are also much more sophisticated in printing than those in the mainland, and the standard of living consumption is also higher than that in the mainland, so it is completely normal for the prices to be two or three times higher.
The payment of royalties is the first printing, the contract is signed, and the payment is made.
Therefore, the first batch of 50,000 novels was printed, and Wei Ming received 4 yuan for each copy, which is a publication fee of 200,000 yuan, which is very expensive.
If the sales are good, it will continue to be published later, or even reprinted, and the money will come quickly.
If the simplified Chinese version in the mainland is also published by a publishing house, the income will be higher.
The contract has been signed by fax, but the payment of the manuscript fee in Taiwan still has to go through the procedure, which is probably the middle of the month, which is about the same time as the electronic manuscript fee at the starting point.
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