The gold medal of a good Chinese literature essay contest did not cause much of a stir on the campus of Yan University, and only literature lovers who pay attention to this aspect know that there is such a thing.

People are forgetful, and the previous vigorous unnamed BBS Tang Wanli's provocation has long been thrown out of the clouds, after all, everyone has their own business.

After a matter of heart, Zhang Chu finally had time to take his heart back at this time.

After a month of familiarization, he finally became familiar with the names of those classmates in the class, and he could smile and say hello when he met, so that he didn't even know their names.

Those who have gone to college probably know that in some institutions, people in a class don't attend classes together all day, especially in their freshman year.

People from almost all majors in the whole school are mixed together, just like Zhang Chu's college English class, there are all kinds of majors, and it is rare to meet people from this college!

This is probably one of Zhang Chu's best courses, he has connected the thinking of a high school English teacher, and has also received systematic elementary English proficiency skills, and now the content of the class is not a problem for him.

So the goods listened and listened, and the right hand was a little disobedient, and the left ear listened to the right ear, and all the attention was on the pen.

An ordinary black water-based pen was slowly outlined on the textbook, and after various lines gradually took shape, a black tiger head slowly emerged!

However, Zhang Chu didn't know the tiger face, and the upper canine teeth were short, the lower canine teeth were wide, and the chin was a little dislocated.

He himself is quite satisfied with this work, after all, it was just a casual graffiti, and he didn't expect the skill to work so well.

You must know that Zhang Chu couldn't even draw a smiling face expression before, but now with the blessing of the system, he can draw a more complex tiger head!

"This tiger looks domineering, I didn't expect you to have such skills. ”

A boy at the same table opened his mouth and praised that there were no familiar friends in class, and they all sat casually by feeling.

Zhang Chu was in a pretty good mood, and he responded in a low voice: "Thank you for the compliment, I also think it's pretty good." ”

Despite such and such defects, Zhang Chu himself was satisfied.

During the class, the two can't talk too much, and it's enough to blow each other in business.

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As a student, the happiest moment should be the moment when you hear the bell ringing at the end of class, whether you are distracted, playing with your mobile phone, sleeping, or listening carefully, you will be refreshed.

Zhang Chu quickly closed the English textbook, then stuffed it into his shoulder bag, took his mobile phone and walked out of the classroom.

As he walked, he turned on his mobile phone to check the relevant news, and he received a WeChat message from Zhou Kang before class saying that there were many publishers in contact, and now he wanted to know what works he was here for.

After the awards ceremony last night, Nanhai Publishing Company took the lead in announcing that it would launch the Chinese Simplified Chinese version of "Life of Pi" in November.

In such a situation, there are still publishers who contact Menglong Culture Media, which really surprised Zhang Chu, do these publishers want to help them pay high liquidated damages?

Zhou Kang quickly connected the phone, and he didn't sell it, but quickly shared the joy.

"Uncle Zhou, what do those publishing institutions say today? Are they really here to dig into the corner?" Zhang Chu's question was quite straightforward, he didn't know what euphemism was.

"No, they basically know that Life of Pi will definitely be held tightly by Nanhai Publishing, which is a cash cow. Many of them are here for the rest of the copyrights, such as the traditional Chinese publishing rights of several books that the bay side wants, and they will be packaged and handed over to them. ”

Zhang Chu's works have always been popular in mainland China in Chinese Simplified under the agency of Nanhai Publishing Company, but there are still many Chinese Traditional readers in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and Southeast Asia.

Although those people can use the online conversion function to read on the Internet, it is still a little inconvenient, so some publishers in the Gulf have taken a fancy to the business opportunities.

Zhang Chu smiled and replied: "This is a good thing, anyway, the copyright is idle over there, so it's better to hand it over to the publishing institutions in Wanwan or Xiangjiang, and let them help me expand my influence." ”

"We think the same way, but they want to use the buyout method to buy the traditional publishing rights of the four works of "Detective Sherlock", "Psychological Crime", "Journey to the West" and "Youth Pi" for 1 million yuan in one go. ”

"Is this a call for Hanako?"

Originally, Zhang Chu was still looking forward to it, but now he was directly frightened by this price, and his total assets exceeded 10 million with these four works, but now the other party only gave 1 million, which is cheaper than the rotten cabbage in the vegetable market!

Zhou Kang said helplessly: "At present, the traditional publishing market is not ideal, mainly based on online fantasy and Xianxia, and there are fewer people who buy books, but there are more people who rent and borrow books. In recent years, there have been no works that have sold more than one million a year. ”

The people who read books on the other side of the bay are not the same age as the readers of online literature, and the mainstream readers there are uncles in their thirties and forties, while in the mainland, young people in their teens and twenties are the mainstay.

At its peak, there were more than 7,000 or 8,000 bookstores on the island, and if each bookstore bought one or two books, the sales would not be too bad.

"Either way, I think the buyout is a bit of a loss. Zhang Chu is not ignorant of traditional Chinese publishing, at least on the original earth, the vast majority of the traditional Chinese publishing market in the Gulf is mainland online literary works.

The most strange thing is that Wanwan's publishing houses usually pay about 10% of the royalties to writers on the island, but the royalties for mainland writers are as high as 20%, which is a strange royalty system that mainland online writers love very much.

In the first place, online literature is difficult to publish, and traditional publishing is easier than simplified publishing most of the time, and for online authors who want to print their works into physical books, Gulf's publishing houses are very attractive.

However, the overall economic downturn in the Gulf region and even Southeast Asia has greatly reduced the sales of their books, and more people choose to read cheap works on the Internet, no longer go to bookstores to buy books, and no longer go to rent bookstores!

More than 10 years ago, Xianwang, which ranked No. 1, if a set of physical books sold more than 20,000 copies a month, Xianwang would order the author to end the plot as soon as possible on the grounds that the sales were too low and the profits were too low.

Today, the top three writers in the traditional Chinese market sell about 20,000 copies a month, and they can sell 200,000 or 300,000 copies in a year to become the sales champion.

Where can it be the same as the mainland, like Zhang Chu's "Journey to the West Diary" can sell 300,000 copies a week!

The difference in the number of readers on both sides is too big!

"That's just the price given by the frequency, Xianwang, Xinchang, Xianchuang, Adventure, and Hetu all agree to the royalty system, and the royalty rate is 20%. ”

"Since the royalties are about the same, let's choose a publishing house with deep strength and a better reputation. ”

Anyway, Zhang Chu doesn't expect traditional sports to be sold over simplified Chinese, so he thinks it's to make some extra money and make some money!

The royalty ratio is so high, even if the sales are low, it is quite profitable, after all, Zhang Chu can only get 11% of the royalties on the side of Nanhai Publishing Company now, of which 1% is because of the gambling terms after "Youth Pi" won the award!

What's more, they will not only sell these on the Bay Island, but also in Xiangjiang, Southeast Asia and other places, and I believe that the final sales should not be too miserable.

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As an aside, the traditional Chinese book market is really dominated by our big gods, and the tomatoes, potatoes, Wuzhi, white cranes, high-rise buildings, Xiao Qian and others on the butterfly list.

There is also this group of people above the frog bookstore, and the local writers in Wanwan have been shocked and collapsed, and my big online literature is mighty!

By the way, tomatoes are not called tomatoes over there, they are called flying knives, I guess it's because of the book "Inch Mang"~