The signing of "Sherlock" is a sure win for Nanhai Publishing, and even if the craze for top students in the college entrance examination has subsided a month later, they are sure to re-hype it up.

"Zhang Chu, if you are willing to sign a five-year publishing agreement with our company, then we will use all our resources to build you into a signboard of Chinese mystery novels, what do you think?"

Gu Xinxue simply wanted to tie Zhang Chu to the Nanhai Publishing Company, and the domestic mystery novels were in decline, and he needed a person to carry the banner.

However, Zhang Chuzhi is not here, he has never read a few mystery novels in his previous life, and if he hadn't watched Sherlock Holmes have a prize money for essays this time, he would not have pulled it into a novel in front of a British drama.

Among so many types of novels, the prospects and money of mystery novels are very weak.

"I don't have to sign this contract, and I don't know if I can write a book when I go to college. ”

This is equivalent to an alternative deed of sale, which is a shackle for Zhang Chu.

Gu Xinxue also knew that it was too early to speak, so he took the initiative to discuss: "Maybe you also know that the domestic mystery novel market is not particularly prosperous, and if we publish a book, the cost pressure will be relatively large." It's easy to have inventory rotting in the warehouse, so on the whole, the level of manuscript fees for mystery writers is not too high. ”

"That's true, I haven't read a few novels written by domestic authors at all. And what price do you want to give?"

Zhang Chu is now in a state of being a woman with thousands of families, and his "Detective Sherlock" should not only be favored by Nanhai Publishing Company, but the editors of other publishing houses will try to get in touch with the reasoning of the years as long as they are not blind.

"There are two models, the first is to buy out the whole book for 100,000 yuan, and the subsequent sales revenue has nothing to do with you. The rest of the copyright is yours, and we don't interfere with anything. ”

"This can't work, what about the other one?" Zhang Chu refused without thinking about it, and wanted to buy out the Chinese Simplified Chinese copyright of "Sherlock" for only 100,000 yuan, which is too cheap!

Gu Xinxue didn't care, "Another model is that we sign an agreement and want you to pay off the first printing in the form of royalties three months after publication." With trust like yours, we can give a maximum of 20,000 copies for the first printing, and the remuneration is 5% of the royalty. ”

At this time, Zhang Chu quickly started mental arithmetic, the first printing of 20,000 copies, the remuneration is 20,000 times 5% and then multiplied by the pricing, no matter whether the 20,000 books are sold or not, the manuscript fee is basically fixed.

If the physical book of "Sherlock" is priced at 30 yuan a piece, then Zhang Chu's first printing fee is 30,000 yuan before tax!

This is a big difference compared to the buyout of 100,000 yuan, and it seems to be very cost-effective.

However, the advantage of the royalty model lies in the development potential, in case the book becomes popular!

If you buy out, it doesn't matter how many copies of the book are sold later.

However, if he wants to earn 100,000 yuan, Zhang Chu must at least hope that "Sherlock" will sell 60,000 or 70,000 copies, which is a relatively difficult task for a new writer.

The famous "Years-Reasoning" can sell tens of thousands of copies in one issue in the past, and if the newcomer author of ordinary mystery novels can reach this data, it will be regarded as a god in the reasoning world!

Even if the cultural environment is very good, there are few pirated copies, and there are many readers, it only makes the book sales pyramid a few levels higher.

It is still difficult for low-level authors to sell their works, especially this kind of reasoning classification that no one cares about, and it is even more difficult for newcomers to mix!

Zhang Chu weighed it carefully in his heart, and finally chose the royalty model, he planned to gamble.

Nanhai Publishing Company did not make too many concessions to Zhang Chu, and this first printing of 20,000 copies is already quite a bold move, completely because it is still hot.

Compared with those rookie authors who have nothing, Zhang Chu has too many things to promote.

"Then you can hand over the follow-up content to us as soon as possible, and we can hurry up and release it. ”

This is not the first person to urge him to write.

Zhang Chu agreed, and now the road was clear, so he opened the door of his bedroom and turned on the computer.

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Xu Fei clicked the right mouse button to refresh it, and found that Zhang Chu's "Sherlock" had reached 410,000 votes, and successfully ranked fifth in the voting list of Sherlock Holmes!

"It's too fast, even if he has so much news exposed, it's still too fake. ”

As long as it's okay, Xu Fei has been staring at the voting list for the past two days, and he has another identity as the author of "Sherlock Holmes's Testament", which is currently ranked first on the list.

originally thought that the first 500,000 prize money had been secured, but who would have thought that such a fierce man would be killed at the deadline.

There were 410,000 votes in two days, and the popularity is still increasing!

In a few minutes, it has risen by nearly 10,000 votes, which is really amazing.

"Today is June 29th, and the deadline is 12 o'clock tomorrow night, which shouldn't exceed me, right?"

He was a little lucky, after all, the gap was still close to 800,000 votes, but he was always a little worried in his heart.

None of Xu Fei's colleagues knew he was writing a novel, which was a secret he hid.

At this time, in the group called Reasoner in QQ, everyone is actively discussing.

"Lao Lin, you are also unlucky. I was pulled down in the last two days. Seeing that 100,000 yuan is beckoning, do you want to go and count the tickets?"

"Forget it, I wrote this to fulfill my dream, and I didn't rely on the 100,000 yuan to make a fortune. Lin Yong replied, he was the unlucky guy who had just been surpassed by Zhang Chu.

Liu Zhuo, who spoke before, sent another expression of worship, "Looking at Zhang Chu's trend, let alone the top three, I think the first is possible." Feishen, your chrysanthemums need to be washed!"

Xu Fei was particularly depressed, "It took us so long to get only one million votes, and he had less than 400,000 votes in the past two days." If you want to say that you didn't swipe the ticket, I don't believe it. It's shameless to write so badly and even swipe tickets. ”

"Just talk about what you say in a few of us, don't talk nonsense about things without evidence. Lin Yong said very carefully.

At this time, Liu Zhuo simply chatted with Xu Fei privately, "Feishen, do you still need to operate it now?" Our Blue Whale Public Relations Company provides list operation business and online water army comment business. Do you know that your current position is very dangerous? If you keep the first place, you will receive a bonus of 500,000 yuan, and if you don't keep it, it will only be 300,000 yuan. ”

Xu Fei originally didn't plan to take this kind of crooked path, but he couldn't resist the double temptation of fame and fortune!

led for more than half a month, but if he was surpassed in the last two days, Xu Fei felt that he would vomit blood and die.

After a battle between heaven and man in his heart, he asked, "Then how do you calculate your price?"

"Our PR agency can manually deliver 200,000 votes without being detected by the anti-cheat system. In addition, you can also publish some of the negative reviews of "Sherlock" on the Internet to expose the truth of this college entrance examination champion to netizens! These two prices together only cost 50,000 yuan, and you can rest assured that you can go to Taobao. ”

50,000 yuan is a huge amount of money for the working-class Xu Fei, but as long as it is successful, it will only be one-tenth of the bonus!

Xu Fei decided to grit his teeth, borrow some money, and then swipe his credit card to make up for the 50,000.

"It's better to hurry up, especially the bad points in Zhang Chu's novels, I'll help you find out, and you can promote them quickly. ”