"50,000 yuan, plus the first 1 million manuscripts of "Breaking the Firmament"!" Lin Qi said with a smile, "Change 50% of the shares of the publishing house!" Of course, the money is not for you, but the capital increase is injected into the account of the publishing house as the operating capital of the current Dahai Publishing House. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"50 percent of the shares, that's too much! You know that the real estate of the publishing house alone is worth four or five hundred thousand yuan!" Although Zhang Dahai is optimistic about "Breaking the Sky", he absolutely refuses to use the copyright of a book plus 80,000 yuan to account for 50 percent of the equity. The reason is that, as he said, the real estate shared by the Great Sea Bookstore and the Great Sea Publishing House is listed in the name of the Great Sea Publishing House. The property in Kowloon Tong alone, although it is not a prosperous shop, is definitely worth four or five hundred thousand.

It is necessary to use 80,000 yuan and a book in exchange for a property worth more than 250,000 yuan. This book is inevitably too valuable.

No matter how optimistic Zhang Dahai is about this book, he doesn't agree with this price!

He's a businessman, not a pure gambler......

Lin Qi said: "In this way, divide the assets of the bookstore and the publishing business and register them as two independent entities. The property belongs to the Great Sea Bookstore, and the publishing house rents the office space of the Great Sea Bookstore. After that, I will pay 80,000 yuan and 1 million words of manuscript to exchange 80% of the shares of the publishing house, what do you think?"

After hearing this, Zhang Dahai was moved and said: "In this way, it is too advantageous for you." It's better to do this, and I will also contribute 80,000 Hong Kong dollars. In addition, the Dahai Bookstore does not charge rent from the Dahai Publishing House, so I hold 51% of the shares, you account for 49%, and you don't have to pay 80,000 yuan, you can pay 50,000 yuan!"

According to this conversion, the manuscript is 1 million words, which is about 30,000 yuan in cash. It is also the manuscript fee calculated at 30 yuan per thousand words. In Hong Kong in the 80s, it was about two years' wages for an average office worker. Although, it's not too high, but it's not too low either. Submitting a manuscript to many small and medium-sized publishing houses, even if it can publish a book, may not be able to get such a level of manuscript fees.

"Okay, yes! I ask that if "Breaking the Sky" can be a big hit, after 1 million words, the manuscript fee will be obtained according to 10% royalty. Lin Qi said.

"A word is a certainty!" Zhang Dahai also knew that the Dahai Publishing House had gone bankrupt, and all that was left was the tattered ones in the office, so to speak, it was worthless. Whether it can make a comeback depends on whether "Breaking the Sky" can be a big hit. Therefore, Zhang Dahai can be regarded as making a little blood and taking a gamble!

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In September 1979, Lin Qi and Zhang Dahai efficiently reopened the Dahai Publishing House. Because most of the old employees of the sea publishing house have changed careers and found new jobs. It is also unrealistic to recall old employees. As for the newly recruited new employees, there is also a process to familiarize themselves with the business.

Therefore, Zhang Dahai has become the busiest existence in the company. At the same time, Zhang Dahai also pulled his niece Zhang Ru to Dahai Bookstore to help as an editor.

Zhang Ru is not highly educated, only graduated from primary school, but because he has been reading books in Dahai Bookstore since he was a child, he also has a bit of literary literacy, and at the same time, he used to work part-time as an editor in Dahai Publishing House, so he is relatively familiar with the business.

Now, Zhang Dahai transferred Zhang Ru over just to install a descendant in the company and enhance his voice in the company.

For Zhang Dahai's careful thinking, Lin Qi didn't care.

In fact, the equity of Dahai Publishing House is of little significance to Lin Qi.

It's just that he needs to have a platform to launch the works provided by Lin Qi on the market as soon as possible.

Wait until the work is on the market and gains fame. Whether it is to continue to cooperate, or to get rid of the sea publishing house and start anew, the initiative is in the hands of Lin Qi!

To put it simply, Hong Kong has no shortage of publishing houses, but there is a shortage of people who are familiar with the publishing business, and even more so of creators who continue to create high-quality manuscripts!

"Xiaoru, don't be so restrained...... Lin Qi said that the stacks of manuscript paper were handed over to Zhang Ru to deal with, and said, "If you draft it, you can pick out typos, or sick sentences that affect the reading experience, and try to make the text as smooth as possible, that is to say, there is no dyslexia at the primary school education level......"

Zhang Ru's face couldn't help but turn red, and said: "I have a low level of education, and I only read until I graduated from primary school. ”

Graduated from elementary school with an education level to become an editor? Although ...... Lin Qi feels a little unreliable, but considering that many well-known writers also have a primary school education, it does not even affect becoming the best-selling fairy tale king, let alone winning the Nobel Prize in Literature.

In other words, it is also said that literature and art have nothing to do with academic qualifications. It is enough to also have a primary school culture as a foundation, and the rest is mainly based on talent.

"That, that's great!" Lin Qi thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid that editors with too high a level of education will be too detached from the bottom of the masses." After all, there are many more readers in the market who read less than those who read more. Blindly catering to the lofty intellectuals will definitely not sell well. The threshold for manuscripts is lowered, so that people with low cultural levels can read and like it as much as possible, and it is a best-selling way!"

There are many examples that prove that being too literate and too rigid is not necessarily a good thing. For example, "Dream of Red Mansions" is the most cultured and best written of the four famous novels, and it is also the most popular classical Chinese novel touted by the mainstream cultural circles.

However...... "Dream of Red Mansions" is the most popular of the four famous novels, and the mass base of the other three masterpieces, any of which far exceeds "Dream of Red Mansions".

In the past few days, Lin Qi has successively handed over the first 200,000 words of the manuscript of "Breaking the Sky" to Zhang Ru for proofreading. Of course, for fear of suspicion, Lin Qi deliberately added some typos and sick sentences to the draft. This is in line with the normal manuscript, otherwise, there is no mistake at all, and it can be directly printed, which would be too demonic!

Of course, the percentage of typos is very low, and the ratio of typos is more than one thousand. This ratio is already very serious. You know, some best-selling authors who write books very quickly have a bunch of typos, but they don't change them in person at all. After writing hastily, immediately throw the manuscript to the assistant or the editor to change it.

The publishing house does not dare to give a face to writers who are not serious about this attitude. Because, such a hanging attitude is all some famous people who have no fear.

Including Gu Long, the manuscript was very hurried and perfunctory, and it was a dream for him to seriously polish it repeatedly like Jin Yong! Even, even when the deadline was approaching, Gu Long couldn't deliver the manuscript on time. If you have that time to write, it's better to go out and drink flower wine. As a result, every publishing house that cooperates with Gu Long is angry and vomits blood, and before the manuscript is requested, it must be ready to be sought-after, and Gu Long can't hand over the manuscript, so he has to let the sought-after manuscript make up for it. As for correcting typos and sentences for famous manuscripts, this was one of the main tasks of editing and proofreading in publishing houses in this era.

Lin Qi explained to Zhang Ru that the proofreading was in addition to finding typos. The main thing is to change the parts that are not smooth and easier to understand. It is necessary to think from the perspective of readers with a very low level of education, so as to expand the potential readership market.

Ten days later.

Zhang Ru proofread and edited 65,000 manuscripts, that is, the first episode to be published, to Lin Qi for review.

Lin Qi was surprised to find that she actually underestimated Zhang Ru! Originally, she was expected to pick out the typos that Lin Qi had deliberately added. As a result, she really revised the manuscript more smoothly, and the quality went up a notch.

You must know that the original manuscript of "Dou Po" has been very smooth, which has lowered the reading threshold. But after Zhang Ru's modification, there is a feeling of being polished and smoother!

Although it is still a small white book, it ...... It seems a little different!

Is this feeling basically back to basics?

"That's good! It can be changed more easily and understandably!" Lin Qi said complimently.

Zhang Ru said embarrassedly: "I have a low level of education, and I don't understand some words and sentences very clearly." So...... Replace it with something easier to understand. And, read the book to the illiterate old grandmother, and let her tell me that she couldn't understand it. Then, targeted modifications. ”

"Yes, young lady, you have learned from the ancient great poet Bai. Lin Qi couldn't help but give a thumbs up. For a moment, he lost his memory a little and forgot who he was......

"Bai Juyi ......," Zhang Ru whispered.

"That's right, it's Bai Juyi, write poems to the illiterate old woman, and the old woman will change it if she doesn't understand. Change it to the point that illiterate old women can understand it, then it will really be appreciated by both the elegant and the vulgar. Lin Qi said with a smile.

That's what a top poet and writer does!

The vast majority of top poets and writers will not play tricks, but most of them will make their words more understandable.

On the contrary, some so-called "artists" whose level is far inferior to that of literary heroes have turned art into a group of demons that are difficult for ordinary people to understand. The art of going crazy is the clown of the times, and history will not give these people too high a rating.

Zhang Ru couldn't help but feel funny when she heard this, and Lin Qicai was embarrassed to forget Bai Juyi's name, and in a blink of an eye, he began to talk about Bai Juyi's allusions again. Of course she knew this allusion...... Don't look at the fact that she only studied in elementary school, but if you really want to talk about the books she has read, she may have more books than college students......