Zhang Chen looked at Cheryl Sandberg: "Do you want to try your skills?"

Cheryl Sandberg was a little surprised: "You want me to talk?"

Zhang Chen smiled: "You are all women, you should have more common topics, how about it?"

Cheryl Sandberg felt a wave of pride in her heart, "Edinburgh Castle and the Palace of Holyroodhouse are very good, you can go and have a look, maybe after your visit, you can sign the agreement." ”

Zhang Chen laughed and waved his hand: "Good luck." ”

Cheryl Sandberg picked up her Princess Diana bag, picked out two more toys from the car, and walked confidently towards the Elephant Cafe.

The Elephant Cafe is one of the larger cafes in Edinburgh, and after Cheryl Sandberg entered the door, she looked around and found a woman in her thirties sitting in the corner of the café, and a cute little Lori sitting opposite the woman, holding a milkshake in both hands and sticking her head out and sucking a straw.

"Two lattes, a banana toffee pie, oh yes, and a fruit tart. Cheryl Sandberg pulled out her wallet, "You can swipe Visa, right?"

Cheryl took the plate to the seat next to Joanne Rowling, took out a latte from the plate and put it in front of Rowling, and put the fruit tart in front of the little girl, who looked up happily and said thank you sweetly.

Rowling is thinking hard about the following plot, coding words is a very painful thing, and it is not easy to write words that move people's hearts. The Harry Potter book she is writing now is pure fantasy, and how easy is it for her to use her imagination and meticulous thinking to create a near-real world in words?

And she can't write the setting at length, so no readers want to read it, so she can only integrate the worldview into the small details and use these details to build the reality of the world.

But writing like this is really tiring, and writing the first part of Harry Potter made her a little exhausted. But fortunately, the first Harry Potter has been published for a month, and he has already received the first royalty, and I don't know how the sales will be, and whether the publisher of the second part will sign a contract with him.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone had just been on the market for a little more than a month, and only 500 copies of the first edition were printed, and Rowling could receive a royalty of 1.5 pounds per copy, which was Rowling's first income on the Harry Potter theme.

That's at least two months of community grants, Rowling sighed.

Suddenly, with an extra cup of coffee in front of her, Rowling stopped her pen and looked up to see a young woman in a Burberry trench coat and a chaise d'affaire winking at herself in a friendly manner: "Is it Ms. Rowling?"

Joanne Rowling was confused, "Sorry, I didn't ask for coffee, ah, Jessica, that pie wasn't what we ordered!" Rowling saw her daughter grabbing a fruit pie and stuffing it into her fat little mouth, and hurriedly reached out to stop it, Jessica's mouth deflated, and she cried out.

Rowling smiled apologetically at Cheryl Sandberg, and hurriedly coaxed the child, but saw Cheryl take out a beautifully packaged Barbie doll from the bag behind her, "Baby, don't cry, don't cry, this is for you." Cheryl was already beautiful, and she smiled very gently, adding the powerful temptation of Barbie, three-year-old Jessica stopped crying, hugged Barbie's box, and turned into laughter.

Cheryl Sandberg didn't wait for Rowling to speak, and took the initiative to speak: "Are you Ms. Rowling, the author of J.K. Rowling?"

Joanne Rowling paused for a moment and nodded unconsciously: "Yes, may I ask who you are?"

Cheryl Sandberg moved a chair and sat on the side of Rowling at a forty-five-degree angle, and pulled out the Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone from her Princess Diana bag, "I'm your reader, I just bought your book in the UK last month, it's really beautiful." ”

It's the first time Rowling has met her readers in real life, and she has so much respect for herself, and as a creator, there is nothing more joyful than being recognized by readers, "Thank you, thank you for enjoying this book." Not... Excuse me, but how much does this toy cost? I'll give you the money. ”

Cheryl Sandberg waved her hand, "No, no, this is your daughter, right? ”

Rowling suddenly wondered: "Excuse me, what do you call it? How do you know I'm the author of this book?"

Cheryl Sandberg smiled: "You can just call me Cheryl, that's it, after reading your book, I really like it very much, and I want to introduce it to more readers." I'm an American, and now I work for an investment firm in San Francisco, and we also have some investment in the cultural industry, and I know that you are the author of this book through some connections, and I want to buy the rights to your book and the subsequent works of Harry Potter. We can give you a £50,000 copyright transfer fee, what do you think? ”

Zhang Chen once told Cheryl that if he could get the copyright of Harry Potter, he could spend as much as he wanted, not to mention 50,000, even if it was 500,000, Zhang Chen would pay it happily. But Cheryl Sandberg is hell-bent on fighting a good fight, and how can she prove her ability if she doesn't negotiate it at a lower cost?

Rowling couldn't help but be overjoyed when she heard this, a writer who hit the streets, wrote children's books that were not taken seriously, and suddenly someone said that he wanted to spend a lot of money to buy his copyright, how could he be unhappy?

You can only earn £1.5 by selling a book yourself, and you have to deduct taxes. The first edition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone only had 500 copies, and he only earned 650 pounds, and it is not clear whether it will be reprinted, and even if it is reprinted, it will have to sell at least 30,000 sets to earn 50,000 pounds. In Rowling's opinion, this is completely fanciful.

And now, someone is willing to pay 50,000 pounds for the rights to Harry Potter, which is completely unexpected by Rowling. If you have the 50,000 pounds, you can move to a better house, and you and your daughter's future life will be guaranteed.

But, however, the book has already been published by Bloomsbury. Joanne Rowling was apprehensive, "If they can agree, of course I will." ”

Cheryl Sandberg smiled: "Jonny, you're right, I came to you first to ask, what is the content of your contract with Bloomsbury? Oh, don't get me wrong, I just want to know what rights you ceded to the other party in the contract, and if all other property rights except personal rights were transferred to Bloomsbury, we need to negotiate with them." ”

Rowling is a top graduate of the University of Exeter, which is also ranked in the top 10 universities in the UK, and although she is not proficient in law, she still has basic knowledge of copyright.

"Bloomsbury has the right to distribute the book in the Commonwealth countries, and has the right of priority for the publication of subsequent Harry Potter works in the Commonwealth countries. Rowling blinked, hopefully, "If you want to release this book in the United States, you should have no problem." I remember being very clear about this in the protocol. ”

Cheryl Sandberg's eyes lit up: "What about the adaptation rights, and the rights of screening, compilation, and do you have any agreement?"

Rowling thought for a moment and said slightly apologetically: "I can't remember, the contract is at my house, I may have to look at it to find out." ”

(End of chapter)