Chapter 740: The Writer

The evening river breeze blew the bamboo forest, and Professor He put down the bowl and greeted Yan Fei with great interest: "Xiaofei, come on, come on, show you a hand today, let you see what calligraphy is." ”

Picking up the Huangshi inkstone, Professor He looked full of ambition: "Hurry up and come over and grind the ink!"

He had been playing with this inkstone for half an afternoon, studying the carved paintings on it for several hours, trying to guess the age of the inkstone according to the style of painting. It's a pity that his antique knowledge and professional knowledge are a bit far behind, and he didn't come up with anything after an afternoon of tinkering.

Professor Qi exposed him on the side: "Just that stone, you can write good words?"

Professor He was stunned: "I'm not as good as you, I'm not as good as him?"

"Hehe!" Professor Qi was noncommittal.

"What's your expression?" Professor He snapped. "What's the matter, I don't believe it's as good as his handwriting?"

"That's hard to say. "Professor Qi has seen Yan Fei's big characters written for a long time, although he has not practiced for a long time, but he is full of strength, and the words he writes are also unique.

Yan Feile watched the two old men arguing, and came over to look at the inkstone in a daze: "Where is the ink?"

Professor He was stunned: "Why don't you pour some ink in and grind it twice?"

This workaround made everyone laugh.

"Forget it, go back to school and go back to school, go to the antique city for a stroll, find two pieces of good ink and then write. After being hit repeatedly, Professor He simply stopped talking about writing. "By the way, I'll give you 20,000 yuan when I go back!"

"Then you can give it to me now!" Yan Fei stretched out his hand.

"What's wrong? You still don't believe me, do you?" Professor He was upset. "Who can carry 20,000 yuan with him!"

"I'll just have it with me! People who don't even have 20,000 yuan on them, you still say give me money?" Yan Fei smiled. "I've said that I'll give you back the money, it's interesting!"

"Forget it!" After a while, Professor Kung Fu He said twice, but his temper is like this, he usually looks like an old child, and he won't mind this. "Come on, come on, old Qi, kill you two more times tonight, so that you know how to write the word in the suit?"

Xiao Yanchao suddenly became excited: "Grandpa He, I want to play too!"

Professor He immediately became happy: "Okay, today you and I are in a team, let's kill your Grandpa Qi and come and sit here......"

Yan Fei saw two old men and a child start playing chess, so he stood up and pulled his daughter-in-law and walked quietly.

The leisurely time always passed quickly, and after a few days, Yan Fei received a call from Will: "Yan, yours is officially on sale today, and 20,000 copies have been printed for the first time, and it is said that the sales are particularly good, and now the publishing house is printing ......"

Under Will's guidance, Yan Fei retained the copyright, but commissioned a publishing house to print and publish his own books, and the sales were shared. If this guy Weir is according to the people of Sanchahe Township, foreigners have to call him a 'foreign traitor', and it is said that it took a lot of effort for Yan Fei's book.

Because if Yan Fei can't see the money in the short term, Will specially explained it to Yan Fei. But Yan Fei said that it doesn't matter, as long as the book can be published and sold more, it doesn't matter if the rest is - it's better to have more pirated copies, the more stolen the better, so that more people can see themselves.

In response to his view, Will said that it is not possible to expect piracy to expand the influence of foreign language editions. Countries such as Mold Eagle still attach great importance to copyright, and the risk of piracy is far greater than the benefit.

It's not like in our place, if you steal, you steal. Serious is that the more a book is stolen, the more popular the author is, if a book is not stolen at all, then it is estimated that few people will read the genuine version.

Yan Fei is not suspicious of employing people, and entrusted Will to help him do this, so he let him measure and do it himself.

When he hung up the phone, he immediately took out his original version and discussed with Xu Xiaoyan how to publish it. After discussing with Xu Xiaoyan for a long time, Professor He, who was about to pack up his things and go back to the provincial capital, heard it and sneered: "You don't ask for someone here, what are you thinking about there!"

Yan Fei's eyes lit up, and he immediately smiled and said, "Teacher He, do you have a way?"

Professor He squinted at him, "What do you say?"

"Then please!" Yan Fei didn't mind the old child's attitude. "It's up to you to publish it. ”

"This person who has tens of thousands of dollars in his pocket every day still has something to ask my old man!" Professor He sarcastically said to him before continuing. "Leave it to me, the copyright is yours, just entrust a publishing house to sell it through their channels. You wait for me to call......"

It is the character of this old child that Professor He has much more contact with students than Professor Qi, even those students who have graduated for a long time, he can find a few phone calls at any time.

After finishing the call, Professor He took it with a smile: "Okay, how many copies did you say?"

Yan Fei was very atmospheric: "Print 100,000 copies first?"

"100,000 copies?" Professor He didn't bother to despise him. "What kind of well-known writer do you think you are? 100,000 copies were printed in the first edition? If you can't sell it, you can take it back and stew it and drink it?"

"Don't worry, I'll pay for the publication. If I can't sell it, I'll put it in the market, and give it to my customers, and whoever goes to their restaurant to eat will give it away. "Yan Fei really doesn't care about this, anyway, as long as it is published.

Other people have worked hard to write a book, and his coming is really easy, and it has a bit of a bad taste - he has been rumored to be a big demon king, and no one knows about doing such a big thing, it's even better than brocade night walking, and he can only write a book to steal Leyile by himself.

And Boss Yan has a lot of money, and he has no intention of making money from this book, and the only requirement for this book is: the more it sells, the better.

If he wasn't afraid that someone would use it to wrap fritters for free, he planned to find someone to print 100,000 copies and distribute them for free everywhere.

Professor He didn't care about him, and he also felt that he was thinking too much. In all fairness, this one is really well written, with a particularly strong sense of realism, and the content described in it can give people a sense of immersion. Based on this alone, the estimated sales volume will not be too bad.

As for saying that if it can't be sold, anyway, Boss Yan is rich, and other young people are not sure what to toss around at this age, Boss Yan writes a book and tosses it by himself, which is already a good performance and can't be better.

After thinking for a while, Professor He said, "Why don't I find a few people for you to help you write a prequel inscription or something?"

Yan Fei was stunned for a moment: "You mean the celebrity effect?"

"You can teach!" Professor He nodded with a smile.

"Forget it, I don't need to borrow someone else's name, I have to rely on my own strength. Yan Fei thought for a while, and one sentence made Professor He's smile freeze on his face.

After seeing off Professor He, Yan Fei waited happily, and in less than a week, the senior brother Zhou who worked in the publishing house called and said that the book had been printed.

Yan Fei smiled: "Senior Brother Zhou, you said that I wanted to sell more, can I advertise?"

Senior Brother Zhou hasn't been working for a year or two, and after learning about Yan Fei's situation, he almost figured out Yan Fei's thoughts, and immediately came up with an idea: "You can advertise, so, so, so, and so......"

After listening to Senior Brother Zhou's words, Yan Fei immediately began to call the sunspot and asked him to start practicing the newspaper and television station.

Within a few days, an overwhelming number of advertisements came out.

An elegant middle-aged man with glasses is holding a book and talking: "Read, read good books!" I recommend this book in my hand, "When the Aircraft Carrier Meets Dinosaurs", an immersive adventure for you, and a popular science book for you to understand ancient creatures......

Once, twice, three or four, five, six, seven, eight......

In short, it is non-stop broadcasting, cartoon insertion, TV drama insertion, and advertising insertion...... But in the spare time of TV shows, from morning to night, there are people who are praising this book, and that set of soup is not changed, in short, it is one word: blow!

As for the newspapers, it's pretty much the same thing.

There are clear advertisements, as well as advertorials written by reporters who receive money, like advertisements in ten thousand cities, and even the authors blow them vigorously......

Leaders who have become rich, famous entrepreneurs, famous scientific researchers, and students admitted to Daoqiao University in the country have written and published English versions of their ...... in foreign countries

This book is the only one in the sky and on the earth, if you don't buy one and read it at home, you won't be able to keep up with the times!

In recent years, many newspapers and television stations have to drink blood in order to pull advertisements, and the hard-working salesmen have to drink blood, to put it mildly, as long as they give money, they can publish any advertisement - they don't see those who sell drugs and health care products, so they rely on overwhelming advertisements to make a sum of money and disappear!

Anyway, Yan Fei is an advertisement, and there is no forbidden content in it, at most, some descriptions of human nature are a little darker, but there are also shining points!

The advertisements have been overwhelming for several days, and the effect is really not ordinary. At first, many people who wanted to buy books thought that this book must be expensive, but when I inquired about it in the bookstore, I went, and the price was not much more expensive than piracy.

The great writer Yan Fei was still waiting for his book to become famous and someone pirated it, but his price was so low that the pirates had no profits, who would pirate his books!

So I had to keep printing and reprinting......

Senior Brother Zhou was a little admired when he called Yan Fei later: "Senior Brother Yan, a great writer! I didn't expect that advertising could be so effective! Why didn't anyone think about advertising before?"

Nonsense, other authors have to rely on writing to eat, and spending so much money on advertising is a loss of money to make money. Even those well-known writers don't necessarily have so much money to squander!

Besides, there are not many TV and newspaper advertisements. At most, some of them have won awards, and if you promote them in newspapers and television, who will advertise a book vigorously!

Not only do the domestic ones sell well, but the foreign ones sell better.

Just think about how popular monster movies like Jurassic are abroad, Yan Fei's describes those ancient monsters in detail, from all kinds of dragons, giant sharks, Neptune dragons, to big tyrannosaurus rex, small jawed dragons on land, etc., that detailed description, it is not an exaggeration to say that this is a popular science book.

In addition, it is written with reference to the performance of the coolies on those big ships, from the daily life of the characters and their speaking habits, etc., which are particularly in line with the taste of the gringos. If hundreds of thousands of copies are published in China, it is by advertising, and the sales abroad are all dependent on itself!

It's really hot!

In the last days of school, some regular newspapers even wrote comments on the explosion of this book, calling it a mysterious incident alongside the disappearance of the aircraft carrier.

The sales of a normal copy are from a few thousand copies at the beginning to a gradual increase, but thanks to the blessing of piracy, it is generally impossible to increase the printing too much. Everyone often says how much a certain book sells, it all depends on the accumulation of time, how can there be like this "When the Aircraft Carrier Meets Dinosaurs", a group of book fans have exploded in a short period of time, and some people even have a book fan forum on the Internet where the aircraft carrier meets dinosaurs.

It's just fire at home, but it's not the same abroad.

Will called again: "Dear Fei, you are simply the superman of Huaguo, even more magical than Bruce Lee." Now that your name is as well-known as Steven's Spielberg, and his Jurassic is a smash hit, yours will overtake him sooner or later. The good news for you is that someone has contacted the publisher and wants to buy the rights to the film? Guess who?"

Yan Fei was stunned for a moment: "Film copyright?

"yes!" Will was excited. "It's really amazing, and the most honorable thing for me is to have the honor of leaving my name in this magical event, and when the movie breaks the box office record, maybe my name will be known along with the movie, it's really exciting to think about......"

"......" Listening to Will's excitement, Yan Fei deeply regretted it.

Make a movie!

Why didn't I think of making a movie earlier!

Take a video camera and shoot everywhere on the big ship every day...... How real it should be when it comes out!

Fortunately, he just thought, even if he really filmed, could it be broadcast?

That's going to start World War III!

Will was still excitedly asking: "Dear Yan, you haven't guessed which big director is the one who has taken a fancy to you!"

Yan Fei is still relatively calm: "What, if it is made into a movie, it will drive me to sell more, right?"

"Of course!" Will, surely. "Do you know how many movies have been made into movies and then broke sales records again? As long as the movie is successful, the sales surge is definitely not a problem......

"Then ......" Yan Fei thought about it. "If I sell the rights now, is it the best time? I think it's only been a long time since I sold it, and if I start making movies now, will it not work well?"

"Of course not!" Will the chef turned into a senior film director at this moment and began to persuade Yan Fei. "You know, it is precisely because it has just started to become popular that you have to strike while the iron is hot...... That's right, it's to strike while the iron is hot and add fuel to the fire......"

Well, the fire is all out!