Chapter 1149: The Author's Income
Whether Lin Mu wanted to vomit or not, the magic sound in the video always continued to reach his ears.
"In such a short period of time, she suddenly couldn't draw a single page, and there was no sign at all? And she didn't say what she was sick before, and she didn't publish the medical report, so we can only hope that her illness is not so serious, after all, we can't wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep.
This is just a little doubt about Uncle Da's condition from the standpoint of not taking sides, from the perspective of a bystander.
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So what do you rely on to survive in the 10 years after the copyright transfer?
Text, 300-800 yuan for 1,000 words, if you are a little-known author, 300 yuan can't be helped, there is only so much.
Comics,300-400 a page,TX's U17 is probably this price,Color comics are more expensive,500 a page,If your painting is particularly explosive,It's 700-800 a page。
A diligent cartoonist, drawing one page a day, 30 pages a month, has a salary of 8,000 to twenty-five thousand.
In China, is there a problem with supporting yourself?"
Lin Mu's face was like ashes, and he threw his mobile phone aside, and his heart was so painful that he couldn't speak.
I have been in the circle for so long, and it is the first time I know that the income of ordinary authors is so high, 300-800 per thousand words, and the most ordinary authors can get 300 per thousand words!
I think that at the beginning, I made such a great contribution to "Martial Arts Story" and increased such a high sales, but I didn't reach the "ordinary author line" of "300 thousand words", even if I became loud later, I came to "Story Club", I was treated very favorably, and I got the highest manuscript fee from the magazine, but it was only to the level of "500 words per thousand words", and now compared with the horizontal line of this "juvenile code bacteria", I am simply a scum!
This couldn't help but make Lin Mu deeply doubt, could it be that he had been hitting the street all along, and those real gods couldn't hide it, quietly watching his group of scum pretending to be B in the dark?
What's special 300-800 thousand words, how many can reach 300 thousand words in the whole circle?
According to the algorithm of the starting point, 300 words per thousand words is 600 yuan for 2,000 words, and a 2,000-word chapter can only be reached by reaching 20,000 subscriptions!
Order 20,000!
In the entire online literature circle, how many books can reach an average order of 20,000?
The standard of ordinary authors, have you seen the standards of ordinary authors?
There is a picture in the author circle about the changes of a new author after entering the industry.
From the beginning of the high-spirited wearing a suit, to the thousand words 30, 1000 words 20 slowly decreased, and finally reduced to a beggar's general "1,000 words 5 can be used as a gun" are crazy to rob the general, although it is a bit exaggerated and funny, but it does have a basis for its existence.
Basically, more than 70% of the new uploads will be TJ, and only about 5% can sign a contract.
For example, according to a data from Lin Mu's previous life, in the statistics of new books starting from July 2017, a total of more than 31,000 books were uploaded throughout July, still excluding female frequency and creation.
Of these 31,000 books, how many survived?
80% TJ rate, 4% signing rate, you can't even reward if you don't sign a contract, and you can't earn a penny of manuscript fees.
In other words, out of the 31,000 new books a month, only about 1,200 books have the opportunity to earn manuscript fees.
So these 1,200 books, can you easily "300 words in a thousand words"?
Judging from Lin Mu's experience over the years, it is estimated that there are 1,000 of these 1,200 books, and the monthly income will not exceed 1,000 yuan.
And in the remaining 200 copies, as long as there are not too many top gods among them, then there can be 3 books with 3000 subscriptions on the first day, which is already an excellent result, and among the top ten results, it is difficult to achieve even ten books with 1000 first orders.
When it comes to the 20th place, it is generally the first order, which has dropped to 100 or 200.
In other words, among the 31,000 new books per month, among the 1,200 contracted works, only 10 books can be regarded as earning manuscript fees, not even a fraction of the total!
Others, staying up late every day for a month until sudden death, the little manuscript fee earned and the damage to their own body are not as good as selling blood a few years ago, which is easier and more profitable!
This is what the "juvenile code fungus" said, "ordinary authors can only take 300 words per thousand, there are only so many" circle!
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Some people may say that this is the online literature circle, online articles are fast food, and it is normal for the manuscript fee to be low, if it is replaced by those physical magazines, the manuscript fee should not be like this, right?
It's not that Lin Mu hasn't talked to the authors of physical magazines and magazines, and the situation is actually not much better.
First of all, make sure that since it can be published physically, there is a minimum standard, such as a thousand words and dozens of yuan, and compared with the authors of these works, there are more authors who cannot be published, and they can't get a penny.
Now the manuscript fee of domestic first-line magazines is about 150 yuan per thousand words, which fluctuates up and down, and Lin Mu's original 1,000 words in "Story Club" was 500, which was a special case.
150 words per thousand, which seems to be a lot, but it should be noted that the articles in physical magazines are relatively concise, and the number of short words is basically 6000-9000, less than 10,000.
150 words per 1,000 words, a short story is counted as 10,000 words, that's 1,500 yuan, that sounds a lot, right?
But you need to know that in the same magazine, unless the level of the author is too high for the magazine to be reluctant to give up, the magazine will generally not publish more than one article for an author's work in a month!
There are too many authors and too few pages, and the magazine should take into account the majority of the authors, lest they leave without the opportunity to publish.
Therefore, an author's monthly income in a first-line magazine is actually not high, so he can only cast a net everywhere, expecting several magazines to publish his different works at the same time.
Like the domestic romance magazine "Egger Fireworks", the manuscript fee level is only 150 words per thousand.
Where can ordinary authors go, other second-, third- and fourth-tier magazines have lower manuscript fees, dozens of words per thousand, and a short story is not easy to go up, and you can get about 200 yuan.
Therefore, it can be said that whether it is the Internet or a physical magazine, it is impossible for the author to easily say 300 words per 1,000 words as this "juvenile code fungus" said, which is the minimum standard.
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As for the income of comic book authors, it's even more.
One painting a day?
You say this in front of the comic book authors, and those authors can spray you to death!
Not to mention that the speed at which you draw a picture is so slow that a well-known comic book writer has an assistant to help you, and it is maddening to say that these drawings are approved and asked to be changed at every turn.
A painting may reach several hundred yuan, but the normal author and assistant, not to mention the time to change the painting, even if it is two days to paint a painting, and it is still the kind of coloring, the average income of a day is only about 200 yuan, how to talk about the monthly income of 8,000 to 25,000?