Chapter 136: Negotiation Results
"Are you planning to open a website?" the swordsman was stunned for a moment.
"Who knows. Chen Ming said with a smile.
"If I can't make it around here, I'll think about it. The swordsman said after a pause.
"Okay, you get busy first, I'm going to write a novel too. Chen Ming said.
After talking to the swordsman on the phone, Chen Ming continued to code words on the computer, what he said to the swordsman just now was that he was just taking a preventive shot in advance, and the film and television companies are not yet fully on the right track, how can he have time to run a novel website again.
It is much more difficult to create a profitable novel website than to write a novel, and it is not that a few good books on it can retain people, such as why is "Chivalry in the World" so fearless? It is because there are many works on the website, which attracts a lot of readers, and the large number of readers attracts a large number of martial arts authors to write books on its website.
If he hastily created a website, he would definitely have to sign the author, but because he had no readers, he would definitely have to spend a huge amount of money to pay the manuscript fee in the early stage, and he couldn't do this with his current strength.
Time passed, and the only sound in the room was the crackling of keyboards.
After about two hours, the mobile phone finally rang, this time it was Wei Tao calling.
"How's it going?" Chen Ming picked up the phone.
"I haven't talked about it yet, and the other party won't give in after a long talk. Wei Tao replied.
"What are their requirements?" was still a little strange to this Chen Ming.
"The website proposes two plans, the first is that in addition to the electronic copyright and the copyright of the paper book, the film and television copyright of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" should be operated by the website, and we will be given half of the income without any effort. This plan is very tricky, if you sign this contract, the website will sell the film and television rights to a film and television company, and the money distributed to you in the end may not be a fraction of "Xiao Li Flying Knife". After talking about the treaty proposed by the other party, Wei Tao also explained.
"What about the second plan?" Of course, Chen Ming couldn't sign this kind of contract, but he knew how popular Huang Rong was created in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and the "East Evil, West Poison, Southern Emperor, Northern Beggar, and Middle" supernatural powers in it were often cited in real life, and now he was unwilling to give the film and television copyright to others in vain.
"The second plan is that the contract of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" is the same as the one signed before, but the film and television copyright of "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang" has to be taught to them. Wei Tao said.
"They're really ready to empty the white wolf. Chen Ming laughed directly when he heard the second plan.
"What now?" Wei Tao asked, Chen Ming had to make an idea about this kind of thing, and he just led people to discuss some details.
"You tell them that if there are only these two options, the contract will not be signed this time. Chen Ming said.
"Okay, then I'll hang up first. Wei Tao said.
After Chen Ming put down the phone, he moved his muscles and bones, and was about to go to see Xu Xiaomei, when Wei Tao's phone called again.
"What do they say?" Chen Ming asked, picking up the phone.
"The other party is now calling their leader Yang Xin, saying that Yang Xin will call you directly. Wei Tao said.
Chen Ming still knows about Yang Xin, one of the six founders of "Chivalry in the World", and often promotes it on the website on holidays, and it is difficult for him to know it.
"By the way, in the contract serialized by "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang" last time, what was the liquidated damages for terminating the contract?" Chen Ming suddenly asked.
"You get ten times the manuscript fee, why are you asking this? You don't want to ......" Wei Tao didn't say the next words, he had already guessed what Chen Ming wanted to do.
"It depends. Chen Ming said with a smile.
After hanging up the phone, Chen Ming directly logged in to the background to check last month's income. Now, although the website has counted the manuscript fee for the previous month, it has not yet reached the day to transfer money to the bank card, so Chen Ming does not know how much he can get.
As soon as the manuscript fee page came out, five works were directly displayed on it.
Writer Income:
"Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword": 843,000 yuan.
"Swordsman's Walk": 3124 yuan.
"Fragrance Sword Rain": 13,461 yuan.
"Lover's Sword": 20,531 yuan.
"The Legend of Chu Liuxiang": 2.817 million yuan (including 190,000 yuan for magazine manuscripts)
Total: 3697116 yuan (3,697,116 yuan)
Chen Ming was also shocked when he saw this manuscript fee, he didn't expect that this month's manuscript fee would be so much.
But after thinking about it for a while, Chen Ming understood, as soon as this book was published, the swordsman directly gave him a big recommendation on the homepage, and when he first wrote this book, because many people were not optimistic about the previous three books, and then the performance of this book was unexpected by these people, and the contrast between before and after naturally had a topic and exposure, and let many people know about this book.
After that, because of Qin Shu and his master's affairs, the book "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang" made a lot of news and increased a lot of readers.
Coupled with the fact that he updates quickly enough and the quality of his novels is good enough, it is not surprising that he can get close to three million manuscript fees.
As for the manuscript fees for other books, it must be that some readers are itchy when they chase the more, and they spend money to read his previous works, because "The Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword" is the most and most beautiful in it, so he got more than 800,000 manuscript fees at once.
Chen Ming immediately thought that due to the popularity of "Xiao Li Flying Knife", many people began to read this novel, so that the finished book of "Amorous Swordsman Ruthless Sword" next month is likely to make him earn more than five million manuscript fees again.
He also saw the 190,000 manuscript fees earned from the magazine, which was multiplied by 10 to 1.9 million, and Chen Ming believed that if the contract was terminated, the loss of the website would definitely be much greater than himself. However, as long as the website does not intend to turn against him, Chen Ming will not take the initiative to break the contract.
At this time, the phone finally rang, and Chen Ming guessed that it should be Yang Xin's phone, so he answered it directly.
"Hello Mr. Jingu. A polite voice came from the other end of the line.
"Hello Mr. Yang. Chen Ming replied with his back to the chair.
"I heard that you are very dissatisfied with this contract?" Yang Xin's voice came again.
"Well, I think it's a little unfair to me. Chen Ming replied honestly.
"Then what do you think should be done?" Yang Xin said
"It's simple, the same as before. Chen Ming replied with a smile, but Yang Xin couldn't see his smile.
"Yes. What Chen Ming didn't expect was that Yang Xin directly agreed.
"I also have a request, the contract must indicate how many words to give what kind of recommendation, this recommendation I don't ask for much, just treat it the same as "The Legend of Chu Liuxiang". Chen Ming said.
Chen Ming's words made Yang Xin directly stunned, he didn't expect Chen Ming to guess his plan at once.
This was originally a decision at their meeting, if Jin Gu did not agree to the two plans, he would reduce the recommendation of his new book, and suppress it in this way, and later Jin Gu would definitely take the initiative to contact them to change the contract after seeing that the results of the book were not good.
Yang Xin immediately thought that someone had told Jin Gu about the content of the meeting.
Although he guessed this possibility, Yang Xin still said quietly: "I can't promise you this request, there has never been such a provision on our website." ”
"Then it can't be helped, it seems that we can't work together happily. Chen Ming smiled indifferently and hung up the phone directly.
Hearing the "beep" sound on the phone, Yang Xin's face suddenly became gloomy, which startled Zhang Rong, who was sitting in the office.
(To be continued.) )