Chapter 23: The Future of Webtoons
There are two people's contact information on the employee information on the panel, but since the company now has only one website, and even the physical office location is still only in a personal home, so he had to use the Internet chat tool to add two people, and then started the first online meeting.
Fortunately, the network conference exchange in the Federation of Daya is convenient and fast, and many companies will use this method to conduct remote meetings, Xia Ziyu and the two of them booked a meeting to open the network conference room on time.
In the meeting video, Xia Ziyu also saw the true appearance of the two, Yan Zhi is a twenty-six-year-old mature intellectual female employee as shown in the photo, even if she conducts a meeting video at home, she will pick herself up very workplace, probably the first time to meet with the boss of the new company, she put on light makeup in the workplace, put on a women's suit in the workplace, and is very capable of being a working woman.
As for Li Yao, when Xia Ziyu saw him appear in the video screen, he felt that he did not match the temperament of the handsome uncle in the photo, and now only the temperament of the uncle remains.
Probably because of his family during this time, he was very tired, and his family's illness could really drag down a man in his prime.
Xia Ziyu actually didn't say much, after all, the signing was helped by the system, and there was no interview process, of course, he didn't know how to interview a comic editor, after all, he was not as good as others in terms of professionalism.
He just explained the work content of the two, and the company can only work from home at present, but it will definitely have its own office location in the future.
Xia Ziyu applied for a new employee account for the two on the pikapika website, and then gave the two of them the permission to edit, and they can use the background to review newly uploaded works, send SMS messages and work recommendations.
In addition, the system has hired a few people, the technician who maintains the website, directly sent to the server rental point to do maintenance, network planning, operation, these are assigned tasks according to the instructions of the system, as for finance, at this point Xia Ziyu negotiated with the system for a long time, the system reluctantly took this position, a system that can easily call his bank account, help him manage finances, and I don't know if this is a bit of a door-to-door feeling.
In fact, Xia Ziyu also thought about renting an office and then letting employees go to work there, which seemed more formal, but was persuaded to retire by the system.
It is not without the current working model in the Federation of Daya, which is generally the initial operation model of small companies, which is a common type in Daya, without an office location, and only after the company's scale is formed, the office will be set up, if the company goes bankrupt, the employee will get an advance salary from the Federal Administration for Industry and Commerce, and then find a home.
As the son of a group, he really doesn't adapt to this poor model for opening his own company, but he doesn't want his family to invest, and his funds are very short, so he can only use this model first.
There are still hundreds of thousands of dollars left in his personal account, and these funds will be used in many aspects in the future, such as employees' salaries, website publicity costs, and manuscript fees for receiving, and hundreds of thousands may not last long.
As a practitioner in the comics industry, he knows that the comics industry has two operating systems.
One of them is the webtoon in Huaxia in his memory, this kind of operation system is the same as the online text, cartoonists upload their works to the comic website, and after the review is passed, they can be displayed to readers, and the contract is simple. The income of the website mainly depends on member subscriptions and rewards, and there are also later copyright adaptations and copyright authorizations.
The second is the traditional comic industry, that is, the physical comic industry, which is represented by the three major neon comic clubs, and it is also the current single operation model of the Federation of Greater Asia.
The cartoonist submits the manuscript to the door, the comic editor reviews it, and submits it to the serialization meeting after passing it, and the serialization can only start after the serialization meeting is passed. Cartoonists mainly rely on the contribution fee and the share of the published single book to make money.
Xia Ziyu thought about it for a while, the advantages of the first method are low upfront operating costs, low difficulty in promotion, and easy to read comics. However, the disadvantage is that since there is no such webtoon in the Federation of Greater Asia, the comic audience does not know whether it can accept this comic model, and the level of contracted cartoonists is uneven, and the overall level is low.
Yes, in the past few years since the lifting of the entertainment ban of the Federation of Daya, although the comic industry has blossomed everywhere, and comic publishing houses have opened countless books for a while, no one has stepped into the direction of online literature.
Daya Comics has unanimously adopted the operation model of physical publishing, and now his Pikapika Comics is a pioneer in the industry to test the waters, and whether it can be done depends on luck.
Why is there such a statement, the main reason is that the Federation of Greater Asia has only begun to restore entertainment culture, and the policies issued by the Entertainment and Culture Administration are extremely gentle, worried that if you are not careful, entertainment will be stillborn, as long as you do not return to the government, return to human works, they will let it go, and when it comes to the entertainment industry, there are no strict control regulations, which makes the market a mess.
It is also because of the ambiguous attitude of the Entertainment and Culture Administration and the relaxation of market control that it has led to the breeding of piracy on the Internet, similar to the China on the earth in his memory.
However, pirated resources are still somewhat convergent.,At least there is no pirated website for comic resources that dares to do web resources.,It's all packaged comic resources for paid downloads.。
This has seriously affected the revenue of physical comic magazines, and professional data analysts have announced that the pirated resources of the Greater Asia Federation suck more than 300 billion Asian dollars a year in the genuine industry market, which refers to all entertainment industries.
According to the analysis of comic practitioners, if there are no pirated resources, the sales of comic magazines and comic monographs may increase by another 50%!
If it weren't for the fact that you also need to pay for downloading pirated resources, the revenue of the genuine market may be hit harder, but fortunately, Daya's piracy market is not free like the Earth.
This is probably due to some reasons of the comic publishing association, the comic industry publishing house and some authors of the association, every year to discuss the development of the industry, piracy can be said to be in their target every year, so the piracy market of comics will be somewhat convergent, not as blatant as online piracy.
And now that Xia Ziyu is doing webtoon publishing, he has a feeling that he has lowered the threshold for piracy. And the citizens of Daya have not experienced webcomics either, so I wonder if they can accept this model. (Magical Girl Manga Cups and other unofficial webtoons don't count)
After all, there are so many mainstream paper comics and comic weeklies in the market at present, and they can be seen almost everywhere.
Although it is said that the webtoon in memory of Huaxia is also doing well, it is also a manifestation of local cultural characteristics, whether it can be substituted into the Greater Asia Federation, Xia Ziyu is not very confident, and can only pray that the two works of magical girl Madoka and Explosive Man King can make the website famous.