The Order of the Phoenix has sorted out all the manga and released a copy of the comic book.

This task was left by Wu Ming before leaving, since he wanted to learn the comic industry system of the island country, Wu Ming simply borrowed some rules of the future comic industry of the island country.

In this life, when some of the practices of the Order of the Phoenix become popular, those colleagues in the island country are estimated to have to learn the system of the Order of the Phoenix in turn.

According to Wu Ming, in the future, the single book of the Order of the Phoenix will be divided into five types.

First of all, there is the "new book edition". This edition was the first single edition of the manga to be published after it was serialized in a magazine. The size is about 36 folios, each book is about seven or eight words, the paper quality is the worst, the color is also black and white, and the price is about 10 Hong Kong dollars.

When a certain set of comics became popular, they began to publish and distribute the "library version". A small comic book with a size of about 64 folios, this version can correspond to our "pocket book", which is what we often call a "villain book". The content capacity of each book is half to double that of the "new book edition", the paper quality is slightly better, and the price is about 15 Hong Kong dollars.

When the popular manga appeared, there was a third version, the "hardcover version". It is about 32 folios, the number of volumes is the same as that of the "Bunko Edition", and it is a very good collector's edition with excellent paper and exquisite printing. The price is twice as much as the "new book edition", about 20 Hong Kong dollars.

This edition includes all the color pages and large pull pages from the magazine's serialization period, recolored promotional images, a small number of character designs, and color pictures that have not been included before, and the author will re-draw the cover and add pages to the color book. The page is about the size of A5 paper, the number of volumes is about the same as that of the "hardcover", and the price is about 25 Hong Kong dollars.

Finally, there are the "full-color collector's editions" that are unique to some of the most popular manga, and as the name suggests, everything in them is in color. The size of the pages and the number of volumes are about the same as those of the "Collector's Edition", and the price is twice as much, about 50 Hong Kong dollars.

Well, Wu Ming has completely learned the methods of snatching money from fans' pockets in the comic publishing industry of the island country in his previous life, and he can still use it flexibly.

In the past month or so, the Order of the Phoenix has successively sold the "new book edition" of all comics. Because there are still many people who have not bought color single-books before, and each of these single-books is four or five times more than before.

So the sales are okay, Wu Ming's comics alone, the combined sales have reached more than one million copies, plus other people's comics, the Order of the Phoenix has sold a total of nearly two million copies of the "New Book Edition" single book these days, making a profit of nearly 10 million Hong Kong dollars.

The media reporters and other colleagues who have been paying attention were dumbfounded, but they didn't expect that they could still operate in this way.

In the past few days, it has often been seen on TV programs and newspapers, reporting on the sales of the Order of the Phoenix.

Therefore, Huang Yulang, who has been hit for a long time, has decided to comprehensively study the rules and regulations of the Order of the Phoenix, canceling the previous model of serialization in single books, leaving only the mode of serialization in comic magazines.

In the president's office, Zhang Dexin and Shangguan Xiaobao were discussing things.

After Wu Ming walked in, they naturally greeted each other.

Wu Ming sat on the sofa, looked at Zhang Dexin and Shangguan Xiaobao, and asked, "I just came back last night, why don't I come to the Phoenix Society early this morning." Uncle Zhang, Mr. Kuang, what are you talking about, let's hear it. ”

Zhang Dexin said with a smile: "You are not in Xiangjiang for a while, our Phoenix Society has completely consolidated its leading position, and other companies can't catch up at all." Now that the weekly sales of "Weekly Shonen Star" are slowly rising, there is no need to worry about it. Therefore, Editor-in-Chief Kwong and I are discussing how to enter the Wanwan market. ”

Shangguan Xiaobao nodded and added, "Yes, although Wanwan is not as rich as our Xiangjiang here. The average wage is half that of us, but they now have a population of 18 million, more than three times that of our Xiangjiang. If we open up the market there, the sales of our comics can go up a lot. ”

Wu Ming also agrees with Zhang Dexin and Shangguan Xiaobao's plan, but he has a headache about a phenomenon in the Wanwan publishing industry.

So, Wu Ming asked: "But have you thought about the problem of piracy, Wanwan is now a big pirate, even if we enter the Wanwan market, can we fight those pirates?"

Wu Ming's words are not alarmist, and the current Wanwan does not attach as much importance to genuine and crack down on piracy as later generations.

In the 1960s and 1990s, it was a period of piracy in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and merchants in Wanwan and Xiangjiang during this period would sell pirated ACG products without legal authorization from the Japanese side.

As early as the 1950s, there were many comic strip publishers in Wanwan who imported works from the island countries that were translated without legal authorization. In the early 1960s, when Wanwan began to implement the "Guidelines for the Compilation and Printing of Comic Strips", many pirated publishers even privately bribed comic censors to allow pirated island comics to obtain legal publishing names, and to dominate the comic publishing market in Wanwan at low prices, in large quantities and quickly.

On the other hand, the comic style of the island country has also been blown to Xiangjiang through Wanwan, and many pirate publishers such as Dongli Publishing House have also expanded their business to Xiangjiang. Later, the wind of piracy also spread to Singapore, Malaysia and other countries.

It was not until the 90s that the Wanwan government was under pressure from Section 301 and accession to the World Trade Organization. The new Copyright Law was only recently implemented, stipulating that pirated translations of foreigners' works could only be sold until June 12, 1994, in order to emphasize the protection of intellectual property rights.

Eventually, Hong Kong and Taiwan publishers who had been pirating ACG's works in the island countries for a long time could not continue to pirate, and they negotiated with various publishing houses in the island countries for translation and publishing authorizations.

Fortunately, Xiangjiang is an international financial city after all, so although piracy exists, it is not very rampant, and the impact on the sales of Phoenix Society comics is not very large.

Wanwan is different, the current Wanwan pirates are not restricted by government laws, they can sell as much as they want, and no one cares about it.

In the past, Wu Ming had seen pirated versions of his comics in Xiangjiang. Therefore, now Wu Ming's comics should be very popular in Wanwan, but this popularity is not what Wu Ming wants to see.

Zhang Dexin and Shangguan Xiaobao also smiled bitterly, obviously they also knew about the current piracy situation in Wanwan.

"So we're now discussing how to deal with those pirates," Zhang said. ”

Shangguan Xiaobao also said: "We thought of a lot of ways, but we vetoed them again. ”

Looking at the two of them like this, it is estimated that there is nothing they can do about the pirates in Wanwan.