The next day, Jia Youwei found Yuanda Publishing House on the edge of the East Fourth Ring Road according to the specific address on the business card given to him by Yuan Meng.

I was able to stop in front of it, and I was able to take a good look at the environment. A three-storey tube building completed in the 60s and 70s of the last century.

On its exterior walls, it has already been covered with a layer of green creepers, which is a natural embellishment for the exterior wall decoration. In addition, there are convenience stores and other facilities and shops in the vicinity.

Jia Youwei took out his mobile phone that thieves would dislike from his right trouser pocket, and dialed Yuan Meng's mobile phone number while walking slowly towards the door of the publishing house.

After a brief exchange, the two learned that the editorial office was on the second floor. So, he stepped on the old-fashioned cement stairs and walked up, and when he turned right, he saw Yuan Meng, who was standing at the entrance of the editorial department to greet him.

There is no more politeness and greetings between them when they meet for the first time. A smile at each other can be regarded as a greeting. Jia Youwei watched the other party hang up the phone, and then waited for the word "wait".

He watched Yuan Meng turn around and enter the editorial office not long ago, and walked out of the door again. The other party already has a contract in hand.

"Let's go to the small conference room on the third floor and talk about it. Yuan Meng walked straight towards Jia Youwei without beating around the bush and said bluntly.

Jia Youwei walked side by side with her up another floor, and under the guidance of the other party, he walked into a small room at the end of the right and sat down face to face.

The contract in Yuan Meng's hand was in duplicate, one was given to Jia Youwei, and the other was kept in his hand. She was calm and relaxed, showing that she was not in a hurry.

As far as matters are concerned, Jia Youwei is neither a big writer nor a best-selling author, but a rookie writer who is about to make his official debut.

Although there is a simple matchmaking between himself and him, it does not mean that he should be treated specially. The work of an editor may seem easy, but in reality, it is not easy at all.

The work of the publishing house is not only glamorous, but also full of enthusiasm and idealism, and anyone will inevitably yearn for it.

After graduating, there are many graduates who want to work in a publishing house and become an editor, and most of them aim to enter a large publishing house.

When you join these companies, you will not only be able to work with the books you love every day, but you will also have the opportunity to work as a responsible editor for the authors you love in the future.

What's more, large publishers are able to offer a salary package that is no less than that of a leading company in other industries. In addition to this, the various benefits and insurance are also quite good.

If you say that the income from editing is low, I am afraid that it is not a formal editor in a large publishing house, but an editor who prefers a publishing house like Xiaohuangshu.

Of course, Yuanda Publishing House is only a small publishing house outside the system, and it does not dare to compare with the famous People's Publishing House, Commercial Printing House, and other large publishing houses with a long history or within the system.

The latter, from the recruitment, can be glimpsed that even if the book industry is declining and weak for many years, it has not reduced the graduates' yearning for them.

There were 8,000 applicants, and only 20 were admitted in the end, with a pass rate of about 1/400. This number is dozens of times more difficult than being admitted to 985,211 universities. After all, the acceptance rate of undergraduates in key universities is also maintained at about 5%.

When applying for such a large publishing house, if you are not a graduate of the top 10 Chinese universities such as Peking University, Tsinghua University, Zhejiang University, Fudan University, Renmin University, etc., it is likely that you will not even be able to pass the first round of resume screening.

As for science students, forget it! As long as a well-known publishing house recruits editors, all liberal arts students are needed, and the corresponding major in the university should be related to literature.

Once admitted, an online announcement will be made. As can be seen from the universities from which the admitted students graduated, almost all of them have undergraduates, masters, and doctorates from prestigious schools.

If there is a special case, that person must be extraordinary. It's not that it goes through the back door, but the comprehensive quality of reading, knowledge, etc., has reached a point where it is enough to impress the examiners. Therefore, those who can work in large publishing houses can be described as the strongest of the strong, the elite of the elite.

As for the small publishing houses outside the system, it is a different matter, and it can be described as a mixed bag. There are more than 580 regular publishing houses in Chinese mainland.

In recent years, the General Administration of Press and Publication has approved a number of new ones, and there may be about 600 of them. In addition, there are thousands of publishing companies (booksellers) outside the system, large and small, who do not have the right to publish, and rely on buying book numbers to obtain the right to publish books in disguise.

On the other hand, many publishing houses in the system are also struggling to operate because of the rigid mechanism, and rely on selling book numbers to maintain their survival.

Because the publishing house has a high cost of publishing books and a high elimination rate, the competition has become fierce. In addition, the market has not only become bigger, but also smaller and smaller.

Everyone is also working hard for this mouthful of food. After round after round of survival of the fittest, some good publishing houses were born.

"You take a look at the contract first. If you have any questions, you can ask me. Yuan Meng stood up and walked to the water dispenser. She took out the paper cup from the paper bag on top of the bucket of pure water, and used it to connect the water channel on the other.

Jia Youwei leaned back on the back of the chair, holding the contract in his hand and looking at it line by line. This is the smallest contract I've ever signed.

The first printing of 5,000 copies, the price of a single book is 25 yuan, the royalty is 10%, and the total manuscript fee is only 12,500 yuan before tax, and the total contract amount is 5,000 * 25, which is only 125,000.

Now his real situation, the contract amount is 10 billion, and he doesn't even look at it. For this reason, he will not come forward in person at all, but just leave it to his subordinates to do it, just wait for a report.

He personally inquired about and took charge of the projects, which were all contracts with a contract amount of more than 50 billion. The reason why Jia Youwei is abnormal is that he attaches great importance to publishing books, which cannot be measured by money.

After Yuan Meng put a paper cup filled with water in front of Jia Youwei, he circled it a little and sat back in his place.

I am very patient and do not rush at all. Even if the person opposite is not Jia Youwei, his girlfriend's crush, but just the most ordinary business relationship, this is true.

An ordinary editor like her, who comes from an ordinary family, has been in the company for two or three years, and has little seniority, naturally has no resources at hand.

If you want to mix well and have a high income, then you can only develop new writers with great potential. Of course, Yuan Meng's work is not one-to-one, nor one-to-many, but in accordance with the relevant company regulations of his own publishing house to connect and be responsible for two or three writers, no more than five.