Chapter 548: Pirated Books
Not in the mood to answer their questions, Han Xuan shook his head with a smile and refused the reporters' requests for interviews.
Hearing them say that they wanted to take pictures of themselves as news photos, Han Xuan beckoned a white alpaca wandering in the crowd.
The little guy who looked like a camel, but didn't have a hump, saw him move, was stupid for a few seconds, and ran cutely.
Out of a timid nature, the alpaca was a little afraid of Pooh and Obama, and hid behind Han Xuan, rubbing his head against his back to show closeness.
The people around were amazed.
Just now, many tourists were about to take pictures of this beautiful pure white alpaca, but they were all rejected by it.
Unexpectedly, Han Xuan just beckoned, and it came obediently.
In the crowd, a female reporter from the Orange County Chronicle asked, "When the U.S. government decided to introduce alpacas in 1984, I heard that Snow Mountain Ranch was the first ranch to buy this species from Peru.
Recently, the purchase price of alpaca wool has dropped, how is the sales of your farm?"
This is a smart journalist.
Just now, others were asking Han Xuan how she felt about being on the Forbes 500 rich list, how she felt about going to China, whether she had the idea of listing HOPE Technology Company, etc., but she asked a topic that Han Xuan was very interested in.
When Han Xuan was less than a year old, one day on TV, he saw the news about breeding sacred beasts and grass mud horses.
So he pointed to the pattern and asked his father Han Qianshan to sell it and play, and it was 400 when he bought it.
Speaking of Snow Mountain Ranch, it is really the first ranch in the United States that specializes in commercial breeding of grass and mud horses.
Han Xuan knew that the sales of alpaca wool had not been good in recent years, and his father had complained at home, hugged the little alpacas beside him, helped these ranchers advertise, reached out and pulled the sweater on his body, and said:
"This dress is knitted from the alpaca wool from my farm, and it is very comfortable to wear, although the price is a little higher, but the alpaca wool is softer than that of sheep.
By the way, my grandmother opened a high-end clothing company, and in the future, the sweater series will use alpaca wool, so the alpaca wool from the Snow Mountain Ranch is not sold to the public. ”
"Are you helping promote your grandmother's clothing company? Can you elaborate on that?"
The female reporter heard his words and continued to tease Han Xuan.
Han Xuan shrugged his shoulders indifferently, "Yes, the products of whoops are being designed, and the store is also being renovated.
There's going to be a press conference next year, but my grandma doesn't have the idea of advertising yet.
Some of these products were designed by me, and I want more people to know about them, so that's all I can tell you about until next spring.
I'm going to shoot something, let's go......"
Han Xuan said to go, squeezed through the crowd to a place with few people, and held a camera to shoot everywhere.
Brown had just seen the reporters in motion, and he didn't think that after he sent out the invitation, the famous kid really came.
When people in their twenties saw Han Xuan, they were like little fans, and excitedly exclaimed: "Han! I like "Pirate Legend very much", may I ask when the next "Pirate Legend: The Legend of the Curse" will be released?"
I can't wait to see the trailer!
I also like your company's WOW chat software, and I'm so happy to have you here today. ”
"Thank you for the exaggeration, the next one hasn't started yet, I'm working on a new book, and I guess I'll have to wait a few more months.
You're a rancher, and the alpaca hasn't been sold yet, and I can help you solve some of the sales problems, this is my business card.
Take it to Los Angeles and find whoops, someone will arrange it for you. ”
Han Xuan took out a business card of his own from his wallet, handed it to him and said.
To be honest, probably because I didn't have much experience before, this competition was not a success.
Apart from interacting with the alpacas and adding a few small commodity sales points, there was nothing else, at least not the wool buyers.
Therefore, Han Xuancai plans to help those anxious farmers and share some of the pressure.
I told the reporters the truth just now, and my grandmother asked if there were any alpacas in the Snow Mountain Ranch.
However, the number of alpacas in my house is not enough, and I need to buy them, so I don't mind taking this opportunity to help them.
Brown's eyes instantly reddened, and he was so grateful that he couldn't do it, and regretted: "...... I'm going to confess one thing.
Some time ago, I was so poor that I didn't buy your genuine book in order to save ten dollars.
When I get home this time, I'll go to the bookstore and buy a collector's edition!"
Han Xuan raised his eyebrows and asked him, "You mean that there are already pirated versions of "Pirate Legends: Blazer Continent" being sold?"
"Yes, it's in some newsstands, and the book is not printed too clearly, so it must be pirated......"
The United States has a particularly strict protection of intellectual copyright, and in order to respect the rights and interests of authors, the price of books is relatively high, and if you can't afford it, you can buy it together or borrow it.
And there are a small number of people who don't want to spend so much money to buy books, but they want to see that now is not the future, and a copy and paste can pirate books in the past, so some people do illegal things like physical piracy.
As long as you use some inferior paper and ink, plus a printing press, you don't have to give the author money, and you don't have to pay taxes.
In the past, the publishing house was responsible for the release of "Harry Potter", and they were also responsible for investigating piracy.
But now that Han Xuan has opened a Snow Mountain Printing Factory, he can only do everything by himself.
Listening to the meaning of the young man in front of him, the street newsstands dared to sell pirated books, and Han Xuan felt a little unhappy.
If "Harry Both" knew that he was wrong, it would be forgotten.
But "Pirate Legend" is completely a book that I have worked so hard to come up with and write, so why should I give it to those profiteers for nothing to make money, and ask, "Sir, where did you buy it?"
"City of Mosed. ”
"Don't worry.
I still have some things to do, and I'm going to go back first. ”
Han Xuan said that he had finished reading everything that should be seen, and after separating from Brown, he went back to Pooh and them.
These guys are all wet, and they probably ran into the snow and rolled in the snow again, and they didn't have a long brain when they played just now, but now they know that it's cold.
Fat Ding trembled and wanted to rub water on Han Xuan's pants, but he was disgusted and avoided.
I asked Owen to call Thomas, who was far away in New York, and the other party was quickly connected.
Thomas asked, "Boss, what's the matter?"
"Piracy, Pirate Legends has pirated books for sale in California, you don't know?"
"Is there one?
I'll look it up, boss, where did you see that?"
I just called him on Thanksgiving, and it was not a month after I praised him that this kind of thing happened again.
I happened to meet a person, and I bought pirated books, and piracy must not be available in more than one place, which means that the situation is quite serious.
What's more, Thomas doesn't seem to know about this, and Han Xuan is a little skeptical about whether he is right to hand over this publishing house to a layman.
The books of Snow Mountain Publishing House are sold in SOS supermarkets and convenience stores across the United States, and there is also cooperation with bookstores, and the annual profit is expected to be hundreds of millions of dollars.
It's not a petty company, because piracy of Han Xuan could cost tens of millions of dollars.
"In Moside, California, get some detectives to investigate, and contact the local police department once you find a point of sale.
I'll give you a month to clean up the piracy industry in the United States, and contact other publishers to clean up together.
If there is piracy, there will be no you, and if there is no piracy, you will not be pirated, understand?
So be it. ”
Without waiting for him to answer, Han Xuan immediately hung up the phone.
I thought that Thomas was probably underdrawn, and he didn't put some pressure on him, so he was really only responsible for publishing the book, and didn't care about the rest (to be continued.) )