Jia Youwei received a call from Yuan Meng in the morning and went to the editorial office of Yuanda Publishing House in person. She called the other party over, naturally not for a day not to see her, such as every other autumn.

In addition to the business relationship between the two, there is only the most normal ordinary friendship left. Although the relationship between men and women is not simple, it is an exception to Jia Youwei.

"I've already watched all three of "Ordinary World". To be honest, it's really well written. There is nothing wrong with publishing. It's just that there are too many words, and I'm afraid I can't finish it at once. Yuan Meng said bluntly.

Jia Youwei understood her words, and the meaning was nothing more than to come out in batches. "Ordinary World" has a total of three parts, and the first one is launched for the first time, which is a book.

If the market responds well, that is, if the sales are good, the second book of the second part will be released, and then the third book of the third part will be launched. Otherwise, it will have to be cut in half.

Publishing all three books in three parts at one time is too risky for a publisher. There is nothing wrong with their prudent approach to operation.

Yuan Meng can fully understand the writer's inseparable emotions for the work itself: "If you can make certain modifications, compressions and deletions to "Ordinary World", I can go to the editor-in-chief to fight for you, so that the whole book can be published at one time." ”

Jia Youwei smiled slightly, and euphemistically refused: "If the number of words is less, you can't sell it for more money." ”

Yuan Meng understood that he was unwilling to give in in this regard, and there was a kind of deletion of the word me, like lewd my mother. Based on her understanding of Jia Youwei, he is not the kind of person who writes for money, and he is completely committed to writing with ideals.

"If you agree, we'll publish it in batches. The first book of "The Ordinary World" had a print run of 10,000 copies. Yuan Meng had to follow the original plan.

Jia Youwei knows that the reason why they have increased the initial printing of 5,000 copies to 10,000 copies is because of the best-selling book "Life".

Even if there are 1.4 billion people in China, it is impossible to expect everyone to buy books to read. Books, which are not non-essential, are suitable for everyone's needs.

Nowadays, the price of a book is about 30 yuan, and for some people, it is better to buy two catties of pork to eat than to buy a book to read.

In addition, the audience for serious literature is already small. In addition, some people have developed the habit of reading e-books, after all, it is much cheaper than buying the same paper book.

"You haven't told me how much the royalties are?" Jia Youwei said with a smile.

"12%, what do you think?" Yuan Meng said in accordance with the publisher's wishes, raising his royalties by 2 percentage points from the initial 10%.

"Not long ago, I read a news report. To this day, I still can't get rid of that tragic color. A little girl over 8 years old, about the same age as my daughter. She went to the supermarket and stole a piece of chocolate, but was caught.

The supermarket forced the little girl's mother's mobile phone number, and then called her mother. The little girl's mother scolded her daughter in public.

As a result, the little girl was so humiliated that she went to the roof of the building and jumped to her death. Let me tell you, what do you see from this matter?" Jia Youwei said without diverting the topic.

Yuan Meng was first surprised when he talked about this inexplicably, and then gradually began to react. She commented on the facts: "There are only two main reasons why that little girl went to the supermarket to steal chocolates.

One is that I eat less on weekdays, or even have no food, and I am confused for a while, so I did something stupid, which is understandable and forgivable, after all, I am a child; the other is that the tragedy caused by the lack of family education may not be all the fault of the little girl's mother.

If my guess is correct, that mother has done everything she can to make a living. After all, the cost of living in the capital is indeed high. The rent alone really puts pressure on most people, especially those who come to Beijing from other places. ”

"'Ordinary World' is a positive force for people living at the bottom. Even if it's just for a little bit of change, don't go with the flow and give up on yourself. Jia Youwei pulled the topic back again.

His previous words were not untargeted, but a targeted test of whether Yuan Meng and Yuanda Publishing House were suitable to publish this book. Even if you don't publish a book at your own expense, you can change your court.

"Your ideals and feelings are good. I'm afraid, the truth will tell you and make you extremely disappointed. You must know that people who often live at the bottom do not like to read.

In their minds, reading is useless. The theory of the uselessness of reading is the most marketable in this class. On the contrary, people from the upper middle class generally love to read, and will not think that reading is useless, but will know that books can give people strong inner strength, open wisdom, broaden their horizons, and cultivate independent thinking ability.

Take the youngest daughter who committed suicide as an example, the primary school she attended must be a school for the children of migrant workers. And the children who study there are also from the same class as her, and they are marginalized in the city.

Their parents' occupations are nothing more than dishwashers, cleaners, small traders, selling vegetables and meat, selling fritters and buns. I'm sure your daughter wouldn't go to such a school.

In your daughter's school, parents are civil servants, lawyers, accountants, teachers, etc. Of course, Yuan Meng knew that the locals had all kinds of advantages that outsiders did not have.

If you want to settle in the capital, it can be said that you have reached the point of extinction. First of all, you must have seven years of social security, and you can't break the insurance in the middle. This alone has directly blocked low-income groups from other places.

For this class, social security is probably something that many people don't know what it is. Migrant workers are already adrift, making their homes everywhere.

Their children are either left-behind children, or they follow them to the north and south, after all, there is work to be done, there is money to be made, so they go there. Even if they barely survive in a certain city, it is difficult for their children to integrate into the local mainstream society.

Secondly, even if you settle down, it doesn't mean that you can afford to buy a house. If you don't have a private house in your name, even if you have a hukou, you have to be inferior, and your waist is not hard. This is the most realistic law of urban survival.

The principle of nearby enrollment in primary schools is to look at both the location of the household registration and the real estate registration certificate, which is commonly known as the location of the real estate certificate.

If you don't, you will basically miss out on getting into a good school. Even if you go in because you are taken care of by the national policy, you will be treated differently by the school and the children who are enrolled in the school artificially and normally.

Finally, the absence of a good career generally means that there will be no stable and good income. The vicious circle created by this is that reading is useless, and the more you don't read, the less chance you have to get ahead.