Cecil and Lyndon looked at Yang Rui curiously. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Yang Rui's youth was completely unexpected to them.

As a member of the publishing house, they are responsible for dealing with authors full-time, and they have indeed seen too many young and promising authors, but that does not include the category of academic publishing.

An academic monograph takes too much time. Think about it, it takes students a semester or even a year to learn a textbook with a thickness of hundreds of pages, so how long does it take to write one?

If it is a new research-oriented academic book, the time required to write a paper is very scary. In order to write a paper of about ten pages, many scholars have to continue to study for a year or two, even if it is three or five months of busy brushing papers, it is inevitable that they will be busy for three or five months.

Even for non-research-based academic monographs, it is very time-consuming to write rigorous and upright academic monographs. In the work of revising history in ancient China, the best literary scholars in the country were often selected, and the historical materials obtained from the whole country were referred to, and it took several years to complete this work.

After all, the timeliness of the monograph is weak, and people put forward higher requirements for its correctness and functionality.

If something goes wrong with a paper, as long as it is not deliberately faked, people will laugh at the author for two sentences at most.

When an academic monograph goes wrong, the degree of disgrace can be different.

If you work in a serious university, there are many people who lose their jobs.

In such an environment, any young person who writes an academic monograph will be subject to rigorous scrutiny.

Of course, those who succeed will be paid heftyly.

In an instant, Cecil thought of Professor Leo again, so he shuddered, came to his senses, made a surprised expression, and laughed wildly: "Mr. Yang Rui, it's great, I finally met you, I have admired you for a long time......"

Professor Leo of the University of Chicago was the most rigorous and authoritative in the review of academic monographs, so when New York University Press saw Professor Leo's article, it immediately sent Cecil, who was in Japan, to Beijing.

Professor Leo's assessment is clearly more valuable than that of analysts at New York University Press or Norton Press.

Private ******** can't afford to hire a scholar like Professor Leo, and even if they can afford to pay for it, the credibility of scholars who serve private ******** will be greatly reduced.

Although academics in the corporate world make a lot of money, they are not discriminated against by academics for a day or two.

The conservative New York University Press is most submissive to the status quo, so much so that employees like Cecil don't have to read scholars' books in person, but simply express their views according to the reviews.

Cecil now expresses admiration, very good acting skills and facial expressions, and many Chinese watching are stunned.

It's a bit of a sense of earth shaking after Huo Yuanjia killed the Russian Hercules.

"Mr. Cecil praised too much, not so much, not so much. Seeing that Yang Rui didn't speak, Dean Liu hurriedly stepped forward to help him be humble.

"Not too much, not too much. Cecil also hurriedly said.

Yang Rui coughed and smiled: "I don't think it's too much." ”

Dean Liu rolled his eyes angrily and whispered to Yang Rui in Chinese: "Be serious, this is a foreign publishing house, no better than a domestic one." ”

"Foreign publishers are better talking, Mr. Cecil, you say yes. Yang Rui said and sat down, motioning for the others to sit down as well.

Several tables around were instantly filled by professors, and everyone gathered around as if they were going to have a super brainstorm.

Curious students also gathered around in the back, regardless of whether they understood or not, they watched first, and the sound of pulling tables and chairs was even more squeaking and noisy.

"We are all very good talkers. Lin Deng also moved his position, facing Yang Rui, Dean Liu and others, and took over with a smile.

"Mr. Yang Rui, I'm Linden from Norton Publishing. Lyndon introduced himself and said, "You submitted your manuscript to our publisher's "Genomics", and Manager Daniel likes it very much, and has already made a proper plan, oh, here is our proposal......

Seeing so many people, Lyndon knew she needed to compete.

Lin Deng stood up, came to Yang Rui, as if giving a speech, puffed up his breath, and said: "Mr. Yang Rui, Norton Press is an unusual publishing house, we are not the largest publishing house in the industry, but our publishing ability is extremely strong, and, unlike an institution like New York University Press, we can not only sell your books to the East, but also to the East and the West, all of the United States. ”

"Mr. Lyndon, New York University Press also has a national distribution capability, and we are one of the largest university presses. Seychelles also stood up and came to Yang Rui, while refuting Lyndon's words.

"One of the biggest university presses? You've used too many terms. Lyndon sighed twice and said: "The level of the university press is well known, if it is the University of Chicago Press, it may be able to talk about national distribution, New York University Press, can only put the book in the second-hand bookstore." ”

"Our goal is to have access to universities across the United States, New York University Press, to ensure that biology professors at universities across the United States can see your book. Cecil was indeed weak, so he no longer met directly with Linden, but explained to Yang Rui, and said: "We will put your book on our list of key recommendations, and I guarantee that the sales of "Genomics" will definitely rank high among educational books......

Two Americans rushed to speak in front of Yang Rui, as if two lawyers were standing in front of a judge, and Dean Liu and the others were stunned.

It's rare to see such an active foreign friend.

In the process, the amount of royalties given by both parties also increased, and soon increased to 16%.

Although academic monographs are not as popular as popular novels, 16% is really bad, and extreme numbers such as 30% are for Nobel laureates, or high-end celebrities like Hawking can only get extremely high numbers when writing academic monographs.

Yang Rui is still a pure newcomer in academic publishing, no matter how good the expectations of the two publishing houses are, I don't think they can exceed 10,000 copies, as for whether they can be reprinted, there is also a chance, Cecil replaced New York University Press to give a 16% price, it is also to the limit.

Lyndon followed up and gave 15%, did not dare to add more, and instead began to increase the number of first printings, opening the mouth to 2,000 copies, which immediately shocked Cecil.

The first printing of 2,000 copies and the total sales volume of 2,000 copies are two concepts, especially academic monographs, which often take a long time to ferment, the first printing of 2,000 copies means that the number of sales is expected to exceed 10,000 copies, which is a considerable number, and the risk to the publishing house is very large, think about it, when this year's students go on to higher education or graduate, next year's students will see at least 2,000 copies of "Genomics" in the second-hand publishing market This will have a great impact on second-hand bookstores, and academic publishers, in fact, rely on the second-hand publishing industry to survive, and the latter will definitely put pressure.

"I guarantee that New York University Press will do a reprint of Genomics...... "Cecil cleverly adopted a roundabout tactic, 100 reprints are also reprints, and 50 reprints are also reprints, in fact, the number of reprints of many academic monographs is more than 100 copies, new books mixed with old books, and students sharing a book, and the total number of photocopied books, is the actual reading of a book, the latter is often ten times a hundred times the former.

"Mr. Yang Rui!"

"Mr. Yang Rui!"

Cecil and Linden scrambled to speak, their voices drowning out the noise of the cafeteria.

The two of them are talking faster and faster, and the number of professors and students around them who can understand is getting smaller and smaller.

However, all of them have strange expressions.

Everyone is smart, and based on the current information, Norton Publishing House is equivalent to giving 15% royalties and a promise of 2,000 copies to sell, which means that Yang Rui can get $300 multiplied by the price of the book.

Even if the minimum price of $30 is calculated, this is $9,000 for the author's salary.

As for the price of a book like $300, none of the Chinese present dared to think about it.

$9,000 is an exaggeration!

"Not yet!" thought more than one person.

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