Tian Kaiwen just gave such a low condition, naturally because Wu Neng is just a junior high school student, to see if he can bluff the other party, he just read the manuscript for half an hour, and feels that this book has a lot to do, and there are very few funny martial arts novels on the market now, and this type should be very popular with students. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Usually when he sees those authors, let alone junior high school students, sometimes it is the middle-aged people in their thirties and forties, when they hear that their works can get one or two thousand yuan for manuscript fees, they can't wait to thank him for a long time, but this time for such a teenage junior high school student, he didn't expect that the other party completely ignored his conditions.

Wu Neng got up and said to Tian Kaiwen with a smile: "Let's open the skylight and say something bright, the royalty is 8 percent, the first printing of 10,000 copies, the royalty of the later printing is 5 percent, more than 50,000 copies, I charge 3 percent of the royalty, more than 100,000 copies, I only charge 1 percent of the royalty, how about it?"

"10,000 copies, 8 percent royalties? 10,000 copies?"

When Tian Kaiwen heard Wu Neng's offer, his face suddenly collapsed, and a stiff smirk appeared on his smiling face just now, and he didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

Ding Zihua, who was sitting on the side, was also taken aback by Wu Neng's big tone, in fact, Tian Kaiwen is his second uncle, and he is also the kind of pro, not the cousin of the printing factory, he has always wanted to follow his second uncle to engage in pirated books, but the family still hopes that he will find a job in peace and stability, this time he is also very enthusiastic about the relationship with Wu Neng, after all, if this thing is done, maybe he can really follow the second uncle in the future.

Tian Kaiwen was born in pirated books, he has become big over the years, and he has also made some money, he is worried about the country's crackdown, and he also cooperates with some publishing houses to make genuine books, but most of them are selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, such as Wu Neng, the author of this submission, he generally shouts a royalty of three percent, a first printing of three thousand copies, and a manuscript fee of one or two thousand.

Generally, he bought the publishing rights of this book, and he accepted whatever books were popular in this era, and with the cover of genuine books, his piracy business also flourished, and the books of masters such as Jin Yong and Liang Yusheng endured, and occasionally changed the name of the author of the collected novel to be famous: Jin Yong's masterpiece

This year is also famous, pirated novel dealers will also copycat, basically copycat the works of those masters, sometimes you can find Jin Yong's new martial arts masterpiece in the market every week, flip through the content, hold the grass, what kind of bullshit is written, occasionally see a book written quite well, everyone is convinced that it is not really written by Jin Yong, until more than ten years later, to the Internet to search for the famous dozen novels written by Jin Yong, only to know that the others are counterfeits.

When Wu Neng was an adolescent in his last life, he read a fake novel written by Huang Yi, and the content was naturally inappropriate for children, so after that, as long as Wu Neng saw the novel written by Huang Yi on the market, he wondered if it was that kind of content, and this feeling was not understood until more than ten years later.

Wu Neng's proposal, Tian Kaiwen naturally will not agree, do pirated novels, do it secretly, and it is a regional sale, everyone has their own territory, and they will be worried when they meet the real Li Kui, but genuine novels are not so easy to do, first of all, the author is not famous, it is difficult to be seen by readers, and the price of genuine copies is one or two times more expensive than pirated copies, and the vast majority of readers are willing to buy pirated copies, but if you meet a real master-level author, genuine sales are also very profitable.

The most important thing is that genuine sales are sold casually, boldly distributed, there is no need to be afraid, and there is another point, there are many reading houses and bookstores in this era, many large bookstores and reading houses will not purchase pirated books, no matter how high the price of genuine books is, they will only buy genuine books, this is the industry rule, if large bookstores sell pirated copies, then the market will be chaotic.

But even so, there are still too few writers who are truly new authors who can publish a genuine book and sell it well.

Wu Neng's proposal, Tian Kaiwen naturally would not agree, but he wanted to take Wu Neng's manuscript, and in the end, the two pulled and pulled the bargain, and when it was time for dinner, Tian Kaiwen also warmly invited Wu Neng and his nephew Ding Zihua to go to the restaurant.

Although Wu Neng is young, he is still a little greedy for a drink, so he drank a bottle of beer, it was raining outside, and the small restaurant outside the township government was in full swing.

The three of them drank a little wine and chatted, Wu Neng's body had just come into contact with alcohol, and he couldn't help but feel a little dizzy, the amount of ten bottles of alcohol in the previous life, this bottle was about the same, he didn't care if alcohol was harmful to the body, and it was estimated that drinking a bottle of beer occasionally would not be a big deal, and he also forgot the time of self-study at night, and he didn't ask for leave, so he didn't think about it so much.

Wu Neng said to Tian Kaiwen in a daze: "Brother Tian, I know the twists and turns of your line, I also said here today, the first printing of the book must be 10,000 copies, and I believe that this book will be reprinted, we drank this wine today, you will believe the little brother for a while, and when this book is popular, we will cooperate again, I won't say a word." ”

Wu Neng also said in one go, the wine was strong, his head was a little dizzy, and he also said what was in his heart.

Tian Kaiwen and Ding Zihua first had a bottle of beer each, and then a bottle of Wuliangye, but the two of them were at least more sober than Wu Neng's head, especially an old fox like Tian Kaiwen, of course he would not easily agree to a child's words.

He took a sip of liquor, frowned, and pretended to complain to Wu Neng: "Brother Wu, you don't know how difficult it is to do business now, let me say a word to you, I will give you a maximum of five percent of the royalties and the first printing of four thousand copies, which is my biggest concession." ”

Wu Neng drank the last breath of temper in the beer bottle, and the smell of alcohol also affected his mood, and he was also annoyed, so he said angrily: "In that case, if this book does not sell 10,000 copies, I don't want a penny, and if it sells more than 10,000 copies, I will charge 10 percent of the royalties, do you dare to bet? ”

Tian Kaiwen didn't expect Wu Neng to put forward this condition angrily, he had never seen such an arrogant child, and he had been doing this for seven or eight years, and he had seen the sales of those master works casually hundreds of thousands, but a newcomer, it was very rare to sell 10,000 copies of the first book casually, not nothing, but not much, although he drank a bottle of beer and a few taels of liquor, although he was not drunk at all, but he was provoked by Wu Neng, a child, and he also agreed proudly.

The bet was made right at this dinner table.

The next day, the two sobered up, Wu Neng did not regret the bet, the two reached a preliminary agreement, "Magic Zhou Shaoxia" first printing of 10,000 copies, if the sales within a year can not reach 10,000 copies, then Wu Jianwen will not be able to get any royalty income from the book, if it reaches 10,000 copies, then it will be paid to Wu Jianwen according to 10% of the royalty income, as for why he uses his father's name, Wu Neng naturally sees that he is a minor.

As for if more than 10,000 copies can be sold and printed, neither side mentioned this topic, although Wu Neng thinks this book is good, but he is not sure that it will sell more than 10,000 copies, as for Tian Kaiwen, it is even more uncertain, he is still thinking about whether he will lose money, in case this book hits the street, then he will lose 10,000 copies, but after all, he has been a bookseller for so many years, and after taking the time to read all the 250,000 books that night, his thoughts changed slightly.

Wu Neng asked for leave the next day and went to the house with the contract to ask his father Wu Jianwen to sign, Wu Neng was absent from school several times during this time, and Yang Guangrong criticized it several times, but Wu Neng really had no interest in studying, if Yang Guangrong did not approve the leave, he would also skip class.