"Online text" is a tempting big cake, but limited to April 2003, there were only 64.2 million Internet users in China, and Internet readers accounted for only a small part of the number of Internet users, and in the era of China's Internet take-off, the Internet is full of business opportunities, and there are many big cakes that seem more attractive and delicious than Internet articles, such as "Internet games", "Internet music", "Internet video", "Internet retail", and "instant messaging tools" Therefore, the predators have attracted the attention of other more profitable projects on the Internet, and they have not yet had time to set their sights on the emerging industry of "online literature", and they do not know that the business opportunities of online literature have shown the tip of the iceberg.

The fact that the predators did not set their sights on the tempting cake of online literature does not mean that the pioneers of online literature did not perceive that online literature has extraordinary prospects and is an emerging industry with unlimited business opportunities.

Li Hongtao is one of the founders of Qihang Chinese.com, and also the first batch of people in China to focus on online literature, of course, Li Hongtao's "targeting" is interested, after all, before the strong rise of the starting point Chinese.com and the implementation of the VIP chapter paid reading plan, the money-making model of online authors is to become popular online, and then offline publishing relies on royalties to make money.

Publishing, it's like thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge, there are often only a few lucky ones, and many authors can't even support themselves, so how can they talk about passionate creation?

It is precisely for this reason that before the launch of the Chinese Internet on October 1, 2002, a large number of half-and unsuccessful works were born on the Internet, and these online works with no end are collectively referred to as "eunuch works" in the online literature industry.

It is no exaggeration to say that before the launch of the Chinese Internet, except for those that were published, there was no one on the Internet whose ultimate fate was not to go to the eunuchs, and these networks almost all appeared in front of the reader's eyes like a meteor across the sky, and then quickly disappeared in front of the reader's eyes like a meteor, which also caused a period of time, "eunuch literature" once became another "synonym" of "Internet literature".

The starting point rises strongly, and the launch of the "2002 Author Welfare Plan" has changed the fate of a network author and a network work that is like a meteor, in the starting point of the library works, it is rare to see eunuch works, and the starting point of the signed works is not a eunuch work, if someone has to equate the unfinished works with the eunuch works, then the starting point has nothing to say.

Three years ago, Li Hongtao and four like-minded friends together created the Sailing Chinese Network, before the starting point Chinese Network was born, the Sailing Chinese Network is one of the most popular sites on the Internet, at the peak, the daily IP of the website broke the 5000 mark, and then there was no then, because the starting point came out shockingly, with a devastating and invincible posture to defeat all the same type of websites, a dominant, known as "the first station of online literature" by the industry.

The law of the jungle, big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp!

As the so-called "shopping malls are like battlefields", the Chinese network cannot compete with the starting point Chinese network, and it is reasonable to be eliminated by following the law of the jungle, and no one can complain.

Question, is the online article a shopping mall?

Since the starting point was born, Li Hongtao has been watching every move of the starting point, not saying anything about knowing himself and the enemy, and not being defeated in a hundred battles, he just wants to see what kind of reputation the starting point is doing?

If you want to say that the starting point keeps throwing money in order to benefit the author and benefit the readers, Li Hongtao is the first to disbelieve it, don't ask where is the trust between others? He only knows five words--no profit, no early!

Therefore, Li Hongtao firmly believes that the starting point must have a "map"!

Li Hongtao speculated that the starting point should be "money", and his friends also had the same idea as him, believing that the starting point was deliberately seizing market share, and the figure must be "money"!

It's just that the starting point is very forbearing, and there has been no big move in the five months since the station was built.

Of course, this "big move" is aimed at "making money", you must know that the starting point of the new triple author benefits (click awards, recommendation awards and excellent works buyout plan) and the launch of the 2003 urban essay contest after the 2002 fandom essay contest are all big moves that can cause an uproar in the online literature industry.

Since the starting point is temporarily holding still, then they, the pioneers of online literature, are standing by and watching, Li Hongtao wants to see how long the starting point can calm down? How long can it lose?

Because the starting point did not conceal the author's remuneration, and many of the contracted authors at the starting point set sail from, zero o'clock, etc., therefore, the remuneration of the starting point author has no secret in the online literature circle, and everyone who pays attention to the starting point knows that the starting point has been built for five months, at least nearly one million yuan has been smashed.

It is undeniable that the starting point is very rich and wealthy, but don't forget, the starting point has always been a negative profit, unless the founder of the starting point is a loser who only spends money and will not make money, otherwise the starting point will come up with a solution that will at least make the website break even.

Sure enough, the starting point made a big move in the sixth month of the station!

Putting aside the point that "peers are enemies", Li Hongtao still admires the courage of the starting point, and actually "dares to be the first in online articles", and launches the "VIP Chapter Paid Reading Plan" with great momentum!

It can be said that before the starting point put forward the concept of "VIP chapter paid reading", Li Hongtao did not think about this aspect at all, perhaps other online pioneers had thought about the problem of "online text paid reading", but they did not dare to put it into practical action, mainly at that time, there was no station as dominant as the current starting point, and there was the capital to propose and implement the "VIP chapter paid reading plan", and it was estimated which station proposed the "VIP chapter paid reading plan" at that time, which website immediately "died".

As for the current starting point, it has been fully fledged, and in the absence of competitors, it is naturally not afraid that readers will unite to resist, if the starting point can compete with the starting point when proposing the "VIP chapter paid reading plan", then Li Hongtao dares to guarantee that the readers of the starting point will be lost to the starting point at the fastest speed, but since the starting point is launched, the starting point has become a "ghost station".

Fortunately, Huangtian lived up to his wishes, and the starting point proposed the "VIP Chapter Paid Reading Plan" so that Li Hongtao captured the business opportunities of the online text, and he was confident that he would set sail bigger and stronger, but the premise was that there must be a large amount of capital injection to set sail, otherwise it is impossible to set sail through the starting point that has completely seized the market share of the online text.

Therefore, these days, Li Hongtao has been immersed in writing the "Sailing Chinese Network Business Plan", writing and deleting, deleting, and revising several times, until the third day of the official implementation of the "VIP Chapter Paid Reading Plan", Li Hongtao completed the "Sailing Chinese Network Business Plan".

Li Hongtao saw that the "Sailing Chinese Network Business Plan" could not be changed, so he invested this "Business Plan" carrying his "online entrepreneurial dream" to all the investors he could find on the Internet or book-related industries in the form of a net, just to seek a discernment!