With the current development of the Internet industry, the self-publishing industry led by Amazon is rising rapidly, which has put traditional publishers under great threat. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Self-publishing is when a writer bypasses a third-party publisher and outsources it to a related company, such as Amazon.

The self-help publishing market in Europe and the United States is growing particularly rapidly, and has now produced an excellent best-selling author. Among them was the world's first author to succeed with self-publishing, American John Locke, whose self-published fantasy novel "The Mighty Tribe" sold more than a million e-books in a matter of months.

This is tied with Amanda Hawking, the author of "The Twilight Stroe," for the top 50 bestsellers on Amazon, beating out the rest of the novels from traditional publishing houses in one fell swoop, and being named one of the "12 Future Stars of the Industry" by Forbes magazine.

At present, there is a general prejudice against self-publishing in China, believing that self-publishing writers are failed writers. The e-books that can be purchased on the Internet are basically paper books, and the entire book market is still centered on paper books, and without the help of publishers, writers cannot sell their works separately to bookstores.

Self-publishing platforms like Amazon are a boon for all authors, allowing authors to sell their work instantly on the world's largest book marketplace.

Whether it's a well-known author or a newcomer, they no longer need to rely on big publishers to launch new books to make a profit.

Even though most writers did not take advantage of this opportunity to soar and reach the pinnacle of life, they won a lot of fans. Whether it's an author who made his fortune in traditional publishing, or an author who has gained a following for professional or other reasons, can be measured by uploads and clicks on the web.

As long as self-published novels have a high number of hits on the Internet and good feedback from readers, then some publishers will take the initiative to seek cooperation.

It's just that Amazon takes a 30% cut of the profits from self-publishing, which is much less than the exploitation of authors by traditional large publishers, but it is still a large number.

In other words, Lin Han's "i, Robot" can only get 70% of the amount sold on Amazon, which is really not low.

The Chinese simplified version of "I, Robot" is also sold on Amazon, but 70% of the sales are shared between the People's Congress Publishing House and Lin Han, and Lin Han can only take money according to the royalty rate, that is, about 5%-12% of 70%, and the exploitation is terrifying!

His English version of his novel was not published in physical version, but directly on the e-book, so that he did not need to be deprived of most of his income.

In fact, this model is similar to that of domestic online novels, online novels are also published on the site, and then sold for a fee, if the writing is good, there will be publishers to come to the door, this is an alternative self-help publishing.

It's just that the books sold on Amazon are basically finished, and they don't need to be updated every day, just one update at a time.

Lin Han knows that e-reading may be the trend of the future, but paper reading will not disappear either, and some people prefer to read on the lawn with a book instead of holding a kindle.

After clicking into Amazon's website, he searched for the name "I, Robot", and before he could press the enter key, two versions of the novel automatically appeared under the search bar, both Chinese and English.

clicked into the English version of "i, robot", Lin Han found that his book sales were still 0, after all, it had just been uploaded, and domestic people generally did not choose to buy the English version.

This will not gradually increase sales until it spreads abroad, and it is very difficult to sell tens of thousands of e-books like the simplified version at once.

After Lin Han turned off the computer, he got up and started to clean up the room, if he didn't clean the room every three days, he felt that he couldn't live, and any small spot would affect his mood.

Just as he was about to change his shoes and go out, a message popped up on his mobile phone, "Hey, man, we're going to have a science fiction book club in Haidian tomorrow to discuss a new book called "I, Robot". If you're going to come, read the book first. ”

This was the message sent by the young students Lin Han met in the library, and he also gave the science fiction world magazine to this group of people at the beginning, and he thought that there was no news, but he really called himself.

He quickly replied, "What about the time and place? I've finished reading it, and I'm ready to join the discussion." ”

"Tomorrow at nine o'clock in the morning, the location is in the bookstore next to Haidian Park, which is very conspicuous, and there will be a few foreign students to join at that time. ”

Lin Han is looking forward to hearing the opinions of the most real readers, there are indeed many people who participate in the rating on Douban Reading, but those are the comments of readers who prefer to go online, and many people don't like to discuss on the Internet at all when they buy books.

After recording this on the schedule, Lin Han turned around and went out, the stinky neighbor should have gone out to film recently, otherwise he would have met more or less once, most of these young actors are resident in the crew, and it will be very troublesome to stay at home for too long without acting.

took the bus to the café that Li Wenyuan had made an appointment, and before Lin Han could enter the room, the goose-featherlike snow fell flutteringly, and the low black clouds seemed to be able to touch those high-rise buildings.

Pedestrians on the road couldn't help but speed up their pace, and the vehicles on the road also turned on their lights and moved slowly and carefully, as if night had fallen early.

Li Wenyuan sat on the private seat by the window, and in front of him was an open book, which was sandwiched in the middle with a leaf-like bookmark. After he saw Lin Han, he stood up and waved his hand, "Come here, order a cup of coffee." ”

Lin Han nodded, he turned his head and asked the waiter for a cup of Mocha, and he walked towards Li Wenyuan, but the book on the table was very conspicuous, "Mosquito, you are helping me increase sales again!"

This is a Chinese Simplified Chinese version of "I, Robot", but I didn't expect Li Wenyuan to actually read this novel.

"I'm here to get your autograph, and I'm going to take it back and read it and put it on the shelf. Li Wenyuan said jokingly, after he finished speaking, he really took out a pen from his pocket, and Lin Han was stunned.

"Really?"

"That's still fake, hurry up and sign it. ”

Lin Han didn't pretend to be anything more, he quickly took a pen to sign his name, and it was printed on the blank page in front of the table of contents.

Li Wenyuan put the pen back, he looked at Lin Han's signature, and then looked up unexpectedly and said, "You are different from before, the more you write, the better it looks." ”

Different people wrote different words, Lin Han's heart suddenly pinched, and he quickly explained: "Isn't this a special practice, I'm afraid that some readers will ask me to sign it." By the way, I didn't come to you to sign it, I got the book on Amazon for sale in English for self-publishing, what do you think?"

"How did you translate the novel into English so quickly, it's scary, if you find a bad translation, it's a bad one, it's a bad one, do you have serious typesetting and proofreading? Don't tell me that you did it with translation software. Li Wenyuan was taken aback by Lin Han's vigorous speed, knowing that translating a novel is not an easy task, to change the original novel from Chinese to English, you need not only a solid language foundation, but also considerable literary literacy, not to be a dry translation.

Lin Han shook his head, he said with a smile: "Actually, when I was writing the novel, I considered the English version, and the translation was done by myself, which is basically the original, and there will be no errors in it." ”