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After recording the contact information of these publishing houses on a piece of paper on the side, Lin Han began to have a hard time, he sighed, resigned himself to adding their friends, and then began to send emails one by one to talk. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

What he has to do now is to first understand the general conditions of these publishing houses, and then stabilize them, and wait for the seventh day of the Lunar New Year to officially negotiate before they can officially negotiate.

Doing business is indeed not what Lin Han is good at, but now he has begun to learn general information on the Internet, at least to know where the five publishing companies are, what their scale is, what their reputation is, what their outstanding performance has in the past few years, and whether they have been punished.

I don't know if I don't check, and I'm shocked when I check it.

Penguin Publishing Group is one of the world's largest publishers of popular books, ranked 10th in the world's media industry rankings, and is known for its most famous English language sweat, including fiction and non-fiction books, from history to science to reference books.

The most ingenious thing is that Penguin Publishing Group acquired Random House, but the operation is still separate, which also surprised Lin Han.

As for the American FSG Publishing House, formerly known as "Faller, Strauss and Giroud" publishing house, it has published the works of 25 Nobel Prize winners in literature, which can be described as the cradle of the Nobel Prize.

The rest of the publishing houses are not bad at all, they all belong to the type of famous names in the world, and now it is Lin Han's turn to fall into a difficult choice.

He didn't expect that he had waited so long for Random House, and after casually publishing two miniature novels in the Mirror, it would attract more attention.

This kind of intentional planting of flowers does not bloom, and the result of unintentionally planting willows and willows is really helpless.

"Hello, I'm Alex Williams, editor at Penguin's UK headquarters. Recently, I saw the English version of your novel "I, Robot" that you posted on Amazon, and now I want to ask, has the copyright of the English version of the physical book been sold?"

As a human being in two lives, Lin Han's English level is really good, otherwise he would not have gone to read the original English science fiction novels, so there are not too many obstacles to communication.

Lin Han replied: "Mr. Williams, the copyright is still in my hands, but I don't want to hand it over blindly, because this is a rare masterpiece, and I want the world to see him." ”

"Of course, I know it's definitely a novel science fiction novel. If it's just a regular novel, I'm not going to talk to you at this point, it's going to be Penguin Asia Pacific's contracted publishing editor, and we're based in the UK. ”

In fact, Alex Williams has been looking at it for a long time, and he is not just an editor, but also the most famous head of the publishing line at Penguin Publishing Group.

From the first few sentences of the chat, Lin Han noticed that as a wealthy man in the publishing industry, the editor of the headquarters of Penguin Publishing Group still has a heavy weight.

Previously, most of the works of contemporary Chinese writers could only be contracted and published by Penguin Asia Pacific, and there were very few writers who could shock the headquarters.

"I'm a little embarrassed to hear you say that, but this book is worth it. Lin Han is not a big talk, but full of confidence.

It's rare for Asians to be so confident, so Alex sent a string of laughs: "I believe in the potential of this book, which is not only a blockbuster novel, but also an important mark in the history of science fiction." You have subverted our impression of the tradition of Chinese writers, and we did not expect that there are such writers in China.

The science fiction genre you write about is cosmopolitan, and there is something in your work that particularly attracts my attention and makes me feel that this book must be published. This novel brings a fresh experience, bringing readers into a strange world, feeling the culture of robots, and feeling the history of robot development, which is great!"

This is not the first time Lin Han has seen foreigners praise the book "I, Robot", but it is the first time he has heard others praise it in person.

This feeling of being affirmed is very good, and there is a sense of bosom friend of mountains and rivers. The editor of Penguin Publishing did not directly throw off the conditions like Random House, but brought the two sides closer, and made Lin Han understand that they really wanted to make the book well, and not purely to make money for publishing.

"Sounds very good, thank you for contributing a sales to Amazon for me. Hopefully, we can work together a little bit later. ”

Alex felt that the heat was about the same, so he said, "Now you listen carefully to our conditions, it is definitely very favorable." First of all, the royalty is at 15%, which is only available to best-selling writers in Europe and the United States, and we all agree that the book should enjoy this level of fiction. In addition, it will be added to our collection of Penguin classics, which symbolize honor. ”

Lin Han's first reaction was not surprise, but that he had met a liar? He didn't get 15% of the royalties at home, and he would definitely have less money abroad.

It is extremely strange that the agent does not need to ask for the 15% sky-high royalty here.

Most of the royalties for Chinese writers publishing overseas are between 5% and 8%, 10% is already rare, and 15% is a treatment that only bestseller-level writers can enjoy.

In fact, the price offered by Qin Jun of Random House was the price of a real newcomer to the English publishing industry.

The surprise came so suddenly, and now I can't believe it. If 10% of the royalty is given, Lin Han will feel that Penguin Press values his potential, but 15% makes him confused, how to see that he doesn't seem to be worth the price, and there is a sense of panic in his heart.

It's like a person who can only do a job with a monthly salary of 5,000, but suddenly a job invitation with a monthly salary of 50,000 yuan is sent to the door, and normal people will hesitate.

What's more, in addition to the sky-high royalties, the "Penguin Classics" series mentioned by Alex is also an honor.

It is very difficult to be included in the "Penguin Classics" series, which has been the most important book brand and industry norm setter in the field of international literary publishing since its inception in 1935.

The selected works should not only be ideological and artistic, but also readable and popular, and achieve the edition and translation, as well as the details of the introduction, binding and annotation are required to be extreme.

The most intuitive feeling is that the book series only included Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren)'s "The True Story of Ah Q" and Qian Zhongshu's "The Siege of the City", and the rest of the domestic writers had no chance to enter the book series.

The authority and influence of the "Penguin Classics" can be seen, such as Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea" and "The Sun Also Rises", García Márquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera", Alexandre Dumas's "La Traviata", Kafka's "Metamorphosis", as well as Verne's science fiction trilogy, and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Secretive Heart", which is known as the originator of science fiction.

Now the other party told himself that "I, Robot" would have a chance to join this great book series, alongside so many important books.

"Are you crazy?"

Lin Han expressed his thoughts straightforwardly, and he didn't even have time to embellish it euphemistically.