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It's not easy to write a book to earn some living expenses, and I hope you will bear with me.

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"Journey to the West" wants to record these songs, and if you have a concert, you can just move this group to use, and you don't need to rehearse anything, everything is so appropriate.

Whether it is ticket income or follow-up copyright fees, Lin Han can do without it, he has only one purpose, just to hold the concert.

You can even post a free live Blu-ray concert disc online, ensuring that more people can hear the music copied from the earth.

After signing the contract with CCTV, Chen Jiaxuan did not blame Lin Han for insisting on going her own way, she said: "I can't see that you still have some feelings, I knew that you could compose, I still asked people everywhere to stuff artists in, just look for you and finish it." ”

At the beginning, Chen Jiaxuan took a lot of effort to let his newcomers play the Jade Rabbit Essence. If Lin Han could be used as a composer to conquer the director, this is not a trivial matter.

"I didn't know that the soundtrack was difficult, and I thought it was all solved, and who would have known that other composers wouldn't be able to handle it. ”

Lin Han said the truth, he cherished the contract in his backpack, and prepared to take it back and put it away carefully, every contract is very important and must be carefully kept.

Wang Hao patted Lin Han on the shoulder, and he joked: "Thanks to you, the progress bar of our crew finally doesn't have to be stuck there all the time, and it looks like it has been read to 95%, but it has been motionless for a month or two, and now it will soon reach 100%!"

"Don't talk about these things, hurry up and get it done, I really want to watch TV dramas, and next time I have the opportunity to meet again, I may be busy writing books recently. ”

During the Spring Festival, he didn't do his job, and now after the Spring Festival passes, Lin Han should also take care of himself and start preparing for his own things.

When he got home, he carefully put the contract in the drawer of the room, and then locked it with the key, which was the capital to settle down, in case the other party broke any contract, this is evidence.

Chen Jiaxuan didn't have the idea of being a guest at all, she took out a bottle of mineral water from the refrigerator with a big grin, and the heat of the heating made her mouth a little dry.

It is difficult for southerners to imagine such a life, sitting on the edge of the heating in the winter, shaking a fan and eating popsicles.

"Sister Xuan, I found you a lot of things to do during the Spring Festival, and now you are busy. ”

After Lin Han handed Chen Jiaxuan the sticky note that he recorded the matter, he smiled and waited for her reaction.

As expected, Chen Jiaxuan patted her forehead, she sighed and said, "I'm really busy by nature, and I have to deal with so many things on the first day of work." I'm going to talk to Penguin Publishing, they're on a very good terms. If I could, I'd just give them the English version of The Martian to publish it every other month, which would be better. ”

Now Lin Han has finished writing the Chinese version of "The Martian", but he has not handed it over to any publisher for proofreading, and it has only been two or three months since his last book was released.

Although many publishing houses were asking on the side, Chen Jiaxuan did not let go.

"It's up to you to decide, but I haven't written the English version of The Martian yet, so I can't give it to them for the time being. If they don't have a draft, they're willing to sign a contract?"

"Not necessarily, you write a synopsis anyway, I think they should be able to judge when they see the synopsis. And the sincerity of the St. Martin publishing company is also quite sufficient, I guess I found that your novel is good, otherwise it would not be so sincere. ”

Lin Han touched his chin, the current situation is to hand over "The Martian" to these overseas publishers to operate, will this book not adapt to the soil?

After all, he changed the protagonist and background of the novel to Chinese, and whether European and American readers buy it or not is still a question, and these have to be tested by the market.

Since she has to deal with international people, Chen Jiaxuan must also be very prepared, she raised the sticky note paper in her hand, and said to Wang Hao: "Don't be an otaku every day, it's not bad to go out for a walk and have a party occasionally." Staying at home for a long time will get moldy. ”

"I know, maybe one day I'll go on a trip. Be careful yourself, don't stay up too late. ”

Chen Jiaxuan waved her hand and went out in style, she had to discuss with the employees in her studio how to contact the quotation.

After watching Chen Jiaxuan drive away from the balcony, Lin Han returned to the sofa and sat down, he believed that what he was doing was not useless, but what he could really change the world, even if it was only a little bit.

The contract negotiation didn't require Lin Han to come out, so he was suddenly idle now, and he was a little dazed, not knowing what to do.

He turned on the TV and said to himself: "This is obviously the life of the poor, and you can't enjoy the treatment of wealth and nobility." ”

At this time, most of the programs on TV are more festive, although the seventh day of the new year has passed, but the taste of the year is still there, and the sketches and cross talk highlights that I have never seen before are quite interesting, and Lin Han also watched it with relish.

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The strength of the ace agent is different from ordinary people, and before two days have passed, Chen Jiaxuan has already negotiated the publication of "i, robot" with Penguin Publishing Group, and even St. Martin's Publishing Company has finalized the terms of cooperation.

"The conditions on the Penguin Publishing Group's side remain unchanged, and the royalty is still 15%, but the sales of electronic versions of online bookstores like Amazon are not included in it, and they directly belong to your share with Amazon. However, if it is a physical book sold in an Amazon online bookstore, you will have to settle with it. ”

After Chen Jiaxuan pointed to the emails sent by email and fax, she explained to Lin Han one by one that 15% royalty is already the highest kind, as for 20% and the like, except for a few gods standing in the literary publishing circle, no one else can count on it.

Lin Han touched his chin, and he said, "This is natural, 15% is already a lot, what is the expected sales of this book?"

"According to Amazon's e-book sales forecast, they think they can sell 1 million to 2 million copies in a year, and the specific fluctuations are not yet known. ”

Science fiction is the main one in Europe and the United States, and the total sales in China may not sell more than a million copies.

After browsing it, and after a lawyer confirmed with the translator that there was no hidden trap, Lin Han signed a low-key contract with the two overseas publishers by fax, and after the two parties exchanged signatures, they would also mail it by courier, which also has legal effect.

He didn't hold a signing press conference or anything like other writers, and sold the novel in an unusually low-key manner.

After obtaining the license, Penguin Publishing Group quickly invested in proofreading and revision, while St. Martin's Publishing Company needed to translate the English version into Spanish, so the launch time may be a little slower, but it is not excluded that the two companies will join forces to promote it.

Maybe it was just after the Spring Festival, or maybe the Renmin University Publishing House wanted to have a good relationship with Lin Han and include the latter book in its own publishing house, so the settlement of the manuscript fee went very smoothly.

In the tea house, Zhao Ming, vice president of the People's Congress Publishing House, sat next to the rattan chair, he handed a piece of paper to Lin Han and Chen Jiaxuan, and said with a smile: "Xiaolin, our sales statistics for January have come out, although there are still some funds that have not been returned, but we have decided to subvert the manuscript fee to you in advance." It's too late before the Spring Festival, so it should be too late, right?"

"Mr. Zhao, it's too polite for you to say this, I am very comfortable cooperating with your publishing house. ”

Generally speaking, the settlement of the manuscript fee will not be too fast, because the situation of so many sales points up and down the country is different, and the specific figures have not been counted so far.

Chen Jiaxuan took a serious look at the sales figures above, she actually knew about these figures, and now she just checked them.

In January, "I, Robot" went on sale, and the physical bookstore and the three major online sellers worked together, with a total sales of more than 480,000 copies, and 210,000 copies of the electronic version.

The novel's explosiveness is not strong enough, but it is stable enough, and it is still stubbornly at the bottom of the sales list in February, but the rest of the books that have been on the shelves with it have basically completed the task of the bookstore's January tour.

Stamina is a key issue, Lin Han tosses out a little news from time to time, and the reputation of "I, Robot" is also slowly fermenting, and now the total sales have reached 620,000 copies, and it is very determined to move towards one million sales.

Lin Han and Chen Jiaxuan were just thinking about when that moment would come, May or June, because after the English and Spanish versions of the novel were published, it would definitely drive the sales of the domestic Chinese version.

Readers sometimes don't know what books to read, and the appearance of some news will help them choose, and in the eyes of many people, if you can publish a book in English, it must be a good book, so whether it is to follow the trend or whatever, it is a huge advantage.

480,000 physical books enjoy 10% royalties according to the tiered royalties they set, and the price of a book is 30 yuan, which means that Lin Han can get 1.44 million yuan of pre-tax income from the sale of physical books.

This income is very high for ordinary people, and on the surface, it took two months to get 1.44 million yuan.

But for a writer, this income is not even in the top 50 of the writer's rich list, and other people's books sell well, as well as copyright sales, so they are naturally ahead. (To be continued.) )