Chapter 15: Eat a book twice

Hanging up the phone with Yu Zhe, Zhao Zejun looked at the time, it was almost time, and he got up and walked towards the office of Zeyue Chinese Network downstairs.

At present, Zeyue has belonged to one of the seven major business divisions of Zelianke Group, and the office location is the same as before, in Herong Building, but at present, Herong Building, the oldest office building in Jianwu City, Zelianke has become the largest one, covering five floors, not including the peripheral computer room.

Zhao Zejun pondered, after a period of time, you can start to prepare for Zelianke independent office building, Zelianke is getting bigger and bigger, always renting office buildings is out of date, if conditions permit, not only to build an independent office building, but even to establish a Zelianke industrial park.

Getting back to the point, the following meeting is the recent copyright work report of Zeyue's overseas edition.

Internet paid reading and various copyright operations around,There is an order,Generally it is paid reading to reach a certain scale,After causing a relatively large influence,Only after talking about copyright operation,So although Zeyue overseas version has existed for a few years,Copyright operation has only been carried out for a short time,Strictly speaking,From the end of last year。

This batch of copyrights is the first batch of copyrights sold overseas by Zeyue.

However, Zhao Zejun really didn't know which books were bought. Although Zeyue is the only listed company under Zelianke, it has already been on the right track, and there is no need for Zhao Zejun to pay special attention to it, let alone do it himself, he will only take ideas in the strategic direction, and the specific work will naturally be done by a group of managers such as Rizhao and Mr. Wu.

And the network itself, after all, is only a small piece of the Internet, and Zhao Zejun's focus is not on it at present.

So he really doesn't know exactly which books are sold and how much, and this meeting is just to listen to the report. Originally, he could not listen to this report, Ze read a report to the secretary of the board of directors' office, and just forward it to himself. However, after the above competent unit learned that Zeyue's copyright was sold overseas, he attached great importance to it, and was ready to set up publicity as a typical benchmark for cultural output, and some relatively high-level meetings and lectures required Zhao Zejun to attend in person, and he always had to do some preparatory work, saving time to be black-eyed, and report some dry data with the speech.

Yu Zhe's Liuhua Jianlu is a relatively early book, which is a historical fantasy, with a strong oriental martial arts and fantasy color, and does not involve real politics, which belongs to the most popular category in the West. The other two parts of the 'Rogue Trilogy' are not so enjoyable in comparison, the first part is banned in the mainland, it is too bloody and violent, and everything is excessive.

Pushing the door into the conference room, a group of familiar faces were already seated, Mr. Wu stood up and said to Zhao Zejun: "Mr. Zhao has arrived, and he is waiting for you." ”

"You sit, you sit. Zhao Zejun smiled, pressed his hand, and then sat down at the other end of the conference table very casually, "I just came with an attitude of learning, tell me about the great achievements and great significance of our overseas version, I will be arrested to speak on stage in the future, and I have something to say." ”

Everyone in the conference room laughed, and they were in a good mood, especially a few old team members, with a happy relaxed face.

First, compared with other departments and enterprises in the Zezi system, Zeyue is the earliest place where Zhao Zejun started, Zhao Zejun and they are the absolute old team, old friendship, and the emotional difference is indeed different;

Almost all of these people attending today's meeting are billionaires.

At present, Mr. Wu is mainly responsible for Zeyue's copyright work, and Rizhao is also present. Zhao Zejun couldn't help but look at him twice, Rizhao's complexion was very good.

Since 2008, every time Lao Zhao sees the sunshine, he has a strange feeling. In his previous life, this guy went downhill in the Huanjian Book League, and not long after the rise of the starting point, he was seriously ill and hung up! Calculate the time, just in 2008!

But in this life, I have been alive and kicking up and down to this day, the more I live, the more energetic I become, and I gave birth to a second child last year, and I was fined a lot of money...... Lao Zhao estimated that the only explanation was probably that his life trajectory had changed, from leaving the waning Huanjian to Zeyue, his living standard and income had improved considerably, and his work was smooth, he had a head, and his spirit was completely different, so he didn't even find him.

"After a month of copyright auction and negotiation, we finally sold the copyright of 18 books, with a total copyright income of 15 million US dollars......

According to the previous rules, the purpose of this copyright sale is to open up market awareness, and then with the further expansion of Zeyue's influence in Europe and the United States, the mainland film market continues to prosper to attract more European and American producers, and I believe that the copyright price will grow explosively......

Since this is the first time we have sold the rights, we have chosen to work with major film production companies and TV stations, including HBO, Warner Bros., MGM ......"

Mr. Wu said, the slide flashed, and began to introduce the sales of each copyright in detail.

Yu Zhe's book is really among them, but in fact, the copyright is divided into two parts, and a movie sold for one million dollars.

There is another piece that Yu Zhe doesn't know, it is the copyright of the TV series, which was given to HBO. However, because this kind of TV with a strong oriental flavor has never been tried in Europe and the United States, HBO is very cautious and gives a low price, 200,000 US dollars.

"This time I sold the rights to the TV series on this one, and HBO revealed that it was not going to make a long series, but like Band of Brothers, to make a mini one-season short drama, after we discussed, this time we were going to make money, but through this book, we tested the water of European and American TV series adaptations.

"Money still has to be earned. Zhao Zejun's office made a joke: "But it doesn't have to be to make money for copyright, in Europe and the United States, HBO plays it by itself, and domestic agents broadcast it, and it still needs mainland companies to do it." ”

Zhao Zejun is still relatively confident in HBO, a TV company affiliated with Warner, and a series of well-known American dramas such as Game of Thrones, Atlantic Empire, Band of Brothers, True Love and Blood are all written by this TV station.

The adaptation of the theme of Huanhua Jianlu, as long as it is well-made, the actors' acting skills are basically online, and it is broadcast in the mainland, the results will not be too bad.

Everyone in the venue was stunned at first, and all the professionals present were there, and then they understood what Zhao Zejun meant.

"As far as I know, the agent on the mainland side has not yet been decided. Mr. Wu laughed and said, "Mr. Zhao, your thinking is too broad, let's sell the copyright to make the first money of HBO, and then use the TV series they made to make the second money, and eat the value of this book thoroughly." ”