Chapter 34: Change your mind and go all out
Leaving the editorial department of Chuxin Chinese.com and returning to the Magic Capital Publishing House, Chen Qingquan has been thinking about one thing, whether to sign the Immortal, and how much should he pay?
After all, Chen Qingquan is the editor-in-chief of the Demon Capital Publishing House, and his own ability is not bad, and he also has a natural sense of smell for good books. After reading all the existing chapters of Zhu Xian, he knew that Zhu Xian would definitely be popular, but how popular it would be remains to be discussed.
When he returned to the editorial office, Chen Qingquan found an assistant, notified all the editors-in-chief to hold a meeting, and invited the director of the market research department to come over.
Before the editor-in-chief arrived in the conference room, Chen Qingquan first opened his laptop, and then sorted out the resources about Zhuxian collected last night.
"Editor-in-chief!"
One after another, seven or eight editors-in-chief, as well as the director of the market research department who had been specially notified, came to the conference room.
"What about today's investigation report?" Chen Qingquan looked at a middle-aged man wearing gold-rimmed glasses, a hairstyle of seventy-three points, and a high-end suit.
After Hu Youmin sat down, he immediately opened his laptop and sent a document to the editor-in-chief, "The data is terrifying, I just don't know if it is suitable for physical publishing, editor-in-chief, this matter has to be considered, in case something goes wrong, the trouble is not small!"
Regarding the Zhuxian publishing entity, the opinions of the editors-in-chief of the publishing house are different, because it involves online literature, so Hu Youmin, who is in charge of market research this time, also participated, and he is not optimistic about the online literary adaptation entity.
If it is an urban workplace or campus youth, it is not impossible, after all, there is a precedent, and the revision is very successful.
But Zhuxian is a whole new genre, and God knows if readers will pay for Zhuxian?
On the other hand, it supports Zhuxian to adapt, and must get the copyright, maybe the publishing house can soar to the sky.
Among them, Liu Haibo, the editor-in-chief of traditional martial arts, is the most active, he seems to have found a new opportunity from Zhu Xian, perhaps, traditional martial arts can also completely break through the shackles because of Zhu Xian.
Although the Modu Publishing House is now ranked third in China, it has still suffered a lot of impact because of the emergence of online literature in recent years, and its sales have long been much worse than before, although it is not fatal enough, but it is not as good as in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
At that time, the popularity of the Internet was not high, except for some wealthy families, no one knew computers at all, and most of the people still used letters to communicate, and the knowledge obtained was also obtained from physical books, and there was almost no literary knowledge on the Internet.
Once Zhuxian opens up the market for publishing houses, it is enough to prove that it is feasible for online literature to take the path of entities.
So, can it be assumed that if physical books are converted into online books, there is also room for development?
In fact, in the final analysis, the biggest problem is that there are some subtle differences between online literature and traditional literature, and the audience is also very different.
Liu Haibo believes that "Zhu Xian is unique in online literature, which is enough to be called the best online literature at present, and it may not be for nothing to adapt." I have observed Qi Yu Xuanang's creation, his pen power is getting stronger and stronger, whether it is character portrayal or plot rhythm, it has entered a realm, not high, but great potential. And as Director Hu said, Zhu Xian's data on the Internet is terrifying, what does this mean?
Seeing that the remaining editors-in-chief, including Hu Youmin, were nodding, he said, "The high popularity also means that there is a market for Zhuxian, and since there is a market, I think it is worth publishing!"
"But that's online literature after all!" the editor-in-chief in charge of traditional prose and romance invariably questioned.
"What's wrong with online literature?"
Liu Haibo didn't think it was a pestle, "The audience of online literature is also the people, since they are willing to pay for Zhuxian, what is so strange about buying a physical copy back?"
"You're talking about the Collector's Edition, we can't all publish the Collector's Edition, right?" the romance editor-in-chief still refused to let go.
"Humph!"
Liu Haibo's eyes became colder, and he couldn't help snorting coldly in his heart, since the popularity of online romance novels in the first two years, the romance editor-in-chief has also successfully changed several online novels, making a lot of money, Liu Haibo said that it is impossible not to be red-eyed.
After all, the publishing house only has some columns, and the cake is so big, how to distribute it, but it is directly linked to performance, and whether you can occupy a place is also linked to performance.
Traditional martial arts have been in a bit of a downturn in the past two years, and Zhu Xian is an opportunity, Liu Haibo has already made up his mind in his heart that he must persuade the editor-in-chief to sign the copyright of Zhu Xian.
Once Zhu Xian signs it back, he will be a great hero!
After all, the book's original proposal to sign a contract was made by itself.
"The collector's edition must be released, but it doesn't necessarily need a collector's edition to be used as a collection, right? We have a precedent for adaptation, and we have experience, I think if the operation is good, it won't be a loss, it's a big deal, let's print less, and explore the market first?" Liu Haibo still didn't give up.
"You're right, but ......"
The editor-in-chief of romance still wanted to go back, but he didn't think that at this time, the editor-in-chief Chen Qingquan spoke, "It's not impossible to adapt, I also have the intention to adapt, but Lao Liu, today I went to Chuxin's side and contacted Zhu Xian's agent, but the other party said that it would be packaged and sold, and the price was still an astronomical amount, I'm afraid it would be ......!"
"Pack!"
What Chen Qingquan didn't expect was that Liu Haibo actually hit the case, and he was very excited, "I just want you to buy the copyright of the traditional Chinese adaptation, in the past two years, the sales in overseas regions have been rising, let's just use Zhuxian to open the market, what's wrong?"
The editor-in-chief of romance frowned, "Lao Liu, I didn't deliberately pour cold water on you, didn't you hear?
Chen Qingquan also frowned at this time, quite dissatisfied with Liu Haibo, "What's the matter, Lao Liu, do you think that if we don't buy the adaptation rights of Zhu Xian, it will be a big loss?"
Liu Haibo suddenly smiled, "Boss, Lao Qin, let me ask you a word, what is the astronomical amount he said?"
Chen Qingquan was stunned, this ...... I don't think I know!
Lao Qin, who was in charge of romance, was also stunned, "How do I know?"
"Isn't that it?"
Liu Haibo crossed his hands around his chest and sat on the office chair with a relaxed face, "Don't forget, I was born in sales, and when it comes to lip service, there aren't necessarily many people who can compare to me, so, boss, I want to take a week off and go to the fog capital for a special trip, and Zhuxian will definitely be able to take it at a reasonable price!"
Chen Qingquan did not object to this, and was silent for a moment, "How much do you think is appropriate?"
Liu Haibo stretched out his hand, five fingers, he shook his head, and bent down three more, leaving only the index finger and middle finger.
Chen Qingquan was overjoyed, "Two hundred thousand?"
This is not an astronomical figure, and it can even be said that the price of cabbage, Zhu Xian's achievements are obvious to all, and under the supervision of the Copyright Society, the fake data is almost negligible.
Liu Haibo rolled his eyes, "Two million!"
"It's too high!" Chen Qingquan immediately jumped to his feet, this is just an adaptation copyright, why is it so high?
The other editors-in-chief also looked at each other, two million is only for one adaptation copyright, is this too much to look down on Zhu Xian?
They didn't know that the manuscript fee on the first day of Zhuxian was more than 1.2 million, or ...... after tax.
"It's not high, what's so high?
Others didn't find out, but Liu Haibo calculated a set of data from the many alliance leaders and the 200,000 subscriptions on the first day, "The contract for setting up the original intention to Zhu Xian is 64 open, so these more than 200 alliance leaders, Zhu Xian can receive hundreds of thousands of rewards." Moreover, 200,000 first orders, although there are only two chapters and 6,000 words, should be a same-day subscription, multiplied by the value of the book currency, and then deducted 60%, and in the end there are still more than 100,000 manuscript fees!
"So much?"
It's not that I don't know, I'm shocked, no one expected that Zhu Xian would collect nearly one million dollars on the first day, and the number of words on the shelves is only 6,000 words!
Don't let people get angry?
"Okay, that's it!"
Hearing that Zhu Xian made so much money on the first day, and the readership is huge, it doesn't seem impossible to publish, two million is really just a small amount of money for the Demon Capital Publishing House.
The reason why Chen Qingquan was stuck and hesitant was mainly because he was afraid of falling into the pit, and Zhu Xian was also an attempt, since it was an attempt, it cost a huge amount of two million dollars, and it was not very glorious.
However, he is not the kind of person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, otherwise he will not be able to sit on the decision-making seat, and sometimes, if you take a risk, you will get a big surprise!
If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you get the tiger?
Chuxin Chinese Network is not the best example!
Chen Qingquan knew that because of the immortals, Wutong Chinese Network was about to go out of business, and Jing Shiliunian was already contacting the top management of Phoenix Pavilion and preparing to acquire Phoenix Pavilion.
In the online literature industry, the three-legged situation was unexpectedly completely broken by a dark horse.
So, if Zhuxian becomes a dark horse again, is it possible to bring the Demon Capital Publishing House to a higher level?
Chen Qingquan's heart was pounding, which was also the real reason why he made a decision!