Chapter VII Signing of Contracts with Publishing Houses
At noon on the second day of coming to school, Liu Jianping had lunch with Ji Shengjia and Wan Kunguo, two roommates, in the school cafeteria, and Ji Shengjia invited guests. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
After lunch, Wan Kunguo went back to the dormitory, Liu Jianping and Ji Shengjia went to the supermarket to buy some daily necessities, as well as snacks and drinks.
After shopping, on the way back to the dormitory, Ji Shengjia asked, "When you were in high school, did you ever fall in love?" ”
"Nope." Liu Jianping smiled faintly, "Have you talked about it?" ”
"Talked, but broke up." Ji Shengjia smiled.
Liu Jianping still has some memories of Ji Shengjia in his mind, he remembers that the other party made a girlfriend who wanted to be in shape and look good when he was in college, this girlfriend spent the night in Ji Shengjia's dormitory many times, and the two slept in the same bed.
Several times, Ji Shengjia locked the dormitory door when his roommate was not in the dormitory.
As for what Ji Shengjia and his girlfriend are doing in the dormitory? This is a clear thing, and it goes without saying!
"Are you there?" Liu Jianping asked.
"It's not." Ji Shengjia smiled, "Jianping, I see that you are so handsome, you must be very feminine, when you meet a beautiful girl in our school, hurry up, it's too late, but don't let others snatch it." ”
In terms of feelings, Liu Jianping was a little late in his previous life, in the second semester of his third year of college, he began to chase girls, and after more than a year, the woman returned to her hometown to develop, and he went to the magic capital, and the two were separated, and it didn't take long for them to break up.
Liu Jianping returned to the dormitory, and Wan Kunguo, who was playing with the computer, said to him: "Jianping, just now the person who installed broadband from the telecommunications company called, and I asked him to come over. ”
"It's pretty fast." Liu Jianping smiled, "Did that person say it will take a long time?" ”
He said for half an hour.
After more than 20 minutes, the employees of the telecommunications company came to the 505 dormitory.
A telephone line is divided into two, one to connect to the telephone in the dormitory, and the other to the modem (commonly known as the cat).
The employees of the telecommunications company debugged and made a phone call.
Soon, Liu Jianping's computer was able to access the Internet.
Liu Jianping was the first to go online, logged in to QQ, and logged in to three QQ accounts in a row, and saw that many people added the two accounts of "Liu Gong Mengdie" and "Hot and Sour Malahuang" as friends, he smiled, did not refuse, and all of them were added as friends.
Ji Shengjia saw that many people added Liu Jianping as a friend, and asked curiously: "Why do so many people add you as a friend?" My QQ is posted on the Internet, and I don't necessarily have anyone as a friend for half a day. ”
"I updated two novels online." Liu Jian said flatly.
"You can also write novels, huh?" Ji Shengjia was surprised.
"Write whatever you want, the publishing house won't publish it, write it yourself, upload it to the Internet, and have fun."
"Even if you can't publish it, if you can write a novel, you're very capable." Ji Shengjia smiled.
"Jianping, how many words have you written?" Wan Kunguo interjected and asked.
"There are hundreds of thousands of words, and I have been writing for a long time." Liu Jianping replied with a smile, "When I create a website, I also invite you to invite your own netizens to log in to this website." ”
"Well said." Ji Shengjia replied with a smile, "When I buy a computer, I will definitely log in every day." ”
"I'll help you promote it well, I have a classmate who likes to read novels on the Internet, this summer, I went to the Internet café with him to surf the Internet, I played games in addition to chatting, and he basically put his Internet time on reading novels. I think it costs too much to go to an Internet café to read books, so I suggested that he buy a few novels to read, and he said that the novels on the Internet are serialized, and many of the novels on the Internet have not been published, and if you want to buy books to read, you can't buy them. ”
"That's the case." Liu Jianping nodded, and saw that a netizen who had just added the friend "sour and spicy and shuang" sent him a message, and a trace of joy flashed on his face, so he stopped chatting with his roommate and put his mind on chatting.
Liu Jianping sent a message back to a netizen with the screen name "Famous in the World", "Hello, I am the author of "The King of Yaya". ”
"I'm the editor of Xinchang Publishing House, and I would like to talk to you about the copyright and publishing of The King of Yaya. Is the copyright of the physical book of this novel in traditional Chinese in your own hands? ”
"Yes." Liu Jianping replied, and after a while, he replied, "I just updated less than 50,000 words before it can be published?" ”
"It takes at least 60,000 words to publish a book, I see that you update it very quickly, there should be a manuscript, right?"
Liu Jianping thought for a moment and replied, "Yes." The manuscript that has not yet been updated has more than 200,000 words, and the outline has been written, and it is not surprising that it can write more than 700,000 words. ”
"Can you show me your deposit?"
"All the manuscripts?"
"No, about 100,000 words are enough, if you write at the same level as the newer, you can sign a contract for publication."
"I can send you the deposit, but I want to ask first, if it is published, how will the money be calculated?"
"Have you published novels before?"
"Nope."
"If you are a newcomer, the maximum remuneration for one volume will give you three thousand, which is equivalent to fifty yuan per thousand words."
"It's RMB, right? =^_^=“
"It's RMB, and it's after tax."
"It's a lot, more than 700,000 words, you can publish 12 volumes, a total of 36,000, and if you earn this money, you can buy a server." Liu Jianping muttered to himself and sent a message to the other party, "You wait a while, I'll sort out the manuscript." ”
"There's no hurry."
Liu Jianping found the saved manuscript of "The King of Yaya" from the computer, created a new document, copied and pasted, counted the number of words, and continued to copy and paste......
In the end, Liu Jianping made 110,000 words, added the document to the compressed file, and then passed it to the "famous world".
When the other party accepted the compressed file, Liu Jianping sent a message and asked: "If I sell the copyright of the novel to your publishing house, can I still update the novel online?" ”
"You signed a contract with the station?"
"Not yet, I'm going to create a station with my friends."
"In principle, since you sold the rights to the novel to the publisher, you can't update it online."
"Your publishing house buys the copyright of the novel, and it should be the publishing right in the Bay area. I want to keep the electronic copyright, if I can, the unpublished chapters, I will not update them online, the novel is published and listed, after a few days, I will update the new chapters online, and it will be placed in the VIP section of the station, only members can read it with money...... Do you think it's okay? ”
"It's very difficult to run a station and make money by paying readers to subscribe. Some people pay for a subscription and then type out the content of the novels they see and then update them to free websites. ”
"I know there will be a lot of difficulties at the beginning, but I am very good about the general trend of the industry."
"I'll take a look at your manuscript first, and we'll talk later."
"Okay."
After Liu Jianping sent the last message, he turned off the dialog box, and after that, he logged in to four stations such as QD and Phantom Sword, and looked at the number of clicks and recommendations of his two novels, "The King of Yaya" and "The Legend of Rebirth", as well as readers' messages, and then logged in to the author's background, and both novels were updated with two chapters.
After being busy for a while, Liu Jianping read the messages of QQ netizens, and he saw the message sent by "Famous in the World".
"I've already seen your manuscript, and I don't think there's a problem with publishing, but I still need to show the manuscript to the editor-in-chief, and he will make the decision. Please revise it again, sort out more than 120,000 words, divide it into two documents for me, and save more than 60,000 words in each document. ”
"When is the final news?"
"Just now, I talked to the editor-in-chief, he happens to be free, you hurry up, I can give you an answer before I get off work."
"Okay, I'll give you a manuscript after half a novel."
"We'll talk in half an hour."
Liu Jianping didn't remember the closing dialog box this time, re-looked at his conversation with the world-famous, and said secretly in his heart: "He won't be a liar, right?" ”
After thinking for a moment, Liu Jianping shook his head and thought: "It shouldn't be a liar, if it's really a liar, it can't be a manuscript of only 120,000 words...... Regardless of whether he is a liar or not, if he waits for a while, he wants more manuscripts, then I will not give it to him first, and let him watch new content on the Internet in another half a month. ”
Maybe luck came knocking on the door, and at about four o'clock in the afternoon, Liu Jianping received a document sent to him by the famous world - the copyright transfer agreement of the novel.
After reading it carefully, Liu Jianping felt that there was no problem, so he agreed to sign a contract with the other party.
Famous in the world and Liu Jianping said some precautions, and told him when he would be able to get the first remuneration after signing the contract.