Audio novels have a very long history, dating back to the 30s of the last century, when the United States launched a talking-book program to benefit the blind and physically handicapped by providing them with audiobooks. ∷Top∷Point∷Small∷ says, www.

Later, in the 80s, with the popularization of portable tape recorders, tapes became the main carrier of audiobooks, and the well-known brands of domestic audiobooks were "Zhang Zhen Tells Ghost Stories", which was quite popular that year, and pirated tapes were everywhere.

Later, with the development of Internet broadband technology, new compressed audio formats and the emergence of portable media players, audiobooks became more popular and began to enter the Internet era, and some popular online novels, either formally or amateurly recorded into audio novels, were transmitted to the Internet.

Like "The First Close Contact" at the veteran level of online literature and Cai Zhiheng's other novels, there have been audio novel versions, or radio dramas are more suitable, and these audiobooks can basically be broadcast on the radio.

There is also the recently popular "Days of Living with a Flight Attendant", which belongs to the representative work of mainland online romance novels, Tong Yan still remembers that when he went back to the dormitory at noon, Luo Xiaoxu and Wang Ping each had a semiconductor radio, and they didn't sleep at noon just to listen to the radio drama "Flight Attendant".

There are also some audio novel versions of male-oriented online novels that appear on the Internet, such as "Zhu Xian", "How the Bad Guy is Made", etc., which are basically very famous and influential novels, so some people will work hard to record audio novels, but because the broadcast channels are not smooth, coupled with the fact that online resources are flying all over the sky, the profitability is not optimistic.

Cui Chuanming told Tong Yan that their radio station had also recorded and broadcast some well-known novels on the Internet before, but they were all unauthorized and strictly speaking illegal and infringing. However, because the country's laws on copyright protection are not perfect, there are many loopholes, and they only broadcast in schools and do not rely on these audiobooks for profit, so they have been doing so.

"But since I took on the role of radio station director, I wanted to change that. After all, this is an illegal act, but unfortunately I don't know any online writers, and I don't know the market about voice copyright, but fortunately I met you. Cui Chuanming rejoiced.

"Actually, I don't know the market for audio copyright, because no one buys the audio copyright of my novel." An original novel can be derived from a variety of copyright forms such as games, film and television, voice, simplified, traditional, and comic adaptations, but so far, he has only been exposed to the copyright of the simplified and traditional physical books, and the profits brought to him by these two copyrights will be no less than that of the online electronic version. If other types of licensing could be developed, a novel he wrote would be a treasure.

"By the way, I remember that a friend of mine seems to have sold audio rights, so let me ask him." Tong Yan then remembered the Tang family, who had mentioned in an interview with Southern Weekly that his novels had sold audio rights to an audio-on-demand website.

When Tang San got married, he announced his contact information in the group, although Tong Yan didn't go. However, I still wrote down his phone number, but I didn't expect it to come in handy now.

"Hey. Hello, is it three less? ”

"It's me, who are you?" Very peaceful and steady Mandarin, this is the first time Tong Yan has heard the voice of the three young men of the Tang family.

Cui Chuanming explained to the girl next to him in a low voice: "The three young men of the Tang family, the top gods in the online literature industry, sure enough, the gods know all the gods!" ”

Tong Yan said: "I am Tong Yan Wuji. Didn't bother you with codewords, did you? ”

"Oh, Brother Wuji," Tang San laughed heartily, "No, I just finished eating." It's not time to code words yet. "Tang Sanshao planned the time of his code words very properly.

Tong Yan was a little more relieved, he thought that a renewal maniac like San Shao would code words all the time, and then Tong Yan said his problem, saying that someone wanted to talk to him about cooperation in audio novels, but he didn't know what the price was.

Tong Yan's question made the Tang family very embarrassed, that thing really can't be sold for any price, I want to sue you for not selling the voice copyright for a few bucks, that would be too damaging to my majesty, if I blow the cowhide too big, I am afraid that it will be embarrassed to be recognized in the future.

So Sanshao compromised and said vaguely: "In fact, the price is not very high, and you also know that audio novels are not easy to make a profit, so I asked for 10,000 yuan from others, mainly to make the novel famous." ”

Cui Chuanming also heard the words of the Tang family's three young people, 10,000 yuan, calculated as 10,000 yuan, that is not what their radio station can afford.

Tong Yan continued: "Yes, yes, I think so too, it doesn't matter how much copyright fee is collected, the main thing is to spread the influence. "Tong Yan and Tang San are like-minded in this regard, because they know that fame and fortune are tied together, and when your fame reaches a certain level, interests will often come to your door automatically.

"Brother Wuji is right," the third young man of the Tang family was very relieved that Tong Yan Wuji did not underestimate this money, "Where are you now, brother, are you still preparing for the college entrance examination at home?" ”

"No, I'm in the capital."

"Jingcheng, then you come to me, let your sister-in-law cook a few side dishes in the evening, and let's have some wine." Tang San likes to drink.

"No, no, I'm here to see my girlfriend this time, she's going to school in the capital, I'm leaving tomorrow, it's really inconvenient to bother, anyway, isn't there an annual meeting soon, and we still have a chance to meet at that time." Tong Yan has already decided to attend the annual meeting this year, and it is a big deal to ask Lao Song for a big vacation.

"Annual meeting? Mowgli, you still don't know? ”

"Huh? Do you know what? ”

"It seems that there will be no annual meeting this year...... "Tang Jiasan said.

When Tong Yan hung up the phone, Lu Yaqiao's eyes moved away from his mobile phone, she touched Song Rao, and said softly, "Couple machine?" ”

Song Rao said happily: "He sent it." ”

Shao Yun said in his heart: Sure enough, he is a writer who is not bad for money.

Cui Chuanming had a bitter face: "This copyright fee is quite expensive." ”

Tong Yan said indifferently: "I definitely can't compare with Tang Jiasanshao, and the copyright price of my novels can't reach his level." ”

"That's a lot of money," Cui Chuanming said, "Actually, I thought of another way to cooperate, and I'm afraid that you won't be satisfied." ”

"Let's hear it first."

"I think so, isn't product placement popular in movies now, then we can also try to product placement in the audio novels we make zuò, but it is definitely not as high as the price of movie product placement ads, we can insert an ad in each episode of the novel, the floor price of each ad is 100, and it can be adjusted with the effect in the future, it should not be a problem for your work to say four or five hundred episodes, so that there is at least forty or fifty thousand income, and then we will give you a share, what do you think."

Song Rao touched Tong Yan: "I think it's good." ”

In fact, Tong Yan didn't have any hope for the copyright of the voice at all, and even symbolically collected some money, and it didn't matter if he gave the copyright to the radio station of the Communication University, just like he said to Tang Jiasanshao, now what they need most as online writers is popularity and influence, and it is more important to make a name for themselves than the interests in front of them.

However, Cui Chuanming proposed such a new profit model, Tong Yan felt the need to raise his own doubts, "How can you be sure that each episode and each advertisement can be sold for 100 yuan, as far as I know, none of the audio online novels circulating on the Internet seem to have done this, how can you be sure that you can succeed if you do it?" ”

Cui Chuanming pondered for a while and clarified his head: "We can change the way we sell advertisements to solicit sponsors." ”

"Do you know that there are many organizations in the university, the big ones have the school student union, the school radio station, the youth volunteer association, the small more than 100 student clubs, and the student unions of various faculties in the middle, they often hold some activities, these activities must not make students pay money, and the school will not fund, which requires the external relations department of each institution to go out, and the role of the external relations department is to pull sponsorship from enterprises, less than 1,800, more can have tens of thousands, when the activities should be written' XX company sponsors OO activities', this kind of thing that makes companies pay for it, is difficult for those solitary stragglers on the Internet, but for the radio station of Communication University, it is not so difficult. ”

"What I just said is the first point, our second advantage is that we are a team, a professional team, if you want to stand out from the crowd in an audio novel, the story is very important, but the announcer and the broadcast effect are more important."

"Our radio station has male voices, female voices, and good ventriloquist masters, which can create a variety of atmosphere and environment, audio novels on the Internet are usually told by one person to the end, whether male or female animal voices are broadcasters, not everyone is a ventriloquist, so there will always be places that cannot be taken care of, and we can use a few people to speak, we can use audio editing technology, and even make music, I believe that with the talents of my Communication University, it is not a problem to create a boutique of audio novels, In this way, we can occupy the high-end market of audio novels, and we can charge advertising fees more confidently, and the biggest advertising effect is that you are childish! ”

Tong Yan smiled: "I found that I was fooled by you, and I cooperated happily." ”

Cui Chuanming was stunned for a moment, "You agreed so easily." ”

"Actually, Song Rao doesn't like to read books very much, if your audio novels are really good, then she can know what my novels are about, even if there is no money to make me, I am willing." Tong Yan pulled Song Rao's little hand.

Shao Yun looked at Song Rao, who had a sweet face, and couldn't understand: "You haven't even read the novel written by your boyfriend?!" "If she had such a capable boyfriend, she would definitely know him.

Song Rao smiled arrogantly: "Fortunately, I didn't see it much, otherwise my senior brother's business would not be able to be negotiated~"

…… (To be continued......)

ps: [ps: Today's third shift, there is another one tonight, because it has more than 50 votes, so I still owe three chapters, the white Buddha has taken a leave of absence these days, so I will pay off my debts slowly, and I will not be pressed by the debt, everyone will continue to destroy me with a monthly pass~~~] R527