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Xu An was lying on the bed, with rare insomnia.

Thinking of the conversation with Lance at night, Xu An had to admit that he was very moved.

Owning a publishing company has to face a lot of problems, even the top writers will not consider it, first of all, is the source of books, it is difficult to support a publishing company by relying on a best-selling author alone, after all, the writing speed of writers is limited, even if 3-5 works a year are very prolific, many writers can't write a book a year.

It's like Uncle George, the original author of Game of Thrones, who writes at an outrageously slow pace, and some people even wait until they go crazy and send him death threats!

Moreover, the writing style of the same writer is usually relatively uniform, fantasy rarely involves the military, suspense and mystery novel authors generally do not touch science fiction, and it is not easy for a publishing company to survive with one or two best-selling authors.

Usually, when an author writes a work, the six major publishing groups in North America are their first choice, and almost all of the works have to be filtered through the sieve by these publishers, and no one appreciates it before switching to a small publishing company.

There are even publishing companies that survive by publishing at their own expense.

All these problems are not a problem for Xu An!

He has so many works in his head that he can guarantee that the publishing company has a sufficient source of books.

The main thing is that each one is a good work!

Then there is the issue of distribution channels, although the North American book market is dominated by several major publishing groups, but publishers and bookstores are not one, the physical book industry is becoming more and more sluggish, and physical bookstores are forced to seek multiple ways to create profit points, and the rise of book clubs and book fan activities is because of this.

In order to seek profits, bookstores will not turn down any publishing company as long as there are high-quality books.

Large publishing groups have a wide range of businesses, such as "Lovely Bones" and "Twilight", which are divided into the category of popular literature, which are only part of their business, and there are also commercial books, political books, scientific research books, audio books, children's literature, film films and even secondary school and university textbooks, each with different distribution channels and their own profit points, and some books can only be sold to libraries and scientific research institutions around the world, but they can still be profitable.

If Xu An wants to own his own publishing company, he can completely abandon the non-popular literature business and focus on popular literature!

As for packaging, publicity, printing, and other businesses, large publishers can complete them independently, but small publishing companies can outsource, share a part of the profits, and hand over these evil things to professional companies to complete.

The United States has the most mature industry division, and almost any chain of any industry can find professional companies.

"Own publishing company?" Xu An lay on the bed and muttered to himself, full of anticipation.

The result of his discussion with Lance was that he could buy a publishing company to run Xu An's works, of course, this required Xu An to base his writing on high speed and quality, and Xu An himself was more confident in this regard than Lance.

Finally, there's the question of funding!

A publishing company can be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars or billions, depending on its size and the size of its copyright library.

But even if it's just a small publishing company with hundreds of thousands of dollars, Xu An can't come up with enough cash now!

Fortunately, "Lovely Bones" is a big hit, and its copyright can be used to make a mortgage from the bank, and no bank will refuse such a high-quality collateral, but no, Xu An can borrow from his parents or elders, but out of the self-esteem of young people, he denied this option.

At dinner, after Xu An and Lance agreed on the decision to buy the publishing company, Lance began to prepare to find a suitable acquisition target, which may have results tomorrow, or may not be able to meet a suitable seller for a long time.

But this is enough to make Xu An full of expectations.

After tossing and turning for a long time, Xu An slowly fell asleep at some point.

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Since experiencing Stephen's death journey in the dream world, Xu An has never been able to see Stephen again, and he has not been able to enter that magical world.

But at least he regained quality sleep and was no longer as lethargic as he used to be.

So although he didn't sleep for a long time, when he woke up in the morning, Xu An was still in good spirits.

The morning is a morning exercise as usual, the weather is getting cooler and cooler, Central Park is dyed with a layer of yellow and red, the morning air is cold and refreshing, Xu An sweated profusely and bought a few of today's newspapers at a roadside stall.

One day after "Twilight" was released, the faster book reviews were already available in the newspaper, and as the best-selling champion author, Xu An had this treatment.

The first comment Xu An saw was not very pleasant: "Vampires and love, the setting that has been used to rot appears in front of the reader's eyes again, which makes people wonder if the writer's imagination is close to drying up, but what makes people happy is that the characters in Xu An's works have grown from 14 to 18 years old, it seems that going to prison has made him mature a lot, but he has fallen, in the last work, we can also see his discussion of family and family, which can make people feel a trace of depth and sincerity, This work is directly reduced to a kitsch youth romance novel, which is full of disappointment......"

In the end, it was Patrick Beale, and on the front page, the Washington Post's name appeared.

“****！” Xu An scolded, "The Washington Post" has gone further and further on the road of disobedience to the public, and he directly stuffed the newspaper into the trash.

And Patrick Beal, a grandiose clown!

After throwing away the "Washington Post", Xu An specially turned out "USA Today", and unsurprisingly saw yesterday's interview on the 16th page, which should be an urgent news, and it is very rare to occupy half of the page in such a large newspaper.

Stanley basically didn't add fuel to the fire, and wrote the content of the interview in the press release, he mentioned "Bones", also mentioned the gambling agreement, and also wrote about Xu An's confidence and predictions about his work, and of course, the part about Leo Clara, which is very eye-catching.

Although it seems that there are no personal feelings mixed in, it can still be seen between the lines that Stanley's preference for Xu An.

Xu An was very satisfied with this report, and specially kept it and prepared to take it back for collection.

Then, the New York Times, unbiased and very pertinently commented: "There are emotional entanglements that are imminent, there are twists and turns in the adventure, there are magnificent and bizarre extraordinary imaginations, there are vivid descriptions of scenes, there are thrilling reading pleasures, and there are also warm comforts that hit the heart, this is a work above average!" ”

The three top-selling newspapers in the United States are the ones that have the fastest response, and some other media outlets will not appear so quickly.

Of course, it is the Internet that responds the fastest, and in fact, last night there were readers who read fast and commented on the Internet.

The evaluation of "Twilight" on Amazon is still five stars, with more than 5,400 reviews, more than 600 long reviews, and major reading forums are even more popular.

Jenny Raul said, "I'm also going to buy a Chevrolet pickup, it's so cool to drive it to school!" ”

Hannath Pate wrote: "Edward is my favorite character in fiction, and he is my melancholy prince, and I would like him to bite me in the neck!" ”

Brent Jonas praised the book as "a modern school version of Cinderella, a vulgar setting, but so vulgar that people can't put it down!" ”