Yuan Bao immersed himself in the transformation of recording equipment for several days, and on this day, his whimsical computer book bar project finally made progress, and through the unremitting efforts of his partner Cheng Guang, it has taken a slight prototype, scanning thousands of consumer books of martial arts, fantasy and romance. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Something strange has never been seen before.

You can't just call the store a "computer book bar", you should have a name.

They discussed together, and Yuan Bao thought of one: "It's called a platinum computer book, how about it?" ”

Cheng Guang: "It's good, but it's better not to be gold?" There is a golden house in the book. ”

Yuan Bao explained: "Platinum atomic number 78, the outermost electrons do not fill the pit, can strongly attract the electrons of other elements, so it is a strong catalyst, there is a high-tech equipment called fuel cell, the use of platinum as a catalyst, can directly convert hydrogen fuel into electricity without combustion, very magical." Our business line is to engage readers and make them addicted in the same way that platinum attracts electronics. ”

Cheng Guang was dumbfounded when he heard this: "Damn, you're not a recording major, how do you feel like you're studying chemistry?" ”

Yuan Bao laughed: "I'm thinking about everything." Is that a name okay? ”

Cheng Guang is not convinced, because he is the initiator of this project, how can he give up the naming right? He pondered: "I also mention one: Baoguang." We each have one word in our names. But as soon as he said it, he regretted it, because the treasure word was in front of him, and he was still unhappy.

Yuan Bao pouted: "Jewelry, isn't it too gaudy?" ”

Yo, he also put the word light in front, and Cheng Guang immediately said, "Bright Bon? ”

Yuan Bao rolled his eyes.

Cheng Guang was unconvinced: "Doesn't platinum also look very vulgar, and others don't know what fuel cell principle is." ”

Yuan Bao continued to pout.

Cheng Guang was not convinced, and after a while, a moth appeared: "The night gave me black eyes, but I used them to find light." Black eyes! The name is poetic. ”

Yuan Bao: "No, readers will be afraid of dark circles after looking at them for a long time. ”

Cheng Guang: "Damn, that's right." ”

Cheng Guang is quite literary, and after a while, he thought of a poem again: Far away.

Yuan Bao also knew a little about this poem, and said: "Hey, big brother, there is nothing in the distance except for the distance, which will also make people uneasy." And reading thousands of books for thousands of miles, far away is for people to go out and travel, don't read anymore. It's not appropriate. ”

Cheng Guang, this buddy, has a literary illness, and he likes black eyes, so he changed his name to "black eyes". Hey, I can't stand it, Yuan Bao had to agree with him that the first book bar to open is called Black Eyes, and the second is called Platinum, if the business can grow in the future, everyone will take turns to use two names.

It could split their business, but who's to tell them to be so persistent? If the business does not split, the founder will split.

The black-eyed computer book bar officially opened in the second canteen of the film academy, and the students thought they could play with the computer at first, and they were very excited. I didn't expect that all of them were scanned e-books, and they looked very poor in quality.

Yuan Bao paid attention to the reactions of the first batch of customers, and they all said: "It's not as comfortable as reading." ”

The next day, Yuan Bao found a blackboard with the words "3,303 entertainment books, enjoy the sea of books", indicating that the characteristics of the store are not good, but many.

This ad really worked a little, and there were more readers all of a sudden.

"Boss! This book is missing a page! ”

"Boss! Why aren't there colored ones? "There were always a lot of problems at the beginning, and Cheng Guang was so busy that he didn't care about it.

Yuan Bao also found that the refresh rate of the low-end monitor that Cheng Guang bought was low, and it was uncomfortable to watch, anyway, he would never read in this environment, Yuan Bao proposed it to Cheng Guang, this product actually said that there was no difference, damn, 60 frames and 90 frames could not see the difference.

The LCD monitors of later generations do not have the problem of frame rate, but the current CRT is quite serious, Cheng Guang is from the photography department, and he can't even see this, and he is really drunk.

Because the specifications of the monitors are different, they can't be uniformly output, so some monitors must be very flickering, which is a headache, anyway, you can't hand over the purchase of hardware to Cheng Guang in the future.

Readers will forget to blink when they stare at the screen for a long time, resulting in dry eyes, Yuan Bao also specially customized a batch of eye drops, what "pearl bright eyes" must be flickering, just forget to blink your eyes.

These eye drops are provided free of charge to readers and are well received.

At present, it is still a fairly rudimentary system, which can only list all the books and let readers choose freely by themselves, and can neither add bookmarks nor account systems. Yuan Bao just wanted to verify whether this business model was viable.

Not to mention accumulating data on users' reading habits.

The best aspect of this system at the moment may be that there are many books, no one fights with you, and it is all electronic anyway. Some readers thought that Blackeye was taking the piracy route, and asked, "Can I COPY go back and watch it for myself?" Of course, he was sternly rejected by the two owners.

The guy also said eloquently, "You are also using pirated books, you see, there are so many typos!" ”

When Cheng Guang was speechless, Yuan Bao immediately explained: "We have too many books, it is inevitable that the good and the bad are uneven, we must correct them immediately, which one are you talking about?" ”

After this time, Yuan Bao put another opinion book on the counter, which read, "Welcome to report pirated and inferior books." After receiving the report, you can reward the reading time, and Cheng Guang is responsible for updating these inferior books.

After a period of operation, the principle of time-based charging has been formulated, with 2 yuan during prime time, 1.5 yuan for weekdays, and 1 yuan for late night.

So, at night, there are still a lot of readers in their store, curious to explore the YY world.

There is a group of readers who are chasing Huang Yi's "Rain and Clouds", and they ran to the bookstore to grab it at the right time, only black eyes can make them not need to rob it, and before that day, the store was almost full. There are also some romance novels that Yuan Bao has never paid attention to before, and some rotten girls just like to watch them, just like chasing dramas in later generations.

After running for more than half a month, Yuan Bao felt that this business was basically viable, and it was not very popular now, probably because the computer screen was not good enough, the quality of scanning was not good enough, and there was no community formed.

When he builds an online community of book lovers, it will be different.

Cheng Guang felt that if he continued with this kind of business, if he hadn't saved a lot of rent by renting a canteen, he would definitely lose money. Now, I can barely make a little money.

Small money is also his own business, Yuan Bao still persuaded Cheng Guang to continue to do it, and used the small money he earned to keep increasing the list of books.

Yuan Bao flickered: "Now we are still young, you think, in the future, computers will become popular, everyone can write novels on the computer, then there will be no need to scan, you can directly publish novels on the website, the only thing that can prevent piracy in the electronic publishing industry is our book bar model, in the future, we do electronic publishing, first in the book bar distribution, can not sell before the physical book or electronic version for personal computers, we seem to control the cinema chain of the cinema, this is what a good opportunity to become a big company!" ”

Cheng Guang convinced: "That's it, we have to be optimistic about the data and let others steal it." Will you develop encryption programs? ”

Yuan Bao laughed: "The two brothers want to go together!" The encryption system must be done, anti-piracy is our lifeblood, let me tell you, I have a way to make book thieves take pictures with cameras without piracy. Using the refresh mechanism of the display, a part of the screen is displayed in turn in a rapid refresh, and the human eye cannot see the difference, but the camera can only shoot a part of it when imaging, and after a special algorithm, it cannot be synthesized after several consecutive shots. ”

Cheng Guang was happy to hear it, he didn't expect that this technology needed to use the underlying driver to directly control the display mode of the display.

Yuan Bao said, I don't know if the display can be refreshed so quickly, presumably it can.

At present, the copyright environment in China is still quite bad, and traces of infringement can be seen everywhere, so there is no need to think too much about it for the time being.

Of course, Yuan Bao didn't have the money to continue to invest in developing a better system, and the money he invested now to buy computers in the book bar was still misappropriated from the money that Lantianxi lent him to buy servers. Although Benlist became popular, it only needed two or three servers, and 500,000 could not be used up at once.

On the contrary, it costs a lot of money to find a part-time maintenance engineer in the United States.

Yahoo has a promotion service, and it also costs money to pay to put your website in his directory, and Yahoo has also done HAO123 things, didn't expect it?

Yahoo has not had more than 1 million hits so far, and China's Internet is a barren place, so Marvel.com has focused most of its attention on taxi dispatch systems, and the email-only Internet is not attractive to most users.

The second fund of the Intellectual Property Bureau has not been in place for a long time, Yuan Bao went to Zhou Gaoyuan's house to urge once, the other party was vague and didn't seem to have the following appearance, did he want to make his first investment go down the drain? Anyway, the affairs of the official family are always inexplicable, despite this, Yuan Bao still urged the programmers of NE Company to complete this task, this is their company's image project, even if the city government defaults, they will make it.

Yuan Bao has a lot of ideas, but there are not many that can really be made into fine things, and the project of the email client has also been stranded, because he can't find a suitable programmer, a rookie programmer like him still counts, and spends more time managing the current existing company, so as not to pick up the sesame seeds and lose the watermelon.

And he also figured out that the current domestic environment is mainly based on the development of software, and it is all circulated through pirated CDs, as long as a few commercial software can be profitable, along with pirated CDs comes the birth of the antivirus software industry.

He is not good at any of this, and he does not have enough money to hire programmers, so he can only roll his eyes and watch the software industry develop in full swing. (Actually, there are not many who make money.) ）