Chapter 9 Overseas and Home
In the office of the adult editorial office of the Bloomspoli publishing house in London, England, a handsome-looking middle-aged man was holding a manuscript sent from South Korea and arguing fiercely with another middle-aged man whose clothes said that it was editor-in-chief.
I saw the handsome middle-aged man holding the manuscript and saying to the editor-in-chief, "Editor-in-chief Charlie, I hope you can take a serious look at this manuscript, this is a manuscript that will take our publishing house to a new level." ”
"Oh! Barry, look at where this is coming from!? Is it Korea, what is Korea? I've never even heard of it, and how can an Asian know what we Westerners taste like in reading? I'm not going to believe it anyway, you can take it back, I won't waste my time on this kind of garbage. Yes, I'm busy, please don't waste my time. Editor-in-chief Charlie used exaggerated body language to express his dissatisfaction.
"Oh my God, you are expressing your racist ideas in front of literature! Literature knows no boundaries, you can't bury a good book because of your racism, and if you don't read it, you'll definitely regret it. Hearing Charlie's reply, Barry made a last-ditch effort to try to get him to change his mind.
"It's not racism, I'm not going to read it." Editor-in-chief Charlie didn't even look at Barry now, and then said.
Barry knew that Editor-in-Chief Charlie would not change his mind, so he was ready to pick up the manuscript and walk out.
As Barry was about to walk out, Editor-in-Chief Charlie stopped him and said, "And, I won't regret it!" “
Hearing Editor-in-Chief Charlie say this, Barry knew it wasn't going to work here.
Barry looked at the manuscript in his hand, he really liked it, and at the same time it was really a good book, after thinking about it, Barry took the manuscript to the editorial office of children's books, and after coming to the editor-in-chief's office, Barry knocked on the door and heard "Please come in" and walked in, and then said, "Editor-in-chief Kailin, it's just a manuscript sent from South Korea, I am very optimistic about the development prospects of this book after reading it, so I will show it to you." With that, he handed over the manuscript.
Ms. Kailin, the editor-in-chief here, did not even look at the manuscript like Charlie, the editor-in-chief, after hearing Barry's intention, but picked up the manuscript and read it seriously, and waited for about an hour, Ms. Kailin put down the manuscript and said to Barry, "I'm sorry, I've kept you waiting, you can go back to work, I will arrange for the signing department to contact the sender, this is indeed a good book, thank you." “
Barry breathed a sigh of relief when she heard Ms. Kailin's reply, and then said, "Unfortunately, I'll leave it to you, and I'll go down to work." "Running into a wall with Charlie's editor-in-chief made Barry very depressed, and all he did was to keep the good books from being buried, but fortunately he was recognized by Ms. Kaylin, and he was able to complete his task.
After Barry went out, Ms. Kailin picked up the manuscript called "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" again, and after reading it for a while, Ms. Kailin had to admit that the wizarding world depicted in this book was even attracted to herself, thinking that the manuscript said that the book had been published in Korean in Korea, Ms. Kailin searched on the computer, and when she saw that the book had been pre-booked for the title of the best-selling novel in Korea in 1995 with sales of 300,000 copies less than a month after its publication, Ms. Kailin was even more optimistic about the book, the magic novels that are so popular in the Eastern countries, should not be bad in the United Kingdom, which is the background of zài.
After thinking about it, Ms. Kailin made a phone call to the signing department to call someone to come up, and after the people came up, Ms. Kailin asked the signing department to contact the publisher to sign the contract, and when the person from the signing department came up, Ms. Kailin mentioned that the royalty at the time of signing the contract can be mentioned as 10%.
Hearing Ms. Kailin say this, the people from the signing department were taken aback, the general rookie writers are 6~7%, and it is impossible to get 10%, although I was surprised, but the people who came would not question anything, because Ms. Kailin is the daughter of the chairman, let alone 10%, even if it is 15%, it has nothing to do with me.
After sending the people from the signing department, Ms. Kailin continued to read the manuscript.
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Time flies quickly, in a blink of an eye, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" has been released in South Korea for more than 1 month, and a week ago, the uncle also brought Kim Tae-hyun his first royalty share, 170 million after paying the tax, this money in 95 years of South Korea can buy a house of about 100 square meters in Seoul, and you can buy a villa in this small place in Cheongju.
Although the current income seems to be a lot, Kim Tae-hyun doesn't care very much, because now the sales of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" in South Korea have begun to decline, a country with only about 60 million people, and it is already a legend to be able to sell 78,000 copies in the end, generally speaking, a sales volume of about 100,000 copies can already rank among the top few at the end of the year. In the end, it depends on the sales volume overseas, the future game copyright fees, and the copyright fees of the largest movies, after the previous life was adapted into 8 movies, the entire series has swept nearly 8 billion US dollars at the global box office.
After getting this money, what Kim Tae-hyun wanted to do was to use the money to buy a house in the city, this suite was not what Kim Tae-hyun wanted to live in, but he wanted to bring his grandparents, father, and mother to the city, but not long ago, Kim Tae-hyun told his father about his idea when he came home from a weekend vacation, and Kim Tae-hyun brought up his idea at dinner.
Grandpa thinks that this is Kim Tae-hyun's hard-earned money through his own hard work and can't be moved casually, and he will leave it to Kim Tae-hyun to marry his daughter-in-law in the future, so grandpa insists on helping Kim Tae-hyun save the money, and after knowing his grandfather's thoughts, Kim Tae-hyun was moved and a little crying and laughing at the same time, and he began to worry about his life's major events when he was still so young, after Kim Tae-hyun explained that this money was only the first royalty, and he could get more money with the sales of the book in the future, grandpa no longer insisted, Although he is reluctant to live in this place for a lifetime, in the heart of the old man, he still hopes to live with his grandson.
After obtaining his grandfather's consent, my father raised a question, or should I say that my father was worried, what could I do after I went to the city because my family had been farming for generations, and I didn't have any special skills? Although he said that his son can make money now, he wants to let himself start eating his son's and using his son's now, which is absolutely impossible, he is still young, and he is not old enough to raise his son.
Hearing his father's worries, Kim Tae-hyun also had a long consideration in his heart, that is, to open a store in the city, open a Harry Potter-themed café to hand over his father's management, anyway, it is his own things, there is no infringement problem, and the main thing is to let his father not have the kind of love that he relies on his son to eat.