Chapter XXIV of the main text volume, the issue of royalties

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"It's going to be a sensational novel."

Jiang Zhe's expression was steady, and he spoke calmly.

The tone was not very excited, only a faint confidence.

"Oh?" A look of surprise flashed in Machida Enko's eyes.

She was still a little surprised that Jiang Zhe, a young man, could quickly stabilize himself at such a time and regain the dominance of his words.

Not to say anything else.

It's just that the current scene is not much different from business negotiations.

The publishing house is responsible for publishing your novel, and you make fame and profit from it, which is a business contract.

So in this case, whoever can take the initiative will win.

As a publisher, Machida Enko is well aware of the novel's potential, so the purpose of her coming to this conversation is not to sign a contract or not, but to carry out a contract of Cheng dù.

Generally speaking, the treatment of newcomers is certainly not very good.

But can Jiang Zhe conclude with the word newcomer?

"The world of fiction is fantasy." Jiang Zhe spoke again, a hint of nostalgia flashing in his eyes.

"The content inside is the world constructed by the author."

"We are a dreamer, building our imagination into such short words, bringing them to our readers, and gaining their approval."

"A-Zhe means ......" Machida Enko narrowed her eyes.

She almost understood what Jiang Zhe wanted to say.

But the rhythm was inevitably brought into the home stadium by the opponent.

She had wanted to use her experience to suppress this overly young genius.

But it turns out -

A genius is a genius.

"Whoever masters fantasy will write the best novels."

The corners of Jiang Zhe's mouth hooked into a smile.

"I'm not the best one to write, but I'm sure I'll be the best one to write."

"And the all-metal frenzy will definitely be the most shocking one."

Speaking of this, Jiang Zhe stopped his words and looked at Machida Yuanzi.

When the other party asked what he thought of the novel, it was definitely not the content.

Because they are professional editors, I don't know how many good and bad works they have read.

Under their eyes, the quality of a novel, and the excitement of the content can naturally be seen at a glance.

Therefore, no matter how much Jiang Zhe said about the content, the result could only fall into the opponent's home field and the whole set.

In that case, it will be the royal sister on the other side who will have the initiative.

That's what the art of conversation is.

You have to learn to think outside the box that others have designed for you.

Jiang Zhe doesn't need to do much, just fully express his advantages.

That's what my novels are, just so many points.

With these irrefutable things here, if you say anything else, I will be invincible.

"Teacher Jiang Zhe seems to be a very confident person."

Machida Enko smiled, picked up the tea in front of her and took a sip.

Jiang Zhe noticed that she had changed her address to herself again, and using this obviously unnutritious words as a buffer, presumably this royal sister should be reorganizing her language at this moment, right?

Jiang Zhe thought so.

But it turns out that he still underestimates these workplace elites.

The other party didn't say anything more, and after putting down the teacup, he took out the prepared contract directly from behind him.

"This is what the president told me to show Mr. Jiang Zhe before I came."

Get straight to the point and get straight to the point.

For this, Jiang Zhe was only slightly stunned, and then nodded and took the other party's contract.

There are many things in the treaty, but in fact, there are only a few aspects that need to be paid attention to.

After his eyes quickly swept over the content of the contract and completely memorized it, Jiang Zhe silently said 'like' in his heart.

For Jiang Zhe, the author, the main thing to look at when looking at the contract is actually about royalties.

That is, the issue of manuscript fees.

For new authors, the general choice of manuscript fee will be a buyout, that is, how much is a thousand words, and it will be paid in one go.

Because newcomers are not well-known and are in a hurry to publish, such conditions are generally acceptable.

But Jiang Zhe, of course, could not follow such regulations.

Then the rest is royalties.

In the world where Jiang Zhe is now, the cultural industry is extremely important, and the royalties are far more than in the previous life, which can be said to be a paradise for creators.

Take light novels as an example.

In the light novel industry in the previous life, the royalty was generally about 10%, which is a very reasonable number.

Here, royalties are much higher.

Start at 15%!

This is already a very exaggerated number.

In Jiang Zhe's previous life, I am afraid that only those top people in the industry who sold tens or millions of dollars for a book could have this price.

Here, however, it's just a starting price.

Gossip aside.

At this moment, what is placed in front of Jiang Zhe are two contracts that are not much different.

Jiang Zhe didn't know how many spare contracts were in the bag behind Machida Yuanzi, but he believed that there were definitely more than two from low to high.

The two that are now placed in front of him should already be the most sincere in it.

And that's exactly what happened.

"One is 18% royalty, which is already the largest share we can give to newcomers."

Machida Enko spoke, staring at Jiang Zhe's eyes.

But she couldn't see any emotional fluctuations in the young man's black eyes.

"Another ......"

"Tiered royalty sharing?"

Jiang Zhe put down the contract in his hand, and his face showed an interested look.

18% royalty, which is already an unexpected price.

You must know that the world's top writers have only about 20% of the share at the moment.

Immortal Chuan almost regarded him as the top author, and treated him with the attitude of treating the great god, but because of his status as a newcomer, it was only slightly reduced by two percentage points.

The other contract is even more interesting.

It turned out to be the legendary stepped royalty sharing - this is Jiang Zhe's favorite thing to use when he read novels in his previous life, and the protagonist of urban literature pretended to be forced to slap his face.

Well...... It is based on sales volume.

First you are given a basic royalty share, and then you look at the sales volume, and if the sales reach a certain point, you will be given a larger royalty share.

This is the case with the contract given by the Immortal River.

The base royalty is split at 12%.

That's a pretty low number.

"If you sell more than 100,000 copies in the country, then the royalty becomes 15%. More than 300,000 copies, then the royalty will increase to 18%, and more than 600,000 copies, the royalty will reach 20%? ”

Regarding the content of this line, Jiang Zhe narrowed his eyes slightly.

Interesting......

But how is this enough?

Even if it's for hype, you have to change this thing to that point.

For example......

Less than 100,000 copies, not a penny.

More than one million, 30% royalty.

In this way, isn't it more hype?

'A proud and confident genius, a gamble in hell and heaven. ’

-- Even at this moment, Jiang Zhe helped the magazine pick up the topic.