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The busy public office is full of people, and some of the young editors sitting at their desks are also reading novels with serious faces, and it can be seen that this office should be newly established, and the various office equipment has not left traces of long-term use.

"Lin Ye, that bastard, throw me the trouble."

Feng En, the editor-in-chief sitting in the office, let out a long breath of white air and cursed, swallowing the clouds and exhaling the fog for a long time before reaching out and pressing the cigarette in his mouth into the ashtray, he is the head of the [BiuBiuBiu] novel area and also serves as the editor-in-chief, and was poached by Lin Ye from another well-known novel website with a high salary more than a month ago. Feng En thought that this company could spend so much money to dig itself up, at least quite well prepared, but the reality is completely opposite to what he imagined, so far the entire editorial department has been built by him one by one, and the only thing that feels good is the huge budget given by [BiuBiuBiu] for him to show his talents.

Now China's largest online novel website [Fantasy Book League] may only have a net profit of tens of millions of RMB a year, but this company has given more than 100 million RMB of start-up capital, I heard that this is still the meaning of the major shareholder behind the company, Feng En heard the news for the first time and sighed that China is not short of people who are stupid and have more money.

"Tuk-tuk." As he pondered, there was a knock at the door

"Come in."

A young editor walked in and reported with a happy face: "Editor-in-chief, the author of "Breaking the Sky" has finally replied. ”

"Oh?"

Feng En's eyes opened, and he hurriedly opened the computer in front of him and logged in to the website account dedicated to the editorial department, and after a while, he found the chat between the editorial department and the author of "Breaking the Sky" [Don't Eat Tomatoes].

"Hello, we are the editor of the [BiuBiuBiu] fiction area, we are very interested in your work "Breaking the Sky", and we are interested in reaching a cooperative relationship with you in the novel, if you are interested in reaching a cooperation with our company, we will also give you satisfactory conditions, hope to reply. ――[BiuBiuBiu] Editorial Department of the Novel Area"

"Yes. - Don't eat tomatoes. ”

The simple two-word reply made Feng En, who had seen a lot of winds and waves, feel that his heart was skipping a beat, he didn't know why "Breaking the Sky" didn't sign a contract with [Phantom Book League], but he was able to seize this opportunity to be of great benefit to the novel area and the editorial department. Feng En himself is a senior editor, he needs to keep abreast of the dynamics of online novels, "Breaking the Sky" has just appeared in the public eye, he has been firmly locked, not for anything else, the commercial value seen in the "Breaking the Sky" novel is too huge, he believes that as long as the novel is operated well, then the value of the novel itself may exceed the net profit of [Phantom Book League] for a year.

However, in the past, he was ignored by how he contacted the author of "Breaking the Firmament", until yesterday, when he saw "Breaking the Firmament" appearing in the novel area, he was lucky to send a private message on the website as the editor of the [BiuBiuBiu] novel area, and now he was unexpectedly replied, and he couldn't help but feel excited.

"Editor-in-chief, what should I do?" The young male editor standing next to him asked nervously.

Feng En grinned, copied a document from his computer desktop and sent it over: "Although I don't know why he didn't sign a contract with the [Fantasy Book Alliance], I can't think of any reason for the author to refuse this contract. ”

The young editor asked curiously, "Is that the contract document for the novel customized by our company?" ”

"Yes, the editorial department has not yet established the signing contract, but not all novels can get this contract, once signed, it means that the author has reached a cooperative relationship with our company, have you read the content of this contract carefully." Von turned his head to look at the young editor.

The male editor hesitated for a moment and shook his head, "Well... ”

"Haha, the content of this contract is very interesting, you can see the attitude of our company towards the editorial department, and to be honest, I don't think any author will refuse this contract. Now there are three types of contracts: A, B, and C, and "Breaking the Sky" belongs to category A, and different contracts are for different novels, but the content is different, and the core of the contract has not changed much. ”

"What do you mean?" The young editor was stunned by Vonne's words.

Feng En shrugged his shoulders and explained with a chuckle: "The content of the contract is drawn up from the author's standpoint, and the return that can be obtained from the novel area is minimal, especially now that the company is subsidizing money to our department to operate the novel area, but Mr. Lin doesn't care about this situation, coupled with the exaggerated budget amount, I can't guess that there are big rich people who plan to support the online novel industry, and we are standing at the center of this incident, so if we don't perform well, we may miss this opportunity, and "Breaking the Sky" Partnering is an opportunity for our newsroom to make a difference. ”

"Class A contract is the highest level of the three types of contracts, the relationship between the website and the work is similar to cooperation, most of the income of the whole work belongs to the author himself, including manuscript fees, copyrights, other channel income, etc., the novel area earns a small amount of hard work, that is to say, our editorial department acts as a thug, which is so simple." Feng En's tone was meaningful.

"The core of Class B and Class C is generally the same, but the subtle conditions are not as preferential as Class A, and the relationship between Class B and Class C contracts where we are promoted from a thug to a collaborator."

He is showing off the characteristics of the contract, in fact, he himself has just come here and was also shocked by the content of the contract, no matter how you look at it, the content of the contract is not beneficial to the operation of the platform, and the entire industry environment, and the company's original position in the formulation of the contract is fundamentally different, in his opinion, this contract is more suitable for a developed country like Japan or the United States where intellectual property protection is in place, but it can be classified as an anomaly in China, an environment that has not established a mature copyright system at all.

Investors are playing with fire, and in the real sense, they are investing money to maintain the continuation of the fire.

In countries where intellectual property protection is in place, this contract is reasonable, but in the Chinese online literature circle, which has not formed a genuine concept at all, the existence of the contract can only be maintained if the operator continues to lose money. Von personally despised this practice, and once the financial chain was broken, the contract would have been nothing more than a blank slate for the author, but the announcement in the company's high-level conference room had changed his mind drastically.

The change brought about by capital

The company's board of directors intends to set up a novel area is not a play ticket nature, and the capital investment in the novel area is more than the popular live broadcast area, which is not an exaggeration.

At that time, he knew that the editorial department of the fiction section he established would be the beginning of everything.

After explaining, Feng En saw Yu Kamiya's reply coming from the computer screen, "The contract conditions are very good, I think we should be able to reach a cooperation." - Don't eat tomatoes. ”

"Smack!"

"It's done!"

Feng En clapped his palms excitedly, and motioned to the young editor next to him to look at the content of Kamiya Yu's reply, the middle-aged man's supposed mature appearance is now as high-spirited as the young man, and he clasped his hands and smiled confidently: "I said that no author will refuse this contract, whether it is out of money or out of love for his work, you go and contact Manager Li in the original painting area, and say that I have something to discuss with him." ”

"Okay."

The young editor looked surprised and nodded in understanding.