These publishing houses in the United States, speaking carefully, are indeed good at changing faces, and if they perform in Sichuan Opera, they will definitely be famous characters. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

For example, that's it anyway now.

At the beginning, when they heard that Li Kuo was going to write a new book, the excitement was beyond words, and they basically came together as soon as possible.

However, after learning that Li Kuo was going to write a magic novel, everyone instantly decided not to have anything to do with Li Kuo, let him do whatever he wanted, and let him go to any publishing house, and the publishing house's internal ban on Li Kuo to publish books at his own expense has now been lifted.

Anyway, now the people in the American publishing house have changed their attitude towards Li Kuo to let him go, what do you like.

Of course, there must be publishers who have seen the brilliance of Li Kuo's book in the previous "The Fall of the Giant", so now they are looking forward to Li Kuo's next novel, even if there is a prerequisite such as magic, they are still willing to try it.

It's just that the price given by this group is still not high, that is, the manuscript fee for the entire novel of 500,000 yuan, although it is said that this is US dollars, it is almost 3.5 million when converted into RMB, and this is after tax......

The problem is that under such a manuscript fee, the people of these publishing houses need Li Kuo to hand over all the copyrights of this novel to this publishing house, otherwise they are not willing to give such a high price. If the pure manuscript fee is 500,000 US dollars, plus some sales shares, then Li Kuo is still willing to agree, after all, now the publishing house in the United States is gradually forming an alliance, hoping to prevent Li Kuo's self-funded book, because then Li Kuo will earn most of the money, so since he wants to choose the way to give the copyright to the publishing house, then he can only choose a relatively pleasing one.

However, this is not the case......

The real situation now is that these guys need other copyrights, and Li Kuo will definitely not do it.

Because the magical novel he is writing now, "The Lord of the Rings", has won too many miracles in too many fields in another time and space.

In another time and place, The Lord of the Rings is a novel written by John Ronald Riel Tolkien, an English writer, linguist, and professor at Oxford University. The book is a sequel to The Hobbit and is widely regarded as the originator of modern fantasy literature. After twelve years of creation and four years of revision, The Lord of the Rings was published in 1954-1955. The book is divided into three parts: "The Fellowship of the Ring", "The Two Towers", and "The Return of the King"

The novel "The Lord of the Rings", in terms of honor, was named "Book of the 20th Century" in a voting event jointly organized by Waterstones Bookstore and British TV Channel 4, and became a favorite of many people.

In addition, it was named "the most important book of two thousand years" in a poll held by Amazon. The Lord of the Rings has been translated into more than 60 languages and has been featured in illustrations, music, films, TV series, radio dramas and computer games......

In terms of film and television, from 2001 to 2003, the "Lord of the Rings" series directed by Peter Jackson was released, and the series of films won a total of 17 Academy Awards, of which "The Lord of the Rings 3: The Return of the King" won 11 Academy Awards, becoming the most awarded film in Oscar history......

For such a novel, it is definitely impossible for Li Kuo to give the copyright to the publishing house, which is absolutely impossible.

Therefore, it is obvious that Li Kuo will never choose to sell this book to a publishing house so cheaply in the end, so Li Kuo's final decision is that "The Lord of the Rings" will once again become a self-published novel.

Although this novel will make many Europeans and Americans feel that there is a natural diaphragm in terms of category, but on the whole, as long as you really read this book, you will no longer have such thoughts, but will feel that this book is indeed very good, if you study it carefully, you can feel the energy contained in it, and feel that the book "The Lord of the Rings" may have recreated a real world.

Indeed, this novel creates another almost real world in another time and space, which is also the biggest selling point, and then, there are some more likable things about the novel is the kind of love and justice conveyed in this novel, the kind of unremitting pursuit of beauty, which will make people feel quite good.

…… Li Kuo chose such a novel.

After Li Kuo chose to publish the book at his own expense again, and the publishing house in the United States was no longer so interested in his new book, Li Kuo also chose a new publishing house to publish.

Although these publishing houses are not very optimistic about Li Kuo's new book, as long as they publish the book at their own expense, they don't have to take any risk, anyway, they can sell a little more if they print more, so many publishing houses do not reject publishing this book, but there is also a bit of a lack of interest, unless Li Kuo is willing to spend a lot of money on publicity, and they want to buy the publicity resources of their publishing house......

After all, if this is not the case, they just make money from printing fees, book numbers, and so on, then they really don't make much.

After Li Kuo went through "The Fall of the Giant", he felt that the propaganda of various publishing houses was actually not worth the price, but it was better to find someone to promote it according to his own methods.

So with such factors in this, many publishers are even less interested in this matter.

Fortunately, now Li Kuo has found an organization, that is, the orthodox literary world on China's side, after "The Fall of the Giant", they do have high hopes for Li Kuo.

Although the Chinese literary world has not made much achievements in the American market before, usually it is quite a good standard for a book to sell 10,000 copies in this edition, but after all, they have already established a sales channel or something, so Li Kuo's self-funded book this time, with their help, but also quickly found a suitable publishing house, this publishing house is relatively reliable, and will not ask Li Kuo to buy their promotional package or something here.

After that, Li Kuo did some publicity, viral marketing, and some other big words, and he also found someone to do some professional advertising or something, so that the American people knew that there was such a book, and then, after the official release of "Dragons and Knights" in China, the book also began to be sold.

This sale, no matter what the result is, has too many people looking at it with concern, and almost everyone is paying attention to the sales figures......