Chapter Seventy-Four: Negotiations

"Uncle He, what else is there to talk about, Penguin Publishing is really too deceitful. It's only a million pounds, and you want to buy the publishing rights in the UK, I don't know what to do. ”

Yang Huan's roar without suppressing his voice shook the entire cafΓ©. The expression of anger that was real to the extreme fully explained the anger in his heart, as if it had produced a strong contagious force, so that everyone else in the cafΓ© was infected, and he was not dissatisfied with his roar.

Thomas hurriedly apologized: "Mr. Yang, if you are not satisfied with this price, we can talk slowly." You have to believe in the sincerity of our publishing house. ”

"Hehe, bullshit sincerity, the price of a million pounds is offered, and I am ashamed of you."

This made Tom embarrassed, and in fact he was very angry with his colleagues' nonsense.

Don't look at a million pounds a lot, it's actually nothing for this novel.

Especially now, the sales of "Jurassic Park" in Xiangjiang have increased to 500,000, and at least one out of three families has bought a copy. and 460,000 on Taiwan Island and 1.6 million in Southeast Asia. Even in Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States, although it is only a traditional version, it still sold 700,000 jΓΉ.

The blowout sales in the past week are enough to explain the popularity of this novel.

You must know that among them, Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States are not necessarily so easy, after all, Yulang Group does not have many channels to speak of in these areas, let alone invest much in advertising. And it's still a traditional Chinese character, and overseas Chinese and Chinese don't know much. These numbers are all sold by word of mouth for publicity.

Nowadays, the sales are still rising, which shows the high quality of this novel.

These numbers are all obtained by Penguin Press today.

As for the number of jΓΉ that Yang Huan knew about the midnight show the day before yesterday, it was more than a week ago. A blowout in a short period of time, if Yang Huan knew about it, he would definitely jump with laughter.

"Mr. Yang, if you are not satisfied with our price, you can talk again."

Tom's face was stern, and he was clearly prepared for a long battle.

Yang Huan suddenly restrained the anger on his face, sat down again, and said calmly: "Sharing is a must, 15% is already very low, you must know the quality of this novel, and the sales are beyond doubt." ”

"But these are just assumptions."

"Hong Kong and Taiwan, Japan and Island, Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States are enough to illustrate a qiΔ“. Even if translated into English, it's the same. ”

"But it's just a Chinese novel. It will take time to translate whether it can be tested by the market. It's a risk, and we're taking too much risk at the publishing house. ”

Yang Huan shrugged: "That's why I said it's divided." ”

Thomas was speechless, to put it mildly, Yang Huan was too confident in the novel.

This mind is the same as theirs, but the two sides still have a dispute of interest.

Seeing Yang Huan's resolute appearance, Thomas sighed: "Mr. Yang, it's okay to divide it, but 15% is too high, and it is absolutely impossible for our publishing house." ”

"What if it's a decade of exclusive British publishing rights?"

"That's too little."

Yang Huan sighed, took out a cigarette and lit it, took two deep breaths, and said: "Europe, the English version has exclusive publishing rights, but the price has to be increased." ”

Toms and the assistant's eyes lit up, and the assistant asked eagerly; "How many years?"

"Ten years."

Thomas shook his head: "Time is too short, books are different from others, it takes time to settle. ”

Nonsense, the book has just started to go on the market, and it looks like there are a lot of sales, but in fact this is something that needs to be accumulated over time.

The original "Jurassic Park" sold 200 million copies, not one or two years, but more than 20 years of accumulation.

"It's not short, ten years is enough time to cover any part of the earth."

"If you include French, German, Italian, Spanish, etc."

Yang Huan pouted disdainfully: "Your company is too greedy." ”

If it weren't for the fact that this was the first foreign publishing house to come to the door, Yang Huan would have left with his bag a long time ago.

Nima's group of greedy vampires still want the publishing rights of so many places, I really don't know.

As long as a novel sells well, it is full of publishers who come to the door. Publishing houses in any place can come to your door and seek publishing rights.

In this world, not only Chinese and English, but also French, German, Japanese and other translated novels also have extraordinary sales.

Yang Huan didn't want to put his eggs in one basket, it was too restrictive. On the contrary, as long as there are enough publishers, he can form a competitive shape, which is beneficial to him.

The most important point is that with the publishing houses of these countries, he can open up the channels of various countries. In this way, there will be channels for publishing novels and movies in the future. Even if it's just a contact opportunity, it's earned.

"Jurassic Park" sold 200 million copies, which seems to be a lot, but not many can be distributed to him. Tens of millions of dollars, at most hundreds of millions, I'm afraid it's over. After all, the price of a novel is also limited, and with the extraction of income from intermediate channels and publishers, there is not much revenue in his hands.

This is still more than twenty years, how could he continue to wait.

It's just that the only thing I can get my hands on now is this novel, and for the sake of the company's development and my own interests, I naturally have to take it out to lose money and make money.

Only if the book is a good seller, can you get better treatment in the future. Don't talk about the 15% share, 25 is about the same.

"It's just English, and the sales are limited, not to mention just Europe."

Looking at the greed in the eyes of Thomas and his assistant, Yang Huan sighed.

Then, he showed a mocking smile: "Your company doesn't want to take over Europe and America, right?" ”

"It's better to have Oceania, we have a branch in our company."

Sure enough, businessmen are greedy. At the beginning, it was just a Britain, and because of its own opening, it had to make inches.

"It's only Europe, not America, and it's not good for me."

"Oh? What are the benefits? ”

"I opened a film company, and as a filmmaker, I naturally hope that my films can be sold in Europe and the United States."

Yang Huan's words immediately made Toms understand.

The guy groaned, and then smiled: "Although we at Penguin Press are only in the publishing business, we have also been in contact with the film industry, after all, many of our novels will be adapted into movies. If Mr. Yang needs it, we can match you up. ”

There is no doubt that the connection represents the payment of interests.

What was very much expected made Yang Huan hesitate for a while.

"Mr. Yang doesn't have to think of us too inferiorly, in fact, you are still a newcomer, and you really can't ask too much in terms of the proportion of the novel. Nowadays, your best path is to lay the foundation first, so that you can ask for more benefits. ”

"But if it's blackmailed, I'd rather not want anything."

Seeing Yang Huan's resolute expression, Thomas hurriedly said with great sincerity: "Mr. Yang has misunderstood, even if Mr. Yang is unwilling to cooperate with us, our publishing house will contact you." ”

Yang Huan's face was still the same, but his heart was blooming.

"13 per cent, 10 years of exclusive publishing rights in Oceania, I can sell it to you for five million pounds."

"North America?"