Chapter 24: The Future of Reading

As a well-known five-star hotel in Yangcheng, in addition to providing guests with a comfortable accommodation environment, Kaitai Hotel naturally provides delicious Yangcheng cuisine. The second and third floors of the hotel are both floors for entertaining guests.

Compared to the ordinary restaurant on the second floor, the box on the third floor is undoubtedly more upscale. It's just a meal on the third floor, and you won't be able to beat it if you don't have a few thousand yuan. And Qin Xiaoyi invited Yu Wenle's family to the banquet, so he booked it in the VIP banquet living room on the third floor.

When Qin Xiaoyi still took Xu Ao to the eighteenth floor, Yu Wenle's room was staying. Seeing Li Wenjie standing beside Yu Wenle, Qin Xiaoyi was also a little curious for a while, whether this person was Yu Wenle's father.

But without waiting for Qin Xiaoyi to come forward to greet him, Xu Ao, who was following behind, said with a surprised expression: "If I'm not mistaken, this gentleman, you should be the former guitarist of the Flying Leopard Band, Mr. Li Wenjie, right?" ”

Regarding Xu Ao's such a sure inquiry, Li Wenjie also smiled and said: "It seems that my old face is still recognized!" Editor-in-Chief Xu and Editor-in-Chief Qin, hello. Don't mind, I'll stay here, right? ”

In the face of Li Wenjie's straightforward words, Yu Wenle rolled his eyes and said: "Teacher, what you said is as if the matter I want to talk about with the two editors is something that is not visible.

Editor-in-Chief Qin, Brother Xu, this is my teacher Li Wenjie, and I am now learning guitar and music composition with him. He knows more about me than my family. He's also a big reader of your weekly! ”

After Yu Wenle said this, Li Wenjie also nodded seriously and said: "I don't deny this, since the editor-in-chief Qin is here." Then I'm going to build it well, can't your weekly become a daily magazine?

I heard this kid say that he handed over 500,000 yuan to your weekly magazine. You only publish 30,000 a week, when are you going to go? What's even more odious is that this kid also said that he didn't have a manuscript in his hand, and you don't get angry! ”

This kind of construction is naturally pleasing to the editors of the two weekly magazines. This also shows that the novels currently serialized in the weekly are indeed the spiritual food that the majority of South Vietnamese martial arts fans look forward to every week!

'Mr. Lee, isn't Bunraku your student?' You can ask him to show you the manuscript sent to us in advance! You are his teacher, you can also review the manuscript for him in advance! ’

What made Yu Wenle speechless was that although Xu Ao admired Li Wenjie very much, he immediately came up with such an idea.

And Li Wenjie also smiled and said: "This is a good idea!" It's a pity that this kid has a lot of work ethic, and he said that doing so violates the spirit of the contract. If I had read his manuscript in advance, the sales of your weekly seashore would have been one less per week! ”

After some jokes, Yu Wenle invited the two to sit down, and by the way, he invited his parents to his room and met with the two editors. For such a literati, Yu Wenle's parents naturally still respect him very much.

When talking about cooperation, Yu Rong said very openly: "Editor-in-chief Qin, it's okay!" Writing a novel was my own idea. As for his cooperation with you, we will not interfere, you just have to watch it.

Although I was a little worried that writing a novel would affect his academic performance. But in the first two exams, his grades were not bad, so I won't stop it. But since we've met both, we still want to thank you for giving Bunraku this opportunity. ”

For Rong's thanks and opening, Qin Xiaoyi hurriedly said: "Mr. Yu, you are too polite. To tell you the truth, if it weren't for this novel written by your son, I'm afraid that our weekly magazine wouldn't have had a good year. If you want to say thank you, we are the right ones! ”

After some pushing, Yu Rong took Liu Hui away in a timely manner. left the room to Qin Xiaoyi and his son. Regarding this kind of cooperation, Yu Rong really doesn't understand it very well, and he is not willing to interfere too much.

Since my son is doing well now, why not let him do it?

Seeing that there was not much time to leave the meal, Qin Xiaoyi quickly said: "Wenle, according to the request you said last time, our weekly magazine has helped you to receive serialization applications from eight provincial martial arts weeklies, and the price is the same as the previous one." I also brought the contract with me.

In addition, as I told you before, those publishing houses have also added buyout fees and share ratios. There are two companies out of the sharing ratio, which is still very good for a newcomer author like you. ”

Receiving the power of attorney handed over by Qin Xiaoyi, Yu Wenle said in a timely manner: "I still won't consider the publication of the physical book for the time being." As for serialization authorization, as long as you are willing to pay 1,000 words and 50 yuan, I will promise to give them permission to serialize.

This time I came to Yangcheng, and I brought a manuscript of more than 100,000 words, and I will bring it to you later. It's just that before the start of school, I'm just afraid that I won't submit the manuscript for the time being, there are 600,000 words, and I believe it will be enough for the weekly magazine to be serialized for a while.

The remaining 400,000 words, I will strive to finish before the college entrance examination. As for physical publishing, I'll talk about it after my college entrance examination is over. If there is a new media, I can also consider sending you an invitation to reprint it, and the price is right. ”

As a rookie author, if he dares to say such a thing, Yu Wenle must also thank the empire's cultural copyright protection system. Although a lot of serial authorizations have been signed, Yu Wenle has always grasped the authorization for online reprinting.

Although the reprinting and selling of the novel to an online company will affect the sales of the physical book at a certain level. can have otaku memories as a reference, and Yu Wenle also knows that in the future, more novel copyrights will become popular on the Internet.

With the popularization of computers and the Internet, more and more young people are willing to read novels on the Internet. As for the number of book lovers who buy physical books, there will gradually decrease. After all, reading books online is sometimes more convenient and faster than reading physical books.

Sure enough, after Yu Wenle said this, Xu Ao said worriedly: "Wenle, if you put the novel on the Internet and reprint it, it will still have a big impact on your physical book sales in the future." ”

And Yu Wenle said with a smile: "Editor-in-chief Qin, Brother Xu, the two are also professionals in cultural media. In the past two years, the empire's Internet popularization has greatly accelerated. Computer citizenship is also the trend of the times.

If the two of you don't think I'm troublesome, I hope you can consider opening a martial arts weekly network on the Internet. In this way, even if physical novels and newspapers do not adapt to the love of reading in the new era in the future, you still have the back road of the Internet.

Take the largest hero network in China, the number of paying readers on its website is also increasing exponentially. From this trend, it is rare for the two of them not to see that young people nowadays have begun to choose to read online when they read books? ”

Daring to say such a thing, Yu Wenle naturally took the time to think about this issue. If you take the Yanhuang Empire, the current Internet popularization process dΓΉ, compared with the time and space where the otaku is located, it should be the situation about ten years ago in that time and space.

At least for now, home computers are still relatively high-end consumption. It's just that compared to the time and space where otaku are located, most of the computer technology is mastered by Europe and the United States. In today's Yanhuang Empire, computers have many independent property rights.

It's just that in the past, computers were more used for government and military purposes, and the popularity of civilian use was less and slow. In the past two years, the empire has slowly opened up this market, and the number of Internet users has increased rapidly.

There are more home computers, and the number of Internet users is also increasing. With this, it is the advent of the network information age. In the future, the advantage of paper media to compete with online media is also decreasing year by year.

And the South Vietnamese Martial Arts Weekly, a magazine that relies on serialized martial arts novels to survive, is naturally the first batch of paper media representatives who are most likely to be eliminated by the online media. Transformation is also their only way to survive!