Time flies, time flies.

In the blink of an eye, more than a month has passed. The final exams are over, and the summer vacation is finally ushered in.

The first day of summer vacation is Saturday. Early in the morning, Chen Yuan came to the company. However, what is depressing is that the door of the company is locked from the inside, and he can't enter at all. Chen Yuan took out his Motorola V988 and called Huang Bo.

Not long after, the sleepy-eyed Huang Bo ran down from the third floor and opened the door for Chen Yuan.

As soon as Huang Bo saw Chen Yuan, he couldn't help but complain: "Big boss, it's only six o'clock now, so it's not so tormenting." We stayed up all night last night. They're still sleeping with their heads covered! ”

"All night? Playing cards? Chen Yuan frowned unconsciously.

"How can that?" Huang Bo yawned and explained, "It's not a movie yet? Dong Ruifeng and Ma Yuan's two guys jumped out again, competing with us for the theater line! We discussed it all night, and finally came up with a way to deal with them. ”

"You guys, it's really a fool's errand," Chen Yuan smiled faintly, "We have to trust Director Zhou in the matter of the cinema line." ”

"You can't trust others too much, when it's time to fight, we still have to fight." Huang Bo waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I won't fight with you, I have to go and get some sleep, heh......"

The sky is already fully bright, and the rising morning sun shines in, giving people a warm and cool feeling.

Chen Yuan came to the office on the second floor, sat at his desk, and turned on the computer. His computer is Bensan's machine, 815 chipset, 64M standard memory, 12G maximum hard disk. In this era, it is considered a mainstream configuration.

After booting up, Chen Yuan logged in to the mailbox. Inside the mailbox are two new emails, one from Jiuhuang Publishing House in China and one from Lin Bai Publishing House in Taiwan. Chen Yuan habitually clicked on the email sent by Lin Bai Publishing House first. The email gave a detailed introduction to the sales of the book "The Sealing Demon" in the traditional market, which was as hot as ever. The total sales volume has reached 400,000 units.

At this time, the sales scope of the traditional "Sealed Demon" included Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, as well as Southeast Asia and other countries. In just half a year, Gu Shunfeng expanded the market to the limit. The publishing house has six more printing presses, and it is busy every day. There are hundreds of publishing houses in Taiwan, large and small, and they don't have as many sales as Gu Shunfeng's Lin Bai Publishing House!

Zhu He Qiuyang, Li Junru and others were all waiting to see Gu Shunfeng's jokes. Chen Yuan's demand for 25% royalty remuneration is unprecedented in the publishing industry, and such a distribution of benefits is no longer profitable in their eyes. As everyone knows, how happy Gu Shunfeng was in his heart at this time. The price of a volume of "The Demon" is 15 yuan, and the bookseller will take half of it, but now he has lowered it to 6 yuan 5, the remaining 8 yuan 5, the printing cost is 3 yuan, Chen Yuan's remuneration is 3 yuan 7 cents and 5 yuan, and the publishing house will have 1 yuan 7 cents 5 income

Now "Sealing the Demon" has come out to volume 8, that is, episode 32. In addition to the first 10 episodes, the next 22 episodes sold 400,000 sets, that is, 8.8 million copies, each volume can earn 1 yuan 7 cents 5, and there is also a profit of 15 million!

This is only the profit of the first half of the year, if you add the second half of the year, there will be a profit of 30 million in that year! This is only the direct income brought by the book "Sealing the Demon" to the publishing house. Now due to the fire of "Sealing the Demon", the business volume of Lin Bai Publishing House has skyrocketed, and many excellent works have been invested. These works took advantage of the east wind of "Sealing the Demon", and the sales were also very good. On top of that, others didn't demand 25% of the royalty as Chen Yuan did.

Gu Shunfeng gambled, won the bet, and made a lot of money!

On the other hand, the publishing situation in the mainland is rather not optimistic. At present, the speed of publishing books in mainland China is the same as that in Taiwan. It also came out in the eighth volume, but the sales showed a decreasing pattern. From 680,000 copies in the first volume, to 650,000 copies in the second volume, 630,000 copies in the third volume,......, 470,000 copies in the seventh volume, and 230,000 copies in the eighth volume. Volume 8 has just been released and can be disregarded. However, the sales of the first seven volumes are indeed on a downward trend.

All this is due to the rampant piracy of mainland pirates. For this purpose, the Jiuhuang Publishing House has set up a special department to crack down on piracy, with editor-in-chief Li Wenxiang as the director of the department.

The simplified version of "The Sealed Demon" brought Chen Yuan a diminishing income from his remuneration. This month, Chen Yuan's Agricultural Bank card only received 2.8 million yuan from Jiuhuang Publishing House.

Rampant piracy must be curbed!

Chen Yuan deeply understands how harmful piracy is to genuine copies! If Chinese people develop the habit of reading pirated copies, how should cultural undertakings develop in the future?

What China is most proud of is its 5,000-year-old history and culture, which many economic powers want to have but can't. Take the United States as an example, since its establishment more than 200 years ago, what cultural heritage is there? But such a country, with the so-called Hollywood, the so-called American blockbusters, has carried out a cultural invasion to the whole world!

There are many excellent creators in China, and there are also many excellent works. If there is no piracy, then this group of people and their works will shine more brightly. Then there will be more excellent works. But if piracy is still rampant in the future, how many excellent creators will consider changing careers?

Chen Yuan was thinking alone when Li Bing knocked on the office door and walked in.

Chen Yuan raised his head and said hello: "Sister Bingbing, why is it so early?" ”

"Don't, don't call me sister." Li Bing said angrily, "This is the company, I am your secretary, and you are my boss." You'd better call me by my name. ”

Chen Yuan was a little puzzled and asked, "You brought it up by yourself before to be a secretary, but now it's as you wish, why do you seem to be angry with me?" ”

Li Bing put the document in front of Chen Yuan, winked and smiled, and said, "Mr. Chen, I didn't expect that there would be so many things in the company." I not only have to manage the company's accounts, but also be responsible for the company's negotiations, and I also have to find time to teach the pastoral sister music theory, and I also have to contact other companies and crews about filming, and also play the role of an agent. You think I'm iron? So many things are pressed on me as a weak little woman, how can you bear it? ”

"You are a woman, how can you be a weak little woman?" Chen Yuan also knew that Li Bing was working very hard during this time, and after thinking about it for a while, Chen Yuan came up with an idea and said, "Otherwise, isn't it summer vacation, and I'll give you a few days off?" ”

Li Bing sighed and said, "This idea is not good at all. There are so many things in the company, and when I come back from vacation, don't I have to do all these backlog things? If you want me to say, I can't be a secretary in such a big company. You should find another one. By the way, isn't it summer vacation now? Your Teacher Ye should be fine, you can let her help! ”

Mr. Ye? Ye Yun's figure suddenly flashed in Chen Yuan's mind, Li Bing's proposal was good, but Ye Yun didn't know where to stay now! He shook his head and explained: "Teacher Ye has already resigned, and it is not realistic to pull her into the company. Now that I'm on vacation, I can do some things on my own, and you won't have to be as busy as you were some time ago. ”

Suddenly, Chen Yuan seemed to remember something, and he asked, "I remember that you two were very bad in the past, why do you think of others now?" ”

"I just can't get used to her domineering appearance, as if I have to listen to her for everything," Li Bing pursed his lips and said, "However, I do admire her very much." She is better than me, I have to admit that. I think it would be nice if she came back to manage the company's affairs, and I could do it next to me. This way I can spend more time doing my own thing. Mainly, I still want to film. ”

"Well," Chen Yuan nodded and responded, "I'll consider this suggestion." ”

"Mr. Chen, let's get back to the topic," Li Bing smiled slightly and said, ""Nightclub" has been reviewed, and Director Zhou is contacting the matter of distribution. We promised people before that we want to give the film academy a bonus, and you have to implement it. ”

Chen Yuan thought about it for a while and said, "The group we finally selected and gave them a bonus of 200,000 yuan, so that they have an average income of 20,000 yuan per person, which is enough." The other two more excellent groups will be given 100,000 yuan. The rest of the participants will receive a subsidy of 3,000 yuan each. ”

"Isn't that a bit much?" Li Bing frowned and said, "One 200,000, two 100,000, plus 36 3,000, a total of 500,000 and eight thousand." If you add special effects, the later stage of the movie will cost a lot more money than the early stage. I know you make a lot of money writing novels, but that's not how you spend it! That's too capricious, isn't it? ”

"I naturally have a reason for doing this," Chen Yuan explained, "If Qingyun Entertainment wants to become stronger and bigger, it is inseparable from talents, especially talents in film post-production." In the future, we will make a few movies every year, and we will need a large number of post-production talents. We're an upfront investment. When the time comes, these film academy talents will all come over obediently? ”

After Li Bing heard this, he snorted and laughed. "It's not as easy as you think," she said. Our Qingyun Entertainment is still just a small company, and we can't retain those talents. ”

"Big companies don't come from small companies?" Chen Yuan changed the topic and said, "How did you talk about the promotion of "Nightclub"? ”

Li Bing reported: "Director Zhou knew that we had our own publicity plan, so he promised to give us an extra 5 percentage points in terms of distribution. Motorola, for its part, also agreed to cooperate with our publicity efforts. It's just that during the negotiation process, they kept asking about the plan. Mr. Chen, you always fish them like this, don't you decouple them? ”

Chen Yuan smiled faintly and said: "There is good news at the Motorola headquarters, the new generation of Motorola Z927 has made a major breakthrough. Once this phone is put into production, Motorola will have a qualitative leap. They are even more eager to get my plan, so how can they be decoupled? ”