In 2004, China's Internet was undergoing a change from a niche behavior that was circulated among enthusiasts to a large-scale commercialization. Romance debuts

Some websites use physical book publishing as a breakthrough, while others use direct charging on the website as a breakthrough.

Publishing physical books, because the awareness of copyright protection in the mainland is relatively weak, so under normal circumstances, it is rarely able to be published in China, and at the same time, Taiwan-Bay is a time when the economy is developed and there is a thirst for cultural products. The price offered by the Taiwan-Bay Publishing House was a few tens of yuan for 1,000 words, which could be regarded as a sky-high price at that time. As a result, many authors hit it off with Taiwan-Gulf publishers and published their own traditional Chinese books.

Of course, it is a pity that during this period of time, traditional Chinese books are often launched, and Taiwan-Wan publishing houses will ask to stop online serialization, which is also at that time, why some very beautiful writings suddenly stop updating.

Often, these networks, the popularity accumulated on the Internet, will also dissipate because of such behavior. As a publishing platform, if all the good-looking books on the platform are the result of such a sudden interruption, then the popularity of this website can be imagined.

Fortunately, the Internet is a big world with many people from all over the world, and there are some Taiwanese readers who share the scanned versions of the physical books they have bought, while some readers type them into text versions, and those who like to read books can also see the books they like to read through guò channels.

Of course, this qiē behavior does not benefit the author. Therefore, some authors who write beautifully and have a large number of readers are due to lack of income. Either write on the Internet as a side hustle, or just leave the circle.

Even if Lin Yan doesn't know the context of the development of the network industry, as long as he knows the basic elements of whether an industry can survive, he knows that the network can survive, but his current behavior is wrong.

Because, it doesn't have the ability to monetize its huge readership. This is like almost all Chinese Internet companies at the beginning of their birth. They have an enviable number of users, but they don't have a monetization channel. It's like one person after another who holds the mountain of gold but starves to death.

As a result, the other model has basically become the right choice. It's the online charging model.

However, how to charge is another question. Accept it at the beginning, the devil knows if your book is good or not, and if the word count is too long, then the author will not charge it before. And there is no income.

Therefore, the final number of words on the shelves is probably established in the range of a physical book, about 300,000.

If you read the previous 300,000 and think that the book is well written, you will spend money to read it, and if you think it is not good-looking, then you will not spend money.

And many readers who didn't pay to watch it. When they learned about the author's situation, they were willing to spend some money to read the book.

A little adds up. Just like the famous saying, as long as the whole country gives me a dollar, I am a billionaire.

An author with hundreds, a thousand, can earn thousands of dollars a month. This is not a small amount in 2004.

And this new way of making money. It has also attracted the attention of many people, so many people have invested in the industry of writing the Internet, injecting a lot of fresh blood into the industry.

However, although the benefits of such commercialization are numerous. But problems arise as well.

The first problem is that with the increase in the number of people writing articles, the threshold for Internet entry has been lowered, and the overall quality of the network is showing a downward trend.

The second problem is that whether readers like it or not, and whether they are willing to spend money, is related to the author's income. Therefore, the content is no longer as casual as it was in the early days of online writing, but has become very utilitarian.

After exploration, the elements that readers like are retained, and those that readers don't like are completely discarded.

In addition, there are fewer people who have the power to create a zào, so many people are working Chinese translation Chinese, retelling some stories and plots written by others in their own words.

And because of this, after reading a book, I feel that it is enjoyable, and I will want to find a relationship with the same category. Therefore, these followers actually had a good time for a while.

Of course, under the large number of followers, of course, quantitative changes will lead to qualitative changes, and new high-quality products will be born.

The third problem is the emergence of a large number of pirated websites. These pirated websites can even earn more than the genuine websites themselves.

Because, instead of charging, they chose another model that does not charge readers. That's joining an ad network. Use the number of ads to make up for the money that you don't have a subscription.

Of course, a large number of advertisements will inevitably affect the reader's experience to the extreme. However, for most readers, there's nothing wrong with a poor experience, as long as it doesn't cost money.

The fourth problem is that there is no convenient and fast way to recharge, even if a reader really likes a book and wants to spend money, it is likely that he will not find a way to recharge.

The first problem is almost unavoidable, but it is not a completely bad thing. Although there will be many unpleasant books, there will indeed be many excellent works that stand out during this period.

Those who try to write the Internet for the first time and do not have the skills to write on the Internet in the past, after trying for a period of time, even if they do not give up, in fact, their writing level will be greatly improved. The premise of writing a good work is actually already there.

And the second problem is also unavoidable. However, it's not a completely bad thing either. Whether it's a Hollywood movie or a Japanese game, it's actually a very commercial work of art. However, it is still very good-looking and fun, which shows that commercialization does not mean shoddy, and it does not mean that there are no good rental products.

And the third point, a large number of pirated websites, which is actually more difficult to solve, will not see any good profits during this period. However, in the long run. For some authors, it's not actually a bad thing. Because, pirated websites will bring a large number of people to read.

And the Internet, from his natural nature, is suitable for adaptation, whether it is adapted into a movie. Whether it's an anime, a TV series, or a game, they all have high potential.

Therefore, in the later period, the income of many first-class online writers no longer depends on the income of online reading, but on the income of those copyrights.

And with the increase of copyright income, in fact, in a certain way, it will promote the disappearance of pirated websites. Of course. It's a very long-term process.

Fourth, there are also ways to solve it. One is the recharge of mobile phone bills, but the opening of this channel has a very tricky characteristic, that is, as a channel provider, the communication operator has to take 40% of the handling fee. In other words, one dollar of phone bill is only equivalent to six cents.

Such a top-up. In fact, it is not cost-effective.

Of course, there is another channel. It can also be said that it is convenient and fast, although it is not as good as the phone bill recharge system.

However, just like Ren Hell used the logistics channel of cigarettes to sell his own poker, there is an epoch-making change.

That's the online game point card.

To put it in more detail, it is the grand online game point card.

Because of the popularity of "Legend". Therefore, the demand for the recharge of "Legend" is very strong, and many Internet cafes are booming because of the game "Legend", and it is impossible for them not to value Legend.

Therefore, the grand point card sales system can be in a fairly short period of time. Widespread throughout the country. And if the network can enter this system, it is equivalent to heaven.

Therefore, in the end, the largest station in China was acquired by the largest online game company in China at that time, and the richest Internet company in China, for a sum of money that was sky-high in the eyes of the year.

Since Lin Yan is also in the circle, he can actually see the changes in this period of time.

In fact, he didn't want to support his family by writing, writing was just a pastime for him, and if he took the money, the taste would change.

It's like he likes to make games, but if the game is tied to money, he can't make a game because of what he likes, but what kind of game the players like to play.

However, because Lin Yan's influence is too great, he can be regarded as the face of the station that year, and the website tried its best to persuade Lin Yan to have a role in imitating and taking the lead, so Lin Yan agreed.

However, when the bank card number was later provided, it caused some trouble. After all, the first time that the network station faced the problem of cross-border remittance, it was still a public-to-private cross-border remittance problem.

However, later, many people felt that Lin Yan's decision was correct. You must know that at that time, Tai-Wan Xianchang Publishing House gave him a sky-high price of 100 yuan for 1,000 words. However, Lin Yan did not agree, and continued to serialize it for free on the Internet, and in the end, the benefits and influence he gained far exceeded what could be described in a thousand words.

If he had accepted the price of a thousand words and terminated the update on the network, there would definitely not be so much money.

Because the income of the Internet accounts for an increasing proportion of the income of an online author, more and more authors will not do the act of intersiting the serialization of traditional publishing.

Faced with this form, Taiwan-Bay publishing houses had no choice but to make compromises. After all, these networks originating from the mainland are liked by many Taiwanese-Gulf people.

You must know that in those days, "pocket books" and "pocket rental bookstores" became a major scenery in Taiwan, and many people took out a book from their pockets to read it in their free time.

This is also why there is a strange rule for publishing in Taiwan-Gulf on the Internet, which is 60,000 words per book.

Because, if the number of words is too much, the pocket book made will be too thick, and it will be inconvenient to carry.

At first, Taiwanese publishers were straightforward with their names on the mainland and the author's pen names, but after a while they found that the sales of pocket books had declined.

After a period of investigation, I found that it was not that the writing was not good-looking, and many people did not read it. Instead, many people like to go directly to the Internet and watch it.

After all, even if the original author stops updating on the Internet, isn't there a scanned version shared by enthusiastic netizens, and a hand-made version?

As a result, publishers often give a different name and the author's pen name in later published books. Although it is not possible to completely avoid the act of watching online.

However, it is important to know that most people read this kind of book just for fun and do not study it too much. For example, go and search for sentences in a book.

Therefore, ninety percent of readers who are novice to technology have returned to the arms of pocket books.

Although I didn't let all readers stop watching the online version, ninety percent of the results were already acceptable to them.

After all, what you read on the Internet is a small part of the readers, 10% of the small part, and among all readers, even 4% is acceptable.

In this way, the Internet has reached a harmonious state, and some Taiwan-Bay book lovers will also use the Internet to read some networks that are not published in Taiwan-Bay.

And, that's a lot. Later, the network station even opened a sub-station in Taiwan, just to facilitate these Taiwan-Bay book lovers to read and consume.

Lin Yan's book has also been seen by many Taiwanese book lovers. However, because of some of his remarks, he was scolded by moderate Taiwanese book friends.

Of course, when these Taiwanese book friends are scolding, they don't think about how they scold Zhi-that-cheap-animal on the Internet forum. After all, they're gentle.

Of course, when they later learned that the author of the book was a Japanese national, their attitude changed instantly.

It's as if everything in this book is very right, and the criticism is very reasonable. To say that this is to criticize them. And they gladly accepted.

When Lin Yan saw this result, he also felt very interesting, what kind of educational and cultural atmosphere has produced such a group of people.

Lin Yan is funny when he thinks about it sometimes.

Actually, he wrote the book just to be less boring and find something to do for himself. But where to recall leads to so many things.

Of course, Lin Yan didn't care about this, after all, he didn't rely on this to eat, and he didn't have to give up his idea just because some people didn't think it looked good. (To be continued...... ）