The Lunch Program has come to an end.

On this day, Chen Dong drove to the Haozai restaurant near Dinghai University.

In advance, I made an appointment with Du Wenhai, editor-in-chief of Changjiang Publishing House, to get together here.

"Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", published in August 14, a total of 7 parts, all of which were published in the previous month, set a record of 21.27 million copies sold.

The average sales of each book is 300w+ copies, according to the definition of bestsellers in the book publishing industry, selling more than 50w copies can be regarded as super bestsellers, and the average of 7 parts of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" is 300w each, which can be said to be super super bestsellers.

As soon as this data came out, it shocked the publishing industry again, and there has not been a series of books that have sold more than 20 million copies for a long time, which is enough to be included in the top ten of the mainland book sales list, not in the year, but in history.

In addition to being shocked, they all fell into envy and jealousy, they have reason to be envious and jealous, not to mention how much popularity this book can give to the Yangtze River Publishing House, just to say that the profit that this book brings to the Yangtze River Publishing House can make the people who have calculated this account crazy with envy and jealousy.

The editor-in-chief of the Yellow River Publishing House regretted his bowels after calculating this account, and the manuscript of this book first came to him, obviously a very interesting book, a book that can sell well, and because he blindly pursues literature, he has a prejudice against this kind of humorous and laughing novel written in Internet language, and he thinks about it with disdain, and he is thrown aside as garbage after reading a few pages.

I regret it, my intestines are repentant, this may be the thing I regret the most.

Why is envy and jealousy so mad that the editor-in-chief of the Yellow River Publishing House regrets it, just calculate this account.

The retail price of each book is 20 yuan, and Changjiang Publishing House sells it to provincial wholesalers, and the channel merchants are generally 4% off, that is, 8 yuan, of course, Changjiang Publishing cannot get a profit of 8 yuan per book. Also take into account the costs, such as the ISBN fee, the editing fee, and the manuscript fee. Design, recording, arrangement, film costs, paper, printing, binding, other expenses (warehousing and logistics management, etc.), so that the cost is calculated, the cost of each book is about 5 yuan, that is to say, the Yangtze River Publishing House makes a profit of 3 yuan for a book, 21.27 million copies x3 = more than 63 million, tax deduction, employee salary. There are also more than 40 million bonuses and publicity expenses.

In the era of publishing with small profits, a single book brought a net profit of 40 million to Changjiang Publishing House, which is a huge profit. There are more than 10 million in his pocket, and it is no wonder that other publishing houses are crazy with envy and jealousy, and their intestines are going to be repentant.

"The Rise of a Great Power" was published at the end of 14 years, and now it has been released to the fifth French chapter, thanks to the blessing of CCTV to make a documentary, and the "Rise of a Great Power" talk show done on Youle.com, which is not a little bit in the mainland. 5 sold 1400+ yuan, which also brought a net profit of 2500w to Changjiang Publishing House.

The two books alone brought him 1500+w in income.

At this time, Du Wenhai invited Chen Dong to have dinner here and talked about Chen Dong's new book, "Three Kingdoms".

For, Chen Dong's new book. In the eyes of many publishers, it is a big gold mine, with "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" and "The Rise of Great Powers" as two examples.

Du Wenhai has been looking forward to it for a long time, and he has just finished publishing 7 parts of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty". I can't wait to ask Chen Dong to have dinner and talk about the release of "Three Kingdoms".

Also, no one can be calm.

Good to come back to the restaurant.

Chen Dong parked his car in the parking lot and walked into the restaurant.

"Sir, it's better to find someone to eat." The waiter greeted him and said with a smile on his face.

Chen Dong said, "I'm looking for someone, Lotus Hall, Mr. Du." ”

"Are you Mr. Chen?"

Chen Dong nodded.

"Please follow me." The waiter makes a gesture of please and leads the way in front.

Follow the waiter to the lotus hall.

Seeing Chen Dong walk in, Du Wenhai stood up and said enthusiastically, "Chen Dong, here." ”

"Well, sorry, it's late."

"It's not too late, it's a few minutes before the agreed 5 o'clock."

Chen Dong sat down.

"It's time to serve." Du Wenhai instructed the waiter.

Soon, the dishes came up like flowing water.

The dishes are very hearty, stir-fried beef, squirrel osmanthus fish, Buddha jumping over the wall, drunken shrimp, and a crockpot chicken soup.

"Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" was sold out, and it sold well, 7 copies, a total of 2127w copies were sold." Du Wenhai picked up his glass and said to Chen Dong, "Let's have a drink." ”

"Cheers." Chen Dong replaced the wine with tea and drank a glass.

Subsequently, the two chatted, and Du Wenhai slowly led the topic to "Three Kingdoms".

Du Wenhai put a piece of beef in the bowl and said to Chen Dong, "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty has sold well, and has cultivated a large number of book friends, and everyone is very much looking forward to when "Three Kingdoms" will be released. ”

Chen Dong smiled, "The Three Kingdoms is finished, and I should be able to meet with book friends soon." "Du Wenhai, please eat, guess Du Wenhai must have his eyes on "Three Kingdoms", so he redeemed "Three Kingdoms".

The words did not say that it would be handed over to the Changjiang Publishing House for publication, this is a negotiation technique, of course, if the remuneration share given by the Changjiang Publishing House this time does not reach the price in Chen Dong's heart, the publishing copyright will definitely not be given to the Changjiang Publishing House.

Favors belong to favors, business belongs to business, and besides, the relationship between Chen Dong and Du Wenhai has not reached the point where he can make millions of profits.

"Another series." Du Wenhai felt a burst of excitement in his heart.

Chen Dong's series of novels can make money, but he has a deep understanding, "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" brought a net profit of 40 million to the Yangtze River Publishing House, "The Rise of a Great Power" has a profit of more than 20 million yuan just to get the domestic publishing copyright, and the 2 books also made his income to 1500+w.

"Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" was a big hit, and it was also written in a humorous Internet language "The Three Kingdoms", I believe it is no exception, in his eyes, "The Three Kingdoms" is no different from a cash cow.

Du Wenhai knew that he had to take the initiative to speak.

After taking a sip of soup, he pondered carefully in his heart for a while, and said to Chen Dong, "I asked you to have dinner today, and I hope you can hand over the physical publishing copyright of "Three Kingdoms" to us Changjiang Publishing House, 16.5%. ”

As soon as Du Wenhai opened his mouth, he gave a 16.5% share of the remuneration, which is not low.

7% is the share of the remuneration that ordinary physical book authors can get, 8% is the share of the remuneration that can only be obtained by old authors, 10~12% is the share of the remuneration received by best-selling authors, 14% of authors such as Han Han and Guo Jingming can get the remuneration share, and 16% is the remuneration share of authors such as Yi Zhongtian.