Chapter 175: New Books Published
proudly reported his plan, and it is estimated that he will soon be able to get Shen Yu's approval. As a strategist, if a good strategic approach is not accepted by the lords, it can only be regarded as a failure.
But to his surprise, the only thing that was denied was the base camp problem that was set in the first place. Shen Yu obviously doesn't like to think of the 21st century as a base camp, because it would make game design more difficult, and fictionalizing a traversal platform is his favorite.
Zhuge Liang thought about it for a while, and found that it was indeed a waste of time to reflect various social details in the 21st century in the game, so it was better to directly fabricate a base to save time and effort, and since there were relevant regulations on skill assessment and purchase, it would seem a bit chicken to be a second-class dealer in the 21st century. For a popular science game, it is difficult for the wisdom of the second-class dealers to be truthfully reflected.
Zhuge Liang himself nodded, the proposal of the novel was not pointed out in any omissions, and it seemed that it was still worth writing about.
So he immediately drilled into Universe One, searched through all kinds of useful historical materials, and then began to write.
Although the novel focuses on storytelling, the amount of historical detail seems to matter little. But for a historical novel, if you don't talk about details, what is the difference between it and fantasy fiction? If you only look at the ups and downs of the plot, wouldn't suspense novels be a better choice?
According to this principle, Zhuge Liang began to write. In his new novel, there is a historical knowledge for every 300 words. The existence of the story during this period seems to be to specifically string together historical details. The plot that took a lot of effort to design doesn't look like it shows the ups and downs of the story.
In view of the time difference advantage of the private universe, when Zhuge Liang basically completed this work, the real world did not spend much time, but Zhuge Liang had already gone through a period of history again.
On the Star Cat station, there will soon be a wonderful book called Duochao Crossing Shang, which is updated with fifty or sixty thousand words every day. Readers only think that the author's manuscript is well stocked, and no one will doubt that Zhuge Liang has anything different, at most, he is very patient to save up enough manuscripts before publishing.
Such a large number of publications is really beyond imagination, so it quickly attracted widespread attention on the Internet. Everyone said that it was enjoyable to watch. Even the client of Xingmao Literature has recently been at the top of the app download list.
But what surprised them was not over, after completing the contract with Xingmao Literature, Zhuge Liang immediately issued a new publication statement, clearly stating that he only needed to pay a fee of 5,000 yuan to get out of the copyright after signing the contract. At the same time, he also stressed that the publishing right will never be granted exclusively to any publishing house, and any publishing house that appears in the contract with the word exclusive will be regarded as contract fraud, because he is ready to sign directly without reading the content. At the same time, he also demanded that the sales price of the publishing house should not be too high. If the price of the entire set of books is more than 500 yuan, then the income needs to be divided according to the common sharing agreement. That is, the author is given a commission according to the sales performance.
Soon, this new scheme was recognized by small and medium-sized publishing houses. After Zhuge Liang signed the agreement, he provided them with all the drafts. As a result, the number of hits on Star Cat Literature plummeted, and most readers chose to spend three or four hundred yuan to buy a historical novel similar to an encyclopedia. You must know that in this era where the price of 100,000 is close to 1,000 yuan, the price of multi-super traversers with a larger number of words and more knowledge is much cheaper.
In view of the huge number of words, some publishers have asked for the 500 yuan to be moved online, because their cost is very high, saying that they have worked paper, which has led to an increase in costs. The cost of a set of more than 100 books is close to 500 yuan, and at the same time, it has caused a particularly high pressure on capital turnover. But their actions were quickly despised by other clever publishers. There is a second-tier publishing house in China that has launched a sales tool called the Integrity Card, and consumers who pay the full price when purchasing the first book can receive the subsequent books for free with the Integrity Card in the future. In this way, the publisher quickly received the funds and is working on the printing of subsequent fascicles. Basically, readers don't finish reading ten books, and they offer new ones. …
Zhao Zhen's Song Dynasty Society had just formed the Huang Song Publishing Group and received the copyright of the book for free, and the days of making money began from then on.
Several publishing houses once approached Zhuge Liang together, hoping to spend 5,000 yuan to win the publishing rights of the entire set of books, but Zhuge Liang sternly refused. There is no other reason, in order to promote popular science works, Zhuge Liang has set the price low enough, and some people want to jointly fund to reduce costs, which makes him very dissatisfied.
So there is another sentence in the publication statement, the fee standard is based on the number of publishing houses, not according to the number of publishing contracts. In other words, every publisher who owns the copyright needs to pay 5,000 yuan.
His decision, to some extent, annoyed the publishers who came to talk about cooperation, and some of them left with a scolding, as if to say that a young author should make such an obvious and unreasonable request, which is really shameful.
When Zhuge Liang heard this, he angrily dragged the man back, threw him a copy of the acquisition plan, and asked him to fill in the name of his unit. The man finally left with a solemn face.
Zhuge Liang's action of supporting popular science was quickly recognized by people in the education circles. They examined the Duochao Traverser several times with the eyes of the blue cat's naughty three thousand questions, and asked if they would be interested in revising the book into an animated film.
Zhuge Liang told them truthfully that at present, there is only a plan to adapt it into a game, and he does not mention a word about the transfer of adaptation rights for cartoons.
It didn't take long for Shen Yu to find Zhuge Liang with a transfer contract and ask him to apply for a private bank card, saying that he wanted to buy the adaptation rights of the cartoon for 200,000 yuan.
Zhuge Liang didn't ask for money, signed the contract directly, and asked who he was going to let make the cartoon. Shen Yu habitually asked for his opinion, and Zhuge Liang took the opportunity to decisively find a deal for the Three Kingdoms Society.
In the next few days, the limit of 5,000 yuan was finally broken, because a publisher from the Japanese Kingdom found Zhuge Liang and asked if the Japanese publishing rights could be transferred exclusively, Zhuge Liang agreed without hesitation, and took a total of 40 million related fees, but it was in yen.
After that, publishers of various languages came to the door, and in view of the fact that the masses in some countries did not know about China, Zhuge Liang changed the sales strategy again, and each publisher left with a single set of sellers for fifty euros.
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