Same morning.

Hong Kong, No. 56 Haiti Road, Eastern District, 3rd Floor, Hong Kong Island Center, 3rd Floor, Office 3-304, about 70~80 square meters of space.

A blonde, white-skinned, lazy, slightly extravagant woman sipped coffee; A woman with long hair, straight black, and iceberg-like frowns; A girl who is panicked and doesn't know how to deal with the frozen atmosphere; and a little woman lying on the table like a dead dog. Four female college students, who have graduated more than a year ago, gathered around the table and seemed to be thinking about something in distress.

"Publish a single book or a magazine?" The listless woman, the president of the publishing house, Lu Lingling asked the members.

"In order to ensure the development of the author, I think it is better to publish a single book." The blonde woman, a member of the publishing house and in fact the owner of the publishing house, Elisabel gave her opinion.

"For the sake of the company, there should be a magazine." The one who dares to refute the owner of the money is Hei Zhichang, the only workaholic Wang Bingyu of the publishing house.

The culprit behind this discussion was a letter on the table, which was brought along with the latest submission. The comic book writer who was most favored by them wrote in the letter...... I am very happy to receive your timely manuscript payment, and I am more and more confident in the development of your company. In fact, you don't need to pay too much attention to the relevant matters of the "single book" on the contract, if the development of your company needs to be published in the magazine first, the "single book" can be postponed to the magazine after the publication......]

Because the writer has given authorization in the letters, and the letters and emails have a recognized legal effect in the law, it is up to Shangguo Publishing House to decide whether the magazine or the single edition of "Steel Forge will be published now". In the letter, the author has already transferred the rights to the publisher.

Magazine or single book?

This is the first issue that Wang Bingyu needs to discuss when considering the company's development status.

After expressing their opinions, Elisabel and Wang Bingyu stared at Lu Lingling, waiting for her to make a final decision, but the lazy president threw the question to Ryoko:

"Ryoko, what do you think?"

"Huh? Uh-huh. That"

Suddenly receiving the ball kicked by the president, Ryoko looked a little overwhelmed.

The company set a sales plan for Xiao Limu, and when signing the contract, it was discussed to make a 64-open "thickened library judgment (version)". The book is smaller than the regular book, but the number of pages is twice as large, about 300 to more than 400 pages. This version is small in size, has a lot of content, and is expensive but has a high surname price ratio, which is convenient for popularization and collection by fans in the readership.

The content of the library edition is usually the content of one and a half or two ordinary single books, and each book will be followed by a famous explanation or background knowledge introduction, etc., and sometimes there is a postscript written by the author specifically for this topic. The cover of the library edition pays attention to design and has a strong artistic atmosphere. It can be used as a cover for a foreign street scene or a work of art such as an oil painting, which is very suitable for readers' collections.

There is a lot of content, famous commentary, and author topics! The library edition is the only way for publishing companies to promote their own authors.

And Xiao Limu is an exclusive author who has signed a 10-year deed of sale, judging from the submissions he has hoarded in the past few months, he can still maintain a stable output while studying, and he is indeed a young man with great potential? It should be said that it is a young author!

I received 60 pages of comics from the first submission, and when I went to visit, I received another 60 pages of comics, and I immediately called 9,600 yuan to Xiao Limu. From August to October, after deducting the time of the halfway delivery, Xiao Limu sent 120 pages, a total of 240 pages. By the end of the month, he would have enough pages for a single book by the time he went to press at the end of the month, and the company's first comic book would be ready for sale.

Whether to publish a magazine or a single book needs to be decided as early as possible.

"Why, why, publishing a magazine is good for the company and harmful to the little pear wood?" Ryoko asks a pointed question.

Shangguo Publishing House is located in Hong Kong and has two Chinese, so the official language is also Chinese. But from time to time, they speak some of their own dialect, but that doesn't stop them from communicating.

"Needless to say, after three months of drafting, only the two comics "Fullmetal Alchemist" and "Q Version of the Three Kingdoms" can be put on the stage." Lu Lingling explained.

"It's not that it can be moved to the stage, it's a good painting...... Wang Bingyu didn't target Limu, and praised it on a case-by-case basis, trying to correct Lu Lingling's erroneous statement.

As for the other comics submitted, there are a few with good drawing style, but the problem is that the content is too shoddy and indiscriminate. They were still unwilling to repent when they were asked to change it, and when the magazine was "out of stock", Shangguo Publishing House could only accept the manuscript head-on. There are also some cartoons that have anti-Zheng government tendencies, and Hong Kong has just returned to the embrace of the motherland at this time, so if you don't want to be regarded as an opponent on the cusp, it is better to reject their contributions like other publishing houses.

Because Shangguo Publishing House is a new company and will publish a new magazine, despite the efforts to collect resources from cartoonists, there is no doubt that there will be many obstacles. Shangguo Publishing House had to worry about this, and even wanted to arrange some manuscripts with a slightly lower degree of completion into magazines. Of course, in order not to get bad reviews from readers for their first magazine, they put off the magazine planning process again and again, hoping to collect good comics. If it really doesn't work, Elisabel can only pay to recruit some famous cartoonists, which is the next policy.

“…… If Fullmetal Alchemist is serialized in a magazine, it will definitely increase the magazine's praise, and at the very least, it will get a review like 'what, isn't there a good article here?' Wang Bingyu explained to Ryoko. The discourse is full of negations about other manga works.

Many readers buy a magazine just to read one of the comics, and the rest of the magazine is a giveaway.

"however~ put the boutique into the dross, just as the boutique improves the quality of the dross, and the dross will also confuse each other." Elisabel added her opinion.

Black and white are mixed together, and it can feel black and white, but it can also feel "gray". The readership of a publishing house cannot be one or a few people, and there are people who are biased against a certain magazine and thus have a bias against the cartoons in the magazine, and the number of groups is also very considerable.

"'ThisMagazineisVeryBad - itspublishershavesomeproblems - Editorshavelowww.xstxt.orgatorsarethesame, this magazine is not good - its publishing house is very problematic - the editors have a poor eye - the cartoons they choose for the magazine are just as bad as the cartoonists' Elisabel doesn't just spend money, she is also a Hong Kong university student, and she has her own vision and thinking circuit.

"Then, I think that Anya is the right drop, and we can't hurt Xiao Limu for the company." Ryoko finally had her own opinion, and after expressing her position, she continued to suggest: "The magazine is harmful to the company, it should not be launched, it should be postponed." ”

"Roar! Ryoko rises! Ryoko is right, since the magazine is flawed, let's wait until it is finished before publishing. Lu Lingling suddenly came to her senses, sat up straight from her chair, and the laziness in her eyes disappeared, "Ryoko and I decided to publish a single book first and then a magazine, and the number of people was two to one." Bingyu, it's up to you to recruit people, pull a few good cartoonists back, and go around the world to peek at their readers' submissions like last time. ”

Shangguo Publishing House is a newly born company, and it is not well-known in its own right, so it will basically not be the first choice for cartoonists to submit. The submission of Limu was dug by them, and it was signed by Shangguo Publishing House with 120% sincerity, plus the high price for master cartoonists.

However, Lu Lingling seems to have already had a draft, and she has long been digging a pit waiting for Wang Bingyu and Liangzi to jump down, resulting in the current situation of "delaying the creation of the journal".

"President, with all due respect, our company has not been profitable for four months, the first month is to choose an office and decorate, and then it is constantly sending out news and visiting authors, travel expenses, salaries, office rent, air conditioning costs...... How much money do you think we have to splurge? Wang Bingyu listed a series of bills, which were originally managed by the president.

The high bill is the reason why Wang Bingyu advocates launching the journal within the month as soon as possible. With "Fullmetal Alchemist" propping up the table, she doesn't expect the magazine's reviews to be much worse. Once the magazine is published, it will be profitable, and she is confident that through publicity and planning, she can use the profits from the first issue of the magazine to maintain the publisher's balance of income.

"Anya, how much money do we have to splurge?"

As the president, Lu Lingling actually used the word "squander" herself!

"Idon'tknow, it's not enough for me to call again." Elisabel, the rich man, said.

Besides, to support a company with only four people, and the "travel" expenses of four people, she can still advance her pocket money. After all, she is developing a legitimate career, not playing with her family's money~

Wang Bingyu slapped herself in the face, she knew that all the plans she had written were going to be overturned, and she had to write a new plan from scratch.

"Very good, the company's development momentum is very good! Didn't someone vote for such an interesting comic as "Q version of the Three Kingdoms"? Well, although it is a four-panel magazine, it is also a leap from scratch. Lu Lingling stood up from the stool, raised a hand and said diagonally to the sky, to show that the company was steaming.

Smack!

Wang Bingyu slapped his face for the second time, covered his face with both hands and didn't want to see the president anymore, and said in frustration:

"She-! Long--! "Q version of the Three Kingdoms" was sent together with "Fullmetal Alchemist", although the painting style is a little different, but the stroke is the same, and the contributor clearly writes that it is the same person - Riki. ”

"Huh?!" Lu Lingling was surprised as if she really didn't know: "Isn't the author of the Q version of the Three Kingdoms 'Ali'?" Riki's pen name is 'Judgment'."

"Whew, I don't care! Ryoko, read the letter to her word by word! "Wang Bingyu was hit by Lu Lingling's offensive!

However, because of the president's waste materials, she had to quickly pick up her spirits, open her chair with a bang, and return to her desk with the plan to work harder.

Lu Lingling's eyes flashed with a fine light, and the corners of her mouth snickered. Elisabel took a sip of her coffee and began to look at the latest manuscript of Steel.

"Hey! Yes......" Ryoko obeyed Wang Bingyu's instructions, lowered her head and took the letter without seeing the president's sly smile, and really picked up her heart to report to Lu Lingling, "President, the actual situation is like this, Xiao Riki plans to use different pen names for different types of comics, and the following is the content of his letter [To: Shangguo Publishing House Zhujun ......]"