Chapter 202 Game Experience, Can't Laugh or Cry
Chang Zheng has been an online editor, and he can understand what Lin Yonggang said.
Take the New Start website as an example, there are now 10,000 or 20,000 new books in the library every month, and the New Start Editorial Department has five groups with a total of 20 review editors. Each editor in charge has to review hundreds or thousands of works every month.
In addition to reviewing new books, the editor-in-charge also has other business to manage. For an online work, the first tens of thousands of words can't impress the editor-in-charge, so it's basically very suspenseful.
This is not to say that the web editor is irresponsible, the editor represents the reader, unless it is a great god, if the first tens of thousands of words of the new author's work cannot attract readers, then its fate is basically very difficult, after all, there are too many choices now. It's like watching TV, the mango station is not good-looking, so I'll immediately change to the dragon fruit station and cherry tomato station. None of them are good-looking, they are all bad dramas, so Lao Tzu won't watch TV anymore and play LOL.
The editorial review of the publishing house is different, and the manuscripts that are handed over to the editors of the publishing house are generally completed works or semi-finished products that are close to the finished state. Editors at publishing houses usually read it from beginning to end, and then review it at least once. Editors also need to communicate with the authors to see if they can make better changes to better meet the needs of the market. So the editor of the publishing house can get two or three books a month.
It is the same for online articles to take the route of physical publishing. Unless the editor of the publishing house has read this online article on the Internet before, it is also a new book for him, and he will have to read it at least once from beginning to end.
"Well, I'll tell you what I think." Chang Zheng said, "Web editors are also editors, and the nature of web editing is the same as that of traditional publishing editors, which is to review texts and make reasonable suggestions to authors. There is a difference in the way of working. Brother Pony, I would like to ask you to focus on the physical publishing business during this time. ”
"Two of them were transferred from the editor-in-charge to follow Brother Xiaoma, and Brother Xiaoma trained them so that they could understand the business content that publishing editors should know as soon as possible. The vacancy of the editor-in-charge is filled from other departments, and there are many old bookworms in other departments of our company. After intensive training, the old bookworm can also take up the post of net editor. Many of these editors in charge of our website used to do other things, but now they are also doing a good job in the position of editor-in-charge. ”
Ma Yuan thought for a while and said, "It's not impossible. One of the advantages of our editor-in-charge is that they know about the red books on our website, and some of the red books they found and submitted to me and Editor-in-Chief Lin for a contract. What we have to do is to convert our website's red book into the model required for physical publishing. The content does not need to be overhauled, the text and layout need to be modified. ”
Chang Zheng: "That's right. Our ISBN resources are limited for the time being. Just 15 of them. So we're going to make the most of these 15 ISBNs. ”
Lin Yonggang answered: "Is it to give priority to the 15 most popular books on our website?" ”
"Yes and not quite." Chang Zheng said, "There are several conditions to be considered, authors who have agreed to sign a buyout contract with us are preferred, Red Book is preferred, and those who can continue to expand IP are preferred." For example, martial arts and urban novels must be given priority, these two types of novels, in addition to physical books. They can also be adapted into movies and games. Comprehensively considering the above conditions, the priority entities that meet all of them will be ranked in descending order. By the way, how did you talk to those potential authors? How many are willing to sign a buyout contract with us? ”
Lin Yonggang: "We've been talking for a round, and we've talked to more than 100 authors in total. 30% directly agreed, 30% directly refused, and the rest said to consider again. It seems that I underestimated the authors before, and they are quite good. Many authors know to sell at a price. The little abacus is very shrewd, and he wants to fatten up his works and sell them after they become popular. ”
Chang Zheng smiled: "Are you a fool as an author?" So be it. The 30% of the authors who agreed to immediately sign a buyout contract with them. After signing it, give me a hand to the death, recommend it to the death, and strive to make them popular in the shortest possible time. Of course, whether it can become popular or not ultimately depends on the feedback of readers. But we will give these buyout authors as many resources as possible, as much exposure and operation as possible. No author would have gone viral without the support of the site. There is no big stage. Are there any big stars? ”
"The authors will communicate with each other, and the remaining 70% will naturally be considered again. Recently, we have organized some activities, such as organizing about 100 authors to go on a trip, hold a symposium in a certain tourist resort, and hold an elite advanced training course. We cover food, lodging, and travel. Let them communicate adequately. ”
Lin Yonggang smiled strangely: "You are really a conspirator. The road is one foot high, the magic is one foot high, no matter how shrewd our author is, he can't play with the gods of the sky. ”
Chang Zheng was not ashamed, but proud: "Thank you for the compliment." Actually, I'm doing this for their good, and they will understand later. The immediate benefits are only small profits. The future market is the big market. ”
Lin Yonggang: "Yes. By the way, I ask something? ”
Chang Zheng: "Please speak." ”
Lin Yonggang: "It's not a big problem to let Xiaoma take the two editors in charge to publish." Typesetting, review and revision, submitted to Nangang Literature and Art Publishing House for third review, filming, printing...... All the way to warehousing, these processes are familiar to ponies, and I am familiar with them, and we have done this before. The pony should be able to bring out two apprentices, and then let the apprentice take the apprentice, as long as there are enough people, that's all right. What I want to ask is, the book is printed, do we have a sales channel? If the book is left in the warehouse for a long time, it will grow into a bookworm, and it will be damp, and it will be the wet season to return to the south in two months. The key is that if you can't ship the goods, you can't get the money back, and it will take up funds. ”
"Of course I've thought about the sales channel, otherwise why am I in such a hurry to do publishing?" Chang Zheng said, "The book number is from Nangang Literature and Art, and the publication of a variety will give Nangang Literature and Art a certain share, which can be regarded as our contribution to the country." The initial channel will go through the existing dealer channel of Nangang Literature and Art, and I have already talked to President Hu. We sell more, and Nangang literature and art also take more, a win-win situation. ”
"It's similar to the sales channels of some automotive groups, one channel, two brands. In the early stage, we didn't have that much money and manpower to develop new channels, but in the later stage, we still had to develop our own independent sales channels. ”
Lin Yonggang nodded and said, "Mr. Chang is thoughtful, then I don't have any problem." Let's get to work, ponies. ”
After the work task was arranged, Chang Zheng spent another half an hour dealing with some company matters, and then began to code words.
"Full-time Master" still has about 800,000 words to complete the manuscript, and Chang Zheng estimates that it will take three or four months to code, so the time that can be squeezed is as much as possible to squeeze out the code words.
After finishing the chapter, Chang Zheng asked Zhang Xiaoyun to bring in a cup of coffee and take a break after a cup of coffee.
After drinking the coffee, Chang Zheng, who was supposed to continue to code words, suddenly had a whim, and he operated a desktop computer to enter a web page, which was the game interface of the "Full Time Master" page game. He started creating new accounts and playing games.
Chang Zheng played this page game before it was officially launched.,He has a BUG account.,That is, a GM account.。 As the boss, of course he has a GM account. With a GM account in the game, he can abuse whoever he wants.
Chang Zheng now just wants to experience what it would be like to play the "Full Time Master" web game as an ordinary player.
Chang Zheng creates a new character and chooses the class: Sanren. Name: Jun Moxiao.
Prompt: "This person name cannot be used. ”
"Oh, I forgot." Chang Zheng suddenly realized.
Jun Moxiao is a name that players can't take, including Muyu Orange Wind, Cold Smoke Soft, Night Rain Annoying, Wang Buliu, and Baozi Invasion...... All the famous game characters in the novel, the player can't take them. These are NPCs.
Chang Zheng and take: Ye Xiu.
Prompt: "This person name cannot be used. ”
Ye Xiu is not an NPC, but it seems that the name of this protagonist was taken by other players first.
Chang Zheng and Re-Take: The Heaven Returns.
Prompt: "This person name cannot be used. ”
"Drunk...... The return of the heavens is also occupied by men. Chang Zheng couldn't cry or laugh. It seems that the "Return of the Sky" players in the game are their own fans.
"Change one, the second generation of the sky."
Chang Zheng finally built a game character - Cangtian II. He operated the "Cangtian Second Generation" to be born in the newcomer village, and he found that there were many low-level players in the newcomer village, and they should all be new players.
This is a good sign that more and more players are starting to get into the game.
Chang Zheng didn't accept the task, he went directly out of the newcomer village and went straight to the place where there were high-level monsters. The rookie baby has nothing to observe, he has to go to the advanced area to investigate and see how many advanced players are there now, and how well the advanced players are equipped.
If the player wants to rise to the top level in a short period of time, they will have to fight the advanced monsters. To fight high-level monsters, you need to buy equipment, weapons, props, pets, potions and other paid items.
Of course, these things can also be exploded by fighting monsters, but they will explode according to the chance. Spend money to find a system to buy, and it will be in place immediately.
These paid props are the commodities that Chang Zheng relies on to make money. He's going to go to the premium zone now to see how the market is going and see how it's selling. Sales can also be found in the background, but Chang Zheng still wants to see it in person, and by the way, I will interview a few senior players to see what players think of this game. Sort of doing a customer satisfaction survey.
Chang Zheng operated the "Second Generation of the Sky", and walked out of the newcomer village with great interest, only to see a paladin player wearing golden armor running towards him.
Chang Zheng was about to say hello to the paladin, but saw the paladin pull out an exaggerated and sharp two-handed sword from behind him.
The paladin sang a blessing and buffed himself, and his body shimmered with a sacred and soft golden light, like a god of war. He has arrived in front of the "Cangtian Second Generation", the paladin holds the sword in both hands, and a beautiful slashing skill is sent...... "Cangtian II" is seconds by the paladin.
"I'll go ......" Chang Zheng Khan, Lao Tzu just wants to say hello to you! As for hacking me? I'm not going to petition.
After seeing the name of the paladin, Chang Zheng sweated again. This very rough paladin big brother, his name is "Return of the Heavens"...... (To be continued......)