Chapter 91 on Traditional Chinese Publishing
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Taiwan's traditional Chinese book market has always been an important source of income for mainland online writers, because the quality of online novels is uneven, and the requirements for mainland publications are also high, and there are very few novels that can get the opportunity to be published in simplified Chinese.
www.biquge.info After several years of business development, this website has become a mecca of originality in the mainland, and the endless stream of good works makes Taiwanese readers want to put it down.
The works of well-known writers such as Tang Sanshao and Xuehong have basically been snatched away by major publishing houses very early, and other publishing houses can only focus on the new books of newcomers who have just risen www.biquge.info. Since its release, the book has long occupied the top of the www.biquge.info click list and recommendation list of Biqu Pavilion, and it was once at the top of the list, and on the VIP monthly evaluation list of the www.biquge.info of Bi Qu Ge, it won the second place in the first month of its release, and it was a strong champion in the second month, and no one has shaken it so far.
Although there have been cases of "Blasphemy" being popular in the past, but the traditional sales are average, but Taiwanese publishing houses are very optimistic about the future market prospects of this book after learning about the content www.biquge.info of "Boiling Beast Blood", so many publishing houses have participated in the battle for the traditional copyright of this book.
Generally speaking, the price of traditional Chinese publishing manuscripts for new writers is between 30~80 per thousand words, and if it is a publishing house that is www.biquge.info to help contact by Biquge, it will also be www.biquge.info by the of Biquge, but the current price of "Boiling Beast Blood" has long exceeded 1000 thousand words, and various other treatments are also very good, comparable to some veteran writers.
Xinchang Press, which has limited strength, withdrew from the competition early because its peers were bidding too hard, but they quickly set their sights on "Raging Thunder," the second seed in January's new book.
Although the new book "Raging Thunder" in January was overvoted by "Emperor Desire", in the eyes of most publishers, the publication value of "Raging Thunder" far exceeds that of "Emperor Desire".
There are several themes that Taiwan's publishing industry is reluctant to touch, one is martial arts, except for Jin Yong, Gulong, Huang Yi and other early fame, others have no market at all. The second is online games, not that the writing is not good, "Raptors Across the River" and "The World of Online Games" are all very popular www.biquge.info Biquge, and they are also very famous in the entire online literature industry, but the Taiwan market just doesn't like it, and the only one who really writes online game novels in Taiwan is "One Half Prince".
There are also science fiction novels, some publishing houses directly say that they do not accept science fiction texts, and some publishing houses accept interstellar novels, but the requirements must be soft science fiction, preferably interstellar cultivation, in terms of subject matter, "Furious Thunder" is more dominant than "Emperor Desire", and the historical texts such as "Unscrupulous Emperor" and "Lingyun Zhiwei" in the new book last month cannot be compared with fantasy novels.
Lin Qingyi is the editor of Xinchang Publishing House, who is specially responsible for receiving manuscripts from the www.biquge.info network of Biquge, and after knowing that he could not win "Beast Blood Boiling", he decisively found Tong Yan Wuji.
After Zhang Xiao saw Lin Qingyi's book review message, he immediately QQ contacted Tong Yan, but he was not online, called the phone number of Wuwei Study, and Nima was busy, so he immediately rode a bicycle to Wuwei Study, because he rode too fast, and almost bumped into a beautiful little girl, for Tong Yan's big event, Zhang Xiao didn't have time to ask for people's phone numbers and QQ numbers, and he regretted it afterwards.
Wuwei Bookstore, after Tong Yan was sure that his sister had gone away, he immediately took out the laptop, but he didn't expect Shanshan to suddenly come to the bookstore to borrow a phone, but fortunately Liu Ming saw her from a distance at the door, otherwise Tong Yan would definitely be exposed.
Tong Yan continued to code, there are still two days before school starts, and he will definitely not be able to maintain the current update status after the start of school, and save some more manuscripts to deal with emergencies.
"Tong Yan, Tong Yan, go online!" Zhang Xiao gasped a little.
"What's the matter, talk slowly."
"I saw that there was an editor in the book review area who claimed to be an editor of a publishing house in Taiwan, and wanted to find you to publish "Furious Thunder", you didn't open QQ, just now the bookstore phone was busy, so I came directly!"
Tong Yan's eyes lit up, and he finally waited for the wisher to take the bait!
Tong Yan boarded QQ, opened the novel page at the same time, saw the Q number left by Lin Qingyi in the book review area, directly added his QQ, and then chatted with Watermelon first.
Tong Yan: Sister Gua, are you there? There was a Taiwanese publishing house that wanted to publish my book.
Watermelon: Really? Great, I'm still thinking, if there is no Taiwanese publishing house in a few months, I will use the relationship www.biquge.info Biquge to help you contact, but then the www.biquge.info of Biquge will also take some shares, although it is worry-free and do not have to worry about arrears, but after all, it is still less than contacting the publishing by yourself.
Watermelon: By the way, which publishing house is it?
Tong Yan: It's Xinchang Publishing House, and the person I contacted is called Lin Qingyi, and I don't know if it's a man or a woman.
Watermelon: Oh, he, I know, but men or women, gender is not important to him, but Xinchang is still good, the characteristics of this publishing house is that it is very refreshing to give money, there are few restrictions, and fantasy is also their main type.
Tong Yan: This is an advantage, they will always have a disadvantage.
Watermelon: The disadvantage is that the reputation of the publishing house is not very large, the sales in the Taiwan market have certain limitations, and the sales volume is not as much as those big publishing houses, but if it is a buyout price, the sales volume has nothing to do with the author, and the quality of the books published by this publishing house is not exquisite, and it can even be said to be a little rough, which is why the sales are not high, people who are willing to spend so much money to buy books must want to buy some high-quality products, but in the rental book market, this has become an advantage.
"Didi, Didi." Lin Qingyi had already agreed to Tong Yan's friend request.
Tong Yan continued to ask the watermelon: How is the general price calculated?
Lin Qingyi: Hello Tong Yan Wuji, I am Lin Qingyi from Xinchang Publishing House, and I am very happy to meet you.
Tong Yan: It's also a pleasure to meet you.
Lin Qingyi: I didn't expect to be able to contact so soon, haha, you should already understand my intention, so I'll get straight to the point, I don't know if your "Raging Thunder" has signed a traditional publishing agreement with other publishing houses?
Tong Yan: No.
Lin Qingyi: That's really good, I don't know if Mr. Wuji is interested in cooperating with this publishing house, we have a lot of cooperation with online authors in the mainland, and we have a good reputation in the industry, and we are a very trustworthy publishing company.
Tong Yan: If the price is right, I don't think I will refuse.
Tong Yan began to communicate on two lines, Liu Ming and Zhang Xiao stood behind him and stared at the screen, nervously watching Tong Yan and Lin Qingyi bargain and learn about the relevant market with Sister Watermelon.
Watermelon: You must first know that Taiwan publishes this kind of fantasy novel, buyout distribution is now a more popular method, of course, there are also Xianwang, such as the frequency of the big publishing house with the sales share settlement method, but the payment of remuneration is relatively slow, the requirements for sales are also higher, and to find your Xinchang is to use the buyout settlement method, the newcomer is generally lower in price, the minimum thousand words twenty or thirty is also available, the normal words are fifty or sixty thousand words, and the high words can have seventy or eighty, but it is required to have a certain popularity on the Internet. "Rage Thunder" is more in line with the requirements, like "Beast Blood Boiling", it is no longer a certain popularity, at that time it was very popular, and there were a lot of publishing houses looking for more than 100 words.
Tong Yan had a bottom in his heart.
Lin Qingyi: So I don't know what the ideal price is in your mind?
Tong Yan: It's my first time writing a book, so I don't know what price to ask for, so why don't you say a price?
Lin Qingyi (thoughtful): I personally appreciate the book "Furious Thunder", which is passionate and witty, and is written at a very high level, but you are a newcomer, there is no market and popularity base in Taiwan, we must promote the packaging from scratch, so the price cannot be compared with those well-known authors, our publishing house can give a price of 60 thousand words, 60 is RMB, this price is already quite considerable for newcomers, it is better for you to consider it.
Tong Yan: Sister Gua, he has 60 words out of a thousand words, is it okay?
Watermelon: Each book published in traditional Chinese is generally 60,000 to 80,000 words, calculated in 60,000 words, the manuscript fee for a book is 3,000 six, because you are not Taiwanese, so you have to pay 20% tax (Taiwanese local authors pay 10%), so that each volume is equivalent to 2,000 eight, with the current popularity of you and "Furious Thunder", it is still a little less.
Liu Ming said on the side: "It's not bad to have an income of 3,000 yuan for 60,000 words, Tong Yan, you can't write 200,000 words a month." ”
Zhang Xiao retorted: "Lao Liu, you don't know something, traditional publishing is generally one volume a month, not as much as you write, you have to consider the market's affordability, of course, if the sales are good, the reader's feedback is enthusiastic, it may also be two volumes a month or more." ”
Zhang Xiao has been in the online literary circle for a long time, and he is clearer than Liu Ming, the owner of the bookstore, Liu Ming laughed twice: "Sure enough, it is not the same road as our piracy industry." ”
Tong Yan: Editor Lin, please let me think about it.
Tong Yan: Sister Gua, should I promise him?
Tong Yan is a rookie newcomer, and the only person who can ask for help at this time is Sister Watermelon.
Watermelon: Don't be in a hurry to agree, you tell him ...... like this.