Chapter 65: Finalizing the Publishing House
Time passed quickly, half a month passed. In the past half a month, Zhao Chen has been busy every day, not only his various work, but also the need to 'point fingers' at the world's comic company, which has not been established for a long time, and he is tired and out of breath.
Shangguan Xiaobao is also happy to do this, because the various opinions that Zhao Chen said are not only novel, but some of them can increase the sales of the magazine. It's just that due to the weakness of the comic company, most of the views cannot be used for the time being. Even so, Shangguan Xiaobao also chose several of these views, which he felt could enhance consumers' desire to buy.
Because of Shangguan Xiaobao, the head snake, the publishing house was determined not long after, this is a small publishing house, the number of prints per day is not much, it can be said that the business is bleak, but it is precisely because of this that it is absolutely fair in terms of price, for Zhao Chen, who does not have much property now, there is no more suitable than this.
In the future, if the sales of magazines and newspapers increase on a large scale, it is also possible to replace the publishing house on a larger scale, and the cost of printing large quantities will be reduced a lot.
Ma Rongcheng's "Chinese Heroes" was revised a few days ago, and the quality of "Chinese Heroes" that came out this time is obviously better, at least not worse than the original works of later generations. It's just that in view of Ma Rongcheng's degree being too slow, the director Zhao Chen had to find two assistants who were okay, and the assistant's salary was completely paid by Ma Rongcheng according to the rules, which was a big burden for the current Ma Rongcheng.
The small publishing house that Shangguan Xiaobao found was on the verge of closure due to its sparse business and frequent piracy/editions to barely make ends meet, and the fees proposed by this publishing house were the lowest among all publishing houses. As for quality, Zhao Chen will not reduce costs in this regard, because he knows very well that if he wants to become bigger and stronger, he must not reduce costs in this regard, otherwise readers who buy will naturally have mustard in their hearts.
The degree of a small publishing house is not bad, a comic magazine that acts as a sample is quickly customized, and after being discussed by Zhao Chen and Shangguan Xiaobao, the number of the first batch of magazines was finally decided on the number of 10,000, although it does not seem too much, but this is quite difficult for a comic company that has just been founded, mainly because of Zhao Chen's existing fame.
Due to competition, even if Zhao Chen is the best-selling cartoonist of the Holy Flame Publishing House, the Holy Flame Publishing House will not be stupid enough to lend its own sales channel to Zhao Chen.
As for Jin Yong's Ming Pao Group, it was euphemistic to reject Zhao Chen and Shangguan Xiaobao's proposal, although there was no competition between the two, and Zhao Chen was still a well-known writer of "Ming Pao", unless it cost a huge price, Jin Yong would not be able to agree, and the proposed price was also unacceptable to Zhao Chen.
But fortunately, perhaps because of the friendship between the two parties, Jin Yong agreed to build momentum for Zhao Chen's comic magazine in "Ming Pao" in the past few days, which was an unexpected joy.
Although "Ming Pao" will build momentum for comic magazines, Zhao Chen also knows in his heart that Jin Yong's stingy personality will not be so generous, and it is very authentic to be able to leave a piece of dried tofu for himself, after all, this is only obtained for free for the sake of friendship between the two parties.
Zhao Chen, who had no choice, finally found Fang Yihua, because "Shanghai Tang" had just been broadcast, Fang Yihua had already obtained the ratings in the form of a diary, and the numbers above naturally seemed quite shocking, and the ratings of "Shanghai Tang" could be said to be rising since several episodes were broadcast, and finally stabilized at 75% of the ratings that are difficult to break. Especially in the finale, the average rating was over 8o, and the highest rating was over 9o%, which was overwhelming the rival Li's TV station.
When "Shanghai Tang" was hotly broadcast, it caused a scene of thousands of empty alleys, as long as the time came, there were almost no people on the originally bustling street, and even if they saw it, they were generally in a hurry to go home, which shows the hot Cheng dΓΉ of "Shanghai Tang".
Obviously, due to the very detailed writing of Zhao Chen's "Shanghai Tang" and Wang Tianlin's role as a director, the quality of "Shanghai Tang" is obviously better. When the director "Shanghai Tang" was broadcast, Li's TV station cut two TV series in a row, but it couldn't stop the trend of "Shanghai Tang" becoming more and more popular.
In the end, the average rating of "Shanghai Tang" can be more than 7o%, and Zhao Chen can get 5,000 Hong Kong dollars per episode based on this rating, and "Shanghai Tang" has a total of 24 episodes, minus the 30,000 Hong Kong dollars paid in advance, and TVB finally paid Zhao Chen 90,000 Hong Kong dollars again. Of course, this is not yet minus taxes. But even so, no TV series screenwriter dares to say that his script has earned Zhao Chen, but the ratings of "Shanghai Tang" are too demonic, which is why Zhao Chen has become a well-known screenwriter in Xiangjiang with "Shanghai Tang".
also relied on the achievements of "Shanghai Tang", a senior executive of Li's TV station took the initiative to find Zhao Chen, wanting to win over the youngest well-known screenwriter to write a script for Li's TV station, but unfortunately Zhao Chen politely refused. It's not a matter of price, but Zhao Chen still owes Shao Yifu and Fang Yihua favors, and Shao Yifu's influence is quite strong in Xiangjiang, so Zhao Chen naturally won't make Shao Yifu dissatisfied because of that little interest.
The senior management of Li's TV station can be said to have taken advantage of the excitement and returned home, but they were helpless, because at this time, Zhao Chen successfully rose in less than three months, and he had a lot of popularity in the comics, novels and even screenwriters, consolidating the status of Xiangjiang celebrities, and it was impossible to take revenge on the surface. Sometimes that's how it is, when you're famous enough, unless the relationship between the two parties reaches an undying level, you won't retaliate.
This is just a small episode not long ago, Zhao Chen didn't take it to heart, but for some reason the news was leaked, but because of this, Zhao Chen got a deeper friendship and appreciation from Shao Yifu and Fang Yihua.
At this time, Zhao Chen came to find Fang Yihua, naturally for the affairs of the world's comic company, as the overlord of Xiangjiang TV at this time, the ratings of TVB can be said to be very impressive, Zhao Chen came here to use TVB to spread, in order to increase popularity At the same time, the sales of comic magazines will also be driven at the same time.
"Ms. Fang, I just founded a comic company some time ago, and this time I came here to ask TVB to help promote it."
After some greetings, Zhao Chen said straight to the point, but his eyes were firmly fixed on Fang Yihua, for fear that Fang Yihua would refuse.
Fang Yihua didn't speak immediately, but thought for a while, and said with an embarrassed expression on his face: "Chenzai, this matter is a big matter, I don't have the right to call the shots, you wait first, I'll call Lao Shao first!" β
"Then trouble Ms. Fang!"
Fang Yihua picked up the phone on the table, and the phone quickly got through in a busy tone, and it was naturally Shao Yifu Tycoon who was talking to Fang Yihua, because Shao Tycoon had this right.
After Fang Yihua put down the phone, he said with a smile on his face: "Lao Shao thinks it's acceptable, when the time comes, just insert the rolling subtitles in the time when the TV series is broadcast for the audience to see!" But it can only give you three days. β
Zhao Chen was naturally overjoyed in his heart, but he didn't expect it to be so easy, he knew very well that the use of rolling subtitles would inevitably affect the audience, which might reduce the ratings and lead the audience's dissatisfaction, and it could be said that Shao Tycoon had given face in three days.
The reason why Shao Yifu agreed to Zhao Chen so lightly was entirely because he took a fancy to Zhao Chen's talent and thought that Zhao Chen's future was limitless! Of course, there are other purposes, that is, the Shaw Brothers movies have been declining in recent years, and Zhao Chen's "Shanghai Tang" has created a ratings miracle, and he hopes that Zhao Chen can write a good movie script, so as to give Zhao Chen convenience.
Not only that, because "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" is also suitable for filming the relationship between TV and movies, Shao Daheng wants to obtain the TV and film rights of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" by virtue of his relationship with Zhao Chen. With the classics of "The Legend of Double Dragons of the Tang Dynasty" and the vast number of fans, as long as you are not afraid of being too bad, the ratings and box office will naturally be guaranteed.
For Shao Tycoon, although the three-day scrolling text may cause dissatisfaction among the audience, it is quite worthwhile, and the obvious advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
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