Chapter 42 Generous renewal conditions and red envelopes
In the room, Li Chencan brought Shi Chuanfeng a glass of water, Shi Chuanfeng said xiexie and put it aside for the time being, and said to Li Chencan: "Chencan, I came here today, so I won't go around in circles with you, I want to take over the publishing rights of the next few books of "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty", as for the conditions, I won't hide it from you, I will provide you with the best possible contract, but seriously, I can't guarantee that other publishing houses will give you more conditions." ”
Li Chencan is a little strange, this guy is really honest.
In fact, Shi Chuanfeng just did what he liked, he felt that if he cheated, Li Chencan would be easy to see and simply be open and honest about everything.
Li Chencan nodded, and then said: "My book, no matter what, it was you who gave me the opportunity to publish and gave me a good price, in this matter, I also know that you may be under some pressure behind it, so I am quite grateful to you...... For the other books, as long as the conditions are different from those given by other publishers, if the difference is not too much, I will still choose to publish them in Baihua Publishing House. ”
Li Chencan's words moved Shi Chuanfeng a little......
It turns out that Li Chencan knows everything, and he is still such a grateful person!
Some of the grievances that Shi Chuanfeng suffered during that time now feel like they have all been wiped out because of Li Chencan's understanding!
To be honest, they will also give Li Chencan a price according to the contracts of other publishing houses, and will not depress his interests in order to take advantage of him - in this regard, Shi Chuanfeng and they can think very clearly, it will not work at all to dry up and fish, and win-win is the king! If they suppress Li Chencan's contract price in order to be cheap, he will not cooperate with Baihua Publishing House in the future, and may also be eye-catching with other publishing houses, affecting the quality of books.
So they will only try to be better than the contracts offered by other publishers!
And now, Li Chencan's words really moved Shi Chuanfeng a little - it is amazing that an eighteen-year-old boy can keep a cool head in the face of such a rapid rise in sales, and he also has a grateful heart. And I also thought that he would go further than other young people in the future.
"Okay, Chencan, then thank you for your trust." Shi Chuanfeng said: "The contract we can provide you with is 200 yuan per thousand words, plus 15% royalty profit sharing, what do you think?" ”
In fact, this is already a very generous contract, generally only more well-known writers can get royalty profit sharing, and even if they do, most of them are between 10% and 16%, Shi Chuanfeng gave Li Chencan 15% profit share at once, and there is also a contract of 200 yuan per thousand words, which is not ungenerous.
Li Chencan nodded, he thought for a while, and then said: "That's it, Editor-in-Chief Shi, I think there will definitely be other publishing houses coming to me these days, and in addition to identifying those publishing houses that cheat manuscripts, as long as they give no more than 17% of the profit share, then I will choose to sign a contract with Baihua Publishing House." ”
He didn't want to change to an unfamiliar publishing house, as long as the contract provided by Shi Chuanfeng was not too low, he would continue to choose Baihua.
Anyway, he has a lot of books, and he doesn't care about the loss of profits.
What's more, he also knew that Shi Chuanfeng and they would not be so short-sighted, and they would make a fortune by taking advantage of themselves, and the 15% share was already very high.
So, Li Chencan had what he just said.
After Shi Chuanfeng heard Li Chencan's words, his heart also relaxed-since Li Chencan said that he would eliminate those publishing houses that cheated manuscripts, then he didn't have to worry too much, it was impossible for other publishing houses to use more than 16% of the royalties to negotiate contracts for Li Chencan, so Shi Chuanfeng smiled and said: "Okay, then we'll have a happy cooperation." ”
"It's a pleasure to work with."
Then, Shi Chuanfeng suddenly took out a card, and then said: "By the way, Chencan, there are 50,000 yuan in it, it is a little bit of heart from the publishing house, the first part of your "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" is selling very well." Although it is said that it is a full copyright buyout, it can't make you suffer too much, if the sales of this book can exceed 500,000 copies, we will also have a red envelope for you. ”
Li Chencan did not shirk, not only because he was short of money recently, but also because this is what he deserves, "Those Things in the Ming Dynasty" has now sold 100,000 copies, and the publishing house has earned hundreds of thousands of dollars on it, and it is not too much to give him a bonus.
However, being able to directly take out 50,000 yuan as a bonus, and there is also the promise of follow-up bonuses, which almost catches up with the profit sharing.
It seems that Baihua Publishing House has really spared no effort to win itself over, but Li Chencan can also think of this through this, thinking of Baihua Publishing House's next cooperation with himself, which should give him a lot of advantages.
Next, the two chatted about some other things, the two mainly talked about books, Shi Chuanfeng also provided Li Chencan with a lot of interesting facts in the publishing industry and literary circles, Li Chencan in this shijie, of course, also wants to know a lot of questions about this, and I like to listen to it.
Of course, Li Chencan did not forget to ask about the movie sideways, although Shi Chuanfeng doesn't know much about the movie, he definitely knows more than ordinary people. This shijie, China's film industry is definitely different from another time and space, the system here is relatively perfect, it is far from being as dirty as the film industry in the previous life, and the audience here is also relatively mature, and the quality rather than publicity is generally what determines the box office of the movie......
In short, this is a paradise for movies! It is also the most perfect place for the hundreds of classic movies in Li Chencan's mind.
After the conversation between the two came to an end for a while, they walked out of the door, Yang Yifang outside had already cooked a meal, and had to beckon Shi Chuanfeng to stay, but Shi Chuanfeng refused to avail, so he could only stay and eat this meal with Li Chencan and their two families.
Wang Fen was a little uncomfortable when she saw that Shi Chuanfeng also stayed-because it was this guy who came to make many of her previous visions directly shattered, so that Li Chencan's best-selling book instantly shocked everyone's eyes.
But Wang Fen couldn't say anything more......
So, Wang Fen ate very dull at this meal, but Li Chaoyong, Li Chaoguo and Shi Chuanfeng talked a lot.
Although Shi Chuanfeng will not talk to him too much because of Li Chaoguo's identity as the director of the Construction Bureau, the two also have a lot of common topics, so they can talk more at the dinner table.
Wang Fen could only grit her teeth and think - wait a minute, when the college entrance examination results come out, Li Chencan may be about to cry!