Zhang Zhangmin, the first editor of a publishing house that Chen Ping knew, was also the editor in charge of the traditional Chinese publication of "Immortal Rebellion". Seeing his name, Chen Pingwan smiled, he was really confused just now. I obviously have Zhang Zhangmin's contact information, but I actually went to find the contact information of Grape Publishing House.

Looking at the time, it is only four o'clock in the afternoon, and today is not a weekend, Zhang Zhangmin's work buckle should be online.

climbed the stairs and buckled, and really saw Zhang Zhangmin online.

"Busy?"

Almost instantly, Zhang Zhangmin came back with the news.

"Ah, why did you remember to contact me?"

"Publish! Could it be that you have other businesses? ”

"Which book is published?"

"Notes on Tomb Robbery."

After Chen Ping sent this message, Zhang Zhangmin had no news, and waited for more than ten minutes before seeing Zhang Zhangmin send a message, which was a very long message.

"Actually, when "Notes on Tomb Robbery" just sent tens of thousands of words, our publishing house wanted to contact you, but the starting point sent a circular to the publishing house some time ago, saying that in the future, if all the works of the starting point are published, you must first send a letter of intent to publish with the starting point, and then the starting point will be responsible for negotiating with the author. In addition, we also sent a letter of intent to publish to the starting point as soon as possible, but we have not received a reply until now. I thought you were more interested in simplified publishing now than traditional publishing. Hehe! ”

Zhang Zhangmin said that Chen Ping knew that this was the starting point for unified management and to prevent some authors from delaying updates on the Internet for the sake of publication. Zhang Zhangmin said that he had already sent a letter of intent to publish with the starting point, but the starting point had not notified Chen Ping, if it wasn't for Chen Ping taking the initiative to ask for the contact information of the publishing house, I don't know if the starting point would have taken the initiative to contact Chen Ping.

Thinking of this, Chen Ping frowned slightly. Send a message to Zhang Zhangmin again.

"How so? Traditional Chinese publishing is not only about income, but more importantly, about attracting more readers. The brief version of "Notes on Tomb Robbery" will be officially published next month, if I send you the manuscript, can I guarantee that it will be released simultaneously with the mainland? ”

"Next month? Isn't your game just getting started? Of course, our publishing house has its own printing house, as long as there are manuscripts. We can start the machine at any time! By the way, don't you go through the starting point? ”

"No, the copyright of my book is complete, and I didn't sign a contract with the starting point at all, what are you doing with it? In this way, you come over at the end of the month, bring the contract over, and I will give you the manuscript directly, and I will rush the manuscript in the next two days. ”

"Okay. Send me a message when you finish the manuscript and I'll be ready to come over at any time. ”

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After making sufficient preparations, Chen Ping had to force himself to immerse himself in the strange world created by the third uncle of the Southern Sect......

Time flies quickly, in order to catch up with the draft, Chen Ping can't spare too much energy to look at the monthly ticket list, but fortunately, "Yang God" is still the first on the monthly ticket list.

On July 30, Chen Ping received a notice from the staff of the Writers' Association. He said that he should send the published manuscript as soon as possible, and the writers' association needed to submit the manuscript to the publishing house for review and layout.

Chen Ping sent the prepared documents to the Writers' Association. I also sighed in my heart, this is probably the fastest publishing efficiency in Chinese history, right? At the same time, I am also fortunate that this simplified Chinese publication does not require the modification and deletion of content, which saves a lot of time and energy.

After sending the draft to the Writers' Association, Chen Ping also sent a message to Zhang Zhangmin, asking him to come to the mainland as soon as possible. After Zhang Zhangmin got the news of Chen Ping. It is said that it will be able to go to S City the next day.

In the evening, Chen Ping received a call from Xiangjiang. It was Mr. Jin Yong who personally called, in order to discuss the manuscript fee for the publication of "Notes on Tomb Robbery" in Ming Pao.

Chen Ping didn't expect Jin Yong to pay for his manuscript at all, and now that he called to say the manuscript fee, Chen Ping didn't care. Just let Mr. Jin Yong look at it.

Mr. Jin Yong said very seriously: "Ming Pao's publication of "Notes on Tomb Robbery" is a commercial act, and since it is a commercial act, you must pay the equivalent fee. I've inquired, and the average subscription for your work at the starting point is about 15,000 to 20,000. So, I'm going to take a compromise price and pay you for the manuscript according to the 8,000 subscription fee per 1,000 words, do you think it's okay? ”

Eight thousand subscriptions? A thousand words and two cents is one hundred and sixty dollars.

Chen Ping smiled and agreed with Jin Yong's payment standard.

After talking about the manuscript fee, Mr. Jin Yong also asked a special question, asking Chen Ping if he needed his help to publish traditional Chinese in Xiangjiang Contact Publishing House.

Chen Ping told Jin Yong that he had contacted Baodao Publishing House to publish traditional Chinese, but Jin Yong laughed after hearing it.

"Do you think that Baodao Publishing House can sell to Xiangjiang if it publishes traditional Chinese? If that's what you really think, then I'm telling you, you're wrong. Although both Baodao and Xiangjiang are practical traditional Chinese characters, there has been an agreement between the publishers of the two regions that books published in that region can only be sold in that region, and if they want to sell to another region, they must be licensed to a publisher in another region for publishing. Therefore, your contract with Treasure Island Publishing House only works on Treasure Island, and you can find a new publishing house in Xiangjiang to publish "Tomb Robbery Notes". ”

Chen Ping really heard of this kind of thing for the first time, and he didn't dare to agree to Jin Yong at the moment, but said that he would ask after he met the editor of Baodao Publishing House tomorrow, and if this was really the case, he would contact Mr. Jin Yong at that time.

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Zhang Zhangmin arrived in S City at noon the next day, he is a person who pays attention to efficiency, so as soon as he got off the plane, he contacted Chen Ping, and after learning that Chen Ping was in Wuzhen, he took a taxi directly to Wuzhen to find Chen Ping.

Chen Ping was a little embarrassed to do this, but he was also helpless, because when Zhang Zhangmin called Chen Ping, he had already gotten into a taxi, and Chen Ping even heard the conversation between Zhang Zhangmin and the driver.

More than an hour later, Zhang Zhangmin came to Wuzhen. Knowing that he hadn't had time to eat lunch yet, Chen Ping hurriedly took him to a restaurant outside to eat.

During the meal, Zhang Zhangmin took the initiative to take out the contract and handed it to Chen Ping.

"This contract is a little different from the previous ones, you take a closer look, especially the manuscript fee, if you have any questions, you can just say it."

Chen Ping took the contract suspiciously and looked at it carefully. Because of Zhang Zhangmin's special reminder, Chen Ping was very serious when he saw the method of settlement of manuscript fees.

I've watched it back and forth several times, except for the royalty point has been raised, the others have basically not changed much. Telling Zhang Zhangmin the doubts in his heart, Zhang Zhangmin hurriedly swallowed the food in his mouth, wiped his mouth, got up and sat down beside Chen Ping, pointed to a place in the contract and said: "In the previous contract, the settlement date of the manuscript fee was settled once per edition, but now it has become settled every half month. And here, because this is not the first time that your work has been published in our publishing house, and the sales of your work are really good, we have prepared two book signings for you, one of which is at Treasure Island University, and if time permits, we will arrange it at the end of the summer vacation at Treasure Island University, just at the beginning of the semester. The other one hasn't been decided yet, so it should be pretty good. These two book signing sessions you must attend will not only have a great impact on your sales, but also enhance your status and popularity in the hearts of Treasure Island readers! (To be continued......)