How much does it cost to publish a book these days?

First of all, what paper is used for the cover, and what paper is used in it, that is another calculation, because these are nothing compared to other materials and labor costs!

A book, dozens of pages or even hundreds of pages, tens of thousands of words or even hundreds of thousands of words are possible, and the words at this time are all carved out with special lead, the lead itself is not cheap, plus labor, the cost of just a page, not to mention a few taels of silver, a few cents of silver is absolutely indispensable.

That is to say, just one page of a book, engraved with lead characters, and then arranged into a template will cost a few cents of silver, ten pages are a few taels of silver, and dozens is hundreds of taels or even hundreds of taels of silver!

Then, there are the costs of printing, the cost of binding, which are all to be calculated as labor.

In short, these days, without thousands of taels of silver, you don't have to think of publishing a book at all, and as for hundreds or even hundreds of huge books, if you want to print them, the cost is even more frighteningly high.

This is also the reason why many people compile books but can't print them, just like the famous "Tiangong Kaiwu" and "Compendium of Materia Medica" in later generations, Song Yingxing and Li Shizhen took a lot of effort to compile these two books, but it took more effort to print them later, because they couldn't take out so much money to print books, so they could only ask people everywhere and raise money.

For example, "Compendium of Materia Medica", Li Shizhen began to compile it in the 31st year of Jiajing, and the book was completed in the 6th year of Wanli, and it took a total of 27 years in the middle, and until the 21st year of Wanli, Li Shizhen died, and this book has not been published.

As for the reason, it's very simple, because he doesn't have that much money.

If he had the money, he would have been able to print it in a day, and a few months would have been enough, but because he didn't have so much money, it took him more than ten years until his death, and the book was not printed.

Of course, Yang Cong does not have the problem of running out of money at all, more than 100 books, and the printing cost is only hundreds of thousands of taels at most, for him, that is really trivial, and this is only a small amount of money.

He spent more money on paper, because he was going to print a million copies at a time!

Even if it is calculated according to the cost of a few taels of silver for a set of books, it is millions of taels!

In other words, is he crazy, even if there are millions of readers in this Ming Dynasty, how many can afford to buy books, even if he sells them at cost price, a few taels of silver, not many people can afford to buy it!

Of course he is not crazy, if possible, how many readers in Daming will print as many sets as he wants, and it is best to have one set per person!

As for the problem of not many people paying for it, he didn't worry about it at all, it didn't matter if not many people bought it, he didn't plan to sell it at all!

This time, Yang Cong changed his previous low-key style and made a big splash.

There are more than 100 copies of the whole set of "The Principle of Knowledge", and it costs hundreds of thousands of taels of silver just to make a set of printing templates, which ordinary people dare not think of, but he ordered two sets at a time, one set in the capital of the north and one set of Jinling City in the south.

Moreover, he had almost all the printing workshops in the capital and Jinling under his orders in advance, and placed orders with them, the smaller ones would print a book, the entire tens of thousands of copies, and the larger ones would print a few more books, the entire hundreds of thousands of copies, and he would dare to place as many as you dared to take.

Anyway, in a word, everyone should not do anything else in the past few months, and go all out to print "The Principle of Knowledge".

Someone with a heart counted a little and found that all the orders he placed added up to tens of millions of copies, this guy, is he crazy?

When the people of Yangming heard the news, they came to dissuade them, because they all knew that there were too few people who could buy a huge book like this with hundreds of books, and it would be great if the entire Ming Dynasty could sell 10,000 sets.

He doesn't know that he has an order of tens of millions of copies, which adds up to hundreds of thousands or even millions of sets, who will he sell them to?

Yang Cong seemed to turn a deaf ear to their persuasion, and even joked that if he couldn't sell it when the time came, he would give it to them, and let them use it as a gift for his relatives and friends!

Okay, you can't toss it so much if you have money, this is millions of taels, can't you take it out and give it to those people who lack food and clothing, although a few million taels can't make all the people rich, but at least it can make millions of people eat a month's worth of food.

When Yan Song's party heard the news, they all laughed off their big teeth, Yang Cong was stunned, I was afraid that everyone thought that everyone was as rich as him.

Hundreds of thousands or even millions of sets, what are you kidding?

To put it mildly, all the "Four Books and Five Classics" in the entire Ming Dynasty may not add up to hundreds of thousands of sets, because many readers are borrowed or even copied books, and if they really spend money to buy them, how many people can afford to buy the entire set of "Four Books and Five Classics".

Of course, they just watched it as a joke, and they didn't stop it, because this time Yang Cong was publicized enough, but it didn't have much to do with them, printing books, letting people print them, the more they printed, the less good it would be for this kid.

After all, the cost of this book is there, hundreds of thousands of sets cost millions of taels of silver, where did this money come from, wouldn't the emperor doubt it?

So, what does Jiajing think?

Jiajing didn't think about money, because he didn't have to spend money to study, or he didn't buy books, so where could he know how much a book would cost.

What he cares about is fame, influence.

To put it bluntly, he is "a great joy", Yang Cong tossed so desperately, and the vigorous publication of "The Principle of Knowing Things" is in line with his temperament, and he naturally praised and appreciated it vigorously.

Anyway, he doesn't have to pay for it, so naturally the more printed, the better, and the greater the impact, the better, after all, this is the Ming Jiajing's "The Principle of Gewu Zhizhi".

Yang Cong did this, not only caused a sensation in the entire court, but also caused a sensation among the people.

The champion of the Yimo Branch, the former secretary of the Ministry of War, the right deputy envoy of the Imperial Inspectorate, the governor of the five southeastern provinces, the governor of the five southwestern provinces, and the god-like Lord Yang is about to publish a book, which in itself is enough to cause a sensation, coupled with Yang Cong's crazy tossing, one seal is hundreds of thousands or even millions of sets, that guy is even more shocking to all readers.

This Lord Yang is really a god, extraordinary!

As for the book itself, of course, there are also those who want to buy, but they are all very few people with a fever with a lot of money, and ordinary readers really haven't thought about buying a set to take a look, because this set is more than a hundred copies, even if it is calculated at the lowest price, it is a dozen taels, and a few people can afford it.

Yang Cong has been hyped up for a few months, and this "The Principle of Knowing from Things" has finally been published and bound into a book, and those people with a fever who have a lot of money have also begun to inquire where they can buy it.

To be honest, even if he can only sell 10,000 sets, with the decoration and quality of his book, it is not a problem to sell a set for a few tens of taels, and 10,000 sets will be hundreds of thousands of taels, and he can recover a little cost.

However, he didn't sell it at all!

After the publication of "The Principle of Knowledge", the palace edition, he first sent Jiajing a large cart, a hundred sets, as for holding and preserving, or holding and watching, and playing, he didn't care.

In addition, he also sent more than ten cars of folk versions to Jiajing, these, which were given to Jiajing to give away, anyway, there are many relatives of the emperor, a thousand sets, just a small meaning, if it is not enough, you can ask him again, no matter how much he wants, he can manage enough.

Immediately afterwards, he sent a car to each of the Yangming bigwigs, a hundred sets, the folk version, as for whether they watched it himself or gave it to relatives and friends, he didn't care.

Immediately afterwards, the students of the School of Physics and the disciples of the big guys of the Yangming lineage each gave ten sets, and he didn't care if they saw it for himself or gave it to relatives and friends.

In short, he is like a psychopath, showing off everywhere, sending it everywhere, and publicizing it so much that it can't be done, as if he is afraid that others will not know that he has published a book.

Anyone he knows, he sends it, even Yan Song and Xia Yan He sent a hundred sets each, if you don't know, he also sends it, as long as there is a reason, he can send it!

At this time, everyone thought that he was a little hot and burned out, but as everyone knows, in this way, his "The Principle of Knowing Things" suddenly entered the field of vision of all readers in the Ming Dynasty.

After all, everyone has relatives and friends, a set of books, it is not a problem to lend them to ten people to read at all, one million sets is enough to affect more than 10 million people, and this time, the total number of Daming readers is less than 10 million.

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