Chapter 325

It is no wonder that someone once said that the speed of making money from media and magazines is not inferior to that of money printing machines.

Because at that time they were not only able to sell newspapers to get a return from their customers, but more importantly, advertising, a lot of advertising, also brought great and very rich returns to these newspapers and magazines, and that was the main thing.

"But there aren't many people who can afford tabloids in the whole of Tokyo Bianliang, right? You must know that such a tabloid is almost twenty dollars, and occasionally burns your brain, it's okay to buy one or two copies, who has so much spare money to read these things? Liu Yiyi looked at Wang Yang with a headache and explained helplessly.

"Twenty bucks?" Wang Yang glanced down at the tabloids in his hand, and his face trembled with disgust. "Twenty dollars for this?"

"What do you think? Such a piece of paper, added up before and after, is about four or five hundred words, and it costs about ten cents to copy a piece, and a person can copy a dozen or so copies of such tabloids a day at most, if the price is not high, who wants to do such hard work? Liu Yiyi pouted.

"And those who want to get the news, they have to make money to those who are insiders, these are also costs, so ah, a tabloid, the boss can only earn three or five cents, and sometimes some tabloids even sell for thirty cents."

"These tabloids can sell three or five thousand copies of one issue, and if there is any really big news, I am afraid that even seven or eight thousand copies will be sold......

A reader, copying ten copies a day, will have four or five thousand words, and don't forget that this special is calligraphy, practicing four or five thousand words a day...... Tut-tut, it's literally the rhythm of a broken wrist.

And at the end of the day, it can only get a hundred dollars, no wonder Liu Yiyi's teacher stopped doing it after working for a while, copying can only get a hundred dollars a day, and it is only three times a month.

Wang Yang looked at the paper that was thinner than rice paper and the quality was worse than that of rice paper, just from the paper, it saved a lot of money, and there was no way to save the money of those pen and ink, and the wages for those copyists were naturally indispensable.

Wang Yang is also a literary young man, but he used a lot of pen, ink, paper and inkstone during this time, and opened a printing shop, so he naturally knows a lot about the price in this area.

Thanks to the great Song Dynasty's emphasis on culture, the paper industry is very prosperous, taking paper as an example, used as the cover of the book is the big green white paper, this kind of paper costs 750 yuan per 100 sheets, and each big green and white paper is about six feet long and three feet wide.

The same is true for the length and width of large paper required for printing content, but the price is extremely low, 11 and a half cents per 100 sheets. One piece is only a tenth of the penny, and such a large piece of paper is cut into four four-panel newspapers is completely sufficient.

That is to say, the cost of paper is extremely low to run such a newspaper, and then plus the printing ink and labor costs, the cost of ink to be consumed by each newspaper is also very small, Wang Yang has calculated that the cost of brown, ink, paste, and craftsman's labor for a set of three volumes of "Analects" is only more than 70 yuan.

In addition to being a little troublesome when typesetting, a water-powered printing press printing 3,000 copies a day is not too easy. When it comes to it, the cost is less than a penny each.

Coupled with the distribution channel, well...... Now there is a ghost distribution channel, so if it is distributed manually, if a tabloid is calculated according to three pennies.

Every newsboy who sells a newspaper will be able to get a penny rebate, and I believe that many people will enjoy this job very much.

Even if he only sells 50 newspapers a day, he will be able to have a consistent income of five in a month, and if it is 100 copies, he will be able to have an income of three times a month, which is enough for an ordinary person in Bianliang, Tokyo, to live for a family for a month.

After all, in Bianliang, Tokyo, where prices are the highest, a cooking cake costs only two yuan, a bowl of tea costs only one penny, a plate of more delicate dishes costs about ten yuan, and it is much cheaper in other places.

And even if Wang Yang sets the price of the newspaper for three articles, one article is the cost, the other article is given to the newsboy, and the other article is pure profit.

Compared with the tabloid of 20 wen in the past, it is extremely cheap, I believe that with the living standard of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, anyone who is literate will be able to see so much content for three cents a day, and he will be very happy.

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"Do you really want to do it?" After getting out of the car and returning to the mansion, seeing that Wang Yang was still looking like he was not giving up, holding those tabloids and muttering there, Liu Yiyi couldn't help but ask.

"You say, if each newspaper costs only three cents, will anyone buy it?" Wang Yang touched his chin and asked without raising his head.

Liu Yiyi, who had just sat down and was about to pour tea into Wang Yang's cup, lifted the teapot and was about to pour tea into Wang Yang's cup. "Brother Wang, are you kidding? Can you earn it back? ”

"Of course you can earn it back." Wang Yang raised his head and looked at Liu Yiyi, and said seriously. "We have already calculated the cost, all the costs of each newspaper are less than a penny, and when the time comes, it will be handed over to someone else to sell, and for every newspaper sold by the other party, then he will be able to earn a penny, and the remaining article will naturally be earned by ourselves."

“…… How could it be so low? Liu Yiyi and Master Li both stared in surprise.

"Because I don't need someone else to copy it, I just need to print it." Wang Yang blinked proudly. "Invisibly, the cost of copying is gone, and this alone saves the cost of ten cents per sheet."

"Besides, I don't go to find any provincial or internal probes, what I compile is the kind of things that literati and ordinary people like to see, or that women like to appreciate......" Uncle Wang spat and said non-stop.

“…… It seems that there is no one to stop you. After Liu Yiyi and Master Li glanced at each other, they rolled their eyes helplessly and smiled bitterly. This guy has a rhythm that is about to go to the sky, which is really speechless.

"And I was going to sell 5,000 copies of the newspaper in the first issue, and in order to build momentum, I decided not to pay for the first five issues. If it is popular, it will be reprinted in each issue, aiming to increase to 30,000 copies before the end of the free period. Wang Yang patted the case proudly, raised his eyebrows at Liu Yiyi and said.

"Five thousand copies...... Hey? 5,000 copies, even if calculated according to the selling price, is it only fifteen yuan? Five phases, it's only seventy-five runs......" Liu Yiyi couldn't help but gasp, and her eyes fell on Wang Yang's body.

"Even if it's 30,000 copies, that's only 90 copies, obediently...... Master, you're amazing. "Master Li's mental arithmetic is also very powerful, and when he thinks of 30,000 newspapers together, he is afraid that it will be taller than a house.

"Your Yuanyu printing technique is really a good invention to save money. If it is other tabloids, if it is calculated according to 20 articles, 5,000 copies is 100 yuan, and if it is five issues, 500 yuan is gone......"