According to Jingwen's previous regulations, in fact, this publishing house has two methods. ≡ the most important one is the sharing, that is, according to the published books. The other is a buyout, a one-time high manuscript fee to a certain author, and then completely buy the right to make a profit from the book, as for the author, he is only eligible to retain the right of authorship, and no other rights are gone. However, this buyout is actually only available for those very optimistic books, this technical book obviously has no market, but Jingwen actually gave a buyout. Not Cheng Lin can be sure that there is no market for this technical book. Those who can understand him are not interested, and those who are interested cannot understand, and there is no market for this.

In ancient times, great attention was paid to the so-called Confucianism or poetry, but books on this agricultural technology were not paid much attention to. After all, the objects they serve are also those small people who are promoted to fight, and they are all ordinary people. However, the vast majority of ordinary people are illiterate, so they can't read these highly specialized books at all. And the officials will not read it, after all, who has the heart to read such a book? So it's a very embarrassing situation, those who can understand don't bother to look at it, and want to see that people can't understand it. In this way, there is actually no market.

"Lin'er, you can't underestimate these reference books. These are actually very useful, and they can pass on all kinds of Chinese techniques. These technologies are the ladder of our human progress, just like those books such as the Water Scripture Commentary, and the Qi Min Technique, they are all about the life of ordinary people. And these are skills used to make a living, which have an immeasurable effect on the people and play a very important role in our human civilization. There are many so-called scholars who have never personally cultivated the fields, and they have no idea that these production and life are not easy. And they can write some scripts for entertainment. However, this kind of book can be popular at best, but it is this kind of book that can really help mankind immensely. ”

"So. Although there is no market for this kind of book, we will pass it on no matter what. We can publish it, and although it may not be of much interest, at least it can expand the scope and allow more people to collect it. In this way, the people will be literate one day, and if the people are more literate, it will be more useful to the people. However, if we deliberately do not publish and disseminate such books for the sake of temporary profits, then in the end the people will not be able to reap the benefits. ”

Jingwen actually remembered some reference books in later generations, some books with strong professional and technical skills. If this kind of book goes through normal publishing channels, it is actually difficult to have a big market. Because of this kind of highly technical books, ordinary people don't read them at all, and only those peers can read them. However, there are not many people in these peers, and they cannot rely on these reference books to make a fortune. However, it is obviously unrealistic to let those scientific researchers pay for the publication themselves. In order to promote the technology, it is also inappropriate to have to pay for the publication of the technology yourself. Therefore, in later generations, many governments also subsidized the publication of such reference books, so that they did not have to pay for the promotion of technology.

In this way, the state subsidizes publicly-funded publishing, which is actually dedicated to the publication of those technical books. This has a very important role to play in the dissemination of technology and for its protection. And in ancient times, there was no corresponding policy, which is actually very tragic. There are very few technical books that can be passed down to future generations in ancient times. First of all, in fact, not many people studied these books in ancient times, and even if there were people who did. They are also not always able to produce results. And if the research results are achieved, even if you want to publish the cloth, you will fail because you don't have the money. Therefore, it was too difficult to get some technical books in ancient times. How many good things there are. All of them disappeared into history because there was no money for publishing?

In ancient times, if you wanted to publish a book, you had to spend a lot of money first. And those who want to publish their own technical books are overwhelmingly not wealthy. So in the end, they can only make their books not published, and let their hard work disappear into history forever. What a pity, so in order to protect this knowledge, didn't later generations also set up a policy of subsidizing publishing? It's actually a policy that can influence the inheritance of human technology, and that's very useful.

"Lin'er, although it seems that we are losing money by publishing these books, we also need to protect these technical inheritances. We can't be so narrow-minded and just see the money in it. But these are important things that are very important to our human civilization and can affect our future generations. So what can we have if we subsidize some and post some upside down? I bought him out, in fact, I let him continue to research, so that he could continue to develop these agricultural technologies. If they don't get the monetary benefits, they may not have the heart to continue researching. So I have to motivate him with monetary benefits, so that more of us can invest in this category. Only when there are more and more people studying technology can we become more and more proficient as human beings. Jingwen said.

After Cheng Lin heard this, he could only say, "Okay! I listen to my husband, and I'll ask these editors to sift through them again and pick out all these technical books. We can also consult some professional people and let them see if there is any value in publication. If there is value in publishing, we can consider using a buyout method to publish. ”

"Well, we have to protect our technological heritage, and it would be a shame if it was broken!" Jingwen said.

Of course, Jingwen knows that many technologies in history will disappear into history because they have no inheritance. China's science and technology are actually very advanced, in addition to the so-called self-cherishing of the broom, in fact, there is another reason, that is, they have not been able to have an effective book to bear, so they can not be carried by words, but can only rely on word of mouth, which is easy to interrupt. So if there are books to carry and diffuse, that's actually very good.

Jingwen also gave such an opportunity to carry it, so that they could effectively pass it on. If we can pass on the technical books of all kinds of people, then I don't know how much benefit there is to the progress of Chinese civilization! (To be continued!)

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