From between the lines of Yang Bing's words, Tang Mingyao smelled a strong sense of crisis.

"Legend of the Ancients" entered the martial arts market, which is a huge challenge for "Martial Arts Story".

Because "Legend of the Ancients" at its peak in the late eighties, the monthly sales were as high as more than 2.6 million copies, and after ten years, whether the sales are increasing or declining, Tang Mingyao does not know, but from the observation of buying books at the newsstand and the number of students holding this journal, it is still a giant among story journals.

The big ones in the industry came in to grab business, and the little shrimp was naturally nervous.

According to the information revealed by Yang Bing, the coping strategy of "Martial Arts Story" is to thicken the content of the magazine and directly double the length of the serial, so as to enhance reader loyalty.

Honestly, it's not a good idea.

Because the magazine has been thickened, the cost has increased a lot, but the retail price may not be increased much, and this kind of story journal of the same size as "Story Club", once the price of a single book exceeds five yuan, a large number of student consumers will be lost, and it is possible that the sales volume will be beaten back to its original shape.

Tang Mingyao thought about it and replied on QQ: There is no problem with the delivery, and I still have 200,000 manuscripts in my hand. But did you really decide to thicken the journal? Who came up with such a stupid idea?

The big face is really big: what else? If you want to improve your competitiveness, you can't do it.

Tang Mingyao: You haven't thought about increasing the number of issues? For example, wouldn't it be enough to turn a monthly magazine into a semi-monthly magazine and publish two issues a month? According to my observation of the readers around me, many people feel that the waiting time for one issue a month is too long, and if it becomes a half-monthly issue, it can solve this problem very well.

The big face is really big: ...... This suggestion was made by the editorial department before, but it was rejected.

Tang Mingyao: So what you just said, the so-called study of the market, is actually just a certain leader who never asks about actual affairs, patted his head in the office, and decided directly, right? Which department does your magazine belong to? Writers' Association or Literary and Art Federation? Or is it some cultural sector? This leadership is also too unreliable.

The big face is really big: ...... I won't talk about this.

After a while, she said again: Your suggestion, we also think it is better. If you don't mind, borrow your name and use it? In the name of the most popular author of the magazine, give advice to the leader, and the leader may consider it carefully.

Tang Mingyao: It's okay in this matter, just don't use my name to deceive.

The big face is really big: Thank you in advance. By the way, there is another thing, because you have made an outstanding contribution to the sales increase of "Martial Arts Story", the magazine has decided to increase the remuneration of your novel from 45 yuan per thousand words to 100 yuan per thousand words, what do you think?

Tang Mingyao: Can you mention 150 thousand words? Look at "Science Fiction World" next door, your remuneration can only be regarded as the average level, but I am your pillar.

The big face and the cat's face are really big: we are small and small, we can't afford to give it so high, 100 yuan is already unprecedented, more understanding.

Tang Mingyao: Okay, I'm very happy that you can take the initiative to raise prices. I thought you were going to keep squeezing me until I was done.

The big face is really big: how come? We have a good conscience. Don't talk about it, I'll go and get busy for a while, and I'll let you know when the results are available. I remember 100,000 words a month, you promised me.

Tang Mingyao said goodbye and sat in his seat thinking about the price increase.

To be honest, when "Martial Arts Supreme" was first submitted, he was able to get a price of 45 yuan per thousand words, and he was still very satisfied at that time. It was only after a few months that he found that he had played a huge role in the increase in magazine sales, and he gradually felt a little unbalanced in his heart.

Why do you make a lot of money and don't give me soup?

It's just this thing, since he didn't think about it so long-term, after the contract was signed, he felt a loss when he turned around, and he couldn't do that kind of thing, so he never raised the price with Yang Bing.

This time, the other party took the initiative to raise the price for him, and he felt a little more comfortable, but to put it bluntly, this was not the conscience of the magazine, but when they saw that "Ancient Legends" had entered the martial arts market, they were nervous, on the one hand, they were trying to find a way to grasp the reader market, and on the other hand, they were also trying to find a way to retain the author.

The price increase is nothing but a means.

Tang Mingyao can be regarded as seeing through, the helmsman of "Martial Arts Story" has no big picture, which can be detected from the previous contact, they have been picking at the details, and they had no choice before, he only published a novel in this magazine, and after that, ......

Since there are competitors, it is natural that the highest price wins.

He doesn't have any affection for "Martial Arts Story", at most he thinks that Yang Bing is not bad, but he has private feelings and doesn't take money to talk about things.

After sitting for a while, I continued to browse the forums on the Internet.

There are a few posts in the Tianya community that have been unstable for a long time, specifically discussing his novels, Tang Mingyao clicked in and looked at it, it's very good, most people are seriously discussing, there are many supporters, it's that rat-like troll everywhere, every post is spraying, it's really a god.

Tang Mingyao silently thanked the old brother and expressed his sincere respect for his outstanding contribution to maintaining the popularity of the "Train King" network.

Exit the end of the world and land at Jin Yong Inn.

The community has been boiling recently, because a novel "The Legend of Wukong" that touched many people was born.

Jin He is directly serialized on the forum, and has finished writing this novella of about 100,000 words.

Tang Mingyao clicked on his serial post, and when he entered, he saw the author's thank-you speech: Thank you to the idol [Train King] for the inspiration and support for this novel!

The text in the back is roughly the same as what Tang Mingyao had read in his previous life, and the essence of the novel is still there, but there are slight differences in details.

Tang Mingyao was silently glad that he didn't write this book off because he wrote it ahead of time.

In fact, if a person creates the same subject matter in roughly the same period, it will not be too offset, because people's way of thinking has not changed, and their life experience has not changed.

It took more than half an hour to roughly read it, and Tang Mingyao pulled it directly to the end of the post and replied: A good book will be popular.

Before I had time to change the post, I received a message from Jinhe in seconds: The idol has appeared, thank you for the encouragement, thank you for the inspiration! Can I add a friend?

Tang Mingyao thought about it and sent his QQ number in a private message.