Chapter 25: The Hogwarts School Magazine
"Start a newspaper!" George exclaimed.
Fred asked, "Don't you own a stake in the Daily Prophet?" Why do you need another newspaper? ”
"To be precise, I should run a semi-monthly magazine affiliated with the Daily Prophet." Clark emphasized.
"We can't apply for a number from the Department of Magical Publications of the British Ministry of Magic for the time being, so we can only be attached to the Daily Prophet.
Otherwise, you'll have to entertain yourself on campus, or publish underground publications like the kind of magazines you like to read. ”
"What are you talking about, we usually read serious publications!" The twin brothers denied it almost in unison.
Hermione looked at them with a blank expression, as a little witch from a Muggle family, she didn't know what these people were talking about.
So she directly ignored the meaning of the three boys' words, and asked:
"Clark, have you ever thought about it, since you already have a Daily Prophet, why would someone else spend an extra copy to subscribe to your newspaper?
Besides, we are still students, and we are too busy with homework every day, and neither time nor energy is enough to support us in running this newspaper. ”
George and Fred also nodded, "Yes, we can't do this, you said that it's okay to ask us to do business and sell things, let us write articles, you can spare us." ”
Clark laughed when he saw the embarrassment of several of them, "No, where did you get the confidence to think that just a few of us can make a newspaper." ”
When the twin brothers and Hermione heard this, their faces immediately fell.
Clark accepted it when he saw it, "Just kidding, don't be so nervous, I'll answer your questions one by one." ”
"First of all, the newspaper is positioned to focus on all kinds of interesting things in and around the Hogwarts campus, and even I have a name in mind, which is called the Hogwarts School Magazine.
Simple and straightforward, it is different from the Daily Prophet, which focuses on the news of the British wizarding community.
The audience is also clear, starting with the students and staff in the school, and then the parents of those students. In addition, there are many adult wizards who graduated from Hogwarts in the British wizarding world, and they must also miss the life on campus very much.
With these potential readers, believe me, we're going to succeed, at least not much worse than the Daily Prophet. ”
George nodded subconsciously, "That's right, when you say that, there must be thousands of students, including students and parents." ”
Fred pulled his fingers and began to calculate, "A newspaper is 5 nat, 1,000 is 5,000 nats, and 5,000 is ...... How many gold galleons are 5,000 newspapers? ”
"It's about 50 gold galleons." Clark replied.
"That's a lot!" Fred sighed,
Clark stretched out his index finger and shook it.
"It can't be counted like that, as Hermione said, as students, our main task is to study, and running a newspaper is just a kind of spice activity between our classes, so I have made this "Hogwarts School Magazine" a semi-monthly magazine, which is published every half month.
In this way, we can have enough time and energy to collect content materials for the newspaper, and the price of each copy can be set a little higher.
Moreover, since this newspaper is affiliated with the name of the "Daily Prophet", the complicated work such as editing, typesetting, reviewing, and developing magic photos is naturally completed by the staff arranged by the newspaper. ”
Clark spoke clearly, all aspects were considered, and it seemed that he had been planning for a long time.
Hermione pondered in her heart for a while, and after careful analysis, she had to admit that this matter was very interesting.
But she still subconsciously said, "Since you have arranged everything and there are people from the newspaper to help, why are you calling us to come?" Want to show off with us? ”
As soon as the words came out, she regretted it, in fact, she still wanted to participate in this matter, it didn't matter if she had money or not, the main thing was to be able to do things with Clark.
Fortunately, Clark knew that she was playing petty about the joke just now, so he didn't care, and explained with a smile.
"The staff in those newspapers only helped us for a while, and when everything was on track, we had to replace them with our own.
After all, I, Clarke, do my best, and don't want to be under the fence forever. ”
He turned to look at Fred and George and continued, "I called you both here because of the magic cards. ”
"I thought about it, if I sold magic cards directly, it would be a big problem to popularize how to play cards.
If you rely on you to teach people to play, it can only spread in a small area for a short time.
But with the "Hogwarts School Magazine", we can open up an entertainment game section in the school magazine, detailing the content and gameplay of magic cards, so as to achieve large-scale dissemination and teaching.
Not only that, but I also have a plan to do a newspaper order to get cards. ”
"No way!" Before Clark finished speaking, the twin brothers denied: "You said it yourself, a deck of magic cards has 1 gold Galleon, how much is the newspaper, and the card will be given when you order the newspaper, isn't that a loss?" Besides, you're all booked, who's going to buy the cards? ”
Clark hurriedly reassured them, "When I say giving cards, I'm giving one card, not a deck." ”
"Then ......," the two brothers knew they were anxious, "that's a lot of money." ”
"Don't worry, I can't lose you," Clark scolded with a smile, "Do business to be magnificent, you can't deduct and search, you don't invest, where is the return?" ”
"Listen to me first, the newspaper order card giveaway activity I am talking about is the "Hogwarts School Magazine" that users have set for three years at a time, so the first five issues will come with two magic cards with the school magazine.
If you think, students and parents subscribe to it, in fact, there is a part of the duplication, especially during the holidays, they only need to book one copy, so that a one-time subscription for three years will invisibly increase income.
In addition, the money for the past three years has been collected in advance, which is a large amount of money, and with this money, we can also use it to do other things, we can do more promotion activities, and develop the school magazine faster.
As for the ten magic cards that were given away, although it was a cost, there were forty cards in a game of a game, and if they didn't want to waste it, they could only spend money to make up the remaining thirty, which invisibly promoted the sales of cards.
And we can also use the method of random gifts, each faction of cards to give a few, so that two factions, four races, if they want to get together, they have to buy four decks of cards. ”
"Ah~~" George and Fred's faces showed Shen Teng's standard expressions, "Listen to your words and subvert your outlook on life!" ”