If someone discusses it, it will be hot, and if there is heat, it will increase the number of curious people and the people who pay attention, thereby increasing the sales of the magazine and forming a relatively benign growth cycle.

When the magazine is over there based on data and feedback.

After analyzing the reasons for the increase in sales.

Naturally, it will continue to increase the promotion of the corresponding articles and increase the corresponding serial weight, which is reflected in the fact that Ding Yun's works may be put on the cover.

The content of the serialization may increase by one or two thousand words.

to meet the needs of readers and so on.

Fortunately, Ding Yun has handed over the entire manuscript to the magazine, so there is no urging or anything like that.

At most, the two magazines have continued to make appointments with Ding Yun, hoping that if Ding Yun has new works, they can be given priority and the remuneration can be increased appropriately.

However, Ding Yun is not in a hurry to launch works continuously, the most important thing is that the works have not been serialized yet, and then launching works is not competing with himself.

So I can only euphemistically say that I have been busy with school recently, and I don't have time to write, so I will talk about it during the winter vacation.

After that, they didn't continue to ask for manuscripts.

It wasn't until Ding Yun started school three months after school and the chivalrous Danxin was about to end that Editor Zhou contacted Ding Yun again.

"Hello, I'm from the magazine.

I contacted you this time because your first book is about to end in serialization, and the next issue will have a finale.

As soon as the finale comes out, it will be published.

We conservatively estimate that a printing will be printed first 200,000 yuan, and the royalty is 8 percent, which is already quite good, although some writers can get 12 percent royalties, but those are martial arts masters, and we can only give 8 percent for the time being.

The other thing is that we are different from other bad publishers, we don't keep the royalties down until the printed books are sold and we give as much as we give.

We will give you the royalties first as many books as we print.

It's none of your business if you can't sell out.

What do you think? Do I want to sign a publishing contract? ”

As soon as Ding Yun heard it, he knew that the other party's words were not very sincere, because no matter what, after the book was officially printed, it was the industry rule to pay 50% of the prepaid royalties in advance, and there was no bad publisher who kept pressing the royalties, at most 50%.

However, because the conditions given by the other party were very tempting, and he was willing to give 100% of the royalties directly, Ding Yun didn't bother to debunk it, so he just didn't know, nodded and replied:

"Yes, it seems that your magazine has a lot of turnover, and the overall operation is very healthy, you can send the contract later, if it's okay, I'll sign it directly and send it back, is there anything else to say?"

"Yes, there are other things.

We still have a question, I want to discuss with you, that is, your remaining four books, didn't you send us a five-part series, if these five books continue to go the way of serialization, I'm afraid the final publication sales will be a little low, after all, many people will not buy a book they have read and collect it home after reading the serialized content, so our assumption is whether they can be published directly together, so that the sales are a little higher.

Don't you get a little more in royalties?

Compared to royalties, author's remuneration is nothing!

But in this case, the royalties that we may have to pay are a bit high, and we will pay them directly in a lump sum, which will have a slight impact on the flow of funds, so can we pay 30% of the royalties for the last four books.

After selling some and returning some funds, we will definitely pay you the remaining 70% in time.

This credibility is still available in our publishing house.

Think about it, if we sell it according to the set, even if we don't want to buy the first book, think that the first book has already been read, and people who don't need to buy it again will buy the first book back in order to see the next four copies, after all, all four copies have been bought, and the money for that one is still missing, so that a complete set is not complete, this is the planning of our magazine.

It is also a plan to maximize benefits.

Of course, whether you want to or not.

It's up to you to choose. ”

Okay, hearing this, how could Ding Yun not understand what the other party meant, he just said that the first book was willing to give all the royalties directly, which was completely paving the way for the later content, and was paving the way for less prepaid royalties later.

However, after Ding Yun calculated it a little, he was still very strange, and at the same time simply asked directly:

"Editor Zhou, I don't really understand why you bother to do this, according to the calculation of printing 200,000 yuan per book, you and I tossed around like this, and in the end you only paid 30% less than the normal market rules for a book.

Is that the end of your publishing house?

Twenty dollars for a book.

It only saved less than 100,000 yuan. ”

Normally, it is 50% upfront, and now he wants to pay 50% more for the first book, so that the next four books will pay 20% less for each of them, which adds up to 80% minus 50%, saving 30% of a book.

At the same time, Editor Zhou was obviously stunned for a moment, he just saw that Ding Yun agreed so refreshingly, and thought that the other party didn't understand, and he didn't find it because the things he had preceded were beneficial to the other party, so he agreed.

So in the next second, he could only reluctantly admit frankly:

"I didn't expect you to know how to do it, knowing that the normal is to pay 50% of the royalties in advance, in fact, our publishing house is not short of the 100,000, but if it is hundreds of thousands, millions, it is indeed a little lacking, although our publishing house only plans to print 200,000 copies of your first book, but we want to print 500,000 copies of the next few books, and the sales of the first book will definitely decrease because the full text has been serialized, so we dare not print too much, but the next few books have not been serialized.

Plus your current fame and popularity.

There is still a high probability that 500,000 will be sold.

I'm really sorry, we can't do anything about it, because if we want to print 500,000 books, it will add up to 2.2 million books, and the initial investment is a little large, which may have an impact on the company's cash flow.

But the publisher wanted to fight again.

I'm really sorry, if you don't agree, then let's go according to the normal rules, but the publisher may have to cut the amount of printing, and the next four books can only print 300,000 yuan each, see the market. ”

Editor Zhou's words can't be regarded as a threat, just telling the truth, but Ding Yun doesn't want to compromise, because she is worried that this time she compromises, they may have to get an inch or something like that, so she just said helplessly: "Okay, then print 300,000 first."

Let's still follow the rules of the industry, there is no need to take risks, there is no need to play tricks, you send the specific contract over, there is no problem I will sign it directly.

If there is anything you can say in the future, don't follow me around the bend here, conspiracy and calculation, I'm young, but it doesn't mean that I have a low IQ Okay, most of the industry rules can be found by a casual search on the Internet. ”