"How can it be so expensive, why?"

"Yes, isn't the normal price of an illustrator in our magazine only a few hundred yuan, Lao Zhang, don't make a blind offer, why is the price of an illustrator so outrageous?"

"He's not a great painter.

I see that some students from art academies paint a picture for only 1,800 yuan. ”

Some editors were surprised and didn't speak, and some editors felt that Zhang Hongyu was completely alarmist, deliberately raising the price and something, worried that the publishing house would add tasks and requirements to them in the future, and they didn't want to take on it.

"Heh, why are you embarrassed to say it, then why don't you look at the level of the illustrators signed by our publishing house, and what is the level of the illustrations provided by the author of Xiaoding?

Can this be a grade?

Do not open your eyes to lie without a conscience.

To put it mildly, the illustrators' drawings contracted by our publishing house are embarrassed to be called illustrations.

It's the comic that is the same level as the comics.

It's still a low-to-mid-grade comic. ”

After all, it is a matter of oneself and even the interests of the entire department, so Zhang Hongyu of the design department can be said to have fought for it immediately, and the two sides soon quarreled over this issue, and finally Zhang Hongyu directly offered the international original artist trading platform, showing the illustrations above that look similar to Ding Yun's illustrations, or even slightly inferior to Ding Yun's illustrations.

Approximate price for what it can be sold for.

And then the other editors had nothing to say.

"There are no high-end illustrations, and if you just rely on the illustration standards provided by the illustrators we signed up to make a hardcover version, then I think it's better not to do it."

"If we use the illustrations and designs of Xiaoding's illustrations and designs to print the hardcover version, we can even give back to the readers, but if we use our own illustrators to print the hardcover version with our own design.

I guess others will only think that we are cutting leeks.

That's all I have to say, it's up to the editor-in-chief to make your own decision. ”

As Zhang Hongyu finished saying this, Editor-in-Chief He also hesitated, and in the end he just asked people to print another 100,000 copies of Ding Yun's hardcover edition and 200,000 copies of the paperback version, and the rest was not mentioned for the time being.

We'll see, see, see, and see.

Just give her some time to ask the professionals again, calculate the cost risk and so on, and then consider whether to add a hardcover version of the project.

……

After the Chinese New Year, when there was still a week before the start of school, Ding Yun received the other half of the royalties from the two magazines, and also received the prepaid royalties for the printing, even if all the income taxes were removed, her specific net worth now is close to four million.

It's almost time to win the lottery.

And with the money in his account, Ding Yun immediately spent money to rent servers and other necessities for building a website.

And directly took an artificial intelligence from the soul space, and asked it to build a website and maintain the website for itself, with the help of artificial intelligence, the astronomical network envisioned by Ding Yun was built in less than two hours, and now everything is ready.

Only the reader and the work are owed.

In terms of attracting readers, Ding Yun's specific operation is to let the artificial intelligence register some small accounts, go to major literary forums, discussion bases and other places to do publicity, and if advertising is not allowed, it is to directly contact the owner of the relevant website and spend money to buy an advertising space or something.

Before engaging readers, though.

The most important thing is to fill the work.

In order to make the data of the book library of the Astronomical Network not too ugly, Ding Yun first moved the works whose world copyright has expired and anyone can use printed and published works at will, and classified them, and then entered the internal bookstore of the cultural communication system and bought a large number of relatively low-priced and popular ones.

These have no other advantages, the only advantage is that it is cheap, and there are few places that need to be modified and localized, and artificial intelligence can directly modify it in batches.

Some of these are shorter, and Ding Yun directly uploaded them to the literary website in full, and the longer ones are uploaded first, and the rest are slowly serialized, and the content is still completely free for the time being.

No way, after all, you have to attract users first.

In addition, the establishment of a registered author's area, allowing the upload of works, etc., have also been added by Ding Yun to the Astronomy Network, as for the author's welfare, because there is no profit channel for the time being, so Ding Yun can only give a basic guarantee of 1,000 per month for the time being.

and the guarantee that a good work can be published.

Of course, there are a lot of restrictions, first of all, you have to sign a contract first, and after signing the contract, you have to complete a fixed number of words per month, as for the number of readers, etc., because the website has just started, so Ding Yun has no restrictions.

Wait for the development and growth in the future, and then slowly make up for it.

After tossing and turning until the beginning of school, Ding Yun was able to successfully complete the astronomical network he founded, and began to make artificial intelligence advertise frantically.

There is no very blunt advertising.

There is also no direct promotion of the Astronomical Network.

Instead, he used some of the most bloody and strange fragments of the article as a headline to attract attention, attract people to click in, and curiously enter the astronomical network to see.

For example—

"Princess, does she know that she is wrong?"

"Lord, princess, she ran away with your cousin!"

——

"The princess has been kneeling for three days, do you know that she is wrong?"

"The princess died the next day......"

——

"Princess, the prince has been kneeling at the door for three days."

The princess nibbled on the chicken legs:

"So, did he know that he was wrong?"

——

The family was changed, the younger brother was wronged, and five years later, the god of war returned, and ordered 100,000 soldiers to run!

——

The god of war returns and finds that his five-year-old daughter actually lives in a kennel! With an order, 100,000 retired soldiers rushed to go!

——

You know, this is a world where even online literature has not yet developed, and the majority of netizens have never seen this operation, where have they seen such an outrageous plot, so they quickly fell into the trap one by one, clicked into the astronomical network, and then they opened the door to a new world.

And whether it's to continue watching, you have to register and log in to see the chapters, or to comment on the illogical plot, but you can only register and log in to comment on people, all of them are constantly adding new users to Ding Yun.

In addition, there is also the operation of pulling new people to upgrade the level.

Not long after, to be precise, less than a week after Ding Yun started school, her Astronomy Network had nearly two million registered users, and at the same time, there were about 20,000 new registered authors and tens of millions of comments.

It may be far from becoming an online literature giant, or taking off with the online literature industry.

But at least it's a good start.

The rest can only be taken slowly.

After all, how can you become a fat man in one bite!