In fact, strictly speaking, it is only the end of March, and it should not be settled at this time, it should be in April, and the remuneration should be settled before mid-April.

However, Cao Zhiqiang is in a special situation, he belongs to an author who is currently valued by the writer's publishing house, and he is also the only author who pays royalties according to his remuneration.

And he is also famous now, he has just been robbed, and he cooperated with the police to catch the robbers, and his deeds have been published in the newspapers, and he belongs to a recent news hot spot, which is not easy to offend.

What's more, people come to ask for manuscript fees, which is also a legitimate request, and if you push it back, it will have a bad reputation.

As a result, as soon as Cao Zhiqiang went to talk about this, the publishing house hurriedly summoned the accountant and calculated the manuscript fee for him in the fastest time.

It doesn't matter, it scares everyone when it does.

Without him, it's too high.

Since Cao Zhiqiang's cooperation with the publishing house is in the form of royalties, Cao Zhiqiang's remuneration mainly depends on the circulation.

The higher the circulation, the higher Cao Zhiqiang's income.

Although the royalty rate is only 6% and the price is only 8 yuan, I can't stand the fire of that poetry collection.

Especially some time ago, Cao Zhiqiang's robbery was also in the news and publicized by the newspaper, which enhanced the poet Qiangzi's fame in disguise and promoted the sales of the poetry collection "The World's Farthest Distance".

This time, in fact, it is already the second edition, because the 200,000 copies of the first edition have long been sold out, and the manuscript fee has also been given to Cao Zhiqiang in advance.

The reason why Cao Zhiqiang was so rich later and the reason why he was able to frame Wei Dajun successfully was thanks to that money.

The number of copies printed in the second edition of the publishing house is one million copies, which is a terrifying number.

Although many people on the market like Hadron's poems, and the first edition of 200,000 copies of the poetry collection was sold out in only half a month, it is not easy for a million copies of the book to appear suddenly, and it is not easy to sell out quickly.

Normally, a very popular book, if it has a million copies, it will take a month or two to sell out.

But on the contrary, some time ago, the robbery of the strong son continued to appear in the newspapers, and it also caused all kinds of big discussions.

There are discussions about social security, and there are discussions about whether individual manuscript fees are too high, whether they are unequal, and so on.

As long as Cao Zhiqiang was robbed, you have to mention the big amount of 10,000 yuan, as long as you mention 10,000 yuan, you have to mention the poet Qiangzi, as long as you mention Qiangzi, you have to mention his poems, and of course, his poetry collection.

It's okay now, originally, most of the people who like that poetry collection are some literary and artistic young people, strictly speaking, they can only be regarded as a niche group.

After all, there are not many intellectual young people in this period, and the people who like poetry are basically that group, and ordinary people generally don't play that thing.

However, as soon as the news newspaper appeared in the newspaper, when everyone found out that a poet, who had written a few poems and published a collection of poems, was robbed of 10,000 yuan on the street, and it was even said that this was only a small part, it was different.

In this period, 10,000 yuan households are synonymous with large sums of money.

A young poet wrote a few poems, published a poetry collection, and earned tens of thousands of yuan, which aroused everyone's curiosity.

So, now, not only literary and artistic young people who like poetry, but also many ordinary people also go to buy and take a look, just want to see a book of poetry, what magic is there that can make a young man become a 10,000 yuan household.

As a result, in less than half a month, one million copies were sold out, once again breaking the publication record of the writer's publishing house.

For this, the writer's publishing house was pleasantly surprised, and the printing of the third edition has begun.

It is said that this time, the writer's publishing house will print five million copies, which is simply insane.

It is true that a young new writer's first book, his first book of poetry, has to be printed in three pages and five million copies, at least for a writer's publishing house.

In this regard, Cao Zhiqiang is also a little helpless, after all, the copyright is in the hands of others, and they have bought out the copyright for five years.

Fortunately, at the beginning, Cao Zhiqiang was striving for a sharing model, and what he wanted was royalty remuneration.

If he buys out the remuneration, that is, the kind of remuneration that costs a thousand words, he will lose a lot.

So this time, even if the royalty rate is only six percent, Cao Zhiqiang's income is quite impressive.

The second edition of 1 million copies was sold out, and Cao Zhiqiang was able to get a remuneration of up to 480,000 yuan!

480,000 is nothing in the 21st century, and it's just the money of a car.

But in 1983, that was a pretty frightening number.

Coupled with the remaining money spent before, Cao Zhiqiang's personal property broke through the 500,000 mark in one fell swoop and became a real rich man.

Of course, there is still a long way to go before the million mark, but according to this momentum, I am afraid it will not be long. Gu Ze

If nothing else, let's talk about his poetry collection.

If the third edition of five million copies can sell out again.

No, he doesn't have to sell out, even if he only sells three million copies, he can easily enter the million-income club and become a millionaire.

It's just that Cao Zhiqiang personally thinks that this third edition of the sales may be difficult to cause the first two times.

The reason is simple, although poets are very noble at this time, poetry is a niche product after all.

The previous two editions, more than 1.2 million copies, have almost exhausted their popularity, and even if the popularity of this book is high, don't forget, there is still a pirated version.

In fact, in the second edition, there were pirated books on the market, but the quality of pirated books was too poor, and at first glance it was a small workshop printing product, and the price was not too cheap, so it did not affect the sales of genuine books.

However, Cao Zhiqiang is now completely famous, at least the pen name of Qiangzi has become truly famous.

Correspondingly, the poetry collection "The Farthest Distance in the World" has also become famous, and when the time comes, many printing houses are estimated to secretly play piracy in order to make extra money.

The capital can be better, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, but if you are out of town, I am afraid that piracy will not be stopped.

When the big printing houses start and follow the printing of pirated goods, I am afraid that the genuine books will be greatly impacted.

In fact, Cao Zhiqiang now understands a little.

Today's books, just like movies in later generations, are the first editions of the most profitable.

In other words, there is a time lag, and the first edition of printing basically determines more than eighty percent of your book's income.

And it's better not to take more than three months, after which piracy will start to run rampant.

If it is a popular book, it is best not to take more than two months, because after two months, piracy will also be rampant.

Don't say anything, most of the current domestic printing plants are state-owned enterprises, they have no motivation and so on.

The problem is that there are still many unruly printing houses in the south, especially in Shenzhen, who are now the main force of piracy.

The so-called three-month and one-month buffer time for piracy basically refers to the reaction time of these southern printing houses.

In addition to the first time, there are some small private workshops, which are also one of the pirates, but they have not yet formed a climate.

Therefore, it is quite rare for a poetry collection like Cao Zhiqiang's book to be sold out after one edition and then two editions.

This is mainly due to the fact that the first edition was printed in too few quantities and sold so fast that the second edition of the genuine book was released before the pirated books from all over the country could react.

In addition, the price of genuine books is not high, only eight yuan, and the poetry collection itself has a certain particularity, which leads to the good sales of genuine books.

However, by the time of the second edition, pirated books still appeared, and they still appeared in the capital.

Pirated books can appear in the capital, and they will only be worse elsewhere.

In fact, Cao Zhiqiang already regretted it a little, regretting that he gave too many poems at the beginning.

Fifty poems, this kind of poetry collection is simply full of sincerity.

In particular, when Cao Zhiqiang found that the poetry collections of those well-known poets on the market only had a dozen poems in one collection, and the price was about the same as his book, he regretted it even more.

Of course, those poets' poetry collections are not royalty system, but buyout system, that is, how much is a thousand words, so simply talking about income must not be comparable with Cao Zhiqiang.

But it doesn't matter, his pen name is already famous, and his reputation has also gone out, and if he writes new poems under the pen name of Qiangzi in the future, he can send them one by one, and continue to harvest leeks one by one.

There is also martial arts, which can also be made under the pseudonym of Qiangzi.

As for whether the poet's writing will drop the price, he doesn't care, making money first.

Of course, Cao Zhiqiang didn't want to work with other publishers.

His goal was to open his own publishing house and then publish his works in his own publishing house.

When the time comes, the publishing house will have the final say, and it will determine the remuneration as much as it wants, and it will not be profitable.

It is precisely because of this that after Cao Zhiqiang got the check for the manuscript fee, he went to find the editor Yu Deli of the Poetry Magazine and had a meal with him.

If nothing else, just to talk to him at the dinner table about opening a publishing house.

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