Of course, Tian Kai knew that the relationship between Wang Xie and Qin Chuan was particularly good.

Many of Qin Chuan's affairs are entrusted to Wang Xie to take care of, and if the royalty matter is not clear, it may really cause Qin Chuan's dissatisfaction.

So Tian Kai also had to explain to Wang Xie with a wry smile: "When I came, our president also specially explained to me, and the two teachers are now worthy of being called everyone in the literary world, so for Mr. Qin Chuan, starting from his next book, we will also sign a contract at 25% royalty." ”

"Deal."

Wang Xie nodded, it seemed that the "Literature" magazine was indeed very sincere, so he took the initiative to stretch out his right hand.

The royalty rate of 25% is already a very scary value.

For the publishing industry as a whole, the royalties of most writers are actually only 5-8 points, and only a handful of top writers can get 15% of the royalties.

Because once it is higher than 15%, the interest of the book will be greatly reduced, and the risk of the publishing house will increase exponentially, and if the book happens to be not recognized by the market, the publishing house will basically lose money.

As for why the "Literature" publishing house offered such high royalties to Wang Xie and Qin Chuan?

At that time, Qin Chuan had attracted more than 80 million fans with "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" alone, which can be described as a god. And Wang Xie's poems have been included in compulsory education textbooks, this kind of work that will definitely sell well, what else is the publisher afraid of?

Therefore, for both Wang Xie and the "Literature" magazine publishing house, 25% royalty is not an impossible thing, and asking is a win-win situation.

And Tian Kai saw Wang Xie's outstretched hand, and stood up happily at this moment, and hurriedly stretched out his right hand: "Thank you Mr. Wang Xie for choosing our "Literature" publishing house, we will definitely treat your poetry collection with the highest specifications." ”

After the two confirmed their intention to cooperate, they continued to talk about some details.

For example, the specific number of poems, Wang Xie's requirements for illustration design, inviting those people to promote, etc., before saying goodbye to each other.

……

It's just that when Tian Kai was about to leave, he seemed to think of something again.

So he casually asked Wang Xie: "By the way, Teacher Wang Xie, I don't know if you can help ask Teacher Qin Chuan to see if he intends to create a ranger?" ”

"Ranger?" Wang Xie was stunned for a moment when he heard this unfamiliar term, and then flipped through the explanation of this term from the memory in his mind.

Ranger? Isn't that a low-profile version of martial arts?

The rangers of the earth star were originally born from the stories of the Romance of the Tang and Song dynasties, and the descriptions are basically the stories of a group of rangers, so they are called rangers.

And the title of ranger, to put it nicely, is a person who is brave and righteous and despises life, and if it is ugly, it is a group of idle young people who do not do their jobs.

It is commonly known as a street stall.

And the Ranger plot of Dixing, like some people, in addition to the exquisite text, relies more on twists and turns and novel plots to attract everyone, but to sum up, it is just a set of "slaughtering dogs every more dogs", so its status in literature is not up or down, and it is more inclined to popular romance.

But just right, isn't it this kind of popularity that the general public likes?

These memory fragments passed in his mind, and then Wang Xie nodded: "Ranger's words, I have seen him create, but they are all works for self-entertainment, why do you ask this?" ”

Although Wang Xie said modestly, Tian Kai was in good spirits.

After all, "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" has already shown Qin Chuan's literary skills, so even if Wang Xie says that it is Qin Chuan's game, then Tian Kai has to take it seriously, in case it is a classic.

So Tian Kai was not in a hurry to leave, but asked with some expectation: "Then can you help ask Teacher Qin Chuan, does his ranger have any ideas for publication?" ”

"The publishing industry has already had the meaning of sunset under the impact of the Internet, of course, there is no shortage of market for this kind of classic work by you and Mr. Qin Chuan." Looking at Wang Xie's puzzled expression, Tian Kai hurriedly took the initiative to explain to him: "But now it is obvious that online reading is about to become the mainstream in the future, so our "Literature" magazine is also laying out the online reading market, and our official reading website and app [Qiming] were officially launched a few days ago. ”

Tian Kai took a breath, and then continued to say to Wang Xie: "As one of the important sections of online reading, Ranger is also one of the types that netizens like to see, and it will attract a lot of traffic to our online bookstore. So we hope to invite more authors to join us. ”

Tian Kai introduced a lot of the current situation to Wang Xie, but there were also a lot of inside information that he did not say.

For example, "Literature" magazine used to be a set of traditional literature, so the copyright in their library was more famous books, poetry collections, essays and other categories, as for other straightforward and popular literary works such as rangers, science fiction, and love, they had never laid out them at all, so it was particularly difficult in the initial stage.

But that's what it should be.

If you are an ordinary reader, would you rather browse CNKI or go to see Dianniang?

Of course, they didn't want to attract top writers to take charge, but when they found out about this problem, many top writers had already signed up with other websites.

So until now.

They have just started their transformation, not to mention that compared with other top websites, their web traffic is not even as good as those small and refined websites in the second tier.

Even the Ranger Contest they are currently holding is not old or young, but the participants are two or three big cats and kittens.

Therefore, they especially need well-known writers to settle in, and if it is a writer like Qin Chuan who has its own traffic, it is the most suitable.

Originally, this was just Tian Kai's casual question, but he didn't expect to have such a big gain.

Tian Kai really didn't expect that a more traditional writer like Qin Chuan would write such a popular ranger.

However, he thought about it again, Qin Chuan even dabbled in fairy tales, so it shouldn't be anything to write some rangers for his own amusement.

So Tian Kai was holding Wang Xie's hands excitedly at the moment: "Then please ask Mr. Wang Xie, please tell Mr. Qin Chuan, our magazine is very interested in his works." ”

"Well, I must tell you." Wang Xie casually played with Tian Kai haha, if he knew, Qin Chuan knew, what else could he tell about it.

After Tian Kai, who was very grateful, left, Wang Xie propped his chin and thought about it.

Although he didn't promise Tian Kai anything, when he heard the words "ranger", he couldn't help but think of the popular "martial arts" on the earth.

Even the first reaction in his mind was "The mighty river of the Qiantang River, day and night, bypasses the edge of Niujia Village in Lin'an endlessly, and flows into the sea ...... eastward."

There's no way, Old Man Jin's "The Legend of the Shooting Heroes" is too classic, even if he doesn't use the system, he can clearly remember the first sentence of this opening chapter.

Because this is a legendary book that must be copied by the traverser, just this opening, he has seen it in at least a dozen traversal books.

However, Wang Xie still scratched his chin.

Ben (zuo) people shouldn't be so cliché, right?!