I made an appointment with Tang Yin to meet on time at half past three in the afternoon, Xia Yan is a person who doesn't like to be late and doesn't like to wait for others, pinched the time, entered the office area of Hongfeng Literature at 3:28, and walked to the office where I met Tang Yin last time.

The door was not locked, the doorknob twisted, and Xia Yan entered....

I saw the large bags and small bags of newly bought clothes, shoes, figures, and toys in the office......

From the label on the shopping bag and the section showing the style of clothing, maid, doctor, nurse, mecha ....

If Xia Yan is not mistaken, these costumes are the cosplay costumes that can often be seen at major comic exhibitions.

After all, in the memory of the soul, Xia Yan spiritually, once substituted the girl named Yuan Qing, wearing similar costumes to enjoy the cheers of the crowd at the 10,000-person comic exhibition, spiritually speaking, he has not only seen these similar cosplay costumes, but also worn them.

As for the elements involved in these costumes, most of them are the costumes in the popular animations broadcast in the Dragon Kingdom recently, and the characters in the game.

Am I not mistaken?

Xia Yan was stunned, he hadn't been here for two days, so the style of the room was different.

He looked at Tang Yin, who was sitting at the desk in the office, with a beautiful face puffed out, hands on his cheeks, and unhappy eyes.

Of course, Xia Yan didn't know that Tang Yin was angry that her credit card would be stopped by her father tomorrow, even if she went to the shopping mall in the city center at noon to swipe her credit card to buy her favorite two-dimensional peripherals, it couldn't calm her resentment.

But she is very professional, angry and angry, but the work will not be left behind, and she still informed Xia Yan of the news of the success of the youth journey as soon as possible, and notified Xia Yan to sign the contract as soon as possible.

"You're here."

Almost a few seconds after Xia Yan entered the door, Tang Yin came back to her senses, and immediately began to adjust her emotions, and quickly started to manage her expression.

A few seconds later, the intellectual, beautiful, confident, and reliable image of Tang Yin reappeared.

"Well, am I not here at the right time?" Xia Yan asked a little weakly.

Tang Yin glanced at him, and the momentum of the social person rose.

"It's exactly half past three, and you're on time."

While speaking, Tang Yin handed a contract to Xia Yan, her tone was calm, but not so serious.

"Congratulations, Mr. Xia Yan, the author of the novel. Your debut novel was a success in its first game, and it was successfully qualified for serialization in the journal "Instant Blossom". ”

"This is the cooperation contract of our book club, please take a look at it first. If there are no comments, then after signing the contract, our partnership will officially begin. ”

Xia Yan took the contract and looked at it carefully....

First of all, it is Xia Yan's manuscript fee.

As a serialized novel that contains two issues a weekly, and its circulation can sell more than two or three hundred thousand per issue.

Naturally, its manuscript fees are rising.

Depending on the quality of the novel's submission, the novelist's status in the industry, popularity, the number of fans, the club's assessment of the novel's potential, and each person's remuneration is different.

And Red Maple Literature, the price offered by Xia Yan to Xia Yan is 6780 yuan per chapter of the novel.... Of course, this is a standard base value.

This remuneration will be increased according to the popularity of the novel after serialization, and it is not static, if the reader's response and support for your novel after serialization is huge, then the remuneration standard will definitely increase.

If the number of words in this chapter is large, the remuneration will also increase.

But the minimum, will not be lower than the price given in the contract.

A month is roughly counted as four weeks, and two issues are serialized every week, and the novel chapters that are theoretically serialized in a month will be eight chapters or more.

Multiply this data by 8 to get the monthly remuneration of the Youth Journey once it starts to be serialized.... At least 54,240 dragon coins.

In fact, the price of this remuneration is already very rich, and the average income of residents in the Dragon Kingdom is four or five thousand a month, and according to this price, the income of a month of serial is equivalent to the salary of ordinary people for a year.

But for the serialization of novels, the remuneration is only part of the income, and the copyright is the key.

After all, the Dragon Kingdom is one of the most powerful countries on this planet, the relevant laws and regulations are very perfect, the capital side oppresses the creator at will, plunders the copyright of others, and the practice of copyright, without the appeal of the bottom people, the Dragon Kingdom official has been cracking down on it decades ago, of course, the creator and the capital side are definitely weak, but they will never be manipulated by others.

Although Xia Yan is a newcomer, the contract treaty of Red Maple Literature is also a normal level.

The copyright of the novel, the copyright or something... It must all belong to Xia Yan.

But what Red Maple Literature wants is the commercial management right of the work of Youth Journey.

That is, if the popularity of the novel is relatively high after serialization, and there are other adaptations, then all the operations in this process, such as game adaptation, animation adaptation, comic adaptation, peripheral distribution, single book sales, etc., Red Maple Literature must participate in it, and have decision-making power, and the income generated by these commercial activities, Red Maple Literature will take 20%.

But this money is not taken for nothing, to put it bluntly, where can ordinary light novel writers have the ability to redevelop their works and find partners? In fact, these are all cooperative book club platforms that are helping to match, operate, and promote.

This clause is not excessive, and it is also a regular market in the Dragon Kingdom, if you are a bigwig-level novel writer, you can negotiate conditions with the book club, and even all copyrights, and it is not impossible to grasp all the benefits in your hands, but newcomers.... Don't overthink it.

Red Maple Books is a commercial organization, not a charity.

"That.... I would like to ask, are there any examples of novels that have been serialized in the past that have been adapted into works such as manga, anime, games, etc.? Xia Yan asked curiously.

"Yes." Tang Yin paused when he heard this.

"But the probability is very low, it is rare to see it in ten years, and if we want to get these adaptations, we still have to serialize them in the journal "Red Maple", so that they will eventually develop into works with that kind of influence."

The influence of the novel is determined by the popularity of the serialization platform and the quality of the work.

"But if the novel is released as a single book, it's quite common. As long as the popularity is not too low and the readers' response is good, the book club will arrange for the release of a single book for the work, in fact, many books can eventually gain tens of thousands of copies, or even more than 100,000 copies..... According to the 7% royalty share on the contract, this money will most likely be more than one or two times the remuneration during the serialization of the novel. ”

The income of a work is a multi-channel summary, a little bit of serial remuneration, a little bit of royalties from the sale of a single line of light novels, and a little bit of peripheral distribution, and the final summary is very considerable.

The book club of a provincial capital city and its quasi-top-level periodical works can have so many channels of income, which also benefits from the development of the world's two-dimensional culture, as well as the people's very firm awareness of genuine and recognition of the value of cultural products.

If it is like in a parallel world, everyone is looking for pirated resources everywhere on the network disk to watch a movie, then the income of these cultural creators will definitely drop by half.

"I see." Xia Yan thought about it and nodded.

Then without hesitation, the name was signed directly on the contract.

These contracts are actually similar in any bookstore, and there is no room for bargaining, and if you want to eat this bowl of rice, you have to respect the market situation.

Seeing this, Tang Yin smiled at the corner of her mouth.

Stretched out his hand towards Xia Yan

"Congratulations, from now on, you have officially become a contracted writer of our Red Maple Literature."

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