"Kaichi, Professor Gwen is looking for you. ”

Jia Yi had just finished class, not to teach others to end the class, but just after the class ended, and then he saw a senior senior come over to inform him.

Jiayi felt that his scalp was numb, and he didn't know what the other party was looking for him, but he always had a bad premonition. Since the last time Jia Yi agreed to Gwen to illustrate her new paintings and calligraphy, Gwen has come over several times to urge, but Jia Yi has been doing a lot of things lately and has not started writing.

And he always felt that he shouldn't use sketches directly to apply them to the illustrations of Gwen's books, at least not just sketches.

Jia Yi came to Gwen's office, pushed the door in, and greeted cautiously, "Professor, is there anything I can do?"

Before he could finish speaking, he noticed a person sitting next to Gwen, and when he looked closely, he looked a little familiar.

Gwen beckoned to Kaichi, "Come here, I've seen the dean." ”

Jia Yi reacted at this time, it turned out that the dean was coming, and then he had some impressions, it turned out that Jia Yi had seen the dean during the sea dragon incident, but he had only seen it from afar, and he didn't react for a while.

He took two steps forward, bowed to the dean, and then stood to the side, looking at Gwen, a little confused what Gwen had called him to do, and even the dean had come.

At this time, Jia Yi also secretly looked at the dean, he didn't look very old, he looked like a middle-aged man in his 50s, he looked younger than Orlando, but in fact, he was much older than Orlando.

The dean's clothes should have just been changed, they looked very neat and clean, and they looked like they had been ironed, and they were very crisp. The hair and beard were groomed, and although there was still a lot of stubble on the face, it was clearly freshly trimmed.

Looks more like a gentleman in his prime, although this description sounds quite inconsistent.

Gwen reached out and asked Kaichi to bring a chair over and sit down, and the three of them sat in a triangle, Gwen and them were close to the table, and Kaichi was a little more outer.

Gwen said, "Do you know what you're looking for?"

Jia Yi shook his head a little dazedly, he originally thought that he was looking for him to talk about illustrations, but now that the dean is also here, it shouldn't be to talk about this matter, and it is impossible to let the dean put pressure on him because he is delaying the draft.

Gwen glared at Jia for a moment and said, "Didn't you discuss the magazine with me last time?

Jia Yi was a little stunned at this time, it turned out that this matter, Gwen said that the dean was very enthusiastic about this matter, and he didn't even connect this matter just now. However, he really hasn't paid attention to the magazines of the academy recently, he has been busy with movable type printing recently, and has devoted himself to the study of movable type, and in his subconscious, after the success of movable type, the time has come to publish a newspaper.

Although the college has a copy machine, it is okay to lend him a study, and it is impossible to give it to him all the time.

In addition to Jiayi, there are also Yangxi They are also researching new printing technology, they did not choose movable type like Jiayi, but prepared to analyze and copy, improve the copying, and quickly make plates, which is a different plan. However, this scheme is more difficult, and now the progress is far inferior to that of Jiayi.

"I did talk about this last time, but now that I have cheap paper, I don't think it's easy to publish a magazine," says Kaichi. ”

The dean looked at Jia Yi, and did not despise Jia Yi because he was young, and asked gently, "What do you think is not easy?"

Keys Deng also knew that it would not be easy to actually publish a magazine even with cheap paper, but in his mind, solving the cost problem had already solved most of the problems.

When Kaichi saw the dean and asked himself, he turned to face the dean: "Let's analyze what it takes to publish a magazine." ”

As he spoke, he began to look left and right, saw the pen and paper on the table, motioned to the two professors, and when he agreed, he took the pen and paper and put it on his knees.

"I haven't published a magazine before, but I think there are a few things I need to consider, first of all, the sales, and then the content. As he spoke, he drew boxes on the paper and wrote down what he said in the boxes.

He looked at the bullet points on the paper and added, "It's also important that the academy is willing to publish the magazine for influence, and it needs to be distributed to different locations, which is the distribution network." ”

He went on to add two points, influence and distribution network.

Seeing Jiayi write this, Keys Deng said a little strangely: "Why is there no cost? Cost is the most important thing." ”

Jia Yi shook his head: "Of course, cost is very important, but in fact, it is not fundamental, the most important thing is income, or profit and loss, cost determines this, but it is not only this, in fact, content, sales quantity, etc., all have an impact on profit and loss." ”

The most important thing for a magazine to exist is to at least ensure that it does not lose money, and this does not only refer to the book without loss, if you look at it this way, basically all magazines are loss-making, even if the price of each of these magazines is calculated in gold coins, there is no room for profit.

However, these magazines are subsidized by the Supreme Council, supported by various large organizations, and these are intangible benefits compared to the influence spread by each organization, as well as the exchanges that the Supreme Council values, so they will subsidize each magazine.

However, it is difficult for the college to get subsidies from the Supreme Council, and the college does not have too strong financial resources, so for the college, the most important thing is actually profit and loss, not to mention not losing money, at least to be able to lose as little as possible. The original magazine of the college could not be launched, and the official loss gap was too large, resulting in the magazine being hastily closed after only two issues were issued internally.

It is difficult for the magazine to make a profit at this time, because there is no circulation, no influence, and there is no room for advertising, and the main income of the magazine is the unit price of sales and the influence of the magazine. But if you want to be influential, you have to have quality content, but it's not easy to want quality content, your magazine is not famous, and no one will submit articles to this magazine.

Unless the founders are very famous, such as the current four major magazines, each of which is developed by the endorsement of one or even more than one legendary mage, and now they have become bigger, although the dean does not know what the Matthew effect is, but they also understand that almost all the top content is gathered in the top magazines, and other magazines are just picking up some scraps and scorching their stomachs.

Jia Yi said this, and the dean couldn't help but frown and interrupted Jia Yi: "According to what you say, can our magazine still be able to get up in class? We have so many professors in the college, and there are so many students, like Jia Yi, I know that you have written a lot of papers, and the level is very good, I can also invite my friends to contribute, so that the content will be solved." As for sales channels and sales, now that we have content, sales should not be worried, right? Even if there are some losses, the academy can afford to do so at this level. ”

Jia Yi shook his head: "It won't be so simple, the students of the college have limited papers, and they may not be willing to submit to the new journals of the college, for them, and even for myself, the more influential the magazine, the more beneficial it is for them." It is not mandatory for faculty and students to submit their papers only to the college magazine. And inviting dean friends to contribute, not to mention the quality, can not always trouble them, so the source of the magazine's content is very problematic. ”

Speaking of this, Jia Yi glanced up at Professor Gwen and the dean, and said firmly: "Therefore, it is immature for the college to want to run a professional academic journal. ”