Chapter 318 Don’t Buy Out if You Can Buy It

After three days.

Lin Meng approached Li Chungang again: "Boss, where are you?"

"1"

This is already the default reply method of everyone in their Wensiquanyong studio. As long as they reply you with a "1", the meaning couldn't be clearer. To put it simply, it means that people are present and talk about things quickly.

Lin Meng: "It's like this. According to what you said, after I revealed your status and treatment level in the domestic publishing industry with Wanwan Company, the other party probably asked someone to check it out. Today Their person in charge personally called and made a second offer.

And I don't know if it was because the employees of Menglong Media in Wanwan leaked the secrets or they were too careless when they were snooping on the news. It was less than ten minutes after the person in charge called to make a second quotation and hung up the phone. A person who claimed to be the person in charge of the Cape of Good Hope Publishing Company came to his door and said straight to the point that he wanted to buy your publishing rights in traditional Chinese. He said firmly that the price would be higher than that of Magnum Media. "

Li Chungang was a little surprised. To be honest, he was also a little confused about what happened to his book in Wanwan. The previous three books were finished and no one came to inquire. Instead, the new book "Full-time Master" "It's only been on the shelves for less than a week, and people have started to compete for traditional Chinese copyrights.

After all, it is a company from Wanwan, so it is inevitable that there is a little short-sightedness like sitting in a well!

I don't know where the Cape of Good Hope Publishing Company, which was killed out of nowhere, came from. I don't know what it is, but this tone is really not small. I don't even know what price Magnum Media is offering them. Dare to assert that the price will be higher than the other party. What if the other party is deliberately setting them up and quoting a sky-high price, then who will be embarrassed?

Li Chungang was a little puzzled: "You mean, now these two publishing companies from Wanwan are interested in the traditional Chinese copyright of my new book "Full-time Master" at the same time, and they are fighting for it?"

Lin Meng's answer came quickly and simply: "Yes, Menglong Media Company and Cape of Good Hope Publishing Company. The heads of the two companies are comparable in skill when they brag about themselves, but they are all about the good things. How many years of history, how many loyal users there are in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, what makes me feel outrageous is that both of them told me honestly on the phone that they are currently the most powerful publishing company in the Bay Area.”

It is not a day or two for Wanwan to be blindly arrogant and like to brag about himself.

Every night when he watched the TikTok videos, he saw some of the so-called famous talkers in Wanwan, who spoke as if they were bragging, just as unreasonable!

"What they say is their business, we don't care! Hearing what you say, these two publishing companies must have had a lot of 'festivals' in Wanwan, so it's good, and it's cheap for us. Snipe Clams compete for the fisherman's profit, let's talk about the quotations of the two of them."

Lin Meng: "The prices offered by the two companies are similar. The price offered by Menglong has increased to 6,800 for a thousand characters compared to last time, while the price offered by the Cape of Good Hope is 7,500 for a thousand characters."

Thousand characters 6800, 7500, this price is to buy the traditional Chinese copyright of an online work, if the average author probably sells the copyright to the other party without any hesitation, even Li Chungang still can't hold back the thumping However, he was heartbroken, and he didn't expect that the other party would be so sensible and raise the price to such a degree all of a sudden, just by raising the other side a little bit.

If it were simplified publishing rights, at this price, Li Chungang might not even have the idea of ​​talking to the other party, but you must know that the other party has always wanted to buy only traditional Chinese copyrights, especially since he really doesn’t know the current traditional Chinese publishing market. What is the situation, but from the perspective of the principle of business is business, since the other party dared to offer such a high price, it must have valued the profit.

Investment with only risk but no return, as long as you are not a fool, you will not choose it, unless you are a boy who spreads money.

However, this kind of heartbeat was quickly controlled by Li Chungang and he calmed down. Under the premise that he lacks a real and effective understanding of the entire traditional Chinese market, it is very unwise to agree to the other party's cooperation so hastily and hastily. After hesitating again and again, he said: "I think this price is too high for the traditional Chinese copyright, but I still think that we should not agree to it so hastily, and we also lack the understanding of the current traditional Chinese publishing market. To be safe, I don't think you should agree to the other party. The buyout price, but choose to take the share!"

Lin Meng was taken aback, thinking of the cooperation method between her boss and Man Jinghua Publishing Company, and immediately realized: "Boss, you mean to ask for royalties in the same way as the cooperation with Man Jinghua!?"

"Yes!" Li Chungang had a smug smile on his face. I don't know how much money you can make by returning the traditional Chinese copyright of "Full-time Master", but it doesn't matter. No matter how many books the publishing company sells and how much money it makes, he must be a part of it. "The signing price can be lowered a little bit, but it can't be the cabbage price like last time. You can negotiate with their publishing companies at an intermediate level. The main reason is that you must do your best to fight for the royalty share ratio. On this point, you have to make good use of the long-standing grievances between the two publishing companies. .”

"ok!"

Just as the other party valued the great publishing market appeal that the four words "Zhi Chun Zhi Gang" can bring, Li Chungang is also very confident that his works should have a good market no matter which market they are in, so no matter it is Simplified Whether it is copyright or traditional copyright, he does not intend to take the pure buyout route, but a model of signing fee plus royalties.

Buyouts and royalties are very different.

Buyout and guarantee have the same meaning. For example, for a buyout of 1,000 words, the author writes 1 million words, which is 1 million. After the book is officially published, other than the authorship, other income will be repaid. Nothing to do with the author. No matter how much money the publishing company makes in the end, that is the business of other publishing companies. No matter how jealous your author is, it has nothing to do with you.

The royalties are a little more complicated, but they are actually easy to understand. This involves factors such as an author's royalty rate, the number of published works, and the selling price of the final published work. Assuming that the known conditions are 12% royalties, the number of first printed copies is 1 million, and the price is 30 yuan, then the author can get 3.6 million in the end. Of course, this is the income before tax.