I really don't want to be a novelist

Chapter 146 There are fractional and complete copyright shares

It feels a little bit inexplicable.

Hmm... my scalp is a little numb.

Look at this comment area to quickly distinguish the quarrel between the two camps,
One party may have read the book of the dog author, and seeing the magical method of "Big Brother 123", he couldn't help but mention a few words about the dog author,
The other party couldn't get used to the way this group of people kept mentioning the author, so they quarreled.

Ji Zhuo was thinking whether to ban all these people.

After thinking about it...for now, let them go.

After buttoning the computer, with this somewhat complicated mood, he was ready to go out.

……

"...Why, the author of the dog can write it well, but our 'big brother 123' can't write it, right? Why, you dog writers can write fairy tales in non-ink novels, but 'big brother 123' can't write myths in non-ink novels?"

On the other hand, open the non-ink novel to watch the dog. The author updated yesterday, and he has not had time to read the chapters,
Ye Linhan saw the quarreling comments in the comment area,

Seeing it, Ye Linhan was delighted, the readers of the dog author were arguing with the new readers of the dog author's trumpet?
Interesting?

Ye Linghan's eyes lit up, looking at the comments in this comment area,

I can't wait to shout a few times, 'fight, fight'.

I even feel a little itchy and want to join in the fun.

But after thinking about it, I promised the author of the dog to keep it secret, not to publicize it, or not to get involved in these things.

And looking at the comments in the comment area, it seems that the quarrel has come to an end and is almost over.

"Hey...my friend, that's not what I mean. I just mean that the author's style is like a dog's author, and it's not...that is, I also like this author's "Night Tour in Fengdu City."

"Hey, the author seems to have updated it early today, so stop arguing and read the book."

Ye Linhan smacked his lips, and then his eyes lit up, looking at the comments of these readers who had previously quarreled,

Quickly intercepted all these comments,

Although the dog author does not allow publicity to make videos now,

But when the book of the author of the dog becomes popular later, and he can be asked to make videos,
These comments are excellent video material!

As for whether the book by the dog author can become popular,
Ye Linghan felt that this was not a question.

Just how hot it is.

……

"...Mr. Ji... well, I'll still call you Mr. Bugong, you don't mind."

"The name is just a code name, Editor Qian, it's been a long time."

Here, Ji Zhuo has arrived at Huating Science Fiction Publishing House,

Huating Publishing House is worthy of being a publishing house that was dying before,

The location is next to a slightly remote street, but it is a detached house,
There are three floors in total, the downstairs is a large bookstore, and the second and third floors are the offices of Huating Publishing House.

The sign of Huating Science Fiction Publishing House outside the building seems to be new, and the color looks a little new.

When Ji Zhuo came to Huating Publishing House,
Editor-in-Chief Qian has been waiting downstairs with several editors from the publishing house.

Previously, Ji Zhuo had been in contact with Editor-in-Chief Qian online, and this was the first time he had met a real person.
Ji Zhuo looked at Editor-in-Chief Qian, he was a middle-aged male, about 40 years old,
It is inevitable for people to gain weight in middle age, with a small belly, wearing fairly formal clothes, and looking kind on the face, but the hair on the top of the head is a little thinner.

Editor-in-Chief Qian looked at Ji Zhuo, and felt emotional. The author who wrote "Bird in a Cage" is indeed a good-looking person... I don't know what is the connection between the two.

Then I sighed...it's not like me, years are like knives, and knives make people grow old.

"Mr. Bugong is not as good as being famous. He is a young man, a man of outstanding talent. He looks like a scholar in high spirits, in his prime."

"Editor-in-Chief Qian is polite, and Editor-in-Chief Qian is also full of poetic and literary spirit, chic and suave."

They greeted each other a few words.

Both of them smiled,

Editor-in-Chief Qian led the way and took Ji Zhuo upstairs to the publishing house.

"...Mr. Bugong, you have arrived early. It is more than half an hour before the time agreed with Delwin Publishing House, and the people there have not arrived yet."

"The meeting room has already been arranged... Now, why don't you take Mr. Bugong to the publishing house."

Going up to the second floor where the publishing house is, Chief Editor Qian led Ji Zhuo to visit the publishing house.

In fact, there is nothing to visit.
Huating Publishing House is not big, and its biggest business at present is publishing Ji Zhuo's "Bird in a Cage".

There are only a dozen or twenty editorial staff in total, and the seats are on the second floor of the publishing house, and the seats are still a little loose.
The third floor is mainly a meeting room and a reception room.

Editor-in-Chief Qian mainly gave Ji Zhuo a brief introduction to some editors in charge of different jobs in the publishing house.

"Here is the review editor... To be honest, if it weren't for Mr. Ji's book, our publishing house would be half dead now. The review editors review most of the manuscripts are self-published books. See if there are any prohibited books. content."

"That is to say, the location of this publishing house is owned by our family. There is no need to pay rent. The rent downstairs can also be subsidized by the bookstore. Otherwise, it would have been unbearable."

Hearing Editor Qian's exclamation, Ji Zhuo couldn't help but glance at Editor Qian,

This is true, although the location is a bit out of the way, not in the most prosperous area,
But this is the magic city, the magic city, a single three-story building next to the street... the floor area is so wide.

Ji Zhuo couldn't help shaking his head, this is from Versailles.

Unlike him, although some money has been credited to the bank card during this period,
But in total, you can buy a house of [-] square meters in Shanghai, plus the common allowance.

And here, this floor alone is not only two hundred square meters.

Hey, the system wool still needs to be squeezed more.

"...Here is the proofreading editor, mainly responsible for typesetting and proofreading, and then contact the printing factory for printing."

"...Well, these are two lawyers in the publishing industry that our publishing house often invites. Today's negotiations with Delwin Publishing House can involve them as well."

"Hello, both of you..."

Then I shook hands with the two lawyers that Editor-in-Chief helped find,

The time is almost up.

"...Mr. Bugong, it's almost time now, and Delwin Publishing House should be here soon, so let's go to the meeting room, which is on the third floor."

"Row."

"...Mr. Bugong, the 20 reprints of "The Bird in the Cage" are about to be sold out, and the publishing house is planning to reprint it again. This time, it plans to print [-] copies at a time."

"Although the quantity is quite large, there are quite a few gaps in various channels. If you replenish the stock, it is estimated that there will not be much stock left... I also believe that Mr. Bugong's 20 reprint of "The Bird in a Cage" will be sold out soon."

The publishing house plans to continue to print "The Bird in the Cage",
Ji Zhuo naturally has no objection, without the influence of system goals, naturally the higher the sales volume, the better.

Moreover, the publishing house settles the author's manuscript fee according to the number of printed copies. As for whether the printed stock is sold or not, it generally has nothing to do with the author.

In other words, Ji Zhuo's system goal was sales.

The publishing house has no objection, although Ji Zhuo's royalties are quite a lot,

But the publishing house can still make a lot of money. Until now, the weekly sales of "The Caged Bird" have not fallen off a cliff. As readers' word-of-mouth continues to ferment and spread,

There are also a steady stream of readers pouring into the cage of "The Bird in the Cage",
However, "The Bird in the Cage" was published directly, and there was no distribution of sales on the Internet.

Editor-in-Chief Qian could not wait to find two more cooperative printing houses to work three shifts and print "The Bird in the Cage" for him non-stop throughout the day.

For Editor-in-Chief Qian, the more sales of his favorite science fiction novels, the happier readers are when they see him.
For the publishing house, printing "The Bird in the Cage" is not printing a book, it is simply printing money.

"...Editor Qian, the people from Delwin Publishing House are here."

While Ji Zhuo was chatting with Chief Editor Qian,

An editor led the people from Delwin Publishing House up to the third floor.

A group of people naturally got up from the conference table and greeted them politely.

Ji Zhuo also got up and turned his head to look at the person from Delwin Publishing House who walked into the conference room.
Not from any country in Europe,
The leader is a middle-aged Huaguo woman, wearing a white lady's suit, with her head crossed, she looks capable and energetic,
Followed by a man in a suit and leather shoes, who seems to be a lawyer, and an entourage who does not know whether it is an editor or an assistant.

They rushed over from the Huaguo Capital Branch of Delwin Publishing House.

"Hello, Editor-in-Chief, I am the editor-in-chief of the Huaguo Branch of Delwin Publishing House. My surname is Lou. These two are the lawyer and editor of our publishing house."

With a smile on his face, Editor-in-Chief Lou stepped into the door of the conference room first, and stretched out his hand towards Editor-in-Chief Qian.
"Hello Editor-in-Chief Lou, please make a deliberate trip."

"For a good work, not to mention just flying over from the capital, I have to come here even from the other side of the world."

Editor-in-Chief Qian and Editor-in-Chief Lou exchanged polite words,
The editor-in-chief Lou smiled again and turned his head to look to the side. After looking at it, his eyes fell on Ji Zhuo.

"This is Mr. Bugong, the author of "The Caged Bird". I have read your work, sir, and it is very well written. It seems that you can't put it down, and you can't bear to put it down."

"I don't work, editor Lou is polite."

It can be seen that this editor-in-chief Lou is a somewhat strong career woman,

Since stepping into the meeting room, I have been used to taking the initiative,

But dealing with people and things will not make people feel uncomfortable, because the other party has done a lot of etiquette and their posture is relatively low.

Ji Zhuo stretched out his hand and lightly shook this editor-in-chief Lou.

The crowd smiled and exchanged a few greetings,
They sat down at the conference table one after another.

"Editor Qian, Mr. Bugong, then I'll be blunt and cut to the chase."

In fact, if you open your mouth, you will inevitably be biased towards the weak in the negotiation.

But they have come all the way here, so there is no need to pay attention to these anymore.

"This time I came here mainly for the overseas publication of Mr. Bugong's work "The Bird in the Cage."

"I have read Mr. Bugong's work. I personally think it is a very good science fiction work, and I believe many people think so. It is a pity that such an excellent work is only published in China, so I would like to recommend it by Our publishing house will publish the overseas version of this work, and let more readers see this excellent work."

"Our Delwin Publishing House, presumably Mr. Bugong and Chief Editor Qian have already known about it. We have branches and distribution channels in Europe and other countries overseas. Although it is not the first-rate publishing house in Europe, it is in In the field of science fiction publishing, we can definitely be regarded as top-notch. We have published and operated many famous science fiction works, such as the one that won the Hugo Award the year before last...

If Mr. Bugong intends to publish his works overseas, I think our publishing house should be a good choice. "

Editor-in-Chief Lou gave priority to finishing his speech without mentioning specific conditions.

Those are the details to be negotiated later.

Editor Qian listened and didn't reply, but turned his head to look at Ji Zhuo,
The overseas publishing rights of "Bird in a Cage" are entirely in Ji Zhuo's hands, and Editor-in-Chief Qian and Huating Publishing House are just helping out.

"In principle, I agree to publish "The Caged Bird" overseas."

Ji Zhuo looked at Editor-in-Chief Lou, and responded like this.

When Editor-in-Chief Lou heard this, a smile appeared on his face,

In fact, this is also inevitable. If you are unwilling to publish the book overseas, people on both sides will not sit here.

"However, isn't the condition given by your publishing house a little harsh?"

Ji Zhuo didn't say this, but Editor-in-Chief Qian helped Ji Zhuo say it.

"First of all, I would like to thank Mr. Bugong for his willingness to bring this excellent science fiction work to the whole world so that more readers can read it. In addition, the conditions given by our publishing house should be relatively generous."

Editor-in-Chief Lou frowned, as if it was because of Editor-in-Chief Qian's words,
Of course it's just for show.
Now this is actually already psychologically expected,
After all, Editor-in-Chief Qian made it very clear in the email he sent back to Delwin Publishing House.

It is because of their sincerity that I am willing to sit down with them and discuss the issue of overseas publishing.
Then why not just agree to come down and still need to talk, of course 'sincerity' is not enough.

"Mr. Bugong's work is excellent, but after all, it has never entered the overseas market before, and the book itself has not received feedback from overseas markets. The [-]% royalty share we gave here is already out of not working. Mr.'s work itself is really excellent and the share ratio given."

Editor-in-Chief Lou was still frowning, as if he couldn't accept Editor-in-Chief Qian's statement.

"Editor Lou, that's what I said. But in fact, "The Bird in the Cage" is a work that has gone through the test of the market. At present, the bird in the cage has sold nearly 15 copies in China, and this is only less than one month's sales.
Editor-in-Chief Lou should have an understanding of the domestic publishing market and what this sales volume means.

At the same time, the type of "Bird in a Cage" is science fiction, and there is not such a high cultural threshold. That is to say, in fact, the market has proved that "Bird in a Cage" is bound to be a hit, and there is no trial and error cost for your publishing house to republish this book overseas. Yes, in this case, doesn't Editor-in-Chief Lou feel that the [-]% share ratio is a bit harsh? "

"Besides, our publishing house gave Mr. Bugong 15.00% of the royalties for publishing "The Bird in the Cage". If you want [-]%, I will publish it for you. I still feel a little sour here."

Hearing Editor-in-Chief Qian's words, Editor-in-Chief Lou was really surprised, and hesitation appeared on his face.

……

Ji Zhuo watched Editor-in-Chief Qian and Editor-in-Chief Lou, as well as the lawyers of both sides start to argue over some details,
On the contrary, he himself seldom speaks, and only expresses some opinions on some key points.

After a period of intense negotiations,

The overseas publishing of "Bird in a Cage" has finally been discussed.

As a result of the negotiations,
Ji Zhuo agreed to authorize the overseas publishing rights of "The Bird in the Cage", that is, the publishing rights in countries other than China, to Delwin Publishing House.
Delwin is responsible for the overseas operation, publication and distribution of "The Bird in the Cage",

For this, Ji Zhuo needs to pay [-]% of the royalties.

Both Ji Zhuo and Editor-in-Chief Qian are quite satisfied with this royalty rate, and Editor-in-Chief Lou is also acceptable.

After the negotiation between the two parties,
Editor-in-Chief Qian turned his head to look at Ji Zhuo again,
Ji Zhuo looked at Editor-in-Chief Qian, then at Editor-in-Chief Lou, and nodded.

On this condition, the two parties signed an overseas publishing authorization contract.

The contract has been reviewed by three lawyers from both parties, so there is naturally no problem.

When Ji Zhuo and Editor-in-Chief Lou signed contracts respectively,
Editor-in-Chief Lou breathed a sigh of relief,
Editor-in-chief Lou is really optimistic about this "Bird in a Cage".

So even if the conditions are a little more generous, they will be signed.

"Thank you, Mr. Bugong, for your trust in our publishing house, and I wish "The Bird in the Cage" a great overseas sale."

"...Well, as far as I know, Mr. Bugong has another science fiction work. Do you have any ideas about publishing it overseas?"

"...Well, if Mr. Ji doesn't want to, we can talk about it after "The Caged Bird" is published overseas."

"It's a book."

After the negotiation, the two sides chatted a few more words,
The people from Delwin Publishing House did not stay long and left.

"I'm still in a hurry to publish "The Bird in the Cage" overseas as soon as possible, so I won't be here soon."

(End of this chapter)