My rebirth is different

Chapter 848
Dong Xiaoxue is also a vigorous and resolute person. As soon as she returned to her office after the meeting, she picked up her mobile phone and looked through her address book.

"Old Liu, what have you been up to lately? Are you still working in a publishing house? Please do me a favor, it's like this..."

"Hello, Brother Hu, I'm Dong Xiaoxue..., no, I'm not getting rich, it's just a part-time job. In this way, you can still be the editor-in-chief of the publishing house. I have something to ask for your help..."

"Hello, Editor-in-Chief Li, I'm Xiao Dong, Dong Xiaoxue. I'm just eating for a living. How can you compare to Editor-in-Chief Li, the leading editor-in-chief of a major publishing house in China! I have something I want to inquire about. Take a moment..."

After making a phone call, Dong Xiaoxue put down the phone in disappointment.

With the decline of the publishing industry, the young writers who were originally emerging in endlessly don't know what to do.

Especially for female writers, there has not been a decent newcomer in the past two years.

Male writers are better. Two years ago, Yu Wenfei and Lao Han supported him. Although Yu Wenfei has closed his pen, Lao Han is still active in the literary circle.

However, the book he wrote is not suitable for adaptation into a series.

There are too few well-known authors with a style like Yu Wenfei.

Otherwise, Dong Xiaoxue wouldn't have searched for two or three years before Yu Wenfei appeared!

Let’s not talk about old and famous writers. To be honest, Dong Xiaoxue doesn’t like their books. It’s not that they are bad, and they are out of touch with the times, especially with young people.

If it is made into a series and played on Facebook videos, it can only be a waste of money, and it may leave a bad impression on users.

What she wants is the kind of young and energetic writer of the new generation!
Where have all these people gone...

Dong Xiaoxue has been thinking about this question.

Until her assistant Li Yaqin walked into the office.

"Mr. Dong, a business letter was forwarded from Facebook. It is a website seeking investment or acquisition. Facebook said it is more suitable for our business department to follow up. Let us see if it is worth talking about."

With that said, Li Yaqin handed over a big envelope.

Dong Xiaoxue was a little surprised, and there are websites that actively seek to be acquired, how miserable it is!
This kind of spam website, why did my colleagues on Facebook deliberately forward it to me? Is this website still worth something?
When I opened the envelope, I saw that it was a business letter from a website called Qidian Chinese Network, seeking investment...

Dong Xiaoxue is a publisher, and she is also in the literary circle. Of course, she has some understanding of the so-called Internet literature that has emerged in recent years.

However, in their traditional literary circles, their attitude towards online literature has always been contemptuous.

Is literature something anyone can do?
On the Internet, no one knows who just writes some unsightly small H-wen, dare to call it literature?

However, after joining Facebook, Dong Xiaoxue changed this inherent impression as she learned more about the Internet.

Especially in charge of Facebook Entertainment Division, Dong Xiaoxue had a new idea.

What if we don't regard Internet literature as literature, but as a part of Internet entertainment.

In this case, it can really become a piece of the puzzle of Facebook entertainment.

Originally, she wanted to wait for Facebook videos and Facebook videos to stabilize before starting to do this.

But now this starting point Chinese website is delivered to your door, so you can find out...

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In the capital, in a dilapidated office building, there is a small company.

There is a sign of "Qiandian Chinese Network" on the gate of the company, and this is Qidian Company.

This is a company that has been established for three years. Obviously, the development is not very good. There are only a dozen employees in the company, including six company founders.

"Hey, Old Wu, it's time to pay the computer room hosting fee for this month. Have you found a company willing to invest?" Lao Lin asked with a sad face.

The predecessor of Qidian.com was the "Fantasy Literature Association", which was founded in November 2001.

It was started by six people including Lao Wu and Lao Lin. At that time, the six of them all met on the Internet, and they had never met in real life.

Everyone likes to read online novels, and they have the same hobbies, so they decided to set up a forum by themselves.

At that time, everyone had their own legitimate jobs. Lao Wu was a graduate of Peking University and worked as a programmer in a good company with a considerable income.

In the second year, that is, in 2002, with the rise of online literature, everyone felt that this industry had a bright future.

So they broke the boat, quit their jobs, came to the capital together, and registered a company, which can be regarded as a formal commercial operation.

This website is called "Starting Chinese Website"!
The newly established Qidian Chinese website is not well-known, and there are no well-known Internet authors.

In the Internet literature circle at that time, Longkong, Huanjianshumeng and other websites were more famous and influential.

Some well-known authors are concentrated there, and no one wants to start because there are no readers.

Seeing that the company is going to be unsustainable, there are no authors if there are authors, no readers if you want readers, and no money if you want money.

The money everyone collected in the early stage was almost spent, and there was no income at all.

Relying on the advertising revenue on the website, it is completely beyond their means.

In desperation, the founders discussed and planned to make an innovation!
That is, paid reading of online literature!
In fact, this is not their pioneering work. Before that, there were paid reading websites in China, but they did not start.

But this model, Lao Wu and the others think it is good.

Because since online literature wants to develop commercially, it must have income, and what will it rely on for income.

Naturally, like movies and traditional literature, the audience and readers pay for it.

Moreover, when online authors have income, they will have greater passion and motivation to devote themselves to literary creation, so that more and better online literary works will emerge.

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In October 2003, Qidian officially launched the first batch of VIP electronic publishing works and launched the VIP membership plan.

Moreover, the reader's membership fee is divided into [-]% and shared with network authors.

30.00% of the income is used to maintain the survival of the website, which is used for computer room rental, broadband expenses, and personnel rent expenses.

The other 70.00% will be given to the network authors!At the same time, the original creators are allowed to benefit, and the quantity and quality of works are guaranteed with material incentives.

In the first month when charging fees were implemented, there were only 23 VIP works on Qidian.com, but due to the full payment system, there were authors whose manuscript fees exceeded 2000 yuan in the first month.In the same year, the average salary level in the capital city was around 4000 yuan, and the average house price was [-] yuan per square meter.

Therefore, the starting point became popular in the Internet literature circle!

Internet writers who used to "generate electricity with love" suddenly discovered that the things they wrote could still make money!
And it seems that the income is not bad!
Internet writers who think they are good, or who are a little famous, are starting to flock to the starting point.

Who doesn't want to make some extra money.

At this point, the starting point is considered to have solved the author's problem, and no longer worry about not being able to find the author to publish the book.

Instead, the signing threshold has been raised. If it is not a high-quality work, it is impossible to sign a contract for you to put it on the shelf and sell it for money.

In those days, being able to sign at the starting point, you can brag to others.

Because that means that you are at least a well-known figure in the Internet circle!

Once there are good authors, there will naturally be good works, and if there are more good works, readers will come.

It seems that the starting point is about to enter the stage of a virtuous circle and begins to grow and develop.

but……

A serious problem that all domestic content producers had to face at that time was also placed in front of the starting point.

That is piracy!
If online literature wants to be pirated, it is much easier than film and television dramas and music.

And the reader's awareness of payment is not strong.

Baidu search, all are pirated novel websites, why do they want to give you a starting point?

Readers who are willing to take the initiative to pay are always a minority.

Starting point has a lot of high-quality resources and a lot of readers, but the revenue is still bleak!
Moreover, with more readers, hardware requirements such as servers have increased geometrically, and the expenditure in this area has increased significantly.

Old Wu and the others were surprised to find that Qiming.com.cn has become the largest online literature website in China.

But his own company seems to be on the verge of bankruptcy.

So a few people panicked and began to look for investment everywhere, wanting to learn from other Internet companies and spend the venture capital money for themselves.

Unfortunately, many venture capital companies do not recognize the so-called Internet literature.

And because domestic piracy is too serious, the charging system at the starting point does not seem to be very effective.

The venture capitalists were unwilling to invest money, and when they had nowhere to go, Lao Wu and the others began to send business letters to several well-known Internet companies in China.

Take the initiative to seek "selling yourself"...

(End of this chapter)