Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 360 Four

"I don't know where Editor-in-Chief Cao's confidence comes from." Deputy Director Liu shook his head: "Are the materials and allusions used in your article a little too esoteric?"

"Is [-] copies a lot?" Zhou Zhi didn't know much about this, and this was his first time in the publishing industry.

"If it's distributed nationwide, of course it won't be too much. There are hundreds of thousands of copies and hundreds of thousands of copies." Deputy Director Liu is obviously an expert in this field: "But for the distribution in the province, it is quite acceptable."

"If you think about it, there are more than 100 counties in the province, and there are only 1 copies in each county, and there are only more than [-] copies. In addition to keeping stock, [-] copies are almost the limit."

"Of course, I think Lao Cao's idea is more than that." Deputy Director Liu said with a smile: "The extra [-] volumes are not for keeping stock, but for the purpose of overflowing."

"Hmm." Zhou Zhi thought for a while: "Then we have to make two preparations. If the sales performance is promising, can we make a series and invite some local writers who are willing to promote the food culture of their hometown to write in this way? Publish "Cantonese Flavor", "Lu Flavor" and "Huaiyang Flavor"? There is no rule that Shuchuan People's Publishing House can only publish books on food culture related to Sichuan flavor!"

"Yes! Elbow said it well!" Editor-in-Chief Cao came in from outside the door: "Let's follow other people's path, so that others have nowhere to go!"

"Old Cao is here too? Don't you feel complacent!" Deputy Director Liu and Editor-in-Chief Cao seem to be familiar with each other, and they spoke quite casually: "Don't be surprised if your publishing house suffers a little loss if the book doesn't sell. Oddly enough, a bad Elbow's first publishing trip, it's not good."

"Old Liu, you don't believe my vision!" Editor-in-Chief Cao wore black-rimmed glasses. He looked polite, but in fact he was determined to win. After sitting down on the sofa, he sent a fax to Deputy Director Liu. On the coffee table: "Look at this, and you will know the source of my confidence."

"Oh?" Deputy Director Liu picked up the fax, and couldn't help being taken aback: "Mr. Cai? You made an appointment with him for a manuscript, and the appointment is still made?"

"Which Mr. Cai?" Zhou Zhi leaned his head over to take a look, and was also shocked: "Cai Lan? This one is amazing!"

"You know Elbow?" Editor-in-Chief Cao was rather surprised: "But he also mentioned you."

"Don't you know! The Four Great Talents of Hong Kong Island!" Zhou Zhi hurriedly looked down, "Let me see, let me see, what did I write about..."

Faxes are handwritten.

"Brother Cao and colleagues in Shu Province: I understand the letter, and see a sample of Zhou Xiaoyou's writing.

Fang knows that the age is different from the three ages, and the land is thousands of miles away. There are also friends who write articles and eat food.What a comfort.

Today's things are so complicated that I can't bear to write for a long time. It's a pleasure to have a few words to spare.

Echoing the little friends in the rivers and lakes, fighting for the two corners with writing and writing, this is the two joys.

I got advice from my little friend, and I want to set up a food column on TVB, which is really three joys.

When I saw the letter, Yu Yidang was at Dapinghuo, a time-honored shop in the Shu Gang in Central, sipping the mouth-watering chicken dan dan noodles, and it was a joy.

Obtaining these four joys is the order of the king, how dare Lan not follow?

You can discuss with your assistant about the remaining fines.

Dedicated to the cloth reply, and praise Chunsui.

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Editor-in-chief Cao was triumphant: "See? So it's not me who has confidence in elbows, it's Mr. Cai who has confidence in elbows!"

"Come on," Zhou Zhi didn't appreciate it at all, "It's not that Editor-in-Chief Cao has confidence in me, but that you have confidence in Teacher Cai!"

"Hahaha..." Editor-in-chief Cao didn't care what Zhou Zhi said to him: "At least this kind of dish introduction with stories can really be called a 'food culture' book. After reading the sample, Teacher Cai said that he was deeply inspired and prepared to read it. Let’s set up a TV program!”

"This shows that he quite approves of our publishing ideas. Since he agrees, we might as well be more courageous..." After speaking, he took out a new contract from the document bag: "The publishing house has decided , add another [-] copies!"

For Shudu People's Publishing House, this is also a new type of cooperation with authors - paying "copyright fees" based on sales volume.

This is different from the "Field Investigation of Jiachuan Dialect" written by Zhou Zhi to Shu University, and even more different from the later "Exegesis of Jiachuan Dialect".

For "Field Investigation of Jiachuan Dialect" and "Exegesis of Jiachuan Dialect", the Chinese Department of Shu University initially planned to pay Zhou Zhi a one-time "remuneration" of 4000 yuan, which was completely bought out.

However, after Zhou Zhi only delivered "Field Investigation of Jiachuan Dialect", he caught up with a good time-the National Copyright Administration just raised the remuneration standard.

The new standard stipulates that for scientific works with important academic value, including monographs in natural science, social science, and literary theory, those who must pay favorably for their manuscripts will be raised from 20 to 30 yuan per thousand words to [-] to [-] yuan;
The above is only the basic remuneration, in addition to the printing remuneration.

The remuneration for the number of copies is increased from 1% of the basic remuneration for every 2000 copies to 5% of the basic remuneration for every 8 copies.

For monographs that do have important academic and theoretical value but have a small number of prints, the payment will be increased from 1% of the basic manuscript remuneration to 10000% of the basic manuscript remuneration for printing 20-30 volumes.

Zhou Zhi's "Exegesis in Dialects" also has a lot of words, a full 30 words. Based on the average standard of 20 yuan per thousand words, 30 words is 6000 yuan in manuscript fees.

The initial printing is 240 volumes. According to the standard of [-]% of [-] volumes, it is [-]% of [-] volumes. Here it is [-] yuan.

This is Zhou Zhi's "Jiachuan Dialect Exegesis" can get the manuscript fee, 240 yuan, and for every 240 copies printed in the future, he can earn an additional [-] yuan.

much?It doesn't look like much.

But compared to the [-] yuan buyout fee for the previous "Field Investigation of Jiachuan Dialect", this has quadrupled.

And the money can't be said to be small, after all, in Jiachuan now, more than 6000 can buy a small courtyard.

But the cooperation agreement signed between Zhou Zhi and Shuchuan People's Publishing House is different.

Divided by sales.

Editor-in-Chief Cao is a seasoned type. From the fact that he has established relationships with famous Hong Kong film producers, gourmets, columnists, film program hosts, and businessmen Cai Dawen, we can know that he has extensive contacts in the cultural and publishing circles.

Nowadays, the price of books is not expensive, usually around [-] yuan per volume. "Sichuan Taste" has a relatively high cost due to the large number of pictures and color pages, and the price has reached [-] yuan per volume.

Editor-in-Chief Cao gave Zhou Zhi a "royalty", which was very generous - ten percent.

In other words, every time Zhou Zhi's book is sold, he can earn [-] cents.

Thirty thousand copies are eighteen thousand.

Don't forget that this is the first volume, and "Sichuan Taste" is a series. Now Zhou Zhi has finished writing six volumes, and it is expected that there will be four more volumes to be written.

That is to say, according to the most conservative estimate of Editor-in-Chief Cao, the "Sichuan Taste" series of books can bring Zhou Zhi an income of at least 18.

Of course, publishers will earn more.