Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Chapter 199 I like this double standard!

After finishing the meeting, Cao Zhiqiang, who was still angry, ignored other people, even President Zhou, and went back to his office on his own.

Fortunately, Cao Zhiqiang is indeed the top leader of this publishing house, and everyone can see that he has a bad temper now, so they don't care.

Of course, President Zhou might care, but Cao Zhiqiang doesn't have time to take care of him now.

After Cao Zhiqiang returned to his office, Yu Deli and Zhao Shouwen followed closely into the office.

"Close the door!" Cao Zhiqiang said calmly.

After Zhao Shouwen closed the door, Cao Zhiqiang, who had already come to the desk, suddenly kicked over a chair in front of the desk, then pulled his tie out, and stood there with his hands on his hips, yelling:

"Xiba! I've worked so hard for a long time, and with great difficulty, I finally managed to create a publishing house. I thought I could eat myself to the maximum and prevent others from making big gains, but in the end there were All the same without copyright?
Then I still create a woolen yarn and make a hairy egg?
Asiba, what a shame! "

Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang once again kicked down the chair that he kicked over.

It seemed that he wanted to vent his anger and depression in this way.

Well, the reason why Cao Zhiqiang didn't publish "Shattered Void" when he finished writing it was because he wanted to set up his own publishing house and publish his own novels, so as to protect his own interests to the greatest extent.

However, if copyright is useless in China, after the one-month so-called protection period ends, others can just pirate his original works and publish them. The feeling of making a wedding dress for others.

What's more, this one-month protection period is just a so-called industry rule, it depends on your strength and background, it's not a serious rule at all.

A big publishing house like Writer's Publishing House is fine, but other publishing houses have to show face.

However, if his little-known small publishing house wants to publish its own original works, others may not necessarily follow the rule of not piracy for one month.

It is very likely that you have just released and listed on your side, and when others see that you are selling well, they will immediately pirate it and release a different version.

As long as the price of that version of the book is cheaper than yours, and the quality is not much worse than yours, your genuine version will definitely not be able to sell their pirated version.

After all, the price is the last word!

However, in fact, the reason why Cao Zhiqiang was so angry was that the income could not meet his expectations.

To put it more clearly, he has too much appetite, and he doesn't want to give up the benefits to others, and he doesn't want others to take advantage of him!

To put it bluntly, his status has become higher, but he has become more stingy because of this, and he doesn't want to share more benefits with others.

You must know that during this period, domestic text creators were originally in a period of low income and low rights and interests.

Of course, this low is relative.

In fact, the income of text creators is much higher than that of most ordinary people at this time.

The high-income group in the 80s definitely has a place for writers.

However, in an era when most people can only get an average remuneration of five yuan per thousand characters for a work after they are published by a publishing house, what higher expectations do you have?

For the writers at this time, if they can publish their works and sell them for money, they are already very popular. How many people care about copyright ownership?

As far as the current publishing houses are concerned, it is already very good to be able to publish your work, let you be known to everyone, and give you a remuneration of about five yuan per thousand characters. If you want more, such as To ask for copyright is to be greedy.

In addition, just as domestic factories at this time do not have the awareness of patent protection, current literary works do not have the so-called awareness of copyright protection, and there are no relevant laws and regulations to provide protection.

Generally speaking, this publishing house has published it, and other publishing houses will no longer publish your work out of morality and self-discipline.

But if other publishers are shameless and see that your work is selling well, and they directly use it for pirated publication, then there is no problem at all, at least it is legal to do so.

Of course, in most cases, when a new work by a new author is first published, the circulation will not be very high. If the sales volume of a new author's first work exceeds [-] copies, it is already a very good result up.

If at this time, other publishing houses are willing to reprint and sell it for you for free, it will actually expand the author's popularity.

Anyway, when the author publishes the work at this time, the copyright is bought out to the publishing house in one go.

The so-called remuneration for a thousand words is the buyout price, which means that from now on, the copyright of your work will be bought out by the publishing house, and it has nothing to do with you whether the book will have more or less circulation in the future.

In this case, if someone else pirates your book and continues to publish it on the shelves, although you will not be paid, it is equivalent to expanding your popularity for free.

It is also because of this that the author at this time does not actually object to other publishing houses pirating his own works.

But Cao Zhiqiang is different, he wants to get the share.

If you take a share, it must be linked to sales, and sales are naturally linked to copyright.

If anyone can pirate your book casually without giving you any money, then he feels that he is completely taken advantage of.

After kicking the chair down completely, Cao Zhiqiang took a few breaths, walked to his seat and sat down again, looking at Yu Deli and Zhao Shouwen who stood opposite him silently.

"Sorry, did I scare you?" Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile.

Yu Deli and Zhao Shouwen glanced at each other, and then Yu Deli smiled and said: "No, you are in a bad mood, general manager, I understand."

"Understood, what do you understand?" Cao Zhiqiang rolled his eyes.

"This..." Yu Deli frowned, not knowing how to answer for a moment.

From his point of view, he really didn't understand Cao Zhiqiang's behavior at this time.

After all, he was fine before, but suddenly he became furious like this, which really puzzled him.

On the contrary, it was Zhao Shouwen who suddenly asked cautiously at this time: "Perhaps, it is because of the work you have created with your own hard work. Once published, others can publish it for free, but you don't have to pay you the money you earn. question?"

"Huh? You understand me! You have a future!" Cao Zhiqiang nodded to Zhao Shouwen in satisfaction, "That's why I'm angry!"

Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang looked at Yu Deli and Zhao Shouwen: "There are no outsiders here, you two talk about it, is there any way to stop this situation?"

"It's not that there is no solution." Zhao Shouwen said, "It's just a little troublesome."

"Oh, what way?" Cao Zhiqiang asked quickly.

Zhao Shouwen said: "The only way is to find a way to take your work to Xiangjiang to register the copyright, so that your work is at least overseas and protected by copyright.

As for the domestic market, there is really no way. The only option is to increase the circulation when the first edition is released, to beat the slow with the fast, and to win with the quantity.

However, the risk of doing so is also very high, because once the printing quantity of one edition is too large, but the books cannot be sold due to slow sales, it will be a big loss. "

"That makes sense." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "What about domestic copyright issues? If I create a work and distribute it in China, the copyright will not belong to me?"

"That's not enough." Yu Deli immediately said, "Actually, we are not careless about the copyright issues of domestic publications.

Generally speaking, unless it is clearly stated in the contract that the copyright of the original creator's work belongs to the publisher, otherwise, it will generally continue to be owned by the creator himself by default.

It’s just that our country does not pay attention to copyright protection, so even if you still have the copyright of this work, as long as you have published this work, other publishing houses or magazines can reprint your work for free.

But even if they reprint your work, they do not have the copyright of your work, and the copyright is still in your hands. "

Cao Zhiqiang frowned: "That is to say, once my work is published, the copyright will still belong to me, or the publishing house that first published my work.

But others can reprint and use it for free, without any payment to me or the publishing house that signed the contract with me? "

Yu Deli said: "That's the reason."

Hearing this, Cao Zhiqiang took a deep breath and felt his blood pressure rise again.

"General manager." Yu Deli said with a sudden smile, "If you are still angry about the copyright issue of your work, I don't think there is any need for it."

"Oh?" Cao Zhiqiang looked at the other party angrily, "Why not?"

Yu Deli smiled and said: "Actually, every book is released in one edition, that is, when the book is first published, it sells the most.

Especially in the first month of its release, you can basically decide whether the book is good or bad.

Most books are only issued in one edition and will not be reprinted.

But if it is a bestseller, one month is enough time for us to react.

For example, your poetry collection was sold out within half a month after it was released, which is a proof of bestseller.

And do you still remember how the writer's publishing house did it?As soon as they release your book of poetry and become a hit, second and even third editions are printed.

Just printing these two editions, they make a lot of money, and you benefit a lot from it.

However, your situation is extremely rare and not the norm.

The normal situation is that most of the new books cannot be sold in one edition, and many of them are backlogs.

So, if you think your work will be a hit, just like what Xiao Zhao said, increase the circulation in the first edition, win with quantity, beat slow with speed, this is the only positive solution!
In fact, the capacity of the book market is limited, and the number of readers for each type of book is different.

If we can win by quantity and occupy the market first, for example, we can issue 50 copies of a book from the beginning.

At this level, when most people have this book, even if someone pirates it again, it will not have much effect.

So, if you set a high number of publications for a book from the beginning, latercomers will usually not piracy if they see that it is not profitable.

Unless 50 is not enough, the market still cannot be satisfied, and the market is still in short supply, which can attract other publishing houses to pirate your book.

Otherwise, if there is no benefit, other publishers have no interest in pirating other people's books.

At the end of the day, our purpose is to make money.

When we release the first version, we will eat up all the big heads, and it doesn't matter so much whether others pirate or not.

Because even if they pirate, they can only drink some soup.

After all, the book market of the same type is also limited. "

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "It makes sense, after all, making money comes first."

Immediately afterwards, Cao Zhiqiang asked again: "That is to say, if I don't sell the copyright of my work to another party in the form of a contract, will the copyright be my own by default?"

"That's for sure." Yu Deli nodded, "In our country, unless you explicitly sell the copyright in the contract, the default copyright belongs to the creator. This is a customary rule."

"Then if I publish the work in the mainland first, and then take it to Xiangjiang to register the copyright, is that okay?" Cao Zhiqiang asked again.

"Of course it's okay." Yu Deli smiled.

"Although the laws in Xiangjiang are different from ours, as far as I know, if we publish an original work in the inland first, they cannot pirate it.

Once they pirate our original works in the mainland, we can use Xinhua News Agency, or trading companies and other foreign-related companies with offices in Xiangjiang to entrust them and hire Xiangjiang lawyers to deal with those individuals and groups who pirate our books in Xiangjiang , initiate a copyright lawsuit.

According to the laws of Xiangjiang, if the works published by Xiangjiang are later than ours, the content is the same as our publications, and we have not obtained our copyright authorization, it is illegal.

We can easily win such a lawsuit and ask them to pay high compensation.

But you can only get a small part of the compensation, and most of it will go to the Xiangjiang lawyers and the foreign-related companies entrusted to prosecute.

Therefore, because of this, people in Xiangjiang generally do not pirate original works from our inland areas, because it is very troublesome. "

"I understand." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "That is to say, we can pirate overseas literary works at will, but overseas cannot pirate our inland literary works, otherwise they will break the law, is that so?"

"You can think so." Yu Deli nodded with a smile, "Who let them have such a law, but we don't? Only the law can be followed!"

"Yo Xi!" Cao Zhiqiang nodded in satisfaction, "I like this double standard!"

After nodding with a smile, Cao Zhiqiang took out the booklet filled with "The Shattered Void" again, threw it directly on the desk and said:
"Since this is the case, you all should hurry up and give me this book as soon as possible!
By the way, one edition will give me 30 copies!Pricing is negotiable, not too low! "

"30 volumes?" Yu Deli was taken aback, "Will it be too risky?"

"No, no." Cao Zhiqiang waved his hand, "Listen to me, just sell 30 copies!
If the printing quantity is more, the price can be even cheaper. If the total price is calculated, it will not be much more than [-] copies. "

Immediately afterwards, Cao Zhiqiang frowned: "By the way, my poetry anthology seems to have been published for more than a month, right? So, I can also pirate my own poetry anthology?"

"This is theoretically possible." Yu Deli nodded.

Cao Zhiqiang curled his lips: "I remember that the printing cost of my poetry collection was only [-] cents a book?
So, just in case, we have a bundle sale.

Looking back, I asked the printing factory to print the poetry collection by the way, 30 copies, which is nothing more than 9 yuan.

At that time, a copy of "Shattered Void" and a copy of "The Farthest Distance in the World" printed with my own signature, what do you think? "

"This is a good idea." Yu Deli's eyes lit up, "As far as I know, the current market performance of your poetry collection is very good, and the supply is still in short supply, and pirated books have already appeared in other places.

If we publish this collection of poems at this time, plus your original author's signature, it will definitely be an out-of-print that no one else can copy!

In this way, it will definitely sell well! "

"Then let's do it like this!" Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "The two of you should hurry up and handle this matter later, and everyone in the whole society must serve this project.

I now understand that everything is imaginary, and money is real.

Whatever the medium-term and long-term, we can play it at the same time.

Let's understand this book first, and then we can talk about it after we earn money! "

"General manager." Yu Deli said worriedly, "If you want to start 30 copies, it's not cheap.

Even if you are very familiar with the people of Hongguang Machinery Factory and use the printing equipment of Hongguang Machinery Factory, the basic cost is still there.

If you do this, you may have to invest all the wealth you earned before. If you fail, you will lose everything. "

"Don't be afraid!" Cao Zhiqiang waved his hand, "If you don't have enough money, I'll take out a loan!

In short, listen to me, as long as this book can be listed, it will definitely be popular!

Starve the timid to death.

I'm not afraid, what are you afraid of? "

(End of this chapter)