Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Chapter 234 Begging for food with a golden rice bowl!
Hearing Director Li's question, Cao Zhiqiang smiled lightly: "Director Li, Zhang doesn't think so."

"How do you calculate it?" Director Li asked, "No matter how you calculate it, it is impossible to only have 50 yuan?"

Cao Zhiqiang sighed: "Director Li, you only counted the gross income from the sales of this set of books, not the cost of manuscript fees."

"The cost of manuscript fees?" Director Li was taken aback, "What do you mean?"

Cao Zhiqiang pointed to his nose: "Director Li, I wrote this book and it's my original creation. Therefore, my publishing house will pay me some manuscript fees for publishing my book as an author?"

Director Li frowned: "That doesn't cost 50?",

"Why not." Cao Zhiqiang said, "Director Li, I am the author of this book, and the publishing contract I signed with my publishing house is based on a royalty sharing system.

According to the contract, my royalty ratio is 30.00%.

If the price of a book is ten yuan, then I have to get three yuan, which is paid by the publisher.

That is to say, the Xinhua Bookstore pays us an average of three yuan for a set of books, and the publishing house gets two yuan.

Calculated in this way, for the sales of 23 sets, my own pre-tax income is 69, and the publishing house is 46.

However, we sold more than 8000 sets of books yesterday, so we rounded up the number and erased the odds, so we counted [-] sets.

These more than 8000 sets of books did not go through the Xinhua Bookstore. In this way, the price of ten yuan a set was all given to the publishing house.

This income is 33.6 yuan for the publishing house, and 14.4 yuan for me personally.

Calculated in this way, our publishing house has earned at least 79.6 yuan so far.

And I personally earned at least 83.4 yuan.

Of course, what I’m talking about is pre-tax. If the tax is removed, I and the publishing house will not have so many.

But no matter how you calculate it, our publishing house can earn at least 50 yuan in net profit, is there anything wrong with it? "

Hearing this, Director Li was dumbfounded and couldn't help counting on his fingers.

As if he felt that he couldn't do the calculation with his fingers, he simply took out a piece of paper and a pen, and did the calculation directly on the spot.

Finally, after a simple calculation, Director Li opened his eyes wide, staring at the numbers on the paper in a daze.

It seemed that Director Li had been staring blankly at the numbers on the paper without speaking, so Cao Zhiqiang couldn't help but said, "Director Li? Are you okay?"

Director Li raised his head sharply, stared at Cao Zhiqiang and said, "Is it so profitable? Is it really so profitable to publish a book? Why didn't I know before?"

Cao Zhiqiang smiled: "This, of course, must be a bestseller.

In fact, books, like other daily necessities, are all based on sales.

The sales are good, the supply exceeds the demand, of course the sales are good, the money is returned quickly, and the profit is large.

But if it is unsalable, it will be thrown into your hands. You must understand this truth, right? "

"That makes sense." Factory Manager Li nodded, "That is to say, you have planned this for a long time, and that's why you've made every effort to set up a publishing house just for the royalties?"

"Almost." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "When I found out that the books I wrote were very popular and made a lot of money, I felt that the original payment system was unfair.

After all, books and magazines also have cultural products such as music tapes. If you want to sell well, the key is to look at the content.

If the content is good, the sales will be good, if the content is bad, the sales will be poor.

However, content creators, that is, authors, do have the lowest income in this process and belong to the bottom of the interest chain, which makes me unbearable.

If there is no other way, forget it, since I have the opportunity to start a publishing house by myself, of course I will give it a try.

Of course, this is only from an economic point of view.

In fact, I have even bigger ambitions.

Making money is only the first step.

In other words, books and audio-visual products not only have the function of making money, but also have the ability to educate the world.

We also need to promote positive energy, attract people to be kind, and let people know what is right and what is wrong.

Of course, this has to be something that can only be done later.

So far, we still have to focus on making money first.

After all, the times have changed, and economic construction is the center. "

"Yes, yes, the main thing is to make money!" Director Li nodded with a smile.

After saying this, Director Li continued: "Wait, you said that this sales volume is only for six days? Can you maintain this sales volume in the future?"

Cao Zhiqiang smiled: "Director Li, let me tell you the truth, my set of books, a set of two, is selling poetry collections in name, but actually selling martial arts novels. .

If it's just a collection of poems, maybe the audience is not that big, and the sales will gradually weaken.

But the core of my set of books is the martial arts novel "Shattered Void".

Judging from the current popularity of martial arts in China, the sales volume of less than 30 sets is just the beginning.

That's it, it's just a place in the capital, not counting other places.

I preliminarily estimate that it is only in the capital city. According to the current momentum, it will not be a problem to digest my 100 million sets.

If sales in other cities are included, it is difficult to say, but even if the estimate is not optimistic, it should start at least 300 million. "

"300 million sets?" Factory Manager Li blinked, "If that's the case...wait!"

Speaking of this, Factory Manager Li frowned: "You just said that the price we give to Xinhua Bookstore is five yuan a set. Xinhua Bookstore earns five yuan for nothing, and we can only get five yuan. For this money, we have to return it." Get rid of the cost?"

"Yes." Cao Zhiqiang nodded.

"It's outrageous!" Factory Manager Li said angrily, "Xinhua Bookstore didn't do anything, why should it take so much?"

"Uh..." Cao Zhiqiang blinked, "Director Li, he is Xinhua Bookstore!"

Director Li was taken aback for a moment, and finally came back to his senses: "That's right, that's Xinhua Bookstore."

Speaking of this, Director Li said again: "Wait, it's still wrong!"

"What's the matter?" Cao Zhiqiang asked.

Director Li simply stood up and walked back and forth with his hands behind his back.

After walking back and forth four times, Director Li walked up to Cao Zhiqiang and said, "Little Cao, you just said that when you replenished the stock yesterday, you pulled out 8000 sets of books, and then this book was not in the warehouse of Xinhua Bookstore, and It was sold at the door of Xinhua Bookstore on the spot, and more than [-] sets were sold directly, right?"

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "Yes, there is such a thing."

Director Li nodded again: "In this way, for a set of ten yuan books, you get three yuan for yourself, and the publisher gets seven yuan, right?"

"Yes." Cao Zhiqiang nodded again.

"Then what about the staff from the security department and the transportation department who helped you sell books at that time?" Director Li narrowed his eyes and said, "They didn't help you that much, didn't they show any sign?"

"How is that possible." Cao Zhiqiang chuckled, "I gave them bonuses, not only them, but also the police who maintained order at the scene."

Factory Manager Li narrowed his eyes: "Also, Xiao Cao, what you just said is about Li Youfu.

You seem to be saying that you plan to recruit him as an employee of your publishing house, and then let him lead the team, use our motorcade to transport with security personnel, go directly to other places to open up markets, and sell books directly in the local area without going through the Xinhua Bookstore. Is that so? "

"Yes, that's right." Cao Zhiqiang said.

"Do you think this will work?" Director Li said with a smile.

"You will be the leader of the comprehensive business group in the future, and I will also delegate power to you and your comprehensive business group.

However, this involves a lot after all, so you see, can this be done.

That is to say, in the future, we will also share in the books that you sell through the comprehensive business group.

Of course, I'm not as dark as Xinhua Bookstore, and I won't ask you for half.

Let's have a three-to-seven point, you seven and I three, how about it? "

"I seven you three?" Cao Zhiqiang blinked, "Director, do you want to split the money?"

"That's for sure." Director Li said, "I've thought about it carefully, it has a lot to do with it, and if it doesn't do any good, it might be hard to shut up other people's mouths.

Of course, the share I want is not for myself, but for the factory, which belongs to the funds of the factory office.

With this amount of money provided, if your comprehensive business group wants to operate independently, no one will make irresponsible remarks.

Do you think this is the truth? "

Cao Zhiqiang blinked, then chuckled: "It makes sense, it's true!"

"So, you agree?" Director Li asked.

Cao Zhiqiang chuckled: "Director Li, I would have brought it up if you hadn't mentioned it, but since you have brought it up, it's just right, so let's do it."

"Huh?" Director Li asked strangely, "If I didn't say it, you would have brought it up too? Why?"

Cao Zhiqiang smiled wryly: "Director Li, you are used to being a leader, so you don't know the suffering below.

For things like opening up channels to sell books by ourselves, we, Hongguang Publishing House, can't stand it. It must be done by Hongguang Machinery Factory. Otherwise, it's okay here in the capital. The signboard of our Hongguang Publishing House is not easy to use.

But our Hongguang Machinery Factory is different.

Originally, I didn't have any idea about our factory, I just thought it was an ordinary state-owned enterprise in Beijing.

However, didn't I take a long trip before, asked you for a letter of introduction, bought a plane ticket, and took the plane at my own expense?
It was this trip by plane that gave me a deep understanding. "

"Oh, what experience do you have?" Director Li smiled.

Cao Zhiqiang said seriously: "I realize the strength of our Hongguang Machinery Factory!"

Immediately afterwards, Cao Zhiqiang said: "I went to other cities, even cities in remote areas like Guiyang. The state-owned factories there also know about our Hongguang Machinery Factory, and I have a letter of introduction from our Hongguang Machinery Factory. , they can give me very high treatment.

In addition, we seem to have many brother units in major cities such as Nanjing, right? "

"Of course." Director Li sighed, "I think back then, when our Hongguang Machinery Factory was the most prosperous, we also responded to the call of the country and went to various places to support construction.

It is because of this that we have lost a large number of key personnel.

If it weren't for this, our main factory wouldn't be what it is today. "

Cao Zhiqiang smiled slightly: "That's true, but Director Li, fortune and misfortune depend on each other. The good fruits planted by our factory in the past may not be without the sweetness for us now."

"What do you mean?" Director Li asked.

Cao Zhiqiang sighed: "Director Li, although my words are not pleasant, I still want to say them.

In my opinion, our factory, let's not talk about our own belongings.

In other words, our factory has so many branches and contacts all over the country, which in itself is a powerful resource.

With such a strong resource in hand, the result turned into the half-dead appearance today, really, it is..."

"What is it?"

"Yes...begging for food with a golden rice bowl!"

(End of this chapter)