Reborn in Hong Kong as a Tycoon

Chapter 11 The First Pot of Gold
"Brother, how much money will your novel make this time?"

At night, younger sister Lin Qin asked Lin Baicheng curiously.

"Can you earn tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars?"

Hearing this topic, sister Lin Shufang couldn't help asking.

"It's sure to be more than that."

For his family, Lin Baicheng is not prepared to hide: "You also know that what I take is shares, so the better the newspaper, the more valuable my shares will be. The day before yesterday, I also wanted to know how much money I could make, so I asked I consulted Editor-in-Chief Hu."

"At that time, the newspaper's daily circulation was about 10,000 copies, and it could earn thousands of Hong Kong dollars every day just by selling newspapers. It was about [-] to [-] Hong Kong dollars a month, and [-]+ Hong Kong dollars a year."

"This is not counting the bulk of the advertising revenue. Because of the poor sales of the newspaper, the advertisements did not make much money. From May onwards, new advertisements will be replaced. At that time, the income will be more, at least every month. It’s about fifty thousand Hong Kong dollars.”

"Although employees' salaries and taxes have to be deducted, after seven deductions and eight deductions, it is still possible to earn 70 million Hong Kong dollars a year. And I account for 25% of the shares, which is about 10,000+ Hong Kong dollars."

"This is the money that can be earned in a year from the existing circulation. If we only look at the value of the shares, it must be several times larger than the 10,000+ Hong Kong dollars. There are definitely millions of Hong Kong dollars."

The newspaper office in Xiangjiang can really be said to be "drought to death, flooded to death".

For example, the three major newspapers have a market value of at least tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars, and their annual net profit is more than one million Hong Kong dollars, sometimes even more.And like the Star Daily a month ago, it couldn't even make ends meet, and was losing money every day.

In the newspaper business, the more circulation, not only the more money you can make from selling newspapers, but also the most profitable advertising fees, plus stable income, so stable big newspapers are more valuable.

"So many!"

The whole family was taken aback. They knew that Lin Baicheng would make a lot of money this time, but they didn't expect to make so much money. They thought it was only tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars.

"Writing novels makes money so much, I will also write novels in the future."

Lin Qin said enviously, her academic performance is very good, and hearing that writing novels makes so much money, she couldn't help but think about going to major in Chinese after graduating from Form [-].Then I also learned to write novels and make a lot of money.

"What are you thinking? How can you make so much money writing novels?"

Lin Baicheng said speechlessly: "I happened to meet the Star Daily that was about to go bankrupt this time, and editor-in-chief Hu was willing to take a gamble, so I was able to get so many shares and make a fortune after saving the newspaper. If this time If the newspaper is not saved, then the most I can earn is more than 1 Hong Kong dollars, and even less is not impossible."

"For a normal newcomer writer, the manuscript fee is about 25 Hong Kong dollars for a thousand words, and only more than 100 Hong Kong dollars for a million words. Taking this novel I am writing as an example, the content is probably less than 2 million words, and the income is less than 200 Hong Kong dollars. "

"Fifty thousand Hong Kong dollars is a lot."

Lin's mother, Zhao Huilan, heard this and said: "Your father, your sister and I can earn so much after a year of busy work. This is due to the fact that the store is our own, otherwise we wouldn't be able to earn so much."

Lin Haishan also said: "No, you don't know how tired we are this year."

"Little brother."

Lin Shufang said to Lin Baicheng: "You are more capable than sister. Since you can eat this bowl of rice, then you can write novels in the future. Maybe our family will produce a great writer like Mr. Cha in the future."

"I don't dare to compare myself with Jin Daxia."

Lin Baicheng immediately shook his head, he still knew how many catties he had.More importantly, he is not going to take writing novels as his career, he just wants to get the first bucket of money, and then he will do other things instead of writing novels all day long.

Of course, Lin Baicheng is not ready to tell his family about these things at present, and it will not be too late to talk to his family after his next career has made progress, so as not to worry them.

The next day, Lin Baicheng was writing a novel at home when Hu Zhiwen called.

During the phone call, Hu Zhiwen told Lin Baicheng that someone from a book publishing company went to the Star Daily to ask for the contact information of the author of the novel "The Wind and Cloud Hegemony", and wanted to talk to Lin Baicheng about the publication of the novel. Hu Zhiwen had already told him his home phone number The other party is gone, now call him and talk about it.

Lin Baicheng expressed his thanks on the phone, chatted with Hu Zhiwen for a few more words, and then hung up the phone.

Although Lin Baicheng was a little puzzled as to why someone was looking for him to discuss the publication of a novel now, he would naturally know everything after the other party contacted him.

More than half an hour later, a person who claimed to be an employee of Haohan Publishing Company called and said that he wanted to meet with Lin Baicheng to talk about the publishing of novels.

Lin Baicheng did not refuse, and the two made an appointment to have afternoon tea together in the afternoon, and then they would talk again.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Baicheng asked the typist to go back today, while he went out to the agreed meeting place.

The employee of Haohan Publishing House is a middle-aged man in his thirties who calls himself Xie Yunshan and is responsible for contacting writers and signing contracts with the publishing house.

"Mr. Xie."

After the politeness, Lin Baicheng asked his doubts: "Since you took the initiative to contact me, then I think you should know that my novel has not been serialized for a long time, and only 10,000+ words have been serialized in less than a month. This novel has nearly 200 million words, and it will be serialized for about a year."

"Lin Sheng, this does not prevent our publishing house from publishing your novel."

Xie Yunshan immediately said: "Generally speaking, published novels are usually [-] words per volume. In other words, as long as the number of serialized novels exceeds [-] words, the first volume can be published."

"Lin Sheng, your novels are very popular in Xiangjiang now, and it seems that there is a tendency to become more popular, so our publishing house is willing to take some risks and publish your novels now. Regardless of the quality of your novels in the future, after signing the contract , we will not seek compensation from you."

Lin Baicheng nodded and asked, "But it's only [-] words, and only the first book can be published. What if someone buys a book and likes it very much, and wants to read the rest of it right away?"

"The novel is still being serialized. If such a thing really happens, we will recommend them to buy a newspaper that is still being serialized by Star Daily. This is not the first time we have done this kind of thing, and readers will not mind." Xie Yunshan published Explain aloud.

"Well, how much are you willing to pay for my publishing rights?"

Lin Baicheng didn't say much after hearing this, and asked directly about the publication fee, which is the most important point.

If the publishing fee is too low, it is absolutely impossible. Lin Baicheng still wants to make a fortune from various copyrights.

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