Reborn in Hong Kong as a Tycoon

Chapter 9 The Novel Officially Serialized
Three days after signing the contract.

Lin Baicheng came to the Star Daily again, and Hu Zhiwen gave him a newspaper.

"This is the first issue of the newspaper we are going to issue. Check to see if there are any problems."

Lin Baicheng took it over and looked at it. On the main page of the novel, the six characters "The Wind and Cloud Dominate the World" are printed, and below are some topic introductions and well-known hot news.

That's right, the name of the novel is not "Fengyun", but "Fengyun Xiongtianxia".

The two sides of the first page are the content of the novel. In fact, the page size of newspapers has a standard, which is generally the size of A3 paper. If it is a normal font, generally one page can serialize about 2000 words, but for commercial interests, there are many in the middle. The place is taken up by advertisements.

Because this is the first chapter of a new novel, the number of words in the first release should be as many as possible. The last three pages, except for the advertisement, are all novel content, and the total number of serialized words is nearly [-] words.

Lin Baicheng browsed through it roughly, and found that many places in the novel had been changed.There is no change in the plot, some simplified characters have been changed to traditional characters, and some specific descriptions have been better written.

Lin Baicheng didn't know how to write traditional Chinese characters, but he can write after receiving the memory of his predecessor.However, when writing novels, under habit, he will write some characters in simplified characters. This is a matter of habit.

Hu Zhiwen said aloud: "Lin Sheng, I have made some polishes to the novel these two days, I hope you don't mind, after all we all hope that the novel will become popular, and it will be beneficial to us."

"Editor Hu, you edited well, why would I mind?"

Lin Baicheng smiled indifferently, he is not a professional writer, and he would not allow others to modify a single word.

"It's fine if you don't mind."

Hu Zhiwen was a little worried before. After all, in his opinion, novels are the children of writers, and most writers do not allow others to modify their novels.Even if they are really asked to edit by the newspaper, they will edit it themselves, and they will not let others write or allow others to write.

"Editor-in-Chief Hu, you are a professional in newspaper publishing. If you think there is no problem, then publish it like this."

Lin Baicheng handed the newspaper back. He is a novice in this regard, so he will definitely not make random comments.

"Okay, then it will be issued like this tomorrow."

Hu Zhiwen nodded, and said worriedly and expectantly: "Tomorrow is the first day of the serialization of the novel, I hope to have a good result."

"Hopefully."

Lin Baicheng can't guarantee that the novel will be popular, after all, it is based on the TV version of "Feng Yun" in his previous life, and he has also adapted a lot.

Different from the TV series, at the beginning of the TV series, the Tianxiahui, founded by Xiongba, has become the largest gang in the world, and is asking Ni Bodhisattva to tell his fortune for him.

In the novel adapted by Lin Baicheng, Xiongba used tens of thousands of words to describe Xiongba from the time he killed his master to the establishment of the Tianxiahui. This is mainly to describe the hero Xiongba and make the image of the character more full.

After thinking about it, Lin Baicheng asked: "Editor Hu, how do newspapers usually distribute? Directly to the newsstand?"

"more or less."

Hu Zhiwen nodded: "However, not all newsstands want our newspapers. After all, we are just a tabloid with limited scope of business."

Lin Baicheng asked: "After the newspaper is handed over to the newsstand, how to sell it depends on the owner of the newsstand?"

"Of course."

Hu Zhiwen nodded and said.

"Then Editor-in-Chief Hu, what do you think?"

Seeing this, Lin Baicheng said: "We will negotiate with the newsstand owners and ask them to help recommend our newspapers. We will refund 50% of the purchase price to them for every newspaper we sell. In other words, they only need half of the price. Take it from us."

"How does this work."

Hu Zhiwen immediately shook his head when he heard this: "Lin Sheng, we will lose too much if we do this. We were not sure whether the novel could save the newspaper. If we can't save the newspaper by doing this, then our newspaper will eventually sell Not much money."

"Editor Hu, since it's a gamble, why not bet bigger?"

Lin Baicheng said with a serious face: "The reason why we do this is to expand the influence of the novel in the first place and let more people see it. Moreover, we don't do this every day. We do it for three or five days. God, even if there is a loss, I believe it will not be too big."

"After all, it's hard to put it bluntly. The current daily circulation of our newspaper is less than [-] copies. Even if the owner of the newsstand helps to recommend it, it won't improve much. You can't do it without some money, what do you think?"

"Let me think about it."

Hu Zhiwen couldn't help being shaken after hearing this, and felt that Lin Baicheng's words were not unreasonable.

Seeing this, Lin Baicheng didn't bother him aloud, after all, Hu Zhiwen was in charge of the newspaper.If Hu Zhiwen really disagreed, it would be useless for him to say more.

"Okay, just do as you said, Lin Sheng."

After a while, Hu Zhiwen clapped his hands to make a decision, agreeing to spend a little more money for a gamble.

……

On February 1977, 3.

In the newspaper published by Xingxing Daily that day, apart from a few hot news and advertisements, there is almost 1 words in Chapter [-] of the novel "The Wind and Cloud Hegemony".

Yesterday afternoon, Hu Zhiwen had already negotiated with the owner of the cooperative newsstand, and he will give cashback for newspaper sales in the next five days.Every time a newspaper is sold, half of the purchase price will be returned, so that the newsstand owner can earn more.

When newsstand owners heard such a good thing, of course they would not refuse. Anyway, what they want to do is to recommend the Star Daily when customers come to buy newspapers, and they don't want them to break the law.

So, this morning, Star Daily received a key recommendation from the owner of the newsstand, saying that a new martial arts novel was serialized in the newspaper, which really attracted many people to buy it.

In this era of Xiangjiang, because of Kim Yong’s martial arts novels, many people have the habit of reading serial novels through newspapers, so newspapers that serialize new books really attract many people.

Lin Baicheng also came to the Star Daily early this morning, wanting to know how the newspaper sales are today.

In Hu Zhiwen's office, Lin Baicheng and Hu Zhiwen were drinking tea absent-mindedly, thinking about how the sales volume of newspapers was today.

Today is the first day of the serialization of the novel, and the owner of the newsstand has returned half of the purchase price, so the circulation of the newspaper today must be more than before.It can even be said that if all the [-] copies of newspapers printed today are not sold, then this result is somewhat unqualified.

That's right, the Star Daily printed [-] copies of the newspaper today, a circulation that can protect its capital without cashback.

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