After the disfigurement I became a superstar

Chapter 276 After Sales of the Publishing House
Tang Xiao told Chen Ge about the publishing house's "rules", which made Chen Ge very upset.

"So in your opinion, even if our web writers write better than traditional writers, we are still inferior to traditional writers, right?"

Chen Ge dare not say anything else, but the book "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" is indeed better than traditional writers in this genre.

Even Tang Xiao admitted just now that it is better than most of the works of their publishing house.

Tang Xiao couldn't answer Chen Ge's words.

"The people in the publishing house are all cultural people after all. Why is there such discrimination? If you really don't like it, just don't publish it. While asking for cooperation from the publishing house, at the same time, you feel that the authors of online articles are inferior. , Publishing online articles is shameful."

Chen Ge's words didn't fluctuate much, as if he was analyzing the situation objectively. He wasn't targeting Tang Xiao, nor Tang Xiao's Huizhou Publishing House. weird.

Tang Xiao didn't disagree with such "rules" before, but after hearing Chen Ge's words, Tang Xiao also began to reflect.

"We don't feel that the authors of online articles are inferior, nor do we feel that it is shameful to publish online articles." Tang Xiao explained, "It's just...you know that the book market is very depressed now, and it is of course good to lower the cost."

Chen Ge said: "Although it is reasonable to say so, it is still unreasonable. Because traditional authors publish books, you still implement 8% of the manuscript fee, or even higher. Why don't you save this cost with them?"

Tang Xiao was a little embarrassed, she came here today to talk about publishing cooperation, why did she seem to be here for training?

No wonder Zhuo Wei told herself to be mentally prepared just now.

But I really like "Ghost Blowing the Lantern", and although Chen Ge's words are somewhat reproachful, his tone is still very gentle. It seems that he is not particularly angry, just discussing this issue with himself.

Tang Xiao looked at Chen Ge at this time and felt that he was a little familiar, but she didn't know where she had seen him before. She just felt that she had an illusion, but invisibly, Tang Xiao also had a sense of closeness to Chen Ge. She wasn't so disgusted by Ge's words.

"Actually, I think it's still a matter of interests. Except for a few national publishing houses, there are many things to consider. Most other publishing houses still focus on profit. The reason why the author's fee for online articles is low is because the books published by online articles The sales are not very good, and you can’t make any money, so of course you can only lower the author’s manuscript fee.”

After all, the book market is the main battlefield of traditional literature. Traditional authors, as long as they reach the publishing level, generally speaking, their sales will not be too bleak.

Take Jiang Xiao for example. Chen Ge also checked the sales of his novels. Although he is not a famous author, his published novels basically sell for 10 yuan. The most novel sold for 15 yuan. Book.

As for Chen Ge, the estimated print run of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern" by several publishing houses is only [-] to [-].

This is still a lot. Some other online novels are published, and the print run is only [-] to [-], or even less.

Chen Ge said: "I still don't know much about the profit of the publishing house, can you tell me in detail?"

Tang Xiaodao: "The books we publish, let's take a book of 20 words as an example. If there are no other special requirements, the quality can be divided into upper, middle and lower. Of course, some publishing houses have a good reputation, and all specifications are required to be first-class. , Our small publishing house is different, this quality includes paper, printing typesetting, packaging, ink, etc., these are all links that will increase costs.”

"Now those who are willing to publish online articles are small publishing houses like you, and those big publishing houses don't like it at all."

"Yes, let's put it this way, the better the quality, the lower the profit we make, but the sales volume may be better. If the quality is poor, our profit is large, but the sales volume may not be very good, so under normal circumstances, we choose Medium size."

Tang Xiao explained slowly.

"Take your "Ghost Blowing Lantern" as an example. In terms of medium production standards, we only have about 20% of the profit. According to the price of 25 yuan, we can only earn 5 yuan for a book. If you give you 5.5%, it is also That is, you will be paid more than one yuan for each book, and our publishing house can only earn more than three yuan."

Chen Ge said: "That's not a lot."

"It seems like a lot to say so, but this is theoretical. In fact, after a book is published, the problem it faces is whether it can be sold or not. Of course, it is beneficial to the publishing house, but if it is published If your book cannot be sold, the publishing house may lose money in the end.”

"No one wants to waste time and effort, and lose money in the end, right?"

Chen Ge said: "I don't quite understand, how to lose money?"

"The publishing and production cost of a book is based on a medium quality standard. Didn't I say that if your book sells for 25 yuan, we only have a profit margin of 5 yuan. Everything else is cost, that is, counting labor, printing factories, bookstores, publishing houses, etc., the cost of a book is about 20 yuan."

"If the book is sold, of course the publishing house will make money, but if the book cannot be sold, the publishing house will have to share part of the cost."

"You may not understand. Let me tell you this. The books published by the publishing house are not sold to bookstores, but cooperate with bookstores to sell our books in bookstores. You can read them in large chain bookstores. As a big supermarket, the books in our bookstore are not sold directly to the supermarket, but belong to a certain supplier of the supermarket.”

After listening to Tang Xiao's explanation, Chen Ge roughly understood it.

"That is to say, what they can't sell can be returned?"

Tang Xiao said: "That's what it means. We are a bit like a manufacturer. They are shops. The shop owner buys goods from us. If the goods are not good, they can return them and sell other books. Even if it is a small bookstore, you can buy them in Within a period of time after the purchase, the upper-level supplier can exchange the goods.”

Chen Ge understood that this is a bit like those clothing stores. They can get a lot of goods in the clothing market, but if these items are not sold well within a month or half a month, they can take them back and exchange them.

Refunds are unlikely, but a replacement is considered an after-sales service.

Besides, except for a few publishing houses with a good reputation, everyone snapped up the books as soon as they were released. If you don’t sell books published by small publishing houses, they won’t come to your house to get them next time.

It's not easy for a small publishing house, and naturally they can't afford to offend the big customers of these chain bookstores, so when publishing a book, they are very cautious about the number of copies published, for fear that they won't sell it.

The various costs of a book are 20 yuan, and the publishing house only earns more than 3 yuan after selling a book. That is, if a book is unsalable, it will take 6 or 7 copies to earn back.

(End of this chapter)