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“This essay award is so generous!” Seeing the essay award this time, Urobuchi Gen couldn’t help being sucked in a cold breath.

In fact, many magazines in Japan basically have events like essay awards every year, and some magazines even have essay awards every day.

Of course, it’s not that there is an essay award every day, but the time for the essay award is fully covered. After one essay award ends, another essay award will follow immediately, so the essay award itself is a lot of , As long as you are willing, you can find at least dozens of essay awards held by different magazines at the same time.

But it is precisely because of the frequent essay awards that the award itself will not be too much. The first place can award 1 yen is almost the sky. The most important reward of these essay awards is actually publication. The company guarantees the rewards for the printing and publication of the winning works, this is the most important reward.

But with the appearance of Dengeki Bunko’s essay award, everything changed instantly.

The prize for the first place is as high as 1 yen, which is probably unique in the entire history of Japan, and even the second place can have a prize of 300010000 yen. In the end, there is even a 2rd prize with no limit on the amount of prizes. Both are 50010000 yen, which is the same as the awards for the champions of the essay awards of other magazines.

This is simply a slap on the faces of those magazines. Any novelist who sees this essay award will probably have an uncontrollable impulse.

“300010000 yen!” Urobuchi Gen sucked in a cold breath, and then said, “Hurry up and tell me what the rules are like this time!”

“Look at it yourself!” Nasu Kinoko gave the rule column to Urobuchi Gen only, and it said

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Essay rules:

1. This essay must be a light novel, the subject matter includes but not limited to reality, foreign world, sci-fi, games, sports, history, love, detective, Demon, Warring States, crossing and so on.

2. The novels for this essay must be exclusively published and must not be submitted on any other platforms. Once found, the eligibility for the competition and all rewards will be immediately deprived.

3. Participants need to combine the outline of the novel and the first 510000 words at the beginning of the novel and send it to the magazine for review. It can be handwritten or typed, but the handwriting must be clear and easy to identify.

4. The deadline for this competition is September 1993, 9. The mailing time shall prevail. Those who exceed the time will automatically lose the qualification.

5. Any novel that participates in this solicitation of essays and wins will automatically be deemed to have signed a contract with Dengeki Bunko, and Dengeki Bunko is responsible for publishing and selling. All copyrights of the article include but not limited to novel copyright, audio adaptation copyright, and Manga/Comic adaptation Copyright, game adaptation copyright, film and television adaptation copyright, interpretation activity adaptation copyright, commercial adaptation copyright for works, work continuation rights, etc., all copyrights will be automatically deemed to be transferred to Dengeki Bunko, and Dengeki Bunko is responsible for development and sales. The duration is 60 years. .

If you do not agree with this rule, please decline the submission.

6. All profits from novel publication and copyright will be distributed by Dengeki Bunko and the author at a ratio of 7:3 (limited to participating novels). The first edition of other novels in the future can be determined according to specific circumstances.

7. The review is divided into a preliminary review and a review. The preliminary review will be reviewed by the editorial department of Dengeki Bunko, and the review will be assembled and published and handed over to 1000 randomly selected readers for evaluation. The final review results will be reviewed by the editorial department in conjunction with the readers’ ratings.

8. The awards refer to the title introduction, but in addition to the cash awards, works that have won the Grand Prize and the Grand Prize for Excellence will definitely get the opportunity to be published and published by Dengeki Bunko.

The works that have won the Grand Prize will be evaluated by the editor based on the work itself. Even the works that have not won the Grand Prize will have the opportunity to be published.

9. For the work decided to be published, the number of words in the future published work shall not be less than 3010000 words. The specific situation shall be discussed by the author and the relevant editor in charge.

10. Any work that is eligible for publication, regardless of the final sales performance, will receive a guaranteed remuneration of 210000 yen per volume.

11. All interpretation rights of this award belong to Dengeki Bunko.

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“Great rules, this Dengeki Bunko is too conscience!” After reading the entire rules, Urobuchi Gen couldn’t help but praise.

“Yes! It’s too conscientious, it’s not like those garbage companies in Japan!” Nasu Kinoko also sighed.

In fact, it is not just these two novelists. In the eyes of all novelists, the rules of this time are simply conscientious.

The first is the reward. I won’t talk about it. The conscientious reward, I’m afraid there is no second essay event in Japan that has a higher reward.

And the most important point is that there are no restrictions on the subject matter, which is a great advantage. You must know that many magazines now ask for articles of social type, and they require novels with realistic themes. Just accept science fiction novels.

As for foreign world, Demon, crossing and so on themes, this Japanese literary world seems to be nothing short of rebellious things. It is not qualified to stand on the palace of novels at all. It is completely an insult to literature.

Therefore, many younger generations have grown up and like to play games. Hobby is a foreign world and other novel hobby writers that are incompatible with mainstream traditions. They simply don’t have the opportunity to contribute and publish by themselves.

Just like Urobuchi Gen, he wrote a novel about a magical girl. As a result, he voted for more than 20 publishers and participated in more than a dozen essay awards. All of them were directly beaten back. Some editors added directly to his novels. The two words of rubbish made Urobuchi Gen suffer a hard blow.

Now that I see the request for essays, foreign world and Demon have appeared on their own initiative. After passing through these new themes that are not tolerated by secular culture, Urobuchi Gen feels that his blood is agitated. Then his magical girl novel should finally be possible There is a chance to show off!

Finally, what everyone did not expect most is that Dengeki Bunko also pioneered the establishment of a guaranteed remuneration.

This is something that has never appeared before in Japan’s novel world.

You know, even if a novelist’s novel is lucky to be published, but judging from the current declining sales trend in Japan’s novel industry, 80% of the published novels are basically sold below 110000 copies, and about 50% of the novels are sold. Below 1000 copies, even the printing cost of the publishing house cannot make up for it.

Japan’s publishing house and author’s rules are based on the sales of each book. The author’s share for each book sold is about 20 yen.

Some publishing houses also set a lower limit on sales. This lower limit is what they call publishing costs. If the money earned after a novel is published is not enough to cover the cost of publishing, the penny will not be distributed to the author, after all. Publishing houses are impossible to sell books at a loss.

Therefore, the vast majority of novelists have experienced the tragic situation that they have finally made it to the publication of the novel, and as a result, can not make a penny, and the hard work of several years has been zero.

In the end, these novelists had to accept reality and rely on odd jobs to survive. Some novelists even starved to death.

This has caused more and more parents to strictly forbid them from writing novels when planning their children’s future.

Because in the eyes of parents, in this era of TV, movies and various games dominating entertainment, novels are a sunset industry that is destined to lose money and make no profit.

Now this Dengeki Bunko has actually released 210000 one-volume guaranteed remuneration income. Although this income is not high, it is only 40% of the monthly income of a normal Japanese worker, but the money is enough to maintain as long as you save some money. One month’s food expenses for one person, anyway, it’s right to starve.

In the eyes of all novelists, the introduction is like an angel-like conscience benefit. When 90% of novelists see this rule, they have a 100% increase in their favor with Dengeki Bunko.

Of course, there is nothing worse than traditional publishing in this rule.

The most obvious thing is the copyright. Traditional publishing houses, after they get the novel and publish it, only require the copyright of the text. They have no requirements for other adaptation rights, film and television rights, and game adaptation rights. , These all are the author’s own.

But Dengeki Bunko is different. All these Dengeki Bunkos are held tightly in their hands. When they are divided, they only give 30% to the author, and take 7% away. From the perspective of later generations, this is a complete overlord. Terms are the most disgusting place.

You must know that even the most cheating reading group, that is, the Boss of the starting point and QQ reading, the copyright is divided into 5 5 with the author. As a result, Dengeki Bunko directly costs 7%, which is simply more than the landlord bully. Terms.

However, all authors automatically ignored this clause, because this year, although there are novel adaptations of TV series and movies, the number is too scarce, and the copyright fee itself is not too high. 99% of the bottom authors have never I have never expected the huge benefits that copyright can bring.

So they naturally ignored the overlord clause on copyright, because they never thought that their copyright could be sold and they would be satisfied if they could get the remuneration.

So let alone the 73 share, even if Dengeki Bunko takes away all the copyright income, they don’t have any opinions, because in the eyes of these penniless authors who don’t have a best-selling novel, copyright income Does not exist.