My Two-dimensional Unscrupulous Life

Of course, unlike the Chinese literary world or the Chinese literary world, in Japan, not only the light novel world’s manuscript fee income is quite stable, the gods and newcomers are 10%, even the traditional literary circle, the manuscript fee is also the same 10%, it can be said that the structure of the Japanese literary world is similar to that of this country, and most of them are ultra-stable. The number of Japanese authors who can break this stable manuscript fee structure does not exceed 10 at most!

And among the authors who can break such a stable structure, there must be no author of light novels.

It's like light novel authors publishing their own novels not in bookstores but in single volumes.

What is a library book and what is a booklet?To put it simply, the library book is a light novel directly issued by a light novel library such as Fantastic Library. The price of each book is almost 600 yen, while the booklet is basically a traditional novel issued by other traditional publishing houses. The price of each book is 1500 yen. The price ranges from 2000 to 2, and the price of each single volume is 3-[-] times the price of the library.

This also distinguishes the levels of light novel writers and traditional writers from another aspect.

Although everyone pays 10% of the manuscript fee, light novel writers can only get 60 yen per book, but traditional writers can get at least 15 yen per book.

And don't think that the cheap sales of the light novel library are good. In fact, not only the price, but also the single-volume novels can completely explode the light novels of the book library in terms of sales.

For example, in Kato-kun’s previous life, the best-selling light novel was 80 copies of the Suzumiya series, but the amount of 80 is placed in traditional novels, and it doesn’t even rank in the top ten in history. can exceed the number of 80.

In Kato-kun's previous life, the only light novel that was successfully released as a single volume was Nishio-san's Monogatari series. Although the Monogatari series is a light novel, it was released in the form of a single volume, not a library version, and the publishing house of the novel Nor is it a light novel library

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55 Noise and the like, but directly published by Kodansha. Of course, because the Monogatari series is a light novel anyway, a light novel library is named, and the price of each novel is more than 1500 JPY.

In addition to the Monogatari series, even if the Suzumiya series, which is known as the most successful light novel, is well mixed, it is only a library novel published by the three major light novel libraries.

Taking Haruhi Suzumiya's astonishment as an example, in addition to the novel itself, what is the final price of the so-called global first-run limited edition novel that comes with so many things?It's also 1500 yen, but it's just about the same as the main body of the Monogatari series, and this is already the best mix, known as the only light novel with international influence.

And what is even more infuriating is that although Haruhi Suzumiya's surprise price is 1500 yen, this does not mean that the author can get a single manuscript fee of 150 yen, because the value of the bonus is not included in the manuscript fee, that is to say , even if the price of Suzumiya Haruhi's Surprise is higher, because it is a library book, Tanigawa-ryu, the author, can only get 60 yen per copy.

This is the reality of the light novel world. If you want to compare status, light novel authors do have some status. After all, light novel authors are also recognized authors, and the profession of author is very respected in Japan, but compared with traditional authors , the status of the light novel author is not high. Although this world is completely different from Kato-kun’s original world, there is not much difference in the reality of the light novel world. The only difference is that Japan has a larger population in this world~ According to Kato-kun’s survey, there are light novels that have sold over a million copies in this world, and Kato-kun originally sold only 80 light novels in the world, which is far less than a million copies. So, after taking over the contract from Machida Sonoko and finding that there was no problem, Kato-kun nodded slightly.

In fact, Fantastic library will not play any tricks on the contract. After all, the two parties have no room for bargaining. It is just an ordinary standard contract.

"By the way, Ms. Machida, if the Magic Forbidden Book Catalog signs the contract with the Fantastic library, can I create a fancier or a spin-off of the novel privately? Is it sold on other platforms or something, or do the copyrights of these side stories or fan works I created belong to me?"

I thought that Kato-kun had some special request. If it didn't embarrass the company too much, as the editor-in-chief, she could immediately agree to it. But, what is Kato-kun's request?

She can understand that Kato-kun wants to create a side story of the novel, but what the hell is the fan work of the original novel to create a novel?

Not only Machida Sonoko, but even Shiwa's classmate at the side was confused by Kato-kun's special question.

"In principle, as long as there is no contract signed with the library, the library does not prohibit the original author from creating fancier or Fanwai to go to the fancier exchange meeting or sell it in other places. As for the copyright of the work, except for the part signed with the library, other Aspects of course belong to the creator himself”

Machida Sonoko was even more confused when it came to fan copyrights. If the fan works created by other people in the catalog of forbidden magical books are infringing, the fan who created the catalog of forbidden magical books by himself does not have such a problem.

Although after Kato-kun signed the contract, the copyright of the catalog of forbidden books of magic no longer belongs to Kato-kun alone but to everyone, but Kato-kun is also the owner, and in principle, the library does not prohibit the original author from creating fanart for profit.

Moreover, compared with the original work, fan works are only worth a few dollars.

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55 As for the extra work, it can be regarded as another work at all. As long as you don’t sign a contract with the library, you can play whatever Kato-kun does. If this is the case, then I don’t have too many problems, but I hope Ms. Machida to be able to put this on my contract"

No problem, we can agree to this request. See Machida Sonoko, who was puzzled but quickly agreed to Kato-kun's request. Kato-kun also showed a very bright smile.

Others may not know it, but he is quite aware of the value of the extra work in the catalog of forbidden magical books. To a certain extent, the commercial value of the extra work in the catalog of forbidden magical books surpasses the original novel.

Of course, Machida Sonoko and the general light novel library don't care much about this, and that's because in the history of light novels, there has never been a situation where there are side stories or doujin surpassing the original.

Even if Kato-kun says that his extra novels can surpass the original novels, no one will believe it. Just look at Shiba-senpai who has collapsed at this time, looking at Kato-kun like an idiot. understood.

There is no one who believes that extra works or fan works can have too much value.

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Chapter 55 Shiba-senpai's Conspiracy Although Fantastic Bunko agreed to such a condition, it was a trick for Fantastic Bunko, but there is no way to do it.

Although Kato-kun is not that embarrassed now, he is indeed short of money now, although he will not be trapped by money in his life because he immediately signed a contract with Fantastic Bunko.

But for a man who is determined to build a crystal palace, the royalties for the catalog of forbidden books on magic are not enough.

Even in this world, the catalog of forbidden books on magic has become more popular, and the total sales of novels on the catalog of forbidden books on magic have reached the mark of 2 million copies.

According to the manuscript fee, the maximum amount of yen that reaches Kato-kun is only a little over 12 billion. Don’t think that 12 billion yen is a lot. As far as Japan’s consumption level is concerned, Kato-kun wants to use this 12 billion yen to build the Crystal Palace. No matter how you look at it, it is impossible.

Not to mention Japan, even in China, 12 billion yen is far from building the Crystal Palace.

Therefore, we can’t blame Kato-kun for cheating on Fantastic library, who made these capitalists always want to get the most benefits. For Kato-kun, who is very short of money, don’t cheat them.

Of course, Sonoko Machida will definitely not know that Kato-kun is cheating her. For her, Kato-kun’s request is not a request at all. In the history of light novels, even though the original author himself created a fan of the novel. There are very few, but there are many people who create extra novels.

Because whether it is Tongren or Fanwai is the product of secondary creation based on the characters in the original work, it can be said that Zhou Ren and Fanwai exist based on the popularity of the original work. In this case, many authors even created A side story of a novel, but for the sake of sales, these writers will choose to attach the side story to the original work, and sell it through the popularity of the original work.

Even so, there are very few fanfare novels that can sell well. If calculated in terms of benefits and value, the fanfare created by these original authors is less than one-tenth of the original novel, and a book with a sales volume of 10 is very popular. For a novel, if there are extra sales, then it is considered to be very successful, and compared with the original novels that often have more than ten volumes or even dozens of volumes, how many volumes can there be for extra novels?In this case, the value is even lower.

Therefore, although Machida Sonoko doesn’t know why Kato-kun values ​​the doujin or fanfare copyrights of the forbidden magic book catalog so much, but the copyrights of these doujin and fanfare are far less than Fantastic Bunko’s expected concession to Kato-kun.

You should know that although the royalties of light novels are fixed, there are other peripheral products, as the original author, there are some things that can be manipulated a little bit.

However, the income from light novels is not just a share of the novel manuscript fee, but also some income. There are no such rigid rules for the income in this regard. Since Kato-kun did not mention this requirement, then as long as it is distributed according to the standard contract agreement That's good, obviously, the distribution treaties of these standards are definitely not rich enough.

Of course, since I chose to contribute to the library, I will naturally know the secrets in advance. Kato-kun thinks he knows, not only Kato-kun, but also the rules of the library, and the contract of the library is not something big. Ms. Shiwa It is also known for sure.

However, even though Kato-kun knew about these things, he still chose the request that surprised her.