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"That's no need!" Zhao Han thought for a moment, "Whether it's domestic or international, the water here is too deep!"

Among domestic paper websites, Zhao Han thought of the largest one - CNKI.

Zhai Tianlin, who said what CNKI is, said something very correct, but was misunderstood by netizens and criticized collectively for many years.

But later everyone realized that CNKI is indeed not a thing!

Well, all the downloading and reading websites related to journal article publishing companies around the world are nothing!

This is an international practice!

International paper subscriptions are expensive, even more outrageous than China's CNKI prices.

In academic pursuits, let alone achievements, just reading papers is extremely expensive.

Because the world's academic paper publishing channels are essentially monopolized by a few publishing groups in developed countries.The major media that publish so-called sacred papers are actually just cards in the hands of capital.

Including "Nature" and "Science", there is nothing sacred. It is just a small publication controlled by the global academic publishing giant.

Many domestic scholars have very shallow horizons and take pride in publishing papers in international journals, as if life has meaning.But this pattern’s vision is too shallow.Didn’t see through to the essence…

The essence is academic discourse power, which is also controlled by the top capital among Western monopoly capitals.If you have academic influence, you have it; if you don't, you don't have it. It cannot be purely academic. It is also a tool for developed economies to monopolize and control the academic world of all mankind.

For example, after World War II, the international academic oligopoly publishing group monopolized all top academic paper media and made a unified decision to continuously increase the price of academic papers, which was far more expensive than ordinary publications. In the Internet era, an article The downloading fees for papers published in mainstream international journals range from a few dollars to dozens of dollars.

Well, the authors of some papers are dissatisfied and want to provide it to others for free to download and read. However, in the case of Nature magazine, if the author chooses to let others download it for free, then the author will have to pay a processing fee of 9500 euros to the magazine for publishing the paper.The subtext of translation is that publishing an article for you is a reward, but you still want to make your knowledge public to the poor of all mankind?

The purpose of these top giants in acquiring papers and journals is to monopolize knowledge and make poor people and scholars from poor countries look down on papers!

By raising the price of academic papers, we are implicitly suppressing scholars in poor countries from obtaining the latest knowledge!

Later, in 2011, Alexandra Elbakyan created Sci-Hub, the world's largest free document download website, which directly broke the defenses of those giants.

In fact, it is piracy in academia... breaking the monopoly of knowledge in academia!

Of course, a large number of scholars around the world applaud it, and the reason is that academic publishing interest groups are too dark!

The real academic authors who published the paper did not receive any benefits!

Publishing oligarchs, you have gained a reputation.I just monopolize the profits, is that too much?Not too much at all!

Countless scholars dare not stand up to object, because if they object, they will not be able to publish their academic papers, and their careers will be over!

No matter how awesome a scientist is, if he cannot publish papers in top journals, his influence will be greatly reduced.

Then, Sci-Hub is constantly being attacked by publishing giants in developed countries, and its IP address is constantly changing, with a frequency similar to that of bad websites.

Later, in the list of downloaded papers, China Sci-Hub has always ranked first in terms of downloads.

It is three times higher than that of the United States, which is No. 2.

Just from this data, we know that the Chinese people’s hunger for knowledge and academics is ranked first in the world.

While other countries say they don’t want it, in fact, they download free papers very frequently.

Including the United States, which has a lot of money, academics also think that free papers are really good!

Although Alexandra Elbakyan is known as the goddess of free papers in academia, she is personally taking a precarious risk.

This is the deepest deep water area in the world, and Zhao Han dare not touch it.

The most I can do is get a duplication checking function and make a useful office software.

Chapter 234: The money-burning department and the money-making department

"If you write code for office software from scratch, the amount of work will definitely be very large. Millions or even tens of millions of lines of code are not an exaggeration." Zhang Tiantian said seriously, "Not to mention the enhanced plug-in functions you added. !”

"How many lines of code do you have in a day?" Zhao Han asked curiously.

"As little as three to five hundred, as many as a thousand lines of code." Zhang Tiantian said proudly.

"Is this normal or fast?" Zhao Han was very curious.

"It's pretty fast!" Chen Jingjing said, "The average programmer can do more than 100 lines of code a day, and a proficient programmer can work on hundreds of lines of code."

"Oh. Roughly speaking, 100 lines of code, I understand it to be the workload of coding a 2000-word novel. A thousand lines... hiss!" Zhao Han couldn't help but take a breath.

"Equivalent to 2 words per day?!" Liu Mengcheng couldn't help but show a surprised expression.

"Hahaha, just average! Code actually uses fewer words, and many words are repeated frequently. Once you become proficient, it will be faster than writing an article." Zhang Tiantian is obviously proud of her coding ability.

"Jingjing, what about you?" Zhao Han asked.

"Three to five hundred lines of code, not as powerful as Tiantian." Chen Jingjing said, "She is the real genius!"

"Writing code is easy, but changing the code is very time-consuming," Zhang Tiantian said.

Zhao Han couldn't help but look at Zhang Tiantian, the chubby girl has a lot of potential!

Writing code quickly is understood to mean coding speed is fast.

If the coding speed is always very fast, then even if the writing is poor, after writing a lot, you will be able to practice a little bit of writing, and it is impossible not to make progress at all.

As for the quality of code, writing 100 lines of high-quality code is better than writing 1000 lines of low-quality code.

It can be compared to a writing master who writes a chapter of 2000 words.

The subscriptions for one chapter written are much higher than the subscriptions for 2 words written by a lousy writer.

Zhao Han also knows that everything requires talent.Writing code quickly is also a talent.

Writing quickly or writing a lot does not mean that someone's writing is not good. Instead, it may be that someone has a strong talent for writing code, and writing code has become as instinctive as breathing.

In many cases, common sense and average intelligence should not be used to measure some geniuses with superior intelligence.

The computing power of an ordinary person's brain is equivalent to that of an ordinary PC. The computing power of the brain of some talented people is equivalent to that of a supercomputer in certain fields.

In a sense, IQ is a randomly distributed phenomenon.The acquired method of human beings is to raise the lower limit of IQ through training.

However, the upper limit of intelligence level is not cultivated, but discovered.

Some abilities are different from ordinary people, and that... is a very typical characteristic of a genius!

"That is to say. Even if you write 1000 lines of code a day, it may take 1 days to write?" Zhao Han asked.

"Ok!"

Zhang Tiantian said, “So, don’t pat your head lightly, just take on the last project you mentioned!

Sometimes, leaders may not even realize how much work they say casually!

For example, Kingsoft decided to rewrite the WPS code starting in 02, and planned to finish it in three years, but it has not been finished yet!

There are hundreds of people writing the code! "

Zhao Han thought that this was the case. Kingsoft WPS later turned around. One was full of sincerity and rewritten the previous code to adapt to the development of technology.Besides, it’s free, absolutely free!

Paid office software cannot compete, and the market is still declining no matter how low it is, so why not make it free in one step?

After becoming free, Kingsoft WPS changed from a traditional product to a product in the Internet era, and then gradually made money through various value-added services.

The number of users has increased dozens of times, from a few million to 2 million PC users and 3 million mobile users!

The WPS profit model has changed from the traditional paid software model to the pricing method commonly used in the Internet era. The main products are free, but a bunch of value-added services are paid.

"Then... the office software is temporarily postponed and two small toolbox plug-ins are created. One plug-in is for article typo correction, and the other is a translation function.

After the two plug-ins are produced, they are added to the input method toolbox.It’s okay to go slow when you finish these steps, just do it step by step!

In order of priority, first is the user experience of the input method, and continue to iteratively improve it.Secondly, come up with version 2.0 of the skin function. I think this function will be iterated on within this year! " Zhao Han said.

"In this case, the work progress will be fine!" Zhang Tiantian and Chen Jingjing discussed it and said, "However, there are still too few programmers. Jingjing and I are still tight! We need to recruit more qualified programmers! "

Zhao Han looked at Chen Wenwen.

Chen Wenwen nodded and said, "No problem, just put forward your request and I will publish recruitment information through various channels!"

"Can the cash flow and cash reserves of the head office support the development of application software companies?" Zhao Han asked.

“Now, the company’s finances are generally relatively stable.

Jingjing Reading Network, because of the publication of "In the Snow", has achieved a balance of payments and even a slight surplus. "

Chen Wenwen looked at Liu Mengcheng, "Mainly thanks to "In the Snow"! As for the e-commerce business, we can now earn 2 yuan a day! In addition to the accumulated investment of more than 130 million yuan in software companies, the head office also has 50 in cash! Every day, there is a cash surplus of more than 50! It can be supported by burning [-] in a month!"

When everyone heard this, they felt relieved.

It is really reassuring to have a department responsible for profit.

The publishing fee for "In the Snow" is the same as the VIP share, and Jingjing Reading will deduct 30% of the physical manuscript fee.

Currently, the first episode of "In the Snow" is estimated to sell more than 20 copies.The royalties are expected to exceed 60 yuan.

With Liu Mengcheng's coding speed, one episode can be published in two and a half months, and two more episodes should be published within the year. A conservative estimate is that the royalties should be in the millions.

It will bring a share of more than 30 to Jingjing Reading Network.

The equity incentive given to Liu Mengcheng is capped at 15 per year.That is to say, out of the 30 yuan, 15 yuan will be awarded to Liu Mengcheng with 1.5% of the equity of Wenwen Jingjing Technology Company.The other part is the company's normal profit.

In a sense, the success of the publication of "In the Snow" has offset the various shortcomings of Jingjing Reading Network, leaving a slight surplus.

The parent company went from nursing two babies to one.

Jingjing Reading Network has learned to make money on its own. Only Jingjing Pinyin Input Method has not yet been weaned, but when it grows in the future, it will probably be more promising than Jingjing Reading Network.

The income in the publishing market is so amazing before your eyes!

It’s no wonder that Longlong and Jianjian, two leading websites in the online literature industry, both pay more attention to the publishing business than to the website’s own online business.

Longlong even abandoned online reading and specialized in publishing.

Jianjian publishes in traditional and simplified Chinese and is very popular. It has been hesitant about the VIP subscription market for a long time.

Pastry just caught the strategic decision-making mistakes of the two industry veterans and successfully overtook them in a corner.

Although Jingjing Reading Network has soared into the sky with the publication of "In the Snow".However, in fact, the strategy is still the same as pastries, focusing more on online paid subscriptions rather than physical publishing.

Physical publishing is equivalent to a full meal.

When the traffic and subscriptions of Jingjing Reading Network are increased, it is equivalent to having a full meal.

Chapter 235 Cost Pressure and Realization

"Based on the Jingjing Pinyin Input Method's growth rate of 200 million users per month, how much does it cost for server hardware and computer room hosting?" Zhao Han asked.

"If this is the growth rate, if we invest in 10 servers every month, including other expenses, such as recruiting new personnel, 30 yuan should be enough." Chen Jingjing roughly calculated the demand for hardware and said.

Zhao Han nodded: "Well...if you include the increase in expenses caused by the increase in the number of personnel and salary increases in the future, the budget will be 50 per month. To be lenient, the operating cost will be 600 million per year! With such a cost, can we support an Internet company with more than [-] million daily active users?"

"Okay!" Chen Jingjing thought for a moment, "Judging from the fact that hardware prices are declining along with Moore's Law, no problem!"

"However, labor wages will increase over time." Zhao Han said humorously, "The increase in labor wages has offset the cost savings brought by the decline in hardware. Generally speaking, even if it is 60 a month, Generally speaking, it can be maintained in the past few years!”

The reason why 60 yuan a month can be maintained now is because today's programmers are considered to have a high salary if they can earn 1 yuan a month.Many excellent programmers actually only earn 3000 to [-] yuan a month, which is still the salary in first-tier cities.

Zhao Han's salary is lower than that of front-line employees, but as the company develops to a higher level, it will gradually catch up with the salaries of front-line peers.

There is no need to reach the salary of the top first-tier manufacturers, as long as it is similar to the salary of normal Internet companies in first-tier cities, in Jiangcheng County it means that the salary is higher than that of peers in first-tier cities.

The reason is simple. Employees have to save a lot of money on rent, commuting and various expenses.

In this way, what you get on the surface is the same as in first-tier cities, but in fact, you can enjoy a higher quality of life.

"Six million a year is... too exaggerated, isn't it?" Chen Wenwen couldn't help but take a breath, "This requires that in the future we must earn no less profit every day than we do now, so that we can maintain the Jingjing Input Method. The number of users increases? Wouldn’t it be very troublesome if something unexpected happens? "

Chen Wenwen has never experienced money-burning on the Internet. This development model of only investing without seeing profits makes his scalp numb!

But Zhao Han doesn’t see it that way, and he thinks it’s very profitable!

Later, when Tencent acquired Sogou, it valued one user at US$6, with an increase of 200 million users a month, worth US$1200 million, equivalent to about 1 million yuan.

The monthly user value obtained in ten years will be valued at 1 million, but what will be the cost?Just a few hundred thousand.

That is a return of more than 100 times!

Such a rough calculation is only based on the return multiple.In fact, after the input method user scale reaches an inflection point, and the traffic monetization model is matched, you can basically make money by yourself.

Historically, it’s hard to say in which year Sogou became profitable.

However, during the process from Sogou's subsequent listing to privatization and delisting, its revenue and profits have continued to expand.

In the original history of Sogou, the greatest value was the value of user scale. Once the scale of a product reaches a certain level, its monetization ability is extremely significant.One of the most annoying monetization methods for users is pop-up ads.

After Sogou introduced pop-up windows, it successively entered into heated lawsuits with Baidu, 360 and Tencent. The reason for suing Sogou was that pop-up ads constituted abnormal competition.