'Dear Breaking Dawn, first of all, thank you for your contribution. After our editor's review, we believe that your work The Lord of the Rings has good value and can be published. Please contact me as soon as possible—— Zhu Wensi Quanyong - Dashi Publishing House. '
There are six similar messages.
At first, Chen Xiao was very happy. The novel was submitted to eight publishing houses, and within a few days, seven of them sent him the news of its approval.
But after calling from house to house, he was not happy anymore.
"Shit, the whole book has more than one million words. I have been working hard for more than half a year. Since I graduated from college, I will be given 5% of the royalties?"
"Are you kidding me?"
This big stone publishing house is quite good. Chen Xiao also called Xinxin Publishing House in front of him and directly asked for 30000 yuan to buy it out.
At that moment, his expression was like a dog in the sun.
This is the Lord of the Rings. In the previous world, it has been translated into 40 languages, with a circulation of about 160 million copies of each version. Those so-called best sellers are like scum in front of it.
Buy out for 30000 yuan?
Why don't you eat shit.
Since he came to this world, Chen Xiao always felt that everything was not going well.
The first thing he did was the same as what others thought, that is, to be a copycat without thinking, copycat
The first step is to spend money to record two songs in the studio, one is You at the Same Table, and the other is Old Boy. They are all potentially explosive songs, and then upload them to the music website.
This is the simplest way to make money. Just lie still and wait for the money to be collected.
According to his idea, it is enough to earn a few million a year.
However, after uploading to the website, it immediately sank to the bottom, which was still the kind that could not rise. With only a few clicks, there was no wave at all.
Then he serialized The Lord of the Rings on the novel website. Finally, he sank into the water and drowned. Finally, he simply stopped the online serials. Anyway, no one watched it.
"Is the aesthetics of my original world totally different from that of this world?"
Chen Xiao frowned and reflected: "No, the songs in the world ranking list are also pretty good, and the movies with high box office are also beautiful. Is it just the unilateral aesthetic similarity?"
"No, I'm dead!"
Chen Xiao is now planning to publish the Lord of the Rings trilogy together. Tolkien, the original author of the previous life, would also publish the trilogy together if there were not enough paper.
"Ding Dong..."
The mobile phone rings again, cuts across the screen of the mobile phone, and finds a new email, Chen Xiao clicks:
'Hello, this is Kyoto University Press. First of all, thank you for your contribution. My editorial department believes that your Lord of the Rings has good cultural value and can be published. Please contact me as soon as possible—— Kyoto University Press. '
Chen Xiao saw this message and subconsciously clicked the phone number on the contact information.
But a thrill stopped directly.
"Kyoto University Press?"
"Literary value?"
Chen Xiao's eyes brightened: "Yes, it's worth literature. My book is worth literature!"
You should know that the main way for Kyoto University Press to make profits is to print textbooks, but books with high literary value will also be published.
However, the difficulty of passing its review is undoubtedly the highest. It has been more than half a year since this year, but this publishing house has not published a novel.
Unexpectedly, the Lord of the Rings has passed the review, which will undoubtedly improve its reputation.
Fame is what he is lacking now.
"But, I'm even more short of money." Chen Xiao thought to himself, and did not know what conditions Jingda Press could offer.
Standing up, Chen Xiao dialed the phone and walked around the room, thinking of his words.
The phone is connected.
"Hello, is this Kyoto University Press? I'm Breaking Dawn. Yes... Yes... May I have the first print? Oh... OK, thank you."
Hang up, Chen Xiao smiles slowly.
The conditions given by Kyoto University Press: 10% royalty, plus 50000 for the first print!
“yes！！”
"Boo~" He kissed his mobile phone.
Well done!
After a rough calculation, there is still more than 500000 yuan, which is enough to start his film plan.
Yes, his preparation for more than a year is to make films. He was a film writer in his previous life. Now when he comes to this completely different world, of course, he should choose the industry he is best at.
That's making movies.
And make interesting movies.
All this is just money.
He can't pull investment, so there is the Lord of the Rings.
The 10% royalty is not high, but Chen Xiao knows that it is good for a newcomer to get this price, and the other party is the leader of the publishing industry.
His initial expectation was 15% royalty, but now 10% royalty has made him very happy. I have to say that people's psychological expectations change with the environment.
The next step is to pack up and go to Yanjing. It's better to sign the contract face to face.
……
The office of Yanjing University Press is located on a street from Kyoto University. The whole hall is very formal. A beautiful little sister at the front desk smiles and asks him who he is looking for.
"I am looking for Manager Wang of the editorial department. I have an appointment. I am the author of The Lord of the Rings."
"Oh, please wait a moment... Professor Guo!"
At this time, a middle-aged man came into the door, holding a stack of thick manuscript paper in his hand. Seeing the reaction of the front desk, he knew that this was Professor Guo. It seemed that he had a high position in the publishing house.
Chen Xiao had a sharp glance and saw that the content on the paper was exactly the content of the Lord of the Rings.
He couldn't help looking at Professor Guo twice more. I don't know if it was his illusion. He always felt that Professor Guo was tired.
Professor Guo nodded to the front desk: "Xiao Wang, don't call me anymore. I'm here to receive Mr. Breaking Dawn."
Then he turned his head and extended his hand to Chen Xiao.
"Mr. Breaking Dawn, let's talk in the reception room."
"What about publishing?"
"I can take full responsibility for publishing."
"Oh, that's good."
When we arrived at the reception room, Professor Guo was behind us, paying close attention to the door, and then directly put on a smiling face.
Then, in Chen Xiao's stunned eyes, Professor Guo, like a different person, couldn't wait to pull Chen Xiao onto the stool, sit beside him, and then sit down next to Chen Xiao.
"Professor Guo?"
Chen Xiao is a little flustered. Does he want to be hidden?
Then he saw Professor Guo rummaging through a pile of manuscript paper, turning the neat manuscript paper into a mess. Hearing Chen Xiao's voice, he did not look up: "Wait a minute, wait a minute, you'll be fine soon."
"Oh!"
Chen Xiao is relieved. It seems to be a problem in the book.
After Chen Xiao's observation, Professor Guo is definitely not a careful person. Previously, the manuscript paper looked neat, but all the pages were jumbled and not nailed up, so that Professor Guo has been looking for a long time and has not found what he wants.
"Where is it?... This is not... this is not, I found it, this!"
Professor Guo shook a piece of paper on his hand, took a long sigh of relief, looked carefully again, frowned deeply, and then handed the paper to Chen Xiao.
Chen Xiao looked at Professor Guo's expression and raised his heart.
"What happened? Did you write something wrong and need to be reconciled?"
Then he looked at a piece of paper handed to Professor Guo, on which a lot of things were written.
At a glance, these things look like English, but Chen Xiao knows that they are not.
As an 'author', he certainly knows that these are actually Kunya languages.
Chen Xiao glanced at Professor Guo and found that he was looking forward to Fang Zheng. He didn't think that Professor Guo was studying Elvish language and seemed to have made a lot of achievements.
Is this idle?
