When people discuss it, it becomes popular, and when it becomes popular, it will increase the number of curious and interested people, thereby increasing magazine sales and forming a relatively benign growth cycle.

When the magazine side is based on data and feedback.

After analyzing the reasons for the sales growth.

Naturally, we will continue to increase the promotion of corresponding articles and increase the serialization weight of corresponding novels. Specifically, Ding Yun's works may be placed on the cover.

The serialized content may increase by 10,000 to 20,000 words.

Meet reader needs and so on.

Fortunately, Ding Yun had already handed over the entire manuscript to the magazine, so there was no rush for the manuscript.

At most, two magazines have continued to make manuscript appointments with Ding Yun. I hope that if Ding Yun comes up with new works, he will give them priority and the remuneration can be increased appropriately.

However, Ding Yun is not in a hurry to release works continuously. The most important thing is that the work has not been serialized yet. If he releases another work, he is not competing with himself.

So I can only express it tactfully, "I am very busy with school recently and don't have time to write. I will wait until the winter vacation."

After that, they didn’t continue to ask for more manuscripts.

It was not until Ding Yun started school three months ago and the serialization of Xiagu Danxin was about to end that Editor Zhou contacted Ding Yun again.

"Hello, I'm from a magazine.

The reason I'm contacting you this time is because your first novel is about to be serialized and the finale will be released in the next issue.

It will be published as soon as the finale comes out.

We conservatively estimate that one edition will be printed for 200,000 yuan, and the royalty is 8%. This price is already quite good. Although some writers can get 12% of the royalties, but those are martial arts

Famous people, we can only give 8% for the time being.

Another thing is that we are different from other unscrupulous publishing houses. We will not hold down royalties until the books we print are sold.

As many books as we print, we will give you the royalties first.

It has nothing to do with you if you can't sell out.

What do you think? Do you want to sign a publishing contract?"

Ding Yun knew as soon as he heard that the other party's words were not very sincere, because no matter what, after the book is officially printed, it is an industry rule to pay 50% of the advance royalties in advance, and there is no such thing as a bad publishing house that keeps suppressing the royalties.

Yes, the maximum pressure is 50%.

However, because the conditions offered by the other party were very attractive and they were willing to give 100% of the royalties directly, Ding Yun did not bother to expose it. He just pretended that he did not know, nodded and replied:

"Okay, it seems that your magazine has a lot of turnover, and the overall operation is very healthy. You can send the contract over later. If there is no problem, I will sign it and send it back. Is there anything else you want to say?"

"Yes, yes, and other things.

We have another question that we want to discuss with you, which is your remaining four books. Didn’t you send us a five-part series? If these five books continue to be serialized, I’m afraid the final sales volume will be very low.

It will be a little low. After all, many people will not buy a book they have read and collect it at home after reading the serial content. Therefore, our idea is whether we can publish it together directly, so that the sales volume will be higher.

Aren’t you getting a little more royalties?

Compared to royalties, royalties are nothing!

But in this case, the royalties we may have to pay are a bit high. Paying it all in one lump sum will have a slight impact on the capital flow. Therefore, can we pay 30% of the royalties for the last four books first?

After selling some and collecting some funds, we will definitely pay you the remaining 70% in time.

Our publisher still has this reputation.

If you think about it, if we sell it as a set, even people who don’t want to buy the first one but think they’ve already read it and don’t need to buy it will buy the first one in order to read the next four books.

Going back, after all, I have bought four copies, and the lack of money for that one will make the whole set incomplete. This is the plan of our magazine.

It is also a plan to maximize profits.

Of course, it depends on whether you are willing or not.

It still depends on your own choice.”

Well, after hearing this, how could Ding Yun not understand what the other party meant? He just said that he was willing to give full royalties directly for the first book. He was completely paving the way for the subsequent content and paving the way for less advance royalties.

However, after Ding Yun did some calculations, he was still very surprised, and at the same time he asked straightforwardly:

"Editor Zhou, I don't quite understand why you go to all the trouble to do this. If we print 200,000 copies of each book, you and I have gone through so much trouble, and in the end you only paid 1% less than the normal market rules.

This book is just a 30% advance payment.

Is your publishing house so far behind?

Calculated based on 20 yuan per book.

I only saved less than 100,000 yuan.”

Normally, he pays 50% in advance. Now he wants to pay 50% more for the first book and 20% less for each of the next four books. That adds up to 80% minus 50%, which is a savings.

Just 30% of the book.

At the same time, Editor Zhou was obviously stunned for a moment. He had just seen Ding Yun agreeing so readily and thought that the other party didn't understand. He didn't find out that he only agreed because what he mentioned before was beneficial to the other party.

So the next second, he could only confess helplessly:

"I didn't expect you to be knowledgeable. I know that 50% of the royalties are normally paid in advance. In fact, our publishing house does not lack the one hundred thousand, but if it is hundreds of thousands or millions, it is indeed somewhat lacking, because we

Although the publishing house only plans to print 200,000 copies of your first book, we want to print 500,000 copies of the following books. Because the first book has been serialized in full, the sales volume will definitely decrease.

, so we didn’t dare to print too many, but the next few volumes were not serialized.

Coupled with your current fame and popularity.

There is still a high probability that it will be sold for half a million.

I'm really sorry, there's nothing we can do about it, because if we want to print 500,000 books, the total would be 2.2 million books. The initial investment is a bit large, and it may have an impact on the company's cash flow.

But the publisher wanted to give it a try.

I'm really sorry. If you don't agree, then we will continue to follow the normal rules. However, the publisher may have to reduce the printing volume. Each of the next four books can only be printed at 300,000 yuan first. Let's see how the market goes.

."

Editor Zhou's words were not actually a threat, they were just telling the truth. However, Ding Yun did not want to compromise, because she was worried that this compromise might lead to them taking advantage of it later, so she just said helplessly: "Okay, then

Just print 300,000 first.

We still follow the industry rules. There is no need to take risks or play tricks. Please send us the specific contract. If there are no problems, I will sign it directly.
Chapter completed!