After copying "Broken Void", in order to find a reliable publishing house, Cao Zhiqiang decided to go around first and take a look at some points.

Without Internet search, you can only use a local method, that is, go to a nearby bookstore and search for various martial arts novels.

In the spring of 1983, the domestic cultural industry had not been completely relaxed in terms of source, especially in printing factories. Although there were individual booksellers, there were not many, and there were also pirated books, but there were also not many, and there were very few books in private book stalls.

At this time, if you want to buy books, especially martial arts novels, the most reliable way is to go to Xinhua Bookstores all over the country, and renting books to read is of course to go to the library.

There are self-employed people selling books on street stalls, such as Gulou Street, but the books they sell are basically outdated magazines and newspapers, or some unreasonable books.

For example, some fights against female devils, some fights against female bandits, meat X groups, dragons, tigers and leopards, or some Shaolin's skills, some secret skills, or some qigong.

That’s right, there are no serious books from individual booksellers setting up street stalls at this time because they cannot be purchased.

Why?

Because during this period, printing factories were almost state-owned or collective, and they were all in charge of policies, and they were able to ensure profits and income from drought and flood, without self-profits and losses, and rarely had economic autonomy, and of course they lacked the motivation to steal printing.

At this time, magazines and journals basically went to post offices, while books went directly to Xinhua bookstores in various places. The distribution methods were basically public to public, and few public to individuals.

So if you want to set up a stall to sell books, you don’t even have channels to purchase goods, and regular books don’t easily sell them to you.

Therefore, during this period, if you want to subscribe to magazines, you should go to the post office and read books, and of course you should go to Xinhua Bookstore.

There are also internal publications such as various institutions and institutions, as well as enterprises, but the circle of such things is smaller, the content is more boring, there is no liquidity, and there is no value for setting up stalls.

Since that's the case, what are the self-employed booksellers selling at this time?

That's all right, it's probably a squatting man!

What are the various books smuggled from Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as various smuggled or privately recorded audio tapes, sold at this time is quite popular.

Anyway, the relevant departments don’t come to sweep easily. Even if the relevant departments come to sweep, as long as you run faster than others, there will be no problem.

So at this time, almost all those who dare to set up street stalls are running experts.

However, it will take 1984 years to really rise in street stall literature.

Anyway, one day when he came to a nearby Xinhua Bookstore, he started reading martial arts novels everywhere.

He did not read any martial arts novel, but read which book is of better quality and has higher price.

In particular, we need to copy the names of publishers that publish martial arts novels.

In this way, he can select a relatively reliable publishing house in a targeted manner, find the publishing house address, and contribute to the publishing house.

But just when he was remembering the names of several martial arts novels and was planning to go back to study, he suddenly found a young female salesperson in the bookstore lying on the counter writing.

After asking casually, she said proudly that she was writing a poem and planned to contribute to the Poetry Magazine. She also said that she had a poem she had chosen before, and not only published it, but also gave her a manuscript fee of 20 yuan.

After chatting like this, Cao Zhiqiang found that the other party was very familiar with publishing, so he aroused Cao Zhiqiang's interest.

Through chatting with the female salesperson of Xinhua Bookstore, Cao Zhiqiang realized that in this era, it would be very troublesome if a pure newcomer wrote books and published martial arts novels from the beginning.

On the contrary, like he did before, he first submitted articles to the magazine and published poems, prose and short stories in other people's magazines, making money faster and more stable.

Because martial arts novels belong to the category of books, if they want to be published formally, they must have a book number.

Book numbers are now allocated to various publishing houses by the Publication Administration.

This thing can be understood as food coupons and meat coupons, and they all have quantity restrictions.

Generally speaking, the larger the publishing house, the more book numbers you can get, and vice versa.

It is precisely because of the quantity limitation that it is quite scarce.

Normally, if a newcomer who is not famous wants to publish martial arts novels, the publisher often will not publish a book for you when considering various risks.

Even if the editor of the publisher values ​​your article and decides to publish it for you, it will not be given much money. In most cases, you will be given a royalty fee based on how much it costs, and usually it will not be higher than the ceiling of ten yuan for a thousand words.

The most outrageous thing is that if you sell your work at a price of 1,000 characters and ten yuan, the copyright will not belong to you, it is all owned by the publisher.

Unless you are an old and famous writer with a certain reputation and bring your own traffic, you will be given a relatively high buyout price, which is usually a thousand words.

As for the royalty system? What is that?

Therefore, you need to find a publisher to publish a book. The more famous the author, the better, because the more famous the author, the greater your bargaining power.

For example, Jin Yong, he is sought after wherever he publishes books, and he can cut the biggest cake.

Of course, after all, it has been changed, so there is also a publishing model at this time, which is to publish books out of your own pocket.

In this case, you have to spend money to secretly buy book numbers from the publisher in the early stage.

In addition, you have to pay for the printing and issuance money, and you have to pay for the labor fee that the staff sends you to the books. Anyway, you have to pay for all the early expenses.

If you publish at your own expense, the more books you sell, the more you make, the less you sell, and you will lose money, and the publishing house will not lose money.

If you are very confident in your work, of course you can also use this self-paid book publishing model, and the publishing house will earn an interim fee.

In the early 1980s, this model of publishing books at your own expense was not popular.

The main reason is that the initial investment in publishing books at your own expense is too high.

Today's printing factories are not later. Once they are typed and printed, the minimum printing volume is 5,000 copies, and some large manufacturers even have 10,000 copies.

Because there is no reliable Chinese character computer input method at this time, there is no computer layout and printing, and type printing is very troublesome and it is all manual.

Including other expenses, you pay out of your own pocket and the cost is at least 8,000 yuan, which must be given to the publisher in advance.

This fee is not affordable by ordinary individuals.

That eight thousand yuan is enough to open a small restaurant.

Unlike in the 1990s, Chinese character input method and typewriting technology have improved, and there are more printing factories, and they have begun to take on their own profits and losses, and the printing volume requirements have also been reduced, which has also resulted in the cost of publishing books.

So in the 1990s, many cadres and leaders who thought they were a little bit of culture liked to publish books at their own expense to improve their personality.

It’s nothing more, the market economy is getting cheaper to publish books.

Of course, Cao Zhiqiang is full of confidence in his martial arts novels, after all, this has been tested by time and the masses.

Therefore, publishing books at your own expense is undoubtedly the best choice.

Is this also respect for Mr. Huang Yi in his previous life?

However, at that time, he was not famous and had no money at hand, so it was impossible to publish a book at his own expense.

If he doesn't say anything else, he can't take out eight thousand yuan.

He could only find a publishing house first and someone to publish it for you, but in this case, the book will definitely be sold at a low price.

This made him a little difficult to choose.

But on the next day, I wondered if the system had been affected in some way, but he actually signed in three magical things-

"Three Thousand Selected Modern Poetry"!

"Three Thousand Selected Modern Short Stories"!

"Three Thousand Selected Modern Popular Science Knowledge"!

Well, the "Three Thousand Selected Modern Poetry" are all modern poems that have won awards or are very popular.

Most of them are poems that appeared after the 1980s and 1990s, including domestic and foreign poems, especially some later generations of internet celebrities, which account for a large proportion.

"Selected Three Thousand Modern Short Stories" are some modern short stories.

Basically, they are all high-quality products that have won awards or super popular products, including science fiction novels.

For example, Ted Jiang's "The Tower of Babylon", "The Story of Your Life", etc.

As for "Three Thousand Selected Modern Popular Science Knowledge", there are some popular science articles.

It is not a simple and dry story about popular science knowledge, but a strict argument and experimental data. Many of them are popular versions of Chinese and foreign professional scientific papers that appeared after the 1990s.

For example, the popular science articles about genes submitted in Science Pictorial have been quoted in many of the quotations of 3,000 modern popular science knowledge.

Otherwise, it would be difficult for him to gain favor in relatively serious science magazines such as Science Pictorial, just by taking it for granted or the little genetic memory of his previous life, without relatively rigorous relevant data and arguments.

It’s so easy to get a royalty of 60 words.

In short, since I got these three things that could be cheated, Cao Zhiqiang decided to slow down first, not to find a publishing house to publish his own martial arts novels, but to continue to contribute to various magazines to earn extra money and accumulate funds.

This time, he no longer changed his vest pseudonym like before, but instead published his works under the same pseudonym.

Making money is not the purpose, the key is to raise a pen name and accumulate fame.

When you have the popularity and funds, you will publish "Broken Void" at your own expense.

In this way, he quickly plagiarized some works, using the pseudonym "Qianzi" and began to mail manuscripts to various well-known magazines.

For example, he copied some popular science articles of different types, and mailed them to magazines such as Science Pictorial and Science Literature under the pseudonym "Qianzi".

I also copied some short stories of different types, and also mailed them to magazines such as "Reader's Digest" and "Story Club" under the pseudonym of "Qianzi".

These magazines have included his articles and still have different royalties.

Maybe the pseudonym "Qianzi" has been published in many large magazines at the same time, and it has become famous.

In addition, his plagiarism level is better than the articles he wrote before, and the royalties given to him by various magazines later were obviously higher than in the past.

Moreover, there are several magazines that want to invite him to be a columnist.

Because the timeliness of various large journals and magazines are not high, most of them are monthly magazines.
To be continued...