Parallel goods are not counterfeit goods, nor are they fake goods, and are generally called smuggled items.

Under normal circumstances, the prices of genuine comics and pirated comics are almost the same. Unless pirated comics cut corners to the point where readers are outrageous, pirated copies will be cheaper than making genuine comics. However, no one will buy pirated comics that are shoddy and messy, and even page-plated errors.

In addition to the author's manuscript fees and labor costs, genuine comics are actually produced from mechanization and mass production, and are printed using "regeneration paper" and are extremely cheap. The more you sell, the more you produce, the cheaper you produce, and the cheaper you produce, the more you have, the more you have, the more you have, the more you have, and the cheaper you are, the more you have a market. This has formed a virtuous cycle.

In Tokyo, a city with extremely high prices, a bowl of ramen costs 50 to 100 yuan (RMB) and a small bottle of Coke costs 10 to 20 yuan. In any convenience store or convenience store in Tokyo, you can buy a comic magazine that is more than 100 to 300 pages thick for only 200-450 yen (lowest 8, 9 yuan, and the highest 30 yuan).

As more people read magazines, more people draw comics. Various comics are submitted to thousands of companies in Tokyo. Printing factories start printing 24 hours a day without stopping. The technology of regeneration paper reproduction is getting higher and higher, and the cost of paper is getting lower and lower. More people buy cheap comics, thus giving birth to more yearning cartoonists... so it goes on and over again.

This is something called a benign industrial chain.

The reason why genuine comics are so expensive in China is that they have not formed a huge and cheap industrial chain, and the other is the same saying - exploitation layer by layer, making things difficult everywhere, and in the end, the bearer of the price falls on consumers.

Limu's comics are produced in Hong Kong and need domestic approval. If you want to pass quickly, you have to honestly invite guests to send money. After the approval is approved, you will face the second difficulty: "tariff".

It is not just for the mainland. In fact, every country has tariff barriers. Logically speaking, tariffs should play the role of "protecting local industries" and "improving local industries". Unfortunately, the first task in China was done well, but the second task was a bit unsatisfactory. Simply put, "It is easy to collect money, but it is difficult to pay!" The tariffs on comics that should have been used for the development of comics are used...

In short, you only charge money, don’t spit it out, and it doesn’t work hard to spit out any more.

The United States can buy one for US$20,000 to US$80,000. Even if a dishwasher works for a year, he can afford a lowest-end Mercedes-Benz. In addition to freight, if there is no tariff, Mercedes-Benz will be sold in China between RMB 160,000 and RMB 640,000, but under the influence of tariffs, they have increased to RMB 340,000 to RMB 2.5 million. Domestic dishwashers can save money for 30 years and work for 30 years.

It is not difficult to see the importance of parallel goods from the price difference during the period.

Limu repeatedly emphasized that it supports genuine versions and authors. In fact, it is to improve the domestic comic environment. Only when the environment is good will someone dare to open a comic company, and only if the author dares to draw comics, and the comic industry chain belongs to China can finally be formed. Otherwise, when the comic authors grew up, they would have suffered a hard fee of 2 to 3 yuan per page. Finally, a comic was popular but the pirated merchant took away his love.

As a commoner, Limu didn't think so much before. When his comics developed to this level, he finally understood a truth. It was not enough to work hard to become a big cartoonist. It was like a small sapling in the city, inspiring to become a big tree, but the soil and environment in the city did not allow it! Do you have to go to Amazon to grow? The Amazon tree species are not welcome to foreign species!

A sportsman came out of a country without athletes? The only evaluation is that this sportsman is the result of genetic mutation, referred to as a freak for short.

An artist emerged from a country with underdeveloped art. Other countries do not recognize the art of this country, so how could they recognize that painter is an artist? Even if they admit it, they will think that his art is all imported products.

So Rimu feels that before drawing his own original comics, the most important thing he needs is to create a good comic environment for himself in China. Successful suddenness can not only make his original comics recognized, but also make many domestic comics who long for comics grow up better.

...Only one rich land and a fertile soil can eventually create a lush forest with thousands of hectares of fertile land. For this reason, he even emphasized the authentic version in the 1/3 column of the single book, guiding readers to distinguish the difference between genuine comics and pirated comics. He explained in detail the harm of piracy and vaguely pointed out-

The "bright road" of parallel goods.

So under Limu's earnest teachings, a "conscientious businessman" finally came to Hong Kong and smuggled "Shangguo Premium" magazine and returned to China to sell wholesale. Between genuine and pirated comics of the same price, which book will readers choose? Which party will retailers choose? The answer is self-evident.

President SP successfully blocked the development of six comics in Japan, but did not notice the potential market in mainland China. With the help of Limu, the genuine editions and parallel goods of Shangguo Publishing House flowed into China at the same time, which caused a major blow to domestic pirates.

However, the President of SP did not make any mistakes. Shangguo Publishing House aimed at the Japanese market this time. Choosing a single book released in January is enough to explain the problem. (The Japanese New Year celebrates the New Calendar, January 1-3, commonly known as the Mikha Day.)

According to the initial momentum, Shangguo is definitely likely to surpass jump in data. Of course, single-line books and magazine sales cannot be compared. When has anyone seen a magazine sell over 100 million copies?

Although the six comics of "Boutique" have been blocked in Japan, it is undeniable that the newly released comics have indeed achieved great results in China, with a total sales of 10 million copies.

The sales volume of each movie is indeed not as good as "Steel Refining". On average, only 1,300 people bought one of them, but the six comics together reached 10 million copies.

Chinese comics... I can buy one and pass it on to the whole class to read.

Now that Chinese comic culture has not yet emerged (in 2000), spending money randomly - when buying a comic, you will be scolded by your parents. When you buy it, you have to put it under the bed secretly. If you accidentally scan it out, you have to continue being scolded.

The bookshelf are all full of "Exploring the Universe", "New Edition of Innovative Composition for Middle School Students", "Dream of the Red Chamber", "Water Margin", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", "Records of the Grand Historian", "Practical Idioms Dictionary", "Gone with the Wind", "Shelf's Investigation Collection", "Jane Eyre (Pure English Version)"... Who dares to put "Naruto" on the bookshelf?

Like Japan, I put the bookshelf full of "Conan", "Naoka", "One Piece", "Dragon Ball" on my bookshelf... and then I show off my reading volume to the guests who come to my house.

——This won’t work in China!

Parents do not support them and lose their ambitions (family problem - fork).

A person in his teens still reads comics, his father is so naive (social and cultural concepts - Cha Cha)

Life is very difficult, so let’s save money and take a look first (objective economic issue - Chacha)

The purchase rate of 1/1300 per comic is already very worthy of Limu. Children in poor mountainous areas can’t even afford a dictionary. If you buy a copy of "Qin Shi", I buy a copy of "Jiu Ding", or a few people gather money to buy one together to read, or wait for the school library to purchase and borrow it... This is the lifestyle of us Chinese.

To be honest, the six single-line versions of "Boutique" are not inferior to those of "Steel Refining", and they can even be said to be even worse than those of "Steel Refining". Unfortunately, one-time effort will fade away, and three-time exhaustion will be exhausted. The second publicity is not as effective as the first, and the new book version is not as good as the library version, so it has not achieved great success in single volume.

The European side likes magic, Knight and War "Magic Apprentice", which prefers dramatic art of depravity - Baroque and Rococo. The sales of the comic "Apprentice" alone reached 5 million copies in Europe, surpassing the sales of "Steel" in Europe.

The traditional style of "Nine Cauldrons" is popular in Taiwan. At this time, due to the trend of returning to Hong Kong and Macao, the mainland enthusiastically shouted the slogan "One country, two systems, Taiwan's return", which unexpectedly caused a little tension in cross-strait relations. "Nine Cauldrons" was affected by this. Although the six comics sold the highest in Taiwan, it only had about 1.4 million copies.

Shangguo Publishing House uses its innate advantages to translate comics into English, French, German, Chinese, Japanese and Five Chinese languages, and sells them to the world in a similar manner. The remaining fractions will no longer be summarized. At the same time, it is not ruled out that after the New Year's money is paid for on February 5, mainland sales may usher in another increase.

Not to mention the Shangguo Publishing House, which released the "Boutique" comics, even Limu, who used new comics to experiment with various new styles, did not expect that the global sales would be so huge. Japan's actions were indeed unexpected. It was obvious that the 12 million copies were scheduled for market research, but it suddenly increased to 23 million copies in actual sales. The capital turnover was entirely supported by the "painting fund" that Limu had survived.
Chapter completed!