Chapter 62: Buying Out the Swordsman

After listening to Liu Jingchen, Tang Jun said, "One million words is already a relatively small number of normal online works with millions of words. Moreover, there are still so many in Xiaoao Jianghu. There are not many free chapters and the remaining paid chapters. From the perspective of online distribution, I am afraid that the company is no longer profitable, and now it can only switch to the physical market.

But everyone knows what the current physical market is like.

In the past two years, the overall domestic economic situation has been sluggish. The physical book market is sluggish, and works with a circulation of millions of years ago are basically gone now. Recently, it can sell 100,000,200,000 books on the market, and it is already the top ten best-selling books on the TOP.

Judging from my past experience, this kind of rookie author can sell 570,000, I am afraid it is his limit. The quality of its works is excellent, and it can sell 70,000 sets.

Works with millions of words, after printing and typesetting, will only be about four or five copies per set. In addition to the revenue from the website and the wireless terminal... Let me calculate, um... The total gross income from text should not exceed one million yuan.

Even if we buy out the newcomer's top works at the price, the buyout price should not be higher than 500,000 yuan, which is about 500 yuan per thousand words, which is within this range. Hmm...from my point of view, that's roughly how it should be! "

Yuan Bingwen nodded when he heard the words, turned to look at Liu Jingchen, and said, "Liu! I know you are a fan of this author. Can you talk more about this author and his works from another angle? ?"

Liu Jingchen said: "That's what I see as the vice president! Xiaoao Jianghu, because the author stopped updating on the platform, I recently went to Feilong.com to follow the author's live broadcast.

The author is currently very popular in Feilong.com. Not only has an independent program channel, but also has the right to be recommended on the homepage. Now it is one of the gold anchors of Feilong.com.

At present, the total number of the author's attention on Feilong.com has reached hundreds of thousands. During the online live broadcast, as long as he is online, it is normal to have hundreds of thousands of people, and I think he is still on the rise.

I calculated the author's income. Of course, I am not a host, just a vague calculation, which is an estimate. I estimate that the author earns more than one million yuan per month, and it can only be high but not low. It can be said that in terms of the author's current income level, among all the authors on our platform, they already belong to the high-income, top-notch group.

Judging from the quality of Xiaoao Jianghu's works, the author's creative techniques are superb, the writing is pragmatic, and the rhythm of almost every climax plot is well controlled, and the plot trend is perfect. Judging from this, it is unlikely that the author's work will go astray in the later period.

According to my personal inference, I am afraid that this book can already ignore the limitation of categories and interpret it from a classic perspective. So I am very optimistic about the film and television prospects in the later stage of the work.

But the author has now sold the live broadcast rights of the audio and video version to Feilong.com.

I inquired about it, the authorization method is lifetime, and the authorization amount is one million. But this is just authorization, which does not include his salary, basic salary, share and bonus. In other words, although the author authorizes the copyright to Feilong.com, the joint interests generated belong to the author himself. That's about all I know and what I think! "

Yuan Bingwen nodded and said, "Listen to what you said, this author is already an author with a monthly income of millions! It's really surprising.

This book is laughing and proud! I read it too, the author did a really good job. The writing style is exquisite, the rhythm is strong, and the scale is also first-class.

Editor-in-chief Tang just analyzed it from a normal market perspective, I agree. Based on experience, if I analyze it, it is basically the same as editor-in-chief Tang's idea.

But there is an exception, the author already has a certain audience on a platform other than us. You know, fans are a reasonable resource that can be converted into purchasing power.

The author's data in our background, I also recently read it. Although Xiaoao Jianghu is not yet on the shelves, the author has already received a lot of rewards. There are more than 800 accounts at the main level of the Guangmeng League, plus a few accounts at other levels. The total amount of rewards from the backstage of Xiaoao Jianghu is about one million.

A large part of the reward accounts are newly established recently. I think these resources are very likely to come from Feilong.com. It can be seen that the fans of this author are very sticky fans.

Since the author is an author with such a high audience and fans, the total revenue of physical distribution is around one million, which seems to be a little underestimated now.

According to my speculation, after the release of this Swordsman, the sales scale should be no less than 300,000 to 500,000. The total revenue should be no less than four million to five million.

So from my point of view, this author named Octopus is very important in terms of promoting our platform to new customers and physical book sales. "

Tang Jun and Liu Jingchen nodded as they listened and felt that Yuan Bingwen's analysis was very reasonable.

Yuan Bingwen picked up the water cup on the table, took a sip of water, and continued: "According to the existing future potential of the work! Then the net profit of four or five million or so reflects the existing value of the author's work. According to the company's tradition, it is divided into The model is generally divided into five or five. Some excellent authors can enjoy four or six divided accounts. That is to say, we can offer a maximum price of three million yuan to buy out the physical copyright of Xiaoao Jianghu. Editor-in-chief Tang, you What do you think?"

Tang Jun pondered for a while, and said, "The vice president's analysis makes sense! But if the author is really a big author with a monthly income of one million yuan, then I think it's hard to impress him to sign with us even with the benefit of three million yuan. physical sales platform.

Because based on the author's current total income, the author is fully capable of independently publishing the physical books of Xiaoao Jianghu. Earning five million is, after all, more than earning three million.

Of course, this also includes that the author really understands the publishing and sales process of physical books. If the author is a white hat, it is even more difficult to handle. Often an author sells his work for a sky-high price, if he also thinks this way. He is likely to think that his release of Swordsman, the total profit should be more than 10 million. If so! It's not that simple. "

Yuan Bingwen nodded and said, "What you said is, of course, a common phenomenon in the current literary world. There are indeed many authors who are not very clear about the distribution process and profit scale. But in essence, three million The buyout price of Yuan has reached the sky-high price of three yuan per word. This price is already the price of a domestic first-line writer. For a new writer, it is indeed unprecedented.

What's more, what we think is the possibility of issuance is only an estimate. If this Xiaoao Jianghu is put on the market and the response is flat, we may face huge losses at that time. We have not encountered such a thing. So now, the buyout price of 3 million is already a high-risk price. For us, it is already the price red line. "

After Yuan Bingwen finished speaking, the room was silent for a while...

Liu Jingchen thought for a while and said, "Vice President Yuan, otherwise, we'd better sign an entity sharing agreement with the author. Since most authors are not very clear about the publication and distribution situation, the sharing agreement can fully satisfy the author's interest in publishing. Anticipation and imagination of the future prospects of the work.

At that time, the more sales are sold, the more the author will naturally earn. If there are fewer sales, he himself knows what the physical book market is like, and we are only branded and complained.

And we can also add a part of the supplementary agreement to the agreement, so that the risk of issuance cost can be shared in the final share. I believe this is also a good way for an author who does not want to buy out and wants to publish. If Xiaoao Jianghu's market sales are hot, then it will not be a disadvantage for the company. "

Yuan Bingwen heard the words, um, nodded, pondered for a while, and said, "I think so! You go back and prepare. Go to see this author together tomorrow. If possible, I'll stick to the opinion just now, it's best Ten years of network and entity commissions that can buy out works for 3 million.

If the author disagrees with the buyout, then try to talk about the divided parts again. In fact, I am also very interested in the film and television copyright of Xiaoao Jianghu. If the author agrees, the company is willing to pay three million plus one million to buy ten years of online physical distribution rights and film and television rights.

You must know that most of the excellent online novels and film and television copyrights sell for hundreds of thousands at most. It is very rare to be able to sell millions of film and television copyrights. So you'd better persuade the author to think more about it! "

Tang Jun and Liu Jingchen carefully recorded Yuan Bingwen's words in the book, so as not to forget them at that time.

Several people discussed some details and finally broke up.

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