Chapter 364 Manuscript Fee
Chapter 364
“I don’t know where Editor Cao got his confidence.” Deputy Director Liu shook his head: “You used it in your article Are those allusions a bit too profound? "
"Is twenty thousand copies a lot?" Zhou Zhi didn't know much about this. This was also his first time in the publishing industry.
"If it is distributed nationwide, of course it cannot be considered too much. There are hundreds of thousands of copies and hundreds of thousands of copies." Deputy Director Liu is obviously an expert in this field: "But for provincial distribution, it is quite enough. That’s it.”
"Think about it, there are more than 100 counties in the province, and one county has 100 books on the shelves, which is only more than 10,000 books. With the stocking up, 20,000 books is almost the limit."
"Of course. "Yes, I think Lao Cao's idea is more than that." Deputy Director Liu said with a smile: "These extra five thousand volumes are not for preservation." Stocking up, but with the intention of overflowing."
"Hmm." Zhou Zhi thought for a while: "Then we have to be prepared. If the sales results are promising, can we make a series and invite them? Some writers who are native to their hometown and are willing to promote the food culture of their hometown wrote " "Guangdong Flavor", "Lu Flavor" and "Huaiyang Flavor"? There is no rule that Shuchuan People's Publishing House can only publish food culture books related to Sichuan flavor!"
"That's right! "Okay!" Chief Editor Cao walked in from the door: "Let's go their own way and leave others with nowhere to go!"
"Lao Cao is here too? Don't you be more proud!" Deputy Director Liu and Editor Cao seemed to be familiar with each other, and they spoke quite casually: "Don't let the book fail to sell, and our publishing house will suffer a small loss. Everyone is used to it, and it would be bad if the first publishing trip of the elbow is ruined.”
"Old Liu, you don't believe my vision!" Chief Editor Cao wore black-rimmed glasses and looked polite, but in fact he had a strong desire to win. After sitting down on the sofa, he took a fax and photographed it in front of Deputy Director Liu. On the coffee table: "Look at this, and you will know the source of my confidence."
"Oh?" Deputy Director Liu picked up the fax and was surprised: "Mr. Cai? You made an appointment with him, Have you made an appointment yet?”
"Who is Mr. Cai?" Zhou Zhi leaned his head over and took a look, and was also shocked: "Cai Lan? This man is amazing!"
"You know him, Elbow?" Chief Editor Cao On the contrary, he was a little surprised: "But he also mentioned you."
"Do you know this! The four most talented people in Hong Kong!" Zhou Zhi quickly looked down: "Let me see, let me see, What did you write about me..."
The fax is handwritten.
"Brother Cao of Shu Province and colleagues: I am aware of the letter and have seen the sample of Zhou Xiaoyou's writing.
It is known that in the third century of Suisu, the land is thousands of miles away, and there are also articles, Taoist friends, and food colleagues. . This is so comforting. < br>
Nowadays, everything is so complicated that I can’t write for a long time. It’s enough to have a few words in my spare time.
I echo my friends in the world and compete with each other with writing. Le Ye.
A friend told me that I would like to set up a food and beverage column on TVB to realize the three joys.
When I read the letter, I was enjoying the delicious chicken and dandan noodles at Tai Ping Restaurant, a time-honored restaurant in Shu Gang, Central.
With these four pleasures, Lan dares not to obey your orders?
For the rest of the fine scraps, please discuss with your assistant.
This is the purpose of the restoration and the praise of Chun Sui.
"Color"
Editor-in-Chief Cao said proudly: "Do you understand? So it’s not me who has confidence in elbows, it’s Teacher Cai who has confidence in elbows! "
"Come on," Zhou Zhi didn't accept this sentiment at all: "It's not that Editor Cao has confidence in me, but that you have confidence in Teacher Cai! "
"Hahaha..." Editor Cao didn't care at all how Zhou Zhi criticized him: "At least this kind of introduction of dishes with stories can truly be called a 'food culture' book. Teacher Cai read the sample I am so inspired that I am planning to open a film and television column! "This shows that he quite agrees with our publishing ideas. Since he agrees with it, we might as well be a little bolder..." After speaking, he took out a new contract from the document bag: "The publishing house decided Okay, add another 10,000 copies! ”
For Shudu People's Publishing House, this is also a new way of cooperation with authors - paying "copyright fees" based on sales volume.
This is different from the "Field Survey on Jiachuan Dialect" that Zhou Zhi gave to Shu University, and it is even more different from the later "Jiachuan Dialect Exegesis".
For "Field Survey on Jiachuan Dialect" and "Exegesis of Jiachuan Dialect", the Chinese Department of Sichuan University initially planned to pay Zhou Zhi a one-time "remuneration" of 4,000 yuan, completely buying it out.
But after Zhou Zhi only delivered "Field Survey on Jiachuan Dialect", he caught up with a good opportunity - the National Copyright Administration happened to raise the standard of royalties.
The new standards stipulate that for scientific works that have important academic value, including monographs on natural sciences, social sciences, and literary and artistic theory, those who must be paid preferential remuneration, ranging from 6 to 20 yuan per 1,000 words. Increase to ten to thirty yuan;
The above is just the basic royalties, in addition to the royalties for the number of print runs.
Remuneration for printing runs has been increased from the original 5% of the basic royalties for every 10,000 copies printed to 8% of the basic royalties for every 10,000 copies.
For monographs that do have important academic theoretical value but have a small print run, the payment for 1-10,000 copies will be increased from 20% of the basic royalties to 30% of the basic royalties.
Zhou Zhi's "Exegesis of Dialects" also has a lot of words, 300,000 words. Calculated based on the average standard of 20 yuan per thousand words, 300,000 words is a manuscript fee of 6,000 yuan.
The initial printing is 5,000 copies. According to the standard of 8% for 10,000 copies, it is 4% for 5,000 copies. Here is another 240 yuan.
This is the manuscript fee that Zhou Zhi can get for his "Jiachuan Dialect Exegesis", which is 6,240 yuan. In the future, for every additional 5,000 copies printed, he can earn an additional 240 yuan.
A lot? It doesn't look like much.
But compared with the previous buyout fee of 1,500 yuan for "Jiachuan Dialect Field Survey", this has quadrupled.
And the money cannot be said to be small. After all, in Jiachuan today, more than 6,000 yuan can buy a small courtyard.
But the cooperation agreement signed by Zhou Zhi and Sichuan People's Publishing House is different.
Divided according to sales volume.
Editor-in-Chief Cao is a sophisticated person. From the fact that he can establish a relationship with Hong Kong Island's famous film producer, gourmet, columnist, film host, and businessman Cai Dawen, you can know that he has great influence in the cultural and cultural circles. He has a wide network of contacts in the publishing industry.
Nowadays, the price of books is not expensive, usually about five yuan per volume. "Sichuan Fun Talk" has a lot of color pages with pictures, so the cost is relatively high, and the price reaches six yuan per volume. .
Editor Cao gave Zhou Zhi a "royalty", and the price was very generous - 10%.
In other words, Zhou Zhi can earn 60 cents for every copy of his book sold.
Thirty thousand volumes equals eighteen thousand.
Don’t forget that this is the first volume, and "Interesting Stories of Sichuan" is a series. Zhou Zhi has now written six volumes, and is expected to write four more volumes.
In other words, according to Editor Cao's most conservative estimate, the "Sichuan Taste of Fun" series of books can bring a comprehensive income, at least no less than 180,000.
Of course, the publisher will make more.
(End of this chapter)