Chapter 32 The Ambition of Publishing
Seeing that the two of them had finished talking, Luo Baoming said: "Mr. Liu, I am here with a mission this time."
Liu Hongmin: " Ming Pao wants the rights to publish the remaining three volumes?”
“Yes, the price offered by Mr. Jin Yong this time is 70 per thousand words, which is the highest in Hong Kong. "Eighty Thousand Words" by Ni Kuang."
Liu Hongmin thought for a moment, "Okay."
Ni Kuang is a famous writer in Hong Kong, and Liu Hongmin knows that his status is much inferior to him. . If Shaobao wasn't so popular and RTV was going to adapt it into a TV series, I'm afraid Mr. Jin Yong wouldn't have given such a high remuneration.
What's more, many people in Xiangjiang now feel that they are inferior to mainlanders. Ni Kuang has a special status. If Liu Hongmin really gets paid 80 per thousand words, Ni Kuang will definitely cause trouble for Mr. Jin Yong.
Luo Baoming also prepared the contract in advance. After Liu Hongmin signed it, he invited the two of them to dinner.
Manager Huang didn’t know what was going on, so he agreed without hesitation. Luo Baoming didn’t even have time to stop him.
Liu Hongmin calmly interjected: "Mr. Luo, this can be considered the third time we have cooperated. Let's celebrate a little."
"Really just a little?"
Luo Baoming asked a little naively.
“Of course!”
Liu Hongmin smiled sincerely, then turned around and grabbed a classmate and asked him to help call Zou Shifang.
After Zou Shifang came out, Liu Hongmin said: "I will take the two Xiangjiang compatriots to Uncle Wang first. You call Zhenyun and the others, and Zha Jianying."
Zou Shifang As soon as he heard it, he knew that Liu Hongmin actually wanted to call Zha Jianying. He was just afraid that a few friends would have other ideas, so he called them all.
Arrived at Uncle Wang's small restaurant, Liu Hongmin quietly discussed with Manager Huang the casting and adaptation of Shaobao.
“Due to space issues, Shaobao doesn’t have many characters. It mainly adopts a two-person detective mode, but when filming a TV series, some characters can be added. For example, Dynasty Ma Han, Zhang Long and Zhao Hu, all of them are The identity of the government servant of Bianliangcheng, the investigator of the hidden village, the witness of the theater troupe, etc. is used as an Easter egg in the TV series. I think the audience will definitely be happy to see this situation..."
Manager Huang Nodding repeatedly, "Mr. Liu deserves to be the author of Shaobao. The arrangement is so reasonable."
Not long after, Zou Shifang and others arrived. When Zha Jianying saw Luo Baoming, she smiled and said hello.
"Mr. Luo, we meet again."
"Hello, Miss Cha, hello."
Luo Baoming respects this distant relative of his boss. Others may not know it, but he It was clear that Miss Cha had someone backing her family.
Liu Hongmin introduced each other to everyone. Liu Zhenyun, Chen Jiangong and Wang Xiaoping were surprised to hear that these two people were actually people photographed by Xiangjiang Mingbao and RTV.
They did hear that the copyright of Shaobao was sold to Xiangjiang, but Xiangjiang came again and again, so there must be something big going on here.
Liu Hongmin invited everyone to drink and winked at Zou Shifang without comment. Zou Shifang immediately transformed into a master of persuading people to drink, and with just a few words, the two visitors from Xiangjiang drank a small cup of wine. Drinking from a three-cent cup is very deceptive. At first, the drinker can count how many cups he drank, but soon the drinker will ignore the number due to drunkenness and think he is not drunk.
Manager Huang soon fell over. Luo Baoming kept an eye on it, but he couldn't control himself.
Liu Hongmin asked at this time: "Mr. Luo, Mr. Jin Yong is also very famous in the mainland."
Luo Baoming said proudly: "Of course, that is my boss! ”
Liu Hongmin glanced at Zha Jianying, who covered her mouth and snickered. She knew that Luo Baoming was expressing his loyalty to Mr. Jin Yong through her, but she had never even seen Mr. Jin Yong's face, so Luo Baoming was acting to a blind man.
"That's it, that's it!" Zou Shifang echoed from the side, picked up the wine cup and touched it with Luo Baoming. Luo Baoming consciously raised the wine cup, "Chels!"
Zha Jianying took the opportunity to quietly ask: "What do you want to do?"
"I want to Get Mr. Jin Yong's novel to be distributed in the mainland."
Zha Jianying looked at Liu Hongmin in shock, "Are you sure? Even if you can afford the copyright fee, how can you print it?"
"Don't you have a publishing house in Beijing University? It shouldn't be a problem to be affiliated, right?"
Zha Jianying fell into deep thought, and it seems feasible to be affiliated. Is it just Beijing University Publishing House that can do it?
You must know that since the restoration of Peking University Publishing House, tens of millions of copies of teaching materials alone have been sold. How can there be time to publish novels? If Liu Hongmin's Shaobao hadn't brought more honor to the school, Peking University Press would have heard about it long ago.
Compared with teaching aids that sell millions of copies per book, a small package with only 50,000 or 60,000 copies a month is no different from a mosquito’s legs.
Although Mr. Jin Yong’s novels are very popular, they are still far inferior to teaching aids.
No matter how Zha Jianying looked at it, she felt that this was Liu Hongmin's wishful thinking.
“It all depends on people!”
Publishing Jin Yong’s novels is Liu Hongmin’s most feasible plan to make money at present. Throughout the 1980s, Mr. Jin Yong only published one book in the Mainland, and it was "Book, Sword, Enmity and Enmity".
This novel earned Mr. Jin Yong a copyright fee of 50,000 yuan, which can be said to be a huge sum of money in the mainland. But for Mr. Jin Yong, he really looks down upon this small amount of money. , so I donated it.
Mr. Jin Yong doesn’t like this profit, but Liu Hongmin does. And this is a long-term business. When online novels are not booming, Jin Yong's novels can continue to make money.
Liu Hongmin estimates that the profit from Jin Yong's novels is at least tens of millions, and this is even if there are piracy cases. Without piracy, the profits could even reach hundreds of millions.
The way to make a fortune is right in front of you. If you don't try it, Liu Hongmin will regret it to death.
"Publish Jin Yong's novels?" Luo Baoming turned around and asked in surprise: "How do you know that Mr. Jin Yong wants to publish his novels in mainland China?"
Liu Hongmin said with a smile : "Mr. Jin Yong cares about his compatriots in the mainland. Of course he is willing to have his works appreciated by his compatriots in the mainland?"
Luo Baoming nodded vaguely, "You are right, but this matter is not right." Easy. Your mainland’s reputation for martial arts novels is not very good, which is the biggest obstacle at the moment.”
Comments?
The people present looked at each other and seemed to have seen articles criticizing martial arts novels. However, when I read it at the time, I thought it was just an exception. Now that I think about it, it seems that many newspapers were involved.
Everyone fell silent. This is indeed a very serious problem.
Only Liu Hongmin laughed out loud, "This problem is easy to solve."
Everyone asked in confusion: "Hongmin, do you really have a solution?"
"Of course!"
Luo Baoming quickly asked: "Mr. Liu, what is the solution?"
However, Liu Hongmin betrayed her.
“Don’t worry, we can talk about it later after I get Mr. Jin Yong’s authorization.”
(End of this chapter)