I really don't want to be a novelist

Chapter 175 Work Awards and Publishers
"We are willing to provide two royalty plans. The first is the royalty share. We are willing to provide a 12.00% royalty share to obtain the exclusive full-language publishing rights of your work. The second plan is that we are willing to bid $50 and buy Break all copyrights of your work except the right of authorship.”

This is the general content of this email reply after translation.

The signature of the email is the name of the publisher of this submission 'Burt Press'

As for Ji Zhuo, he is called Mr. a, which is mainly Ji Zhuo's signature when he submitted the manuscript——ABC.

Having learned from the previous experience of getting sore hands when signing in, Ji Zhuo specially chose an extremely simple pseudonym for you this time.

Looking at the content of this email, Ji Zhuo paused,
The polite content in the first half of the email is of little value, the key is the conditions given by Burt Publishing House,
This condition has to be said to be very generous, especially compared to other publishing houses before,

The royalties are divided into 12.00%, which is quite good compared to a serious work written by a completely new overseas author.

The price of the buyout plan is also higher than that offered by other publishing houses.

And the reason why it seems that the buyout plan is more stringent, requiring full copyright... In fact, the main reason is that Ji Zhuo's book is a serious novel.

The sales volume of serious novels is likely not to be high, so even a 12.00% share may not be much money when calculated.

If Ji Zhuo was an ordinary author, he should choose the buyout price. If he has confidence, he can talk about the buyout period to keep his hopes up.

It's a pity that Ji Zhuo has a system in his pocket, and he is not afraid of pounces at all. It's best to pounce. Isn't this book just to get the wool out of the system and try serious works by the way?

So paused,
Ji Zhuo started to poke the screen with his hands, and began to reply to the publisher.
In principle, Ji Zhuo has no problem with this share ratio. If there is no accident, he should choose this publishing house.

But Ji Zhuo is also very curious, why this publishing company gives a higher share than his peers,

According to the reply email, it seems that the editor-in-chief of the publishing house prefers it.

"To Burt Press:
Thanks to your publishing house for your great love for my works, maybe because I have more confidence in my works, I am more inclined to the royalty sharing plan. "

Ji Zhuo can actually accept this percentage, but it is definitely possible to talk about it, so we need to talk about it more.
I didn't directly fight for the share ratio, but the issue of exclusive publishing rights in all languages.
Overseas copyrights can be handed over to this publishing house for publishing in other regions except Huaguo, but Ji Zhuo still wants to fight for the publishing rights of Huaguo to keep for himself first.

Of course, if the publishing house is willing to increase the share ratio, just for the full-language copyright, then he has no objection.

After considering the next sentence, Ji Zhuo tactfully expressed this point in the email.

Emailed back.

Then Ji Zhuo opened the mailbox again to see another email he received.

The content of another email was slightly unexpected.

"To Mr. Bugong:

Hello, Mr. Bugong, congratulations to your work "The Bird in the Cage" for winning the Europa Science Fiction Award for Best Long Science Fiction...Thank you again for bringing such a great work to the world of science fiction..."

This is also an English email, and the translated content is probably like this.

This is an award notification email, signed by the Europa Science Fiction Awards Jury Committee.

"The Bird in the Cage" won?

Ji Zhuo checked the award on Baidu, and compared the email addresses provided above,

The email address is real, and the award is a prestigious one.

It is not comparable to the status of the two science fiction awards, the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award, but it can be regarded as the second echelon award below it.

It is dedicated to the selection of science fiction works published in Europe that year, and the awarding time is just around the corner.

If before, Ji Zhuo's "The Bird in the Cage" would definitely not be included in the selection range,
But isn't this the overseas edition of "The Bird in the Cage" published? Europa Press is the one that published the overseas edition of "The Bird in the Cage".

Just happened to meet the selection criteria...and win the award.

And when Ji Zhuo was looking at the winning email,
Burt Publishing House responded to Ji Zhuo's reply email just now,

Ji Zhuo naturally opened his eyes again,
The translation of the email content is probably,

"Thank you Mr. A for choosing our publishing house. I think we have reached a consensus on most of the issues. Regarding the issue of Chinese publishing rights raised by Mr. A, the publishing house is willing to increase the copyright share by [-]% to obtain Mr. a, the exclusive full-language publishing rights of your work."

Although the domestic publishing industry is sluggish, the market for publishing books is still not small, after all, the reader base is here.

Burt Publishing House is naturally unwilling to give up Huaguo publishing rights so easily.

In addition, at the end of the email, the person who responded to the email from Burt Publishing also mentioned something,

"...Mr. A, do you still remember the process of submitting a manuscript to Brian Publishing House? I was also the editor who reviewed the manuscript at that time. At that time, I strongly suggested that my boss pay a higher share or buyout fee to replace the publishing rights of your work. .

But sir, you know, bosses always like to be stubborn and believe in their own ideas. "

Brian Publishing House is the publishing house that Ji Zhuo first submitted his manuscript to.
But in just a few days, the review editor at that time jumped ship?

This action is too fast, maybe it is because of his book that he switched jobs.

Looking at the content of this email, Ji Zhuo couldn't help thinking.

Then he poked his phone and replied to the email.

……

And on the other side, in the afternoon in Europe,

Carol, the editor-in-chief at the publishing house, was facing the computer, anxiously waiting for the author's reply.

He really likes this author's work,

When I was still in another publishing house, I admired the first chapter of this work,

After reading the remaining chapters this time, I feel that this work is even more excellent.

At that time, he proposed to increase the royalty share when he was still at another publishing house,

But he was rejected by his boss at the time, thinking that a serious work by a new author should not be given too high a condition.

For this reason, he had a dispute with his boss, which directly contributed to his original idea of ​​job-hopping.

While Carol was waiting, I received a reply from the author,

The author's reply is still about the issue of Chinese publishing rights.

The author should be from China.

Carol thought.

Otherwise, I wouldn't place so much emphasis on the issue of Chinese publishing rights.

After thinking about it, Carol replied another email.

……

"...My friend, believe me, my love for this book is no less than yours. This is already the best condition I can get."

After several emails back and forth, the name of the editor of this publishing house has changed.
By negotiating back and forth, haggling.

Finally, a slightly complicated contract condition was determined.

It is Burt Publishing House, with a royalty of 12.00% and [-]%,
Obtained the exclusive overseas publishing rights of "Seven Sins" in languages ​​other than Chinese, as well as the Chinese publishing rights.

However, Burt Publishing is not exclusive to the Chinese publishing rights, allowing Ji Zhuo to sub-license the Chinese publishing rights of "Seven Sins" to a publishing house.

It can be regarded as a compromise between the author Ji Zhuo and the publishing house on key points.

"That's a happy cooperation. Please make a contract. I will print it out and mail it to you."

"Then wish us a happy cooperation in advance, and wish your work a big hit. I believe that such a work will definitely have the results he deserves. After the contract is finalized later, it will be sent to you by email to Mr. A."

It’s okay to have a happy cooperation, but it’s not necessary for the works to sell well.

(End of this chapter)