Rebirth of the courtyard, the start is 80s

Chapter 213 The Hard-to-Find "Journey to the Rivers and Lakes"

After arriving at Wangfujing Bookstore, Cao Zhiqiang was startled immediately because he saw a long queue outside Wangfujing Bookstore.

The queue was so large that it filled one side of the road, causing traffic on the street to suffer.

There were even a few police officers wandering around to help maintain order at the scene.

After seeing this situation, Cao Zhiqiang grabbed an aunt very curiously and asked what everyone was doing in line.

As a result, the aunt said that she came to line up to buy books.

Then I asked what book I bought, and I said that I bought the red version of "Qiangzi Poetry Collection."

The so-called "Qiang Zi Poetry Collection" was actually another name for the collection of poems "The Farthest Distance in the World" at the earliest time.

It's just that the name is too artistic and too long.

So for some ordinary people, the nickname "Qiangzi Poetry Collection" is more catchy and easier to remember, so it gradually became popular.

The Hongguang version of "Qiangzi Poetry Collection" mentioned by the aunt, of course refers to the buy one get one free book produced by Hongguang Publishing House, not the work of Writers Publishing House.

Because it was the first project of Hongguang Publishing House, for the sake of stability, the banner was to buy poetry collections and give novels away.

It means that it mainly sells poetry collections, and the novel "Shattered Void" is just a gift that comes with the poetry collection.

The reason for this is, of course, that "Qiangzi Poetry Collection" is already well-known in China, and it is easier to open up the market.

Since there was the first edition published by the Writer's Publishing House before, this red version of the poetry anthology is also called the reprinted and enhanced edition.

It’s easy to remake, but as for the meaning of strengthening, in addition to the autograph of the author Cao Zhiqiang and Cao Zhiqiang’s sketches in the red light version of the poetry collection, several new poems by Cao Zhiqiang were added in it.

That is to say, the Hongguang version of "Qiangzi Poetry Collection" not only has more autographs and author's illustrations, but also five more new poems than the "Qiangzi Poetry Collection" of the Writer's Publishing House.

One of the most famous poems is the first of the five poems - "Journey to the Rivers and Lakes"!
The world is out of my generation, and the years are reminded as soon as I enter the world.

In the chatting and laughing of Emperor Tubaye, it is a drunken life.

Raising a sword and riding a straddle, wielding the rain of ghosts, the bones are as frightened as a mountain bird.

The dust is like the tide and the people are like water, only a few people in the rivers and lakes return.

It can be said that as soon as this poem came out, everyone in the publishing house was shocked, and they all admired Cao Zhiqiang's talent.

For this reason, they also wrote this poem on the cover of the new collection of poems, making others think it was a new collection of poems at first glance.

That's exactly what happened.

Because the Hongguang version of the poetry anthology, in order to avoid trouble, the name is no longer called "The Farthest Distance in the World", but "Journey to the Rivers and Lakes".

Of course, although the name has been changed, the content, except for the addition of five new poems, the other fifty poems are exactly the same as those in the book "The Farthest Distance in the World".

It is nothing more than a little more illustrations and signatures, and the printing is more beautiful.

Of course, there are four big characters like a business card - "Produced by Qiangzi"!
By the way, this reprinted and enhanced poetry collection released by Hongguang Publishing House is through a letter with the Writer Publishing House and has been authorized by the copyright.

At that time, Cao Zhiqiang invited not only the president of the Writers Publishing House, but also the director of the Publishing Bureau, as well as the secretary and manager of the main store of Xinhua Bookstore.

Everyone went to Beiping Restaurant to eat a meal of Tan's family dishes. Afterwards, Cao Zhiqiang gave each of them a gift.

Then, Writers Publishing House no longer pursued the issue of Red Light Publishing House's reprint, and even wrote a contract with Red Light Publishing House, officially authorizing Red Light Publishing House to publish "The Farthest Distance in the World" for free. Everything in this collection of poems.

The reason is very simple, that is, when Cao Zhiqiang approached Writers Publishing House to publish that collection of poems, he had signed a sharing contract, which stipulated that the copyright of this collection of poems within five years would belong to Writers Publishing House.

So in theory, within the five years, all the content in that collection of poems cannot be published by other publishing houses, otherwise it will be copyright infringement and piracy.

But as I said before, since there is no real copyright law in China, things like copyright are actually a bluff.

In other words, the copyright contract only binds the individual author, but not other publishers.

Strictly speaking, the contract that Cao Zhiqiang signed with the Writer's Publishing House at the beginning could only restrain Cao Zhiqiang, so that Cao Zhiqiang could not take the poetry collection and find other publishing houses to publish it.

Because the copyright of Cao Zhiqiang's collection of poems has been sold to Writers Publishing House for five years.

Then, within the five years, if Cao Zhiqiang cooperates with other publishers to publish that collection of poems, Cao Zhiqiang will have to pay liquidated damages.

However, if other publishing houses, in the name of reference, directly pirate the content of this collection of poems and put it on the market, the Writer’s Publishing House has nothing to do. It cannot ask other publishing houses for copyright fees, and it cannot make other publishing houses remove the pirated books.

This is typical bullying.

The reason is very simple. The contract signed by Writer Publishing House and Cao Zhiqiang is a business contract, and everyone works according to the business contract.

But the Writer's Publishing House does not have contracts with other publishing houses, so there is no need to act according to the contracts.

In other words, if Cao Zhiqiang hadn’t signed the contract with the Writer Publishing House, these things might not have happened, because without the contract, the copyright still belongs to Cao Zhiqiang by default.

But then again, if the contract is not signed, the Writer Publishing House will not agree to play the royalty sharing system with Cao Zhiqiang, and it is impossible for Cao Zhiqiang to earn more than 50 yuan in a short period of time with a collection of poems.

In short, because Cao Zhiqiang had signed an internal contract with Writers Publishing House, theoretically speaking, Cao Zhiqiang could not sign a publishing contract with Hongguang Publishing House, and had to publish directly without signing a contract.

But in this case, firstly, there will be a lot of troubles in the later stage, and secondly, there will be no signed version of the original author, and the gimmick of the original version will be lost.

That's why Cao Zhiqiang went to find the president of the Writer's Publishing House and asked him for an authorization.

Anyway, the Writer's Publishing House has already made a lot of money, so it's useless even if you don't agree.

Because Hongguang Publishing House can also directly publish the collection of poems without signing a contract with Cao Zhiqiang.

Writers Publishing House cannot use the internal contract signed by Cao Zhiqiang with Writers Publishing House to restrain Hongguang Publishing House!

What's more, even if Hongguang Publishing House doesn't publish that collection of poems, other publishing houses will pirate it sooner or later.

Coupled with the presence of the head of Xinhua Bookstore and the director of the publishing bureau, the pressure is not ordinary.

That being the case, why bother to be that villain?

It's nothing more than giving an authorization, it's not a big problem.

Write this authorization to Hongguang Publishing House. The Writer Publishing House will not offend anyone, and the president himself can get an earnest money.

If you don't grant this authorization, and don't delay the publication of the book by Hongguang Publishing House, you will offend Cao Zhiqiang, a great writer, and by the way, the head of Xinhua Bookstore and the director of the publishing bureau, and may even offend the "big leader" behind Cao Zhiqiang. No benefit, why bother?
Anyway, from the perspective of the Writer's Publishing House, it's no big deal to give an authorization.

But in Cao Zhiqiang's view, this is of great significance.

Because this means that the next action of Red Light Publishing House is an authorized act, which belongs to aboveboard publishing and cannot be regarded as pirated.

Don't look at this little difference, in fact, the later impact will be great.

This is why Cao Zhiqiang firmly refuses to pirate the martial arts novels of Hong Kong and Taiwan writers who have become famous.

The piracy is cool for a while, and the list is drawn afterwards.

Cao Zhiqiang has a system plug-in, "original" can beat his peers, why bother to compete with others for the moldy cake that is pirated?
Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang vetoed Yang Shouwen's proposal afterwards, and set a tone, that is, in Hongguang Publishing House, only original works, not pirated copies!

For a new publishing house, self-discipline, self-love, and correct process can lead to a longer and more stable journey.

Needless to say, after Cao Zhiqiang set the tone of "only do originals, not pirated copies", everyone admired Cao Zhiqiang, the general manager, even more.

After all, although piracy is cool, everyone knows it is wrong.

Only by doing the right thing can we be confident and confident, and can hold our chests high.

The same is true.

Hongguang Publishing House, after obtaining the copyright authorization from Writers Publishing House, appeared the content of "The Farthest Distance in the World" in the new collection of poems "Journey to the Rivers and Lakes", which seems to be justified and full of confidence.

And it is also stated in the poem borrowed in "A Journey to the Rivers and Lakes" that it is the four words "authorized by genuine".

Only the five new poems did not write "authenticated authorization", but wrote the words "first new poem".

In addition to these, the accompanying "Shattered Void" also clearly stated the words "first new book", indicating that this martial arts novel is Qiang Zi's first edition novel.

All in all, although Cao Zhiqiang expected that the buy one get one free package would be very popular, he never thought that there would be a queue to buy it.

What's more, I didn't expect that there were many aunts and uncles in the crowd queuing up to buy.

So Cao Zhiqiang asked the aunt again, do you also like that poetry collection, so you lined up to buy it?
In the end, the answer I got was that the aunt didn't look at that, she bought it for her son.

The reason is simple, that is, this book is so popular that it was sold out as soon as it was put on the shelves.

Although because of the large inventory of this work, especially in bookstores in the capital, it can be replenished in time, but replenishment takes time.

In this era, the efficiency of replenishment is very low, so during the replenishment period of bookstores, people who are eager to buy books will automatically queue up in a long queue.

However, most of the people who like this work are young or middle-aged people. Except for the unemployed, most of these people have to go to school or work, and it is impossible to line up here every day.

Ever since, those young and middle-aged people mobilized the old people who had nothing to do at home to come and line up, so that they could work and buy books without delay.

Of course, if it is a normal situation, it will not become like this.

After all, Cao Zhiqiang had bought a lot of goods for Xinhua Bookstore from the very beginning. Normally, even if they were sold well, they wouldn't be sold out within an hour of being on the shelves.

The actual situation is that many people found that this book was selling very well, so they found a business opportunity, and began to buy in large quantities, and then resell it at a high price.

Yes, this is a group of bad guys, or Erdao dealers!

These poor people don't buy one set or two sets of books at all, but buy dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of sets at a time!
It can be said that just this small group of people directly bought out the inventory of this bookstore, forcing the bookstore to restock.

But Xinhua Bookstore is now a state-owned unit, so everyone knows the replenishment efficiency and service attitude during this period.

Then, these Erdao dealers who bought a large number of books from Xinhua Bookstore took these books and wholesaled them to small vendors at a price of 12 yuan a book.

These small stalls and hawkers sell them at a price of 15 yuan each to those real book seekers who can’t line up or have no time to line up.

Over time, some old men and women who love to take advantage of the business also found business opportunities, and they were more willing to queue up.

These old men and women do not have so much money, it is impossible to buy dozens or hundreds of sets at a time, and there is no way to be a big loser.

But they come to line up, wait for those big losers to leave, and take the opportunity to buy five or six sets. It's okay to be a little loser.

Spend 15 yuan here, buy ten sets of books priced at 50 yuan, and then sell them at a price of [-] yuan each. You can earn [-] yuan for each book, and you can earn [-] yuan at a time!

With such a huge profit, who can not be tempted?
What?Why can't it be sold?

This doesn't exist at all!

Nowadays, this set of buy one get one free "Journey to the Rivers and Lakes", or the Hongguang version of "Qiangzi Poems", is basically hard to find in the vicinity of major high schools and universities.

As long as these old men and old ladies are squatting at the school gate, these "black books" will be swept away by those students as soon as the school is over, and they will not keep them for half an hour.

To put it bluntly, there is no need to worry about selling it!

Therefore, the people who come here to line up to buy, except for those who entrust their family members to buy, are Erdao dealers, and the main book buyers are actually Erdao dealers!

(End of this chapter)