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Chapter 112 Using the industry as a pig farm
Yang Qingyi sat in the office and flipped through the information about Dakong Company collected by Howard Johnson’s legal counsel. In fact, she had been researching the materials of Dakong Company and Shengjiale in the past two days, hoping to learn more so that she could communicate with the other party. contacts to improve the odds of success when trying to reach an out-of-court settlement.

According to the data, Dakong Company purchased four international Chinese copyrights of Dongying comics. The four copies do not sound like many, but they happened to be purchased from each of the four major comic companies in Dongying, and they were all owned by each company. The popular works, four comics, also just made all the companies in Xiangjiang engaged in the sale of pirated Dongying comics have the specifications to be sued by Dakong Company.

Because Xiangjiang now has more than a dozen companies that are mainly engaged in pirated comics in Japan, and the troubled times of blind competition have ended. In the early years, the scene where everyone swarmed to print popular comics such as "Dragon Ball" and "City Hunter" has gone through several market competitions. After the confrontation and the survival of the fittest, a unique situation of three or more small groups has been formed.

For example, Yang Qingyi’s Howard Johnson’s weekly comic magazine "Painting King Youth", in addition to "Dragon Ball", mainly publishes "Doraemon", "Arale", "Captain Football", "Saint Seiya" and other easy-going teenagers. comics.

The Seal Company's "Comic Weekly" focuses on "Mobile Suit Gundam", "City Hunter" and "Fist of the Hokuto", which are relatively larger in scale and have a more human-like style.

Among the three major companies, Tianlong Company was established the latest, but relying on its background in the world, through illegal methods such as relying on members of the underworld to distribute goods, forcing comic shops and newspaper stalls, etc., it quickly achieved the number one market share in "Comic Selection" .

At the very beginning, Tianlong Company’s "Manga Collection" included popular manga such as "Peacock King", "Dragon Ball", "Saint Seiya", "Mobile Suit Gundam", etc. In short, it can do whatever manga is popular, and the initial effect is really good. However, it was once again left behind by Howard Johnson Bookstore and Seal Company. Tianlong Company also discovered the problem and adjusted its strategy in time. After the two opinions, it was changed to the current situation of focusing on comic works such as "Ranma 1/2", "Kung Fu Whirlwind", "The Peacock King" and "Tearful Star".

Although the magazines of the three major companies have different reader groups, "Dragon Ball" is a manga that will be published in each magazine, because the readers of this manga seem to include most groups, and it is suitable for all ages.

The three major companies can consider the readership and audience after they have a market position, but those small companies in the industry have no choice but to eat whatever they want. The more popular the comics published in the comic magazines, the more popular the comics published. Often when you open the comic magazines of small companies, you will find that there may be "Dragon Ball", "Mobile Suit Gundam", "Ranma 2/1" and other major works of the three major companies at the same time. .

This is also the reason why Dakong Company only purchased the copyrights of four comics, but it can sue the entire Xiangjiang pirated comics market to court.

The guy obviously knew the market on purpose for this.

Yang Qingyi took off her glasses, and pinched the center of her eyebrows lightly. Howard Johnson Bookstore is the second largest company in this industry. Its main magazine "Painting King Youth" is published once a week. In the past three years, more and more people read comics, and the market is very Well, the sales volume in a single week has always remained at around [-] to [-] copies, and the price is five Hong Kong dollars.

Because the entire magazine is printed with the cheapest newspaper paper, in addition to the cost of one yuan and three cents per magazine, the profit of five cents is given to the newspaper publishers and comic book stores, which is equivalent to selling a magazine. , Howard Johnson Bookstore makes a single magazine profit of 26 yuan and 1000 cents. Based on a single issue of [-] volumes, the weekly profit is [-] yuan, and the annual book profit can reach [-] to [-] million yuan.

As for Tianlong Company, the magazines under Seal Company, the sales volume is not much different from that of Howard Johnson Bookstore, and the annual profit in the past three years should be more than [-] million.

It seems that everyone is earning a lot of money, but it is not the case. In addition to Tianlong Company focusing on making pirated comics, Howard Johnson Bookstore and Seal Company are investing in local comics. They want to copy the myth of Yulang Group. The popular and popular original local works have become a listed company with a market value of billions.

Because in Hong Kong, local comics are more popular with readers than Dongying comics. Huang Yulang's "Dragon and Tiger Gate", Wang Ze's "Old Master Q" and other local comics have almost maintained a sales volume of 12 to 16 copies for a long time. Ma Rongcheng's "Chinese Heroes" even exaggeratedly reached an astonishing local sales record of 18 copies in a single issue and 20 copies in a single issue, and it went out of Xiangjiang, distributed in Southeast Asia, and even entered the Japanese market.

Howard Johnson Bookstore is now vigorously digging and training local young cartoonists, and even after taking over, it is also preparing to improve the copyright issues, but unfortunately it is a step too late, and was directly pushed into the dock by Dakong Company.

After reading the materials, Yang Qingyi got up and walked out of the office with coffee. Her beautiful eyes glanced at the financial office with the door open in the distance. Inside, two investigators who were arranged to come to Howard Johnson Bookstore to conduct investigations were sitting in front of the financial staff of the company. Cooperate with checking all the funds account books of Howard Johnson Bookstore.

The court will not allow Howard Johnson to increase its efforts to develop local comics. Yang Qingyi took a sip of coffee and looked at the empty company. Since illegal printing is involved, the company cannot continue to conduct business, so most employees Has been on holiday, waiting for the final outcome of the trial.

She also knew the news of Alex's testimony in court. Her legal counsel bluntly said that the other party was an insider planted by Dakong Company. Yang Qingyi also believed this statement, but so what, there is no evidence that Alex received any benefits from Dakong Company, but her own company Those editors spent a lot of money on her behalf. After learning the truth in the past few days, they realized that for three months, the four good brothers were all quietly attacking the same woman, making it a little awkward for the four of them to meet now. , What's even more embarrassing is that none of the four men succeeded.

"Ringlingling~" Yang Qingyi's office phone rang, she turned back to the office and answered the phone: "Hello?"

"Boss Yang, I'm Bi Zijian from Jade Bird Company." On the other side of the phone was the owner of a small company who was also the defendant.

Yang Qingyi asked, "Boss Bi, what's the matter?"

"I received the news that "Shounen Pictorial" and "Tianxia Manga" have started to sell goods again. I have already got the latest samples and found that these magazines have hardly changed. Popular manga such as "Dragon Ball" and "Mobile Suit Gundam" are all The content of the latest episode from Japan." Bi Zijian said excitedly, "So I called you, and I want to ask if you have received the wind, and what is going on."

"Youth Illustrated" is a magazine owned by Pirate Company, and "Tianxia Manga" is the comic magazine of Mingtang Company. Neither of these two companies was listed as the defendant, but normally speaking, with such a big turmoil in the industry today, they It doesn't make sense to continue to publish a new issue of comics with great fanfare, and take the initiative to remind Dakong that they forgot to list them as defendants.

"They made a private transaction with Dakong Company and got the authorization." Yang Qingyi fixed her eyes on the documents on the desktop and said in a firm tone.

"This... authorization... I can buy it, I can also make a genuine one... The pirate is about the same size as my blue bird. Why can the pirate get the authorization privately, but the blue bird is in the dock..." Bi Zijian said on the phone Bian complained depressedly: "Just get me out of the defendant..."

"Boss Bi, I'll call you later." Yang Qingyi didn't continue to listen to Bi Zijian's complaints, and immediately hung up the phone, resting her hand on the fixed phone body, her eyes fixed on the information on the desktop.

"Kill the big and let go of the small, and prepare to recruit security." Yang Qingyi took a few minutes to look away, looked at the phone under his palm, and said.

Not in the comics business, but relying on genuine licenses to absorb these pirated companies, sucking blood continuously like a gadfly.

On the surface, these piracy companies have changed from an illegal business of infringement to a legal business authorized by Dakong Company, and after the three major companies and seven small companies are cleaned up by Dakong Company, the vacated market will be quickly eaten by these companies. The future looks bright.

But from Yang Qingyi's point of view, Dakong Company is more like fattening up these small companies and killing them again!
What a ruthless method, this is not grabbing the market to do business, it is clearly treating all the companies in this industry as pigs in the pig farm, and Sheng Jiale is sitting outside the pig farm, sharpening his knife quietly, staring at himself These people, whoever is fat, will kill that one.

No one would dare to resist anymore. The one who was most likely to resist was Li Shaokun, whose whereabouts are unknown now.

"If I have a chance to escape this catastrophe for Howard Johnson, I will definitely stop doing the business of importing comics." Yang Qingyi gulped down the coffee as if drinking alcohol, then picked up the phone and dialed a series of numbers:
"Hello, is this the lawyer representing Mr. Sheng Jiale of Dakong Company? I am Yang Qingyi, the general manager of Howard Johnson Books. I would like to make an appointment with Mr. Sheng Jiale. I wonder if Mr. Sheng has time, so I can meet you."

Peng Yulou on the phone asked Yang Qingyi to wait politely, then hung up the phone. A few minutes later, the call came, and Peng Yulou's voice rang from the receiver:
"Mr. Sheng said that if Ms. Yang has time, she can go to the business suite 909 of the City View Hotel in Yau Ma Tei. Mr. Sheng is communicating with the district councilors there. After one hour, he will have half an hour to meet you with Ms. Yang."

"Thank you, I will be there on time." After Yang Qingyi thanked her, she hung up the phone.

Although she asked herself to meet in a hotel suite, Yang Qingyi was not worried. If Sheng Jiale really wanted to do something wrong to her, it would just give her some chances of a comeback, and she would accuse the other party of using the deception that she would withdraw the lawsuit as an excuse to punish herself. Infringement, you must know that even though Howard Johnson Bookstore’s 14-year cultural network is not as strong as the opponent’s lawyer lineup, it should not be underestimated. Don’t let yourself catch him. will be sharper.

What's more, looking at the forbearance and ruthlessness shown by the other party in the whole incident, it is obvious that he is not a man who can be easily captured by beauty.

"Agreeing to meet so quickly, has he been waiting for someone to contact him?" Yang Qingyi took off his coat and put it on, put his glasses back on the bridge of his nose, turned and walked out of his office:

"What conditions will that guy ask?"

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