A widower's entertainment

Chapter 288 [The New World of Literature] (Subscription Request)

Beijing, Xinghua Hutong.

Zhao Gensheng and his family naturally would not stay in Beijing for long. After all, school would start after the summer vacation, so they naturally had to go back early.

Lin Zhaoping and Lin Zhaoan were naturally reluctant to leave. After all, their uncle Lin Youcheng had made them have a lot of fun in Beijing, and they didn't want to go back to Decheng. But there was no other way. After all, they still had to go back to school and work, and it was impossible for them to stay in Beijing forever.

Lin Youcheng bought sleeper tickets for the green train and sent Zhao Gensheng and his group to the train station.

Lin Youcheng had just returned from the train station, and many people had rushed over to the courtyard. They were all excited, and when they saw Lin Youcheng coming back, they hurried forward to ask about the royalties between Lin Youcheng and Huayi Publishing House.

"Brother Lin, have you really negotiated the royalties for the publication with Huayi Publishing House?"

The person who asked this question was Cha Hailing. He was very concerned after hearing about this because he had been preparing his own poetry collection not long ago. Now Lin Youcheng's royalties gave Cha Hailing a glimmer of hope.

You know, he still needs to send money back to his younger brothers and sisters in his hometown. If he can get royalties, it will definitely be a pie in the sky for him. Something he never dared to think about before has happened.

That’s right, something that I never dared to imagine before actually happened!
Now, not only Cha Hailing came to Xinghua Hutong, but Yu Hua, Cheng Hong, Mo Dian, Xie Shuhua, and Zhang Wei also came.

Obviously, all of them had heard that the publishing conditions that Lin Youcheng had negotiated with Huayi Publishing House were not royalties, but royalties. It can be said that after this news came out, the entire Beijing literary circle exploded in an instant.

It should be said that not only the literary circle in Beijing, but the entire domestic literary circle was blown up.

Even though publishing may not be a task for some authors, there is no author who has not thought about publishing his or her own works. But now, Lin Youcheng has opened another door for everyone in the literary world when publishing novels.

Now it was Lin Youcheng who opened the door to the royalty system and showed them a new world of literature.

How could this not shock Zhang Wei and others? They specially rushed to Xinghua Hutong to confirm this matter with Lin Youcheng, just to hear from Lin Youcheng himself that the royalty system was true.

Lin Youcheng looked at Cha Hailing, who was still shocked and wanted to know the truth. He knew very well that such a royalty system was absolutely a great joy for poets. You know, although poets are very popular for writing poems, the royalties for poems published in magazines have always been low. It can be said that it is far from comparable to that of novel authors. Of course, this is also because of the number of words.

The royalty system now offered by Lin Youcheng and Huayi Publishing House means that once their poets publish a collection of poems, they will no longer receive a small amount of royalties, but can instead negotiate royalties based on the number of copies of the poetry collection published.

How could such a happy event not make Cha Hailing extremely surprised?

Lin Youcheng nodded and said, "Yes, I didn't ask for royalties, but chose royalties."

The current royalty system was proposed by Lin Youcheng, but it is not something new. After all, it has existed in foreign countries for a long time. In fact, royalties refer to the remuneration paid by users to copyright owners in the form of book price × actual sales volume or print run × royalty rate. This means that the actual money Lin Youcheng can get depends on the number of copies of the novel after it is published.

At present, the remuneration in China has always been the basic remuneration, that is, the remuneration paid to the copyright owner is based on the number of words in the work, in units of thousands of words. Of course, there will be remuneration based on the number of prints and a one-time payment.

Cha Hailing's face was instantly filled with smiles. He was well aware of how popular Lin Youcheng's novels were. He also knew very well that Lin Youcheng did not need any royalties at all, but should talk about royalties.

Although his own poetry collection certainly cannot be compared with the novels published by Lin Youcheng, it would be great for him if he could also negotiate royalties.

Yu Hua on the other side also asked curiously: "How much is your royalty?"

This is a bit sensitive, after all, the royalties are also negotiated with the publishing house. However, now it is the first time for the new bride to get married, so naturally no one cares about this.

"8%!"

In fact, Lin Youcheng wanted 10%, while Huayi Publishing House only wanted to give 5%. After some discussion, they finally paid Lin Youcheng 8%. Of course, this was also because the author of the book was Lin Youcheng, and it was the first time for the publishing house to try it out. If it were another author, it is not certain whether the royalties would be paid, and even if they were paid, there would be no way the royalties would be so high. You must know that even in the 3st century, the royalty rate for original works is between 10% and 8%. This is enough to show how high Lin Youcheng's % is.

Of course, a few years later, the publishing house gave 10% of the royalties that Wang Shuo proposed, but it was only 1989 after all.

Zhang Wei looked at Lin Youcheng with admiration in his heart. As an editor, he knew very well how big the market for Lin Youcheng's novel publishing was. He silently calculated it and was shocked. This number was really unimaginable!
"Youcheng, if this wasn't pirated, your royalties would be quite high!"

He knew very well that there were over two million pirated copies of Lin Youcheng's love trilogy, and the sales were still rising.

In fact, pirated books have been rampant in China. If it weren’t for pirated books, the sales of Lin Youcheng’s previous novels would have been unimaginable.

Lin Youcheng smiled when he heard what Zhang Wei said. He didn't pay much attention to the issue of piracy, because it was not something he could change. Moreover, now that they were talking about royalties, the royalties from the genuine books that would follow were also a golden house that he could mine endlessly. The most important thing was that if the publishing house needed to reprint the previous novel, or a new edition, they would naturally have to start discussing royalties again, just like Huayi Publishing House.

This is why Zhang Wei and others are so excited.

They couldn't help but remember it. It can be said that all the authors in the entire literary circle were excited when they heard the news. After all, those things meant money. Even some lofty literati and scholars could not refuse such a royalty system.

People from all literary circles across the country were excited.
Now Lin Youcheng has truly become the person with the highest royalties in China, and has truly opened up a new world for the domestic literary community.

It can even be said that what is opening up is not a new world, but a new era.

For the door that Lin Youcheng opened and the new world that they saw, who wouldn’t be grateful from the bottom of their hearts, who wouldn’t give a thumbs up and say from the bottom of their hearts -

Lin Youcheng is so awesome, so great!
(End of this chapter)