The King of Crossover Entertainment.

Chapter 171 0171, Want to resign?

The sales volume of issue 123 of Xianqi Novel Magazine is 2258532 copies.

The sales volume of issue 123 of Youxianqi Comics Magazine was 6255322 copies.

The sales volume of Zhu Xian Volumes 754322, and is copies.

The sales volume of "Ghost Blows Out the Light" Volumes 695800, and reached copies.

"Cat's Eye" sold 64125 copies.

The sales volume of "The Dart Man" is 857521 copies.

"The Legend of Sun Wukong" sold 553652 copies.

"The Pawnshop No. 8" sold 354214 copies.

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Yunfeng looked at the sales figures of various physical books in July sent by Zheng Rong.

Because "Waiting for Someone to Drink Coffee" and "Captain Tsubasa: Elementary School Edition" were released in late July and early August, and both books were completed within half a month, they have not yet started serialization in the fairy fiction magazine, and sales are mainly supported by "The Pawn Shop No. 8".

As for the Xianqi comic magazine, due to the word-of-mouth spread of "Feng Yun I", the monthly sales continued to rise. The appearance of the Sword Saint in the third issue set off a climax, constantly provoking the readers' psychological resonance. Although there are many old competitors in the same period, such as MD's "New Superhuman", Penguin Comics' "Top of the Immortal", and Kuaibo Comics' "Don't Mess with Me, Overbearing President", but judging from the current sales and word-of-mouth performance, "Feng Yun I" has indeed gained a firm foothold and is expected to continue to win the readers' popularity vote championship in the third quarter of comic magazines.

Among the physical books of several novels, the sales of "The Bodyguard" are the most stable, with the sales of a single volume far exceeding the sales of "The Legend of Chusen" and "Ghost Blows Out the Light" (volumes 1, 2, and 3). The sales of a single novel this year, except for "Cat's Eye" which has a smaller audience, should exceed 10 million copies.

"Dong dong dong..."

Suddenly, there was a knock on the office door.

Yunfeng said, "Come in."

Screenwriter Wen Dabao pushed the door open and said, "Boss, I have something I want to talk to you about."

"Sit down." Yunfeng looked at him and asked, "What's the matter?"

Wen Dabao said embarrassedly: "It's like this, can we hire another screenwriter to be responsible for writing the plot of the "Detective Conan" cases?"

Yunfeng was stunned and said, "You wrote "The Park Pool Murder Case" very well, why do you need to hire another screenwriter?"

He needed a reasonable reason. Why use two people when one person could do the job?

Wen Dabao looked bitter as he explained, "It's like this. I used to write martial arts, fairy tales, urban romance, and science fiction stories. I've never been involved in mystery stories before. It took me three full days to write The Park Pool Murder Case. It was...very strenuous."

Yunfeng fell into deep thought after hearing this.

Wen Dabao's resume at the time did mention the topics he was good at. He wanted to adapt his own novel into a comic, so he felt that Wen Dabao was very suitable. He also suddenly decided to make a "Detective Conan" comic set on the Blue Planet. So, Wen Dabao was forced to do something he was not prepared for.

Wen Dabao is well aware of his abilities. He put a lot of effort into writing "The Park Pond Murder Case". He also knows that no company will keep idle people.

He placed an envelope on Yunfeng's desk and said, "Boss, this is my resignation letter."

Yunfeng was stunned for a moment, then said: "It's not necessary to resign. Our comic studio is not just producing the comic "Detective Conan". Moreover, the plot of the comic "Detective Conan" can be divided into the main plot between the characters and the side plots of each case. So..."

After a pause, he looked at Wen Dabao and said, "You continue to be responsible for the main plot. As for the side plots, I will ask Brother Zheng to recruit one or two people who are good at writing mystery plots."

I hadn't considered this before. The original author of "Detective Conan" has a team of quite a few people. Otherwise, if the author alone could only write more than a thousand chapters and hundreds of cases, he would probably not be able to do it even if he lost all his hair.

Wen Dabao looked at Yunfeng gratefully and said, "Boss, don't worry, I will definitely write the main storyline well."

He was very happy that he could keep this job.

Yunfeng nodded slightly. Judging from the first episode of "Detective Conan", the rhythm and foreshadowing of the main plot were very well written by Wen Dabao and were worthy of trust.

After Wen Dabao left, he immediately told Zheng Rong about this.

"How many do you want to recruit?" Zheng Rong asked.

"Hmm..." Yunfeng thought for a moment and said, "Let's hire one first and try it out. When Detective Conan is serialized, we can see how the sales are and then consider whether to expand the scale of the comic studio."

"Okay, I'll talk to Xiaodong and ask her to post the recruitment advertisement." Zheng Rong wanted to do the most things with the least number of people. However, it is impossible for a screenwriter to be proficient in all subjects, unless he is a genius, like Yunfeng. But, if they are all geniuses, how could they be just a small screenwriter?

Yunfeng remembered something and said, "Last time I told you, have you done any research on the domestic cultural and creative derivatives market?"

Zheng Rong nodded and said, "Investigated."

He took out a folder and continued, "In China, the so-called 'cultural and creative derivatives' usually refer to ancient crafts or artistic products. However, in reality, most of them are just valuable souvenirs. In the early days, they did not have much consumer recognition. It was not until later that the market for derivatives such as European and American film and television dramas, novels, animation and comics developed greatly, which gradually increased the consumption of cultural and creative derivatives. However, the development of domestic film and television dramas, novels, animation and comics derivatives is still in its infancy, and most cultural and creative derivatives are at a low level of development..."

Cultural and creative derivatives, that is, peripheral products, are derivatives formed by the combination of cultural creativity and original products. They have some artistic colors and are generally made through exquisite processing, modification and shaping.

In fact, Jung Rong didn't consider the peripheral product market at first.

Because the current domestic peripheral market is mainly based on purchasing foreign IP agency rights, domestic original IP has not formed a mature and complete process, and many popular IPs have not yet opened up the industrial chain in China.

But after investigation, we found out that in Europe and the United States, the revenue share of peripheral products is close to 2:8. Most young people and even middle-aged people love peripheral products much more than the original products themselves.

Yunfeng is well aware of the huge potential of the peripheral product market.

In the previous life on Earth, there was a saying that goes "A wall for a otaku is worth a house in Yanjing."

It means that otakus like to display their collections such as figures, Gundams, model cars, etc. in display cabinets against the wall. These collections are usually exquisitely made and extremely expensive, costing hundreds or thousands of yuan. Often an inconspicuous figure costs seven or eight hundred yuan, while a better one costs thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan. The price of a wall of collections is difficult to estimate.

Furthermore, Blue Star attaches great importance to various copyrights and strictly prevents piracy, and consumers are very aware of paying for genuine products.

Therefore, we cannot ignore the big cake of the peripheral product market, but this big cake is not easy to grab.

After Zheng Rong briefly described the results of the survey on the domestic peripheral market, he added: "In recent years, the number of animation and comics exhibitions and digital interactive entertainment exhibitions held in China has gradually increased. This year's National Day, there will be one in Shanghai."

Yunfeng nodded and said, "We'll get a booth when the time comes."

"The booth fee is not expensive." Zheng Rong touched his nose and said, "But what are we going to bring to the exhibition?"

Yunfeng smiled and replied, "Of course, it's the peripheral products of Fengyun Comics and Conan Comics, such as figures, pillows, and clothing."

Zheng Rong's eyes flickered as he said, "Then I'll contact the factory."

There are less than two months left until National Day, and it takes time to customize these peripheral products.

(End of this chapter)