Back to 1997, I became the originator of online literature

Chapter 272 The Starting Point of Slow Development

After a moment's silence, Jin Qiaoyin sent another message to Cao Sheng.

She thought that since she was already awake, and he was still awake, she might as well chat with him for a while and get to know him better.

But Cao Sheng replied to her with a few words, then said he needed to rest and they would talk later.

Jin Qiaoyin replied: "Okay! Then you have a good rest, good night, and we'll chat later."

After sending the message, she stared at the words "Cao Sheng" on her phone, lost in thought. As a beauty, she has always been sought after by men. For her, it is rare to find someone like Cao Sheng who is too lazy to chat with her for a few more words.

She was a little curious about how Wang Jing had communicated with him before?
She believed that Wang Jing must have had a pleasant communication with him, otherwise, she would not have resigned from the banyan tree to become his assistant.

She asked herself if she became familiar with him in the future, would she also want to work for him, like Wang Jing?
Thinking about these things, she couldn't fall asleep for a long time.

……

The next day.

Starting point, meeting room.

Bao Jianfeng and all his colleagues are holding their daily morning meeting.

This was the rule he set for the company when Qidian was first established. A regular meeting would be held every morning to summarize recent work and assign work tasks for the day.

At this time, Bao Jianfeng crossed his hands and placed them on the conference table in front of him. He looked at all his colleagues and smiled, "Dear colleagues! Let's talk about the results of yesterday's work! How many authors have you invited to come to our Qidian station? Director Li Bin! You go first?"

Li Bin is responsible for the website technology, his major is computer technology.

But recently Qidian needs a large number of works to fill its library, otherwise it will not be able to attract readers. Therefore, he has recently been arranged to attract authors and works to Qidian to stay.

This job is not difficult.

Because now 99% of online novels are published for free on various websites and forums, and the copyright is in the hands of the authors themselves.

Only a very small number of works have signed publishing agency contracts with websites, and the works need to be serialized on that website for free.

Therefore, the newly established Qidian only needed to send people to contact the authors of those works one by one and invite them to publish their works on Qidian.

For those authors, having one more website to serialize their works seems to have only advantages and nothing else.

You just need to publish your work again on Qidian.

The workload is not large, but it can gain more readers and increase the possibility of publication.

Therefore, many authors agreed to publish on Qidian.

The biggest difficulty of this job is that it is tedious.

It takes a lot of patience to get in touch with authors with different personalities, and you need to say more flattering words.

Li Bin smiled, coughed lightly, and said, "I recruited 15 authors yesterday."

Bao Jianfeng smiled and nodded, saying, "Not bad!"

His eyes turned to Hu Jinyi who was standing next to Li Bin.

Hu Jinyi is in charge of the company's personnel, but recently he has not been able to escape the fate of recruiting authors from everywhere.

"Manager Hu! What about you?"

Bao Jianfeng asked.

Hu Jinyi smiled and said, "I pulled a little more. I pulled 33 yesterday."

Bao Jianfeng looked satisfied. These days, Hu Jinyi, who was in charge of personnel work, was able to attract many authors every day. After all, dealing with people with different personalities was Hu Jinyi's strong point.

……

About half an hour later.

Everyone talked about their work results yesterday.

Bao Jianfeng also talked about his own achievements - 22.

After talking about his work results, Bao Jianfeng looked at everyone and encouraged them: "Everyone has worked hard recently! As you can see, our work results are remarkable. In such a short period of time, we have invited more than 600 authors to agree to stay on the site, but this number is still not enough! Far from enough! So, everyone has to keep working hard. Today's task is to invite as many authors as possible, okay?"

At this time, Zhang Yonglong, who was once a senior editor of a magazine, raised his right hand, attracted everyone's attention, and said, "Everyone! We had a meeting before and decided that all works on our website must obtain the consent of the author before they can be included in our library. I have no objection to this, and I also agree that this is a key step in the formalization of our website. As a novel website, we should indeed respect every author and cannot publish their works without their authorization.

However, I have a proposal for discussion.”

His words aroused the curiosity of all his colleagues.

Bao Jianfeng asked what everyone wanted to ask.

"What's the proposal? Tell me!"

Zhang Yonglong: "We can ask for the opinions of other authors one by one, but I don't think we need to ask for the opinions of some people."

Qiao Lei was curious, "For example?"

Zhang Yonglong: "For example, the works of the three masters Jin Yong, Gu Long and Huang Yi, and the works of our General Cao... Zhongyuan Yidianhui. I personally think that with their current status, there are so many novel websites and forums on the Internet that reprint their works, and they don't mind. We also reprint them, and they should not mind either. As for General Cao, it is even more impossible for him to mind us.

I believe everyone here is well aware of the quality and popularity of their works. If we don't have their works on Qidian, some readers will definitely be disappointed.

This is my suggestion for everyone to discuss. ”

Before he finished speaking, chaotic discussions broke out in the conference room.

Some people agreed, some objected, and some frowned and remained silent.

Bao Jianfeng was also frowning and thinking.

This is indeed a problem.

As an online novel website, it is not a big problem if we do not reprint world classics. There are not many other domestic novel websites that reprint classics either.

However, if Qidian does not reprint the works of Jin Yong, Gu Long, Huang Yi and Zhongyuan Yidianhui, it will indeed disappoint some readers.

Some people even feel that Qidian.com is not strong enough and that the works in its library are not rich enough.

Reason told Bao Jianfeng that the works of these people should be included.

"I think we can talk to Mr. Cao here. I believe Mr. Cao will not refuse. Anyway, his works are only on the station. If he really has objections, the worst that can happen is that when they come to negotiate with us, we can just block Mr. Cao's works."

At this time, an editor made a suggestion.

This statement was widely recognized.

Bao Jianfeng also nodded slightly.

Then another editor spoke up: "As for the three masters Jin Gu Huang, we can't contact them, and as Director Zhang just said, these masters should not bother us. After all, we reprint their works not for profit. So many websites and forums have reprinted their works, and they haven't bothered.

If they really have objections, we can block their works immediately when they contact us!"

This statement again attracted a lot of agreement.

Bao Jianfeng nodded slightly again.

In fact, he knew very well that even if Qidian collected all the novels that could be found on the Internet, nothing would happen if it did not ask the authors for authorization.

Because many novel websites and forums do this now.

The sharing spirit of the Internet has now become deeply rooted in people's hearts.

Not to mention those unpublished novels, even those published music, movies, and novels can be found everywhere on the Internet nowadays.

No one cares.

Copyright owners even feel that it is a recognition and an honor to have a website include their works.

However, Bao Jianfeng also has higher expectations for the future of Qidian.

He hopes to establish the image of a regular novel website from the very beginning of Qidian.com.

Therefore, I tried hard to convince all my colleagues to spend more time and energy to invite those authors to come to Qidian.com to publish their works.

……

After the meeting, Bao Jianfeng returned to his office, picked up the landline phone and dialed Cao Sheng's number.

The call was connected, but Cao Sheng didn't answer.

Huizhou.

The first floor of the villa is an elevated floor.

Cao Sheng is practicing Baguazhang.

He has just recently started to study this palm technique in depth, having previously mainly studied Tai Chi and Sanda.

There is a huge difference between Baguazhang and Tai Chi.

The palm techniques are complicated and varied. Zhao Wenzhuo said in the video that Baguazhang evolved from double-sword techniques. Single-change palm is a single sword, and double-change palm is a double sword.

The swordsmanship has always been very particular about positioning.

Therefore, positioning is very important in Baguazhang.

For this reason, Baguazhang is also called Youshen Baguazhang.

Zhao Wenzhuo said that in order to master this set of palm techniques, good coordination of hands and feet is required.

Cao Sheng studied very hard.

Knowing that this set of palm techniques evolved from sword techniques, when he was learning this set of palm techniques, he would subconsciously imagine that every time he struck out with his palm, he was striking out with his sword.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but pursue the speed of his palm.

Because he thought that if he used a knife, he must be fast enough.

How can a knife that is not fast enough kill you?

He not only pursued the speed of the palm strike, but also couldn't help imagining some angles of the palm strike.

Thinking that this knife can go straight to the opponent's groin, this knife can wipe across the opponent's throat, this knife can remove the opponent's arm...

After these thoughts flashed through his mind, he couldn't help but wonder if he was cruel by nature? Why did he want his opponent to die or be crippled with every move?

Of course he was unwilling to admit that he was cruel by nature.

So, he found an excuse for himself: this was a sequelae of writing novels. He had written too many plots of fighting and killing, and always wanted to kill his opponents as quickly as possible. Therefore, when he was learning this set of palm techniques, these brutal thoughts flashed through his mind.

When he saw the call record from Bao Jianfeng, he had finished his morning exercise and was sitting on the sofa by the wall, drinking water and resting while checking his mobile phone.

He not only noticed Bao Jianfeng's call record, but also saw a message sent by Bao Jianfeng.

——"Mr. Cao! At our morning meeting today, someone suggested reprinting your work. What do you think? If you agree, I will arrange for the editor to reprint your work. Of course, if you disagree, we will respect your opinion. Please reply."

Cao Sheng, who originally wanted to call him back, smiled slightly after reading the text message and casually sent a message to the other party.

--"Can."

Regarding copyright of works, under normal circumstances, as long as others do not use your work to make a profit, or the copyright owner explicitly asks you to remove the work, but you are stubborn and refuse to do so, generally nothing will happen.

This is also the reason why various literary and artistic works can be shared freely on the Internet at the beginning of its development.

It is because these websites and forums reprint these literary works not for the purpose of profit.

……

Magic City.

Bao Jianfeng saw Cao Sheng's brief reply and smiled.

He immediately picked up the landline phone and dialed an editor's number, "Xiao Sun! I have a temporary task for you. Repost all of Mr. Cao's works to our website as soon as possible, and arrange a few of the most prominent recommendation positions for those works, okay?"

Xiao Sun: "Okay! I'll repost it right away."

After ending the call, Bao Jianfeng's smile faded slightly and he sighed.

In fact, what he wanted most was for Cao Sheng’s new work to be released first on Qidian.

If he could publish a new book on Qidian.com using the pen name Zhongyuan Yidianhui, he believed it would definitely help Qidian.com quickly gain a reputation in the online literature circle.

It can also make other authors and readers believe that Qidian is a regular novel website.

This is a shortcut.

Unfortunately, he knew that this wish would never come true.

Because Cao Sheng had signed an agreement with the site, the agreement stipulated that Cao Sheng needed to serialize 800 million words of his work for free.

In exchange for some shares.

……

Qidian.com was just born and is still developing quietly. It has no presence in the circle for the time being.

Bao Jianfeng encourages everyone at the morning meeting every day to invite more authors to serialize their works on Qidian.

He himself is also trying hard to negotiate with various websites, hoping to become a friendly website of other novel websites, and to hang a link entrance to the starting point at the bottom of those websites' web pages.

Use this as a starting point to attract some traffic.

There are some results.

But every time you have to give money to others.

It's like spending money to buy advertising space.

As for picking up the link entrance and exchanging it with the other party?
He does.

But Qidian had just been established and had little traffic, so no one cared about it. All they wanted was money.

The pressure on Baojian Peak is increasing.

Watching the slowly growing number of views on Qidian.com and the continuous expenditures, he estimates every day how long the funds in the company's account can sustain the company's operations.

Although you don't need to pay for the works published on Qidian.

But when running a company, many expenses cannot be avoided.

For example: water and electricity bills.

For example: staff salaries.

For example: advertising fees for promoting Qidian.

and many more.

As he watched the website's popularity slowly grow every day, his desire for Cao Sheng's new book grew day by day.

I can't help but think: If Mr. Cao serializes a new book here, even without using the pen name Zhongyuan Yidianhui, it should be able to increase our page views many times, right?

His strong desire made him unable to help but call Cao Sheng every now and then to say hello, sometimes under the guise of reporting on work.

Sometimes I care about Cao Sheng’s diet.

Sometimes people say it’s raining in Shanghai, and ask Cao Sheng if it’s raining there?

He did this every now and then, and he never got tired of it, but it annoyed Cao Sheng.

Cao Sheng has been adjusting his state recently, trying to find the best state to write the beginning of "Honghuang Romance".

He had actually tried to write it several times, but he was never very satisfied with the results each time.

I was already feeling a little annoyed, and Bao Jianfeng would call me every now and then to chat nonsense. At the end of each chat, he would "casually" ask me if I had decided to publish a new book on Qidian.

Let me ask: How many times can Cao Sheng’s patience withstand such exhaustion?
Because he was too annoyed by the harassment, after receiving a call from Bao Jianfeng one day, Cao Sheng put Bao Jianfeng's number on his blacklist with a gloomy face.

I don't want anything else, just a few days of peace and quiet.

(End of this chapter)