Entertainment: Who still wants to fall in love when there are cheats?

Chapter 189 Job-hopping
The wrap party went very smoothly, and no one disrespected Li Boda by not attending the wrap party for "Night Shop".

The main actors in the movie "Night Shop" are mostly unknown third-rate actors, apart from Xu Shanzheng and Zhao Liying. They don't dare to disrespect Li Boda at all. As for Zhao Liying, she is an artist under Li Boda's studio, and Li Boda is her boss. She wouldn't dare not come.

As for Xu Shanzheng, it's purely because this guy knows how to get along with people. Someone like him, who is doing very well in the TV drama circle but can't get into the film industry, wouldn't dare to offend a big shot like Li Boda.

Of course, another point is that Xu Shanzheng's home is in Shanghai, making it very convenient for him to attend the wrap party.

Moreover, it's the sixth day of the first lunar month now, so everyone has plenty of free time.

So, the wrap party, which was postponed for a few days, still had a full attendance.

After the wrap party, Li Boda handed the memory card for the movie "Night Shop" to Sister Wang, asking her to take charge of the post-production tasks.

Wang Jie naturally wouldn't refuse, but she was still a little curious.

"Boss, this is your first film as a director. You're leaving all the post-production work to me? Aren't you worried?" Sister Wang asked curiously.

"Who can blame me when you're someone I can trust, Sister Wang!" Li Boda complimented with a chuckle.

Hearing Li Boda say that, Sister Wang immediately burst into laughter: "Boss, I like what you're saying, but I don't believe it."

"Mainly, I'm currently developing a novel website," Li Boda explained his situation.

"A novel website?" Sister Wang asked with curiosity.

"Actually, it's like this..." Li Boda explained the shady practices of Shanda Literature website and stated that he wanted to enter the online novel industry.

Hearing Li Boda say this, Sister Wang suddenly understood, but she didn't say anything about Li Boda's desire to enter the online novel industry.

After all, Li Boda was her boss, and she had no right to interfere with what he wanted to do.

Moreover, in Sister Wang's opinion, novel websites are just that, nothing special. Even if Li Boda plays with them and loses money in the end, how much money can he lose?
And what if, what if!
If a writer of Jin Yong or Gu Long's caliber were to appear on this novel website, Li Boda would make a fortune, although Sister Wang thought the possibility was extremely slim.

Therefore, Li Boda handed over the post-production work of [Night Shop] to Sister Wang, while he went back to continue writing code and improving the novel website 'Magic Cube Literature'.

Moreover, besides the online novel website, Li Boda had other ideas.

Li Boda had just created the 'Silly Girl Mobile System,' so he had a sudden inspiration and decided to design a software app similar to QQ that could run on a mobile phone. This software app didn't need any other functions; it was simply meant to allow readers to read novels through the app on their phones.

These days, there's no such thing as a novel reading app.

In other words, Li Boda created the mobile phone system, and the updates to the mobile phone system were closely related to Magic Cube Technology. Therefore, when he founded the novel website 'Magic Cube Literature', Li Boda was thinking about how to make the novel website bigger and how to attract more authors to write.

So, Li Boda thought of mobile phones.

As the developer of the mobile operating system, his first thought was to include a built-in feature during the system installation so that people could read novels on their phones.

Thus, the 'Magic Cube Literature' APP came to Li Boda's mind.

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"Hey Zhang Heng, is what you're saying reliable? A big star like Li Boda wants to meet with us?" Shenji couldn't help but ask Zhang Heng.

“Yeah, I also think it’s a bit unreliable. Li Boda is a big star, and we don’t have any connection with him…” Hong Xue chimed in.

"If you think it's unreliable, why did you come?" Tomato chimed in with a chuckle.

"This isn't just a 'what if' scenario. What if Zhang Heng is telling the truth? A big star? I've never actually met him in real life."

"Don't worry, it's absolutely reliable! Didn't I tell you before that the film and television adaptation rights to my novel 'Infinite Terror' were bought by Li Boda?"

"So Li Boda had you contact us to buy the copyright to our novel?"

"No, it seems to be about the novel website. Li Boda told me before that he wanted to create a novel website." "A novel website? Is it reliable?"

The authors invited by Zhang Heng murmured amongst themselves.

When Li Boda actually appeared in front of them, they were all so excited that they couldn't contain themselves.

In particular, several female authors invited by Zhang Heng couldn't help but scream when they saw Li Boda. They all seemed to have become Li Boda's fans, and some even almost asked Li Boda for autographs.

Li Boda greeted everyone with a smile.

Most of these authors are homebodies and not very good at communicating with people; at least, they don't know how to communicate with people they've just met.

However, Li Boda used his mental power slightly, which effectively calmed their emotions and gained their initial trust. Gradually, they became more natural and started talking more.

Li Boda joined them in criticizing Shanda Literature, pointing out its flaws, which resonated with them.

Before long, these people all regarded Li Boda as a close friend.

All I can say is that these authors of online novels are sometimes really easy to fool.

"Teacher Li, you said you want to create a novel website. Could you tell us about your thoughts?" Shenji was one of the more clear-headed people in the group. Before the others were about to agree to join Li Boda's novel website, he quickly stood up and interrupted them.

“Of course, first of all…” Li Boda calmly explained his approach to operating the website and assured that all copyrights of the novels created by the authors belong to the authors personally.

This alone put Shenji and his team at ease.

"However, I also know that although everyone is creating novels, they don't know much about copyright management and aren't good at dealing with people. So, if you want to manage your copyrights but don't know how to negotiate with the other party, you can entrust the website to handle it for you. Of course, the website will try its best to increase the prices of your various copyrights, but in return, you will have to give 50% of the profits to the website," Li Boda said earnestly.

"Fifty percent, isn't that too much?" Red Blood couldn't help but ask.

"Is it a lot? It is indeed quite a lot, accounting for half of the total. But you can't just consider that. First of all, copyright operation itself requires time, energy and money. Secondly, if you sell the copyright individually, for example, if a novel is to be adapted into a TV series or movie, the production team will spend 100,000 yuan to buy your copyright, and you will only receive 100,000 yuan."

"However, if the website is handed over to professionals for operation, the film and television adaptation rights of the novel may be increased to 200,000, 300,000 or even higher. Even if you take half of that, you will still earn more than if you operated it yourself."

"Of course! If you don't want to hand over the copyright to the website for operation, you can operate it yourself. All we're doing is providing you with another option. If you have someone who is good at operating copyrights, or someone around you who is good at it, you can make the decision yourself. We will include this clause in the contract."

"The reason for this clause is to help authors who don't want to interact with others and feel that they don't know how to manage copyrights."

"I understand, but 50% is still too high, isn't it?"

"Hehe, 50% is indeed not low. But that's how the platform is. You might not know, but when we actors take on roles, we have to split our pay 50/50 with the company, and we also have to pay our own taxes. For a movie with a million-dollar salary, we have to give the company 500,000, and then pay 225,000 in taxes. In the end, we only get 275,000. If that's the case for us celebrities, then it goes without saying that it's for writers, right?" Li Boda gave an example.

Shenji and the others were also very surprised when they heard this. They didn't expect that celebrities would be paid like this when filming. A million-dollar salary would only amount to 275,000 yuan in the end, which is just a little more than a quarter.

They initially thought 50% was a high percentage, but after hearing what Li Boda said, they realized that 50% seemed quite reasonable.

"Of course, the decision of how to operate the copyright is yours. In fact, I suggest that if you have the ability, you can operate it yourself and open your own studio. When operating the copyright, you can legally and legitimately pay less tax." Li Boda said with a smile.

At this time, Li Boda didn't really care much about copyright, since the copyrights for online novels were really cheap back then.

"A studio? A legitimate way to reduce taxes? How so?" Shenji and the others' eyes lit up.

"Actually, this is the difference between an individual, a studio, and a company..." Li Boda didn't hold back and spoke frankly about the differences between individuals, studios, and companies.

Li Boda's words opened their eyes, since not many people knew about this kind of thing back then.

It was precisely because of what Li Boda said that Zhang Heng and the others felt that Li Boda was a trustworthy person, and they all decided to switch jobs to Li Boda's side.

(End of this chapter)