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Chapter 57 Young man, are you tired?

Random House.

Editorial department.

"Nora, it's so nice to see you."

The professional smile on the face of the editor-in-chief Jack Cerf turned into a sincere smile from the inside out when he saw the charming woman walking by. He took the initiative to step forward and hugged him with a Western-style greeting.

"Me too, Jack."

This woman named Nora moved her mouth slightly, revealing an intellectual smile, and her low voice formed a unique charm against the background of her appearance and temperament, which was extraordinarily attractive.

Adam believed that if God asked the world to vote for a woman to pray to Him, he would have voted for Nora.

"Don't you hate New York the most, are you here this time?"

Jack asked enthusiastically.

"Yes, I hate New York, but I can't help it, my son is here."

Nora smiled helplessly: "This time I came here mainly to see him, so I stopped by to see you, wouldn't I be unwelcome?"

"welcome."

Jack exaggeratedly smiled and said, "I wish you would live in New York for a long time. You are our brightest star."

"Ha ha."

Nora smiled and looked at Adam with seductive eyes: "Who is this?"

"Adam Duncan."

Hearing the other party mentioning his son, Adam instantly cut off the charm in his heart. After all, he is a principled person and will never do bad things that destroy the family of his beloved.

"Hello Adam, I'm Nora."

Nora saw the familiar light flashing in Adam's eyes, and her eyes became more and more curious.

She is a professional writer who specializes in writing about men and women, and she knows everything about the relationship between men and women.

Eyes are the windows to the soul. Men usually look at her with what eyes they look at and what psychological activities they represent. She is penetrating.

There are also men who are not interested in her, such as her ex-husband.

But in the first second, her eyes were still very hot, and the next second it was at room temperature, which she had never encountered before.

Occupational sensitivity makes her accustomed to exploring the unknown mysteries of the occupational field.

And this is an ordinary man.

So she reached out and shook hands with Adam: "Are you also a writer?"

"Just a newcomer."

Adam smiled modestly.

"Has the contract been signed?"

Nora gave Jack a thoughtful look.

"Not yet, I need to think about it."

Adam shook his head.

"Jack."

Nora smiled, looked at Jack, and joked: "You are bullying the newcomer again?"

"No no."

Jack smiled bitterly: "Nora, you know, we always follow the rules..."

Saying that, Lemonade gave Adam a sideways glance and cursed in her heart, "Damn it! Good looks are popular! I've been good to Nora so many times, but she didn't respond once. Now it's great to meet this guy, so Take the initiative, she is indeed a woman who writes about that, so romantic."

"Come on, Jack."

Nora winked at Adam, then interrupted Jack, with an expression of "don't be fooled": "When I first published a book, I was miserable, do you remember how my follow-up book was transferred to Is it published by Random House?"

"Uh."

Jack's mouth twitched.

Of course he remembers.

At that time, he was still a small editor, and he went to poach Nora, who was just emerging. How did he convince the other party?

Naturally, it is the shameless oppression of the opponent.

Afterwards, even if the conditions given by both parties were the same, Nora, who had a grudge, still chose to hand over the book to Random House for publication.

Of course, there is also a stronger factor announced by Random House.

But he understands what Nora means, that is, although writers also value money, they are not mercenary businessmen. Especially in the newcomer stage, giving enough respect will often lead to a lifetime of friendship.

Knowing to know, but not many people do it, because the mortality rate of newcomers is too high, and friendship is too fragile in front of interests. As one of the best large publishing houses, it is better to poach directly instead of bothering to cultivate newcomers.

This is nothing, what really gave him a headache was another meaning of Nora's opening, that is, she took a fancy to Adam and asked him to give her face.

Nora is a true top writer, selling millions of copies of every book.

The reason why Adam has never heard of Nora's name is because Adam is a serious person and is not interested in such colorful romance books, let alone never read or heard of it.

Her books are widely circulated among young boys and girls, accompanying them to grow up, and their fame even spread abroad. Even in a big publishing house like Random House, the card face is also a bar.

For her, Random House had to coax her carefully, for fear of hurting the good cooperative relationship between them. Because of her success, she brought a huge amount of traffic and could throw away Random House at any time.

"Mr. Duncan, why don't we go back to the office and have a talk. Is everything easy to discuss?"

Jack Cerf was depressed in his heart, but squeezed out a smile from his heart.

"Alright."

Adam knew this and accepted the invitation with a smile.

This kind of good thing is actually not unexpected, because he often encounters, such as the female teacher who enthusiastically helped him apply for the bursary during the interview at Columbia University.

Adam has become accustomed to the gestures of others, and is at ease.

"Do you mind if I listen?"

Nora smiled and said, "I also want to read Adam's masterpiece."

"of course not."

Jack and Adam shook their heads quickly.

The three entered the editor-in-chief's office, Jack courteously asked Nora to sit down, and Adam handed her the manuscript of the first thirty chapters.

"You talk, don't worry about me."

Nora took the manuscript and smiled at the two of them.

Jack and Adam looked at each other and began to renegotiate.

"The share is 6%, but the full copyright of the Lord of Mysteries must be handed over to Random House for operation, and Random House takes 50% of the proceeds..."

"No! The 6% share is acceptable, but it only talks about the distribution rights of the book, the full copyright of the Lord of Mysteries, Random House can help with the contact, but there is no decision-making power. If the contact is successful, you can pay Random House 6% operating costs.”

"Six percent operating expenses? Are you kidding me, Mr. Duncan?"

"Of course not, Random House is just a publishing house, why bother with full copyright? Film, video and other copyrights have nothing to do with Random House, all Random House wants to do is to act as a middleman to earn the difference, and that is also a mystery. After the fire of the Lord.

Random House is only willing to pay 6% of the copyright fee for books. That is because it bears channel fees and risks. But once a company is willing to buy copyrights for movies, video games, games, etc., I can contact them myself. Random House has zero risk and zero investment. , why should you charge up to 50%? "

"Without Random House's channel investment, how could Lord of Mysteries become popular? You can discuss copyrights such as movies and games alone. Do you think you can get a high price? Only a big company in the industry like Random House can get it for you. The licensing fees for the top copyrights of film and television, games, etc., can only be a win-win situation if the full copyright is granted to Random House.”

"Then, as soon as Random House got the right to operate the full copyright, it sold the full copyright of the Lord of Mysteries to the relevant subsidiary at a low price, and finally the subsidiary would come forward and sell it for a sky-high price, but what does that have to do with me? ?"

"..."

Faced with Adam's questioning, Jack Cerf had a great headache. He really didn't think that how Adam, who had not yet entered the society, knew about these devious traps in business.

What's wrong with today's youth?

Are you still a little naive?

clap clap.

Nora, who had been sitting on the side reading the manuscript, couldn't help applauding and exclaiming: "Wonderful!"

Afterwards, he looked at Adam tenderly: "Young man, are you tired like this?"

Adam:  …

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