I am a writer

Chapter 37 Publishing Companies
Lai Feiyu sat in the office and stared at the words on the computer screen seriously.

As an editor under the Open Book Publishing Company, his main job is to find new works and make corresponding publishing and distribution plans for them.

The physical book market of a superpower with a population of more than one billion is extremely huge. The country has always called on citizens to read more, and reading books is beneficial.

In addition to all kinds of teaching materials and popular science books, literary works and novels are relatively popular types, and professional types are only bought by certain groups of people.

The most profitable products are children's books. Compared with games and toys, parents obviously prefer to buy books and stories for their children.If a children's book becomes popular, it will continue to be printed in the next few decades.

Excellent literary works are hard to come by.

Fiction has always been the main force in the bestseller market.

Chinese people read 10 books a year on average, and 20 new books are published in the market every year.

Counting older titles that are constantly being reprinted, over 300 million titles are published every year!
The quantity is amazing!

In the past, only a handful of pure literary novels made it onto the best-seller list, and most of the best-selling novels were popular books driven by plots.

If a novel author has a book on the list, there is more than 80% chance of writing another best-selling novel.

However, in non-fiction genres, authors with two or more best-selling books are rare.

Some authors can even write only one professional bestseller in their lifetime.

Building a best-selling fiction writer is easier and easier.

However, in the sales of physical books, the 80th effect is very obvious. Important factors usually only occupy a minority, while unimportant factors occupy the majority.The relationship between input and output, effort and reward is not balanced. This baseline is the relationship between 20 and [-].

For example, about 80% of the world's resources are exhausted by 15% of the world's population; 80% of the world's wealth is owned by 20% of the people.

It can also be applied to the field of physical book sales. 80% of the sales are provided by the 20% of the novels, and these 20% of the novels are called bestsellers. The proportion of bestseller sales in the total sales of physical books is increasing!
Huaguo's cultural, economic, political, and military strengths are all exceptionally strong. The physical book market has not fallen under the impact of the e-era, but has maintained a dynamic stability.

The market is huge and so is the competition.

Various publishing companies emerge in endlessly.

Authors and works have become scarce resources, especially excellent authors are in great demand.

No company has ever said yes.

Both are willing to pay a lot of money to sign novel authors, and want to tie them to the same chariot.

The number of physical book writers is small and the creation speed is slow, which simply cannot meet the needs of the broad market!
Therefore, online novels have entered the eyes of publishing companies.

Excellent online novels are popular and have passed the market test.

In recent years, paper books that have changed from online novels to physical novels have created the myth of traditional publishing and become bestsellers that are printed again and again!
Good online novels also need to rely on robbing, relying on quick hands.

Famous masters basically have fixed cooperative companies, unless they pay a huge price, it is difficult to poach corners.

Open Book Publishing Company had once been brilliant, and it was considered a big company more than 20 years ago, but then it went from bad to worse.

It was just changed hands again this year, and I don't know how many times it was sold in the middle.

Lai Feiyu has been working in Unbook for four years, and has changed five bosses, and he has not changed at all.

Every boss was ambitious at the beginning and wanted to save Kaijuan and make a career, but they all fell into a quagmire in the end.

Without finding good books, publishing companies can only continue to lose money.

"Well, the new boss doesn't know how long he can last."

Qualifications are also required to change jobs. For example, Lai Feiyu has been an editor for four years but has not published a best-selling book. He cannot work for those large publishing companies at all.

I can only stay in Kaiju, hoping to dig a piece of jade in the rough.

He is used to looking for new books by lesser-known authors on Longteng.com, and if the previous content is suitable, he will take the initiative to inquire.

New titles generally don't have much competition, and big companies aren't interested in newcomers or veterans.

It may not be possible to publish successfully once in ten times.

Even if it was published, it did not sell well.

"This "Man Grows, Hates Water, Changdong" is very well written, and it seems to be especially suitable for publication!"

Lai Feiyu's eyes are shining, this is a peerless seedling!

He saw on the list of new books that this book promoted "Xiaoyao Xing", and the author's account was too new to be updated.

I thought it would be a kryptonite warrior.

After reading carefully, I found that the author has really adjusted the plot and emotions too much!

After reading the previous chapters, Lai Feiyu had an idea: this book must be signed!
However, he went back to look at the introduction, looked at the book review area, and looked for the author, but he couldn't find the account of the official book friend group.

"No way, such a popular book does not have a readership, is the author afraid that it will not be able to accommodate so many people?"

Lai Feiyu felt itchy.

With so many pairs of eyes watching the entire Longteng, he was by no means the only one with this judgment.

If you don't seize the opportunity to sign quickly, you may be preempted by others!
If "Life Grows, Hates Water, and Changdong" would be about the same when it was first uploaded, it is now on the new book list, click list, and blade list. It has already been discussed in Longteng's own reader forum and the Qianlong forum dedicated to online writers.

The raw jade has already bloomed with light that cannot be concealed.

Lai Feiyu didn't dare to make inquiries with great fanfare, fearing that his actions would instead alert the rest of his competitors.

Originally, the most appropriate way was to let Kaijuan Publishing Company go to Longteng official, and the two companies would conduct business docking.

But the ability to open the book is a bit weak, and Longteng's asking price is extremely high.

If it is through Longteng to find an author to sign a book publishing agreement, the starting price and printing volume must be high, otherwise there will be no commercial value.

Publishing companies basically contact writers in private. One reason is that they can save writers a commission from novel websites.

Most newcomers don't know much about the publishing industry, and they will be dizzy after a little bragging.

Lai Feiyu sighed, and continued to read. He planned to go to his contracted author later to ask if there was anyone from Longteng, and maybe he could give some clues.

"If you break through the iron shoes, there is nowhere to find it, and it takes no effort to get it!"

After reading several chapters in a row, Lai Feiyu suddenly saw a familiar novel at the end of the chapter.

[I recommend to everyone a cool article "God of War" written by a friend, it is a real cool article.You can go and have a look. 】

Lai Feiyu's eyes lit up, and he quickly opened the TT chat.

The "God of War" recommended by Qin Chuan is exactly the online publishing book he signed!
Although the name is famous, the sales volume is really mediocre, and it may not be released after more than ten episodes.

Because the number of words in general online novels is too long, physical books may have dozens or even hundreds of episodes, which is quite long.

Since the novel is recommended, it proves that the two must be related!
He hurriedly approached Liu Yi, silently praying that the physical publishing rights of his life would not be sold.

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