Little Farmer Big Star

After Jared, Muller from De Hertz Publishing House and the heads of several other publishing houses also expressed that if Li Fan's fantasy literary works had a certain distribution value, they would also be willing to provide them for free. Published by Li Fan and distributed in their country.

Their underlying meaning is that if Li Fan's fantasy literary works have no distribution value, if Li Fan wants to publish them, he can only publish them at his own expense.

Of course, this is true. If the author's book is not of good quality and he wants to publish it, he has to pay for it out of his own pocket and ask a publisher to publish it.

However, facts are facts. Nowadays, major publishing houses speak so directly, and the slight sarcasm in their words can be understood by everyone present.

For a moment, everyone turned to look at Li Fan, wanting to see embarrassment, shame, or anger on Li Fan's face.

However, they didn't see any of this on Li Fan's face.

All he saw was that Li Fan still smiled lightly and said: "I haven't finished what I just said. I don't want copyright fees, but it doesn't mean I don't want money. In our country, there is another kind of relationship between publishers and authors. The cooperation method is that the author does not pay royalties, but adopts a share-sharing method. I wonder if the publishing houses of Mr. Mueller, Mr. Jared, and other responsible persons have such a cooperation method?"

The heads of each publishing house were stunned, and then Jerry said: "Of course this kind of cooperation exists, but ordinary authors will not choose this way. Because they don't know how their books are selling? One-time The safest way is to get royalties that you are satisfied with.”

Li Fandao: "As long as I have it, I plan to use this method of cooperation with various publishing houses for my works. As for how much I will get, considering today's special day, I will get a little less, just 10 percent." "

"How much?" Everyone at the scene was stunned, thinking that they heard wrongly.

In addition to the authors and people from the publishing industry, the other staff on site basically understand the publishing industry.

The share the publisher gives to the author is based on the price.

For example, for a book priced at 30 yuan, if the author divides it 10 percent, it will cost 3 yuan.

In other words, for every book printed by the publishing house, the author must pay 3 yuan.

However, the cost for publishers to publish physical books is actually very high. In addition to the author's remuneration or copyright fees, there are many other costs.

For example, printing fees, paper fees, transportation fees, warehousing fees, the discount difference between code foreign and real foreign goods, plus a certain damage rate, etc.

After all, for a book priced at 30 yuan, the final net profit earned by the publishing house is generally only five, six, sixty-seven yuan, and will not exceed 10 yuan.

This ten percent share is considered very high.

Of course, everyone also knew that Li Fan was not asking for a price maliciously.

If it is a super best-selling book, let alone 10 percentage points, it is 11, 12, or even higher. The publisher is willing to give it.

But the key point is that if Li Fan dares to charge such a price for his fantasy literature, everyone has to doubt their own ears.

In the opinion of the publishing house, it would be too naive to ask for a 10% share of a book that requires the author to publish it out of his own pocket.

Jerry said with a smile: "Mr. Li Fan is joking, this is absolutely impossible."

After Jerry got it, Muller and other publishing house leaders also said it was absolutely impossible and they were fools.

Jim, Andlin, Gessen and others also sneered in their hearts. In their opinion, this must be what Li Fan said deliberately, hoping to resolve the previous embarrassing situation.

Li Fan nodded and said: "I can understand your concerns, but this is really a pity. Now it seems that my entries can only be published in our country of China for the time being. Fortunately, the rules of the competition this time, It doesn’t depend on sales volume, otherwise, I would have been eliminated by now.

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Jim laughed and said: "Mr. Li Fan is too modest. After Mr. Li Fan's work is created, if Jared and Muller think it is good, they can still distribute it abroad."

Li Fan nodded and said, "Thank you very much, Mr. Jim, for your kind words."

Jim added: "No, no, I believe Mr. Li Fan has this strength."

Regarding the copyright issue, it has come to an end, and Jim, Andlin, Gessen and others are in a very good mood.

Everything was almost as they expected. Li Fan's entries could not even be sold for publishing rights in other countries. After this news was known to Chinese netizens, they would surely be very excited.

At this point, this children's literature exchange summit has really come to an end.

Yu Qiu, president of the Chinese Writers Association, and Larouf, president of the Lanzhou Writers Association, made final concluding remarks respectively.

After that, the exchange summit finally concluded successfully.

All the writers were very satisfied with this trip to China.

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After the summit, Han Feng, a representative of the Chinese publishing industry and the head of Qiuyu Publishing House, approached Li Fan and expressed his willingness to purchase the publishing rights of Li Fan's entries in China.

Li Fan said that there is no problem, and it will be based on the share, which is 8 percentage points.

8 percentage points is indeed the low price given by Li Fan.

You must know that the work he is about to release has created a sales myth in his previous life and is one of the best-selling works in the world.

Even the 10 percentage points previously given to Jared, Love and others are still not considered a high price.

It's a pity that no one wants to believe him.

Of course, Li Fan could understand, but he really felt a little regretful.

Han Feng seemed to not believe Li Fan either, and said with a slight frown: "Mr. Li Fan, with your current fame, we believe that many people will be willing to buy your works. But my country's fantasy literature It is also true that the market is still uncertain. Moreover, this is Mr. Li Fan’s first attempt at creating fantasy literature, so there are too many uncertain factors. Is 8 percentage points too high?”

Li Fan nodded and said: "I fully understand Mr. Han's concerns, but this price is indeed my bottom line price."

Han Feng frowned even more, thought for a moment and said, "In this case, we can only discuss cooperation with Mr. Li Fan another day."

Li Fan smiled and said: "I know Mr. Han wants to wait until the market for fantasy literature in our country becomes clearer and after reading my works, we can discuss cooperation. Of course there is no problem, but Mr. Han, if anyone You have reached a cooperation agreement with me before you do, and then I can only say sorry."

Han Feng also smiled and said: "It doesn't matter. If any other publishing house is willing to cooperate with Mr. Li Fan, Mr. Li Fan can just agree."

Li Fan nodded, and after the two said a few more words, they said goodbye to each other.

Huang Zhaoyang, another person in charge of Qiu Yu Publishing House, saw Han Feng coming back and asked, "Old Han, how are you?"

Han Feng shook his head, sneered, and told Huang Zhaoyang the situation.

After hearing this, Huang Zhaoyang sneered and said: "We saw that he was rejected by so many foreign publishing houses and lost face, so we kindly bought his copyright. He is so ignorant of praise. He really thinks that he created fantasy literature The work will be very marketable, right?”

Han Feng smiled and said, "Maybe he has been on the altar for a long time and thinks that no matter what book he writes, it will be very popular."

Huang Zhaoyang shook his head and said: "Forget it, leave him alone. Let's go talk to Mr. Jim right now about the copyright issues of his entries and their domestic publication in China. It was not convenient for us to talk at the venue just now. , now it doesn’t matter in private.”

Han Feng nodded, and then the two of them went to Jim to discuss related copyright matters.

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