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In fact, strictly speaking, it is only the end of March, and the royalties should not be settled at this time. It should be April, and generally the royalties should be settled before mid-April.

However, Cao Zhiqiang is in a special situation. He is an author that Writers Publishing House currently values ​​​​very much, and he is also the only author who is paid according to royalties.

Moreover, he has become famous now. He was just robbed, and he cooperated with the police to catch the robber. His deeds were published in the newspapers. He is a hot news figure recently and is not easy to offend.

What's more, if someone comes to ask for royalties, it's a legitimate request. If you continue to resist, your reputation will be bad if word gets out.

As a result, when Cao Zhiqiang went to talk about this matter, the publishing house quickly summoned the accountant and calculated the manuscript fee for him as quickly as possible.

It doesn't matter. It shocked everyone once it was calculated.

Without him, it is simply too high.

Since Cao Zhiqiang’s cooperation with the publishing house is in the form of royalties, Cao Zhiqiang’s remuneration mainly depends on the circulation.

The higher the circulation, the higher Cao Zhiqiang’s income.

Although the royalty rate is only 6% and the price is only eight yuan, I can't bear the popularity of the poetry collection.

Especially a few days ago, Cao Zhiqiang's robbery was in the news. Once it was publicized by newspapers, it enhanced the reputation of the poet Qiangzi in disguise and promoted the sales of the poetry collection "The Farthest Distance in the World".

This time, it is actually the second edition, because the 200,000 copies of the first edition were sold out long ago, and the royalties were paid to Cao Zhiqiang in advance.

The reason why Cao Zhiqiang was so rich later and the reason why he was able to successfully frame the Wei army was all thanks to that money.

The publishing house printed one million copies of the second edition, which is a terrifying number.

Although many people on the market like Qiangzi's poems, and the first edition of 200,000 copies of the poetry collection was sold out in just half a month, a million copies of the book suddenly appeared, and it was impossible to sell out quickly.

not easy.

Normally, if a popular book has one million copies, it will take a month or two to sell out.

But unfortunately, a few days ago, the story of Qiangzi being robbed appeared in the newspapers one after another, and it also caused all kinds of big discussions.

There are discussions about social security, there are also discussions about whether personal royalties are too high, whether they are unequal, etc.

Whenever Cao Zhiqiang was robbed, the important sum of 10,000 yuan was mentioned. Whenever 10,000 yuan was mentioned, the poet Qiangzi was mentioned. Whenever Qiangzi was mentioned, his poetry was mentioned.

And of course his poetry collection.

It's better now. Originally, those who liked that collection of poems were mostly literary young people. Strictly speaking, they can only be considered a niche group.

After all, there are not many educated young people at this time. People who like poetry are basically that group. Ordinary people generally don't play that kind of thing.

However, as soon as the news was published and everyone found out that a poet who wrote a few poems and published a collection of poems was robbed of 10,000 yuan in the street, and it was even said that this was only a small part, it would be different.

Already.

In this period, a household worth ten thousand yuan was synonymous with wealth.

A young poet wrote a few poems, published a collection of poems, and earned several tens of thousands of yuan, which aroused everyone's curiosity.

So, now, not only the literary young people who like poetry, but also many ordinary people are buying and reading, just to see what magic is there in a book of poems, which can make a young man become a

Ten thousand yuan household.

As a result, one million copies were sold out in less than half a month, breaking the publishing record of the author's publishing house again.

For this reason, the Writer's Publishing House was overjoyed and the printing of the third edition has already begun.

It is said that this time, Writers Publishing House will print five million copies, which is simply crazy.

It has never happened before that a young new writer's first book, his first collection of poetry, should be printed in three editions and five million copies, at least for a writer's publishing house.

In this regard, Cao Zhiqiang is also a little helpless. After all, the copyright is in the hands of others. They have bought out the copyright for five years. During this period, of course, he can print as much as he wants and make money as much as he wants. He, the original author, has a bad temper.

None, it doesn’t count at all.

Fortunately, at the beginning, Cao Zhiqiang was striving for a share-sharing model and wanted royalties.

If he were to buy out the royalties, which were the royalties for a thousand words, he would suffer a big loss.

So this time, even if the royalty rate is only 6%, Cao Zhiqiang's income is quite considerable.

The second edition of one million copies sold out, and Cao Zhiqiang’s royalties were as high as NT$480,000!

Four hundred and eighty thousand, this amount is nothing in the 21st century, it is only the cost of a car.

But in 1983, this was a quite terrifying number.

Coupled with the remaining money from previous expenses, Cao Zhiqiang's personal wealth exceeded the five million mark in one fell swoop, making him a truly wealthy man.

Of course, there is still some way to go before reaching the one million mark, but according to this momentum, it probably won't be long.

If nothing else, let’s talk about his collection of poems.

If the 5 million copies of the third edition can be sold out again.

No, he doesn't need to sell out, even if he only sells 3 million copies, he can easily enter the million-income club and become a millionaire.

However, Cao Zhiqiang personally feels that the sales of this third edition may be difficult to cause the same situation as the previous two.

The reason is very simple. Although poets were very noble at this time, poetry was a niche product after all.

The previous two editions, with more than 1.2 million copies, have almost exhausted its popularity. No matter how popular this book becomes in the future, don't forget that there are still pirated copies.

In fact, during the second edition, pirated books appeared on the market, but the quality of the pirated books was too poor. At first glance, they were printed products from small workshops, and the prices were not much cheaper, so they did not affect the sales of genuine books.

However, Cao Zhiqiang is now completely famous, at least Qiangzi's pen name is truly famous.

Correspondingly, the poetry collection "The Farthest Distance in the World" has also become famous. By then, many printing companies will probably secretly pirate it in order to make extra money.

The capital city can be a little better, and the emperor is at his feet, but in other places, piracy may not be stopped.

Once the big printing houses start printing pirated goods, genuine books will probably suffer a huge impact.

In fact, Cao Zhiqiang understands somewhat now.

Publishing books today is like releasing movies in later generations. The first edition is the most profitable.

In other words, there is a time difference, and the first printed edition basically determines more than 80% of your book's income.

And it is best not to exceed three months. If it exceeds three months, piracy will start to become rampant.

If it is a popular book, it is best not to read it for more than two months, because after two months, piracy will also become rampant.

Not to mention that most of the current domestic printing plants are state-owned enterprises and they have no power.

The problem is that there are still many unruly printing plants in the south, especially in Shenzhen, and they are now the main force in piracy.

The so-called piracy buffer time of three months and one month basically refers to the response time of these southern printing plants.

In addition to the first time, there are also some small private workshops. They are also part of the pirate army, but they have not yet formed a climate.

Therefore, it is quite rare for a collection of poems like Cao Zhiqiang's first and second editions to be sold out.

This is mainly due to the fact that the first edition was printed in too small a quantity and sold out too quickly, so that the second edition of the genuine book was released before pirated copies from all over the country could react.

What’s more, the price of the genuine book is not high, only eight yuan. In addition, the poetry collection itself has certain special characteristics, which is why the genuine book sells well.

However, by the time of the second edition, pirated copies still appeared, and they still appeared in the capital.

Pirated books can appear in the capital, but they are even worse in other places.

In fact, Cao Zhiqiang already regrets that he gave too many poems.

Fifty poems, this collection of poems is simply full of sincerity.

Especially when Cao Zhiqiang discovered that the poetry collections of well-known poets on the market only contained a dozen poems each, and the prices were similar to his books, he regretted it even more.

Of course, those poets' poetry collections are not based on a royalty system, but a buyout system, which is how much it costs for a thousand words, so simply speaking of income, it is definitely not comparable to Cao Zhiqiang.

But it doesn’t matter, his pen name has already become famous, and his reputation has spread. If he writes new poems under the pen name Qiangzi in the future, he can publish them one by one and continue to harvest leeks one by one.

There are also martial arts novels that can be published under the pen name Qiangzi.

As for whether the price of a poet's novel will drop, he doesn't care. Making money comes first.

Of course, Cao Zhiqiang no longer wants to cooperate with other publishing houses.

His purpose is to publish his works in his own publishing house after opening his own publishing house.

At that time, the publishing house has the final say and can set the remuneration however it wants, and that won't make a lot of money.

It was precisely because of this that after Cao Zhiqiang received the royalties check, he went to see Yu Deli, the editor of Poetry Magazine, to have dinner with him.

For no other reason than to have a good chat with him about opening a publishing house at the dinner table.