Rebirth of Siheyuan starts in the 1980s

After adjourning the meeting, Cao Zhiqiang, who was still angry, ignored other people, even President Zhou, and went back to his office.

Fortunately, Cao Zhiqiang is indeed the unrivaled leader of this publishing house, and everyone can see that he has a bad temper now, so they don't care.

Of course, President Zhou might care, but Cao Zhiqiang has no time to care about him now.

After Cao Zhiqiang returned to his office, Yu Deli and Zhao Shouwen followed him into the office.

"Close the door!" Cao Zhiqiang said in a calm tone.

After Zhao Shouwen closed the door, Cao Zhiqiang, who had already arrived at the desk, suddenly kicked over a chair in front of the desk, pulled his tie out, and stood there with his hands on his hips and yelled:

"Xiba! I worked very hard for a long time and tried my best to finally build a publishing house. I thought I could make the most of myself and prevent others from making big profits, but it turned out that

Is it the same without copyright?

Then I should create a woolen yarn and make a hairy egg?

Asiba, you are so angry!"

Having said this, Cao Zhiqiang once again kicked the chair that he had kicked over.

It seemed that he wanted to vent his anger and depression in this way.

Well, the reason why Cao Zhiqiang finished writing "Shattered Void" but did not publish it immediately was because he wanted to set up a publishing house and publish his own novels to protect his own interests to the maximum extent.

However, if the copyright is completely useless in China, after the one-month so-called protection period is over, others can pirate his original works and publish them. Even if he can still make a lot of money, he will still feel very unhappy.

It feels like making a wedding dress for someone else.

What's more, this one-month protection period is just a so-called industry rule. It depends on your strength and the size of your backend. It is not a serious rule at all.

It's fine for big publishing houses like Writers' Publishing House, but other publishing houses have to give you face.

But if he, a little-known small publishing house, wants to publish his own original works, others may not follow the one-month rule of not piracy.

It is very likely that you have just released and launched it here. When others see that you are selling well, they will immediately pirate it and release a different version.

As long as someone else's version of the book is sold at a cheaper price than yours and the quality is not much worse than yours, your genuine version will definitely not be able to sell their pirated version.

After all, price is the last word!

However, in fact, the reason why Cao Zhiqiang is so angry is that the income cannot meet his expectations.

To put it more clearly, he has a huge appetite and does not want to give the benefits to others, nor does he want others to take advantage of him!

To put it bluntly, his status has become higher, but he has become more stingy because of it and does not want to share more benefits with others.

You must know that during this period, domestic text creators were originally in a period of low income and low rights.

Of course, this low is relative.

In fact, the income of text creators is much higher than that of most ordinary people at this time.

The high-income people in the 1980s definitely had a place for writers.

However, in an era when most people create a work and find a publishing house to publish it, they can only get an average payment of five yuan per thousand words. What higher hope do you have?

For writers at this time, if they can publish their works and sell them for money, it is already a high price. How many of them care about copyright ownership?

For today's publishing houses, if they can publish your work, make you known to everyone, and give you a remuneration of about five yuan per thousand words, it is already very good. If you want more, for example

Asking for copyright is just greedy.

In addition, just as there was no awareness of patent protection among domestic factories at this time, there is no so-called awareness of copyright protection for current literary works, and there are no relevant laws and regulations to provide protection.

Generally speaking, this publishing house has published it, and other publishing houses will no longer publish your work out of morality and self-discipline.

But if other publishing houses are shameless and see that your works are selling well, and they directly pirate them and publish them, there is no problem at all. At least it is legal.

Of course, in most cases, the circulation of a new work by a new author will not be very high when it is first published. If a new author's first work can sell more than 10,000 copies, it is already a very good achievement.

Already.

If at this time, other publishers are willing to reprint and sell it for you for free, it will actually expand the author's popularity.

Anyway, when an author publishes a work at this time, the copyright is bought out to the publisher in one lump sum.

The so-called remuneration for a thousand words is the buyout price. This means that from now on, the copyright of your work has been bought out by the publishing house. It has nothing to do with you whether the book will have a large or small circulation in the future.

In this case, if someone else pirates your book and continues to distribute it and put it on the shelves, although it does not pay you, it is equivalent to expanding your popularity for free.

Because of this, the author at this time actually did not object to other publishers piracy of his works.

But Cao Zhiqiang is different, he wants to take his share.

To get a share, it must be linked to sales, and sales are naturally linked to copyright.

If anyone can pirate your book without giving you any money, then he feels like he is being taken advantage of.

After completely kicking the chair to pieces, Cao Zhiqiang took a few deep breaths, then walked back to his seat and sat down, looking at Yu Deli and Zhao Shouwen who were standing opposite in silence.

"Sorry, did I scare you?" Cao Zhiqiang said with a smile.

Yu Deli and Zhao Shouwen looked at each other, and then Yu Deli smiled and said: "No, general manager, it is understandable that you are in a bad mood."

"Understood, what do you understand?" Cao Zhiqiang rolled his eyes.

"This..." Yu Deli frowned, not knowing how to answer for a moment.

From his perspective, he really didn't quite understand Cao Zhiqiang's behavior at this time.

After all, he was fine before, but suddenly became so angry, which really puzzled him.

On the other hand, Zhao Shouwen suddenly asked cautiously: "Perhaps you are doing this because once the work you have worked hard to create is published, it can be published and distributed by others for free without having to pay you the money earned from it.

question?"

"Huh? You understand me! There is a future!" Cao Zhiqiang nodded to Zhao Shouwen with satisfaction, "That's why I'm angry!"

Speaking of this, Cao Zhiqiang looked at Yu Deli and Zhao Shouwen: "There are no outsiders here. You two, tell me, is there any way to stop this situation?"

"It's not like there's no way." Zhao Shouwen said, "It's just a little troublesome."

"Oh, what can I do?" Cao Zhiqiang asked quickly.

Zhao Shouwen said: "The only way is to find a way to register the copyright of your work in Xiangjiang. In this way, your work will have copyright protection at least overseas.

As for China, there is really no way. The only way is to increase the circulation volume when the first edition is released, beat the slow with fast, and win with quantity.

However, the risk of doing this is also very high, because once too many copies are printed for one edition, and the book cannot be sold due to slow sales, it will be a big loss."

"It makes sense." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "What about the domestic copyright issue? If I create a work and it is released in China, the copyright will no longer belong to me?"

"That's not the case." Yu Deli said immediately, "Actually, we are not indifferent to the copyright issues of domestic publications.

Generally speaking, unless it is expressly stated in the contract that the copyright of the original creator's work belongs to the publisher, otherwise it will generally continue to be owned by the creator by default.

However, our country does not pay attention to copyright protection, so even if you still have the copyright of this work, as long as it has been published publicly, other publishers or magazines can reprint your work for free.

But even if they reprint your work, they do not own the copyright of your work, and the copyright is still in your hands."

Cao Zhiqiang frowned: "That is to say, once my work is published, the copyright will still belong to me or the first publishing house that publishes my work.

But others can reprint and use it for free without any compensation to me or the publisher who signed the contract with me?"

Yu Deli said: "That's the truth."

Hearing this, Cao Zhiqiang took a deep breath and felt that his blood pressure was rising again.

"General Manager." Yu Deli suddenly smiled and said, "If you are still angry about the copyright issues of your works, I think there is no need to do so."

"Oh?" Cao Zhiqiang looked at the other party angrily, "Why is it not necessary?"

Yu Deli smiled and said: "Actually, every book is released in one edition now, which means it sells the best when it is first published.

Especially in the first month after it is released, it can basically determine whether the book is good or bad.

Most books only have one edition and are not reprinted or reissued.

But if it is a best-selling book, one month is enough for us to react.

For example, your collection of poems was sold out within half a month of its release. This is proof of its popularity.

And do you still remember what Writers Publishing House did in the beginning? After they released your poetry collection and it became a hit, they immediately started printing second or even third editions.

Just from printing these two editions, they make a lot of money, and you benefit a lot from it.

However, your situation is extremely rare and not the norm.

The normal situation is that most new books cannot be sold in one edition, and many of them are overstocked products.

Therefore, if you think your work will definitely sell well, then just like Xiao Zhao said, increase the circulation in the first edition, win with quantity, and beat the slow with fast. This is the only correct answer!

In fact, the capacity of the book market is limited, and each type of book has a different number of readers.

If we can win through volume and seize the market first, for example, a book can issue 500,000 copies from the beginning.

At this level, once most people have this book, even if someone pirates it and releases it, it won't have much effect.

Therefore, if you set the distribution quantity of a book at a high level from the beginning, latecomers will see that it is unprofitable and will usually stop piracy.

Unless half a million is not enough and still cannot satisfy the market, and the market is still in short supply, this will attract other publishers to pirate your book.

Otherwise, if there is no profit, other publishing houses will have no interest in piracy of other people's books.

After all, our purpose is to make money.

By the time we publish the first edition, we will have eaten up most of it. Whether others pirate it or not is not that important anymore.

Because even if they pirate it, they can only drink some soup.

After all, the market for books of the same type is also limited."

Cao Zhiqiang nodded: "It makes sense, after all, making money comes first."

Immediately afterwards, Cao Zhiqiang asked: "In other words, if I don't sell the copyright of my work to other parties in the form of a contract, then by default the copyright belongs to me?"

"That's for sure." Yu Deli nodded, "In our country, unless you explicitly state in the contract that you will sell the copyright, it is assumed that the copyright belongs to the creator. This is a well-established rule."

"Then if I publish my work inland first, and then take it to Xiangjiang to register the copyright, is that okay?" Cao Zhiqiang asked again.

"Of course that's no problem." Yu Deli smiled.

"Although the laws in Hong Kong are different from ours, as far as I know, if we publish an original work in the mainland first, they cannot pirate it.

Once they pirate our original works from the mainland, we can entrust them through Xinhua News Agency, or foreign-related companies with offices in Hong Kong such as trading companies, and hire lawyers in Hong Kong to prosecute those individuals and groups who pirate our books in Hong Kong.

, initiated a copyright lawsuit.

According to the laws of Xiangjiang, if the works published by Xiangjiang are published after ours, have the same content as our publications, and do not obtain our copyright authorization, then it is illegal.

We can easily win such a lawsuit and require them to pay high compensation.

But you can only get a small part of this compensation, and most of it will go to the lawyers in Hong Kong and the foreign-related companies entrusted with the prosecution.

Therefore, because of this, people in Xiangjiang generally do not pirate original works from our mainland, because it is very troublesome."

"I understand." Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "In other words, we can pirate overseas literary works at will, but overseas countries cannot pirate our inland literary works, otherwise they will break the law, is that right?"

"You can think so." Yu Deli nodded with a smile, "Who told them to have such a law, but we don't? Only when there is a law can we abide by it!"

"Yo Xi!" Cao Zhiqiang nodded with satisfaction, "I like this kind of double standard!"

After nodding with a smile, Cao Zhiqiang once again took out the booklet filled with "Shattered Void", threw it directly on the desk and said:

"In this case, you should hurry up and give me this book as soon as possible!

By the way, give me 300,000 copies per edition! The price can be negotiated, it can’t be too low!”

"Three hundred thousand copies?" Yu Deli was surprised, "Isn't it too risky?"

"No, no, no." Cao Zhiqiang waved his hand, "Listen to me, and you will get 300,000 copies!

If the printing quantity is large, the price can be cheaper, and the total price is not much more than 100,000 copies."

Then, Cao Zhiqiang frowned: "By the way, my poetry collection seems to have been published for more than a month, right? So, I can also pirate my own poetry collection?"

"This is theoretically possible." Yu Deli nodded.

Cao Zhiqiang curled his lips: "I remember that the printing cost of my poetry collection was only thirty cents a copy?

So, just in case, let's do a bundle sale.

Later, I asked the printing company to print the book of poems for 300,000 copies, which was nothing more than 90,000 yuan.

When the time comes, a copy of "Shattered Void" will be paired with a copy of "The Farthest Distance in the World" signed by me, what do you think?"

"This is a good idea." Yu Deli's eyes lit up, "As far as I know, the current market performance of your poetry collection is very good. The supply is still in short supply, and pirated copies have appeared in other places.

If we publish this collection of poems now, with your signature as the original author, it will definitely be out of print and cannot be counterfeited by others!

This way, it will definitely sell well!”

"Then let's do it!" Cao Zhiqiang nodded, "You two will hurry up and take care of this matter later. Everyone in the company must serve this project.

I now understand that everything is fake, only money is real.

Whatever the mid- to long-term issues, we can just play with it.

Let’s understand this book first and then make money!”

"General Manager." Yu Deli said with some worry, "If you want to publish 300,000 copies, it won't be cheap.

Even if you are very familiar with the people at Hongguang Machinery Factory and use the printing equipment from Hongguang Machinery Factory, there are still basic costs.

If you do this, you may have to invest all the wealth you have earned in the past. If you fail, you will lose everything."

"Don't be afraid!" Cao Zhiqiang waved his hand, "If I don't have enough money, I will take out a loan!

Anyway, listen to me, as long as this book can be released on the market, it will definitely be popular!

The brave will be starved to death and the timid will be starved to death.

I'm not afraid, what are you afraid of?"