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After arriving at Wangfujing Bookstore, Cao Zhiqiang was immediately shocked because he saw a long queue outside Wangfujing Bookstore.

There were so many people queuing that they occupied one side of the road, causing traffic on the street to be affected.

There were even a few police officers walking around nearby to help maintain order at the scene.

After seeing this situation, Cao Zhiqiang grabbed an aunt out of curiosity and asked why everyone was queuing up.

As a result, the aunt said she was here to queue up to buy books.

When asked what book I bought, I said I bought the red-light version of "Hadron Poems."

The so-called "Hadron Poetry Collection" was actually the nickname of the poetry collection "The Farthest Distance in the World" from its earliest days.

It's just that the name is a bit too literary and too long.

Therefore, for some ordinary people, the nickname "Hadron Poems" is more catchy and easier to remember, so it gradually became popular.

The Hongguang version of "The Poems of Hadron" that Auntie talks about, of course, refers to the buy-one-get-one-free book produced by Hongguang Publishing House, not the work published by Writers Publishing House.

Because it was the first project of Hongguang Publishing House, for the sake of stability, the idea was to buy a collection of poems and get a novel as a gift.

It means that they mainly sell poetry collections, and the novel "Shattered Void" is just a bonus that comes with the poetry collection.

The reason for this is, of course, that the "Hadron Poetry Collection" is now well-known in China, making it easier to open up the market.

Since there was a first edition published by Writers Press before, this red-light version of the poetry collection is also called the Remastered and Enhanced Edition.

It's easy to say that it was reprinted. As for the meaning of strengthening, in addition to the red-light version of the poetry collection, which has the autograph of the author Cao Zhiqiang and Cao Zhiqiang's sketches, there are also several new poems by Cao Zhiqiang added to it.

In other words, the red-light edition of "Hadron's Poems", compared to the "Hadron's Poems" published by Writers Publishing House, not only has more autographs and illustrations by the author, but also has five more new poems.

One of the most famous poems is the first of those five poems - "Journey to the Rivers and Lakes"!

The world's turmoil comes from my generation, and once I enter the world, time rushes me.

In the chat and laughter of Huangtu Hegemon, life is a drunken experience.

He held his sword while riding astride and swung the ghost rain, causing bones as white as a mountain bird to fly away in fright.

Things in the world are like tides and people are like water. Only a few people in the rivers and lakes return.

It can be said that as soon as this poem came out, everyone in the publishing house was shocked and admired Cao Zhiqiang's talent.

For this reason, they also wrote this poem on the cover of the new poetry collection, making others think it was a new poetry collection at first glance.

This is exactly what happened.

Because the red-light version of the poetry collection, in order to avoid trouble, is no longer called "The Farthest Distance in the World", but "Journey to the Rivers and Lakes".

Of course, although the name has been changed, the content, except for five new poems, the other fifty poems are exactly the same as the content in the book "The Farthest Distance in the World".

It just has more illustrations and signatures, and the printing is more beautiful.

Of course, there are also four big characters like the business card - "Produced by Qiangzi"!

By the way, this remastered and enhanced poetry collection released by Hongguang Publishing House was authorized by copyright through correspondence with the Writers Publishing House.

At that time, Cao Zhiqiang not only invited the president of the Writers Publishing House, but also the director of the Publishing Bureau, as well as the secretary and manager of the Xinhua Bookstore Head Office.

Everyone went to Peking Restaurant to have a meal of Tan's cuisine, and Cao Zhiqiang gave everyone a gift afterwards.

Then, Writers Publishing House stopped pursuing the issue of Hongguang Publishing House’s reprint, and even signed a contract with Hongguang Publishing House, officially authorizing Hongguang Publishing House to publish “The Farthest Distance in the World” for free.

Everything in this collection of poems.

The reason is very simple, that is, when Cao Zhiqiang approached Writers Publishing House to publish the poetry collection, he signed a share-sharing contract. The contract stipulated that within five years, the copyright of this poetry collection would belong to Writers Publishing House.

So in theory, within these five years, all the content in that poetry collection cannot be published by other publishers, otherwise it will be infringement and piracy.

However, as mentioned before, since there is currently no real copyright law in China, copyright is just a bluff.

In other words, the copyright contract only binds the author personally, but cannot bind other publishers.

Strictly speaking, the contract that Cao Zhiqiang signed with Writers Publishing House could only restrict Cao Zhiqiang and prevent him from finding other publishers to publish the collection of poems.

Because the copyright of Cao Zhiqiang’s collection of poems has been sold to Writers Publishing House for five years.

So within these five years, if Cao Zhiqiang cooperates with other publishing houses to publish that poetry collection, Cao Zhiqiang will have to pay liquidated damages.

However, if other publishing houses directly pirated the content of this poetry collection and put it on the market in the name of learning from it, the author's publishing house would have no choice but to ask other publishing houses for copyright fees, and it cannot ask other publishing houses to remove the pirated books from the shelves.

This is a typical case of bullying the weak and fearing the strong.

The reason is very simple. The contract signed between Writers Publishing House and Cao Zhiqiang is a business contract, and everyone acts according to the business contract.

But Writers Publishing House does not have a contract with other publishing houses, so it does not need to act in accordance with the contract.

In other words, if Cao Zhiqiang had not signed the contract with the writer's publishing house, these things might not have happened, because in the absence of a contract, the copyright would still belong to Cao Zhiqiang by default.

But then again, without signing that contract, the writer's publishing house would not agree to play the royalty sharing system with Cao Zhiqiang, and it would be impossible for Cao Zhiqiang to earn more than 500,000 yuan in a short period of time with a collection of poems.

In short, because Cao Zhiqiang signed an internal contract with Writers Publishing House, theoretically speaking, Cao Zhiqiang cannot sign a publishing contract with Hongguang Publishing House. He can only publish directly without signing a contract.

But in this case, firstly, there will be a lot of trouble in the later stage, and secondly, it will not be possible to produce a signed version of the original author, and the original gimmick will be lost.

Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang went to the president of the Writer's Publishing House and asked him for authorization.

Anyway, the writer's publishing house is already making a lot of money, so it's useless even if it doesn't agree.

Because Hongguang Publishing House can publish the poetry collection directly without signing a contract with Cao Zhiqiang.

Writers Publishing House cannot use the internal contract signed between Cao Zhiqiang and Writers Publishing House to bind Hongguang Publishing House!

What's more, even if Hongguang Publishing House doesn't publish that poetry collection, other publishing houses will pirate it sooner or later.

In addition, the top leader of Xinhua Bookstore and the director of the Publishing Bureau came forward, so the pressure was not ordinary.

In this case, why do you need to be that evil person?

It's nothing more than giving authorization, it's not a big problem.

By authorizing this writing to Hongguang Publishing House, the author’s publishing house will not offend anyone, and the president himself will receive a sincere deposit.

Not granting this authorization will not delay Hongguang Publishing House from publishing the book, but it will offend Cao Zhiqiang, a great writer. By the way, he will offend the top leader of Xinhua Bookstore and the director of the Publishing Bureau. It may even offend the "big leader" behind Cao Zhiqiang. He should be a little bit offended.

There are no benefits, so why bother?

Anyway, from the writer's publishing house's point of view, it's not a big deal to give permission.

But in Cao Zhiqiang's view, this is of great significance.

Because this means that the next actions of Hongguang Publishing House are authorized actions, which belong to aboveboard publishing and cannot be regarded as piracy.

Regardless of this small difference, it actually has a huge impact later on.

This is why Cao Zhiqiang is determined not to pirate martial arts novels by well-known writers in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Piracy is fun for a while, but I make a list afterwards.

Cao Zhiqiang has system plug-ins, and he can beat his peers by being "original", so why bother competing with others for a moldy piece of pirated cake?

Therefore, Cao Zhiqiang later rejected Yang Shouwen's proposal and set a tone, that is, in Hongguang Publishing House, only original works will be produced and no pirated copies will be produced!

For a new publishing house, self-discipline, self-love, and a correct process can lead to a longer and more stable development.

Not to mention, after Cao Zhiqiang set the tone of "only original works, no piracy", everyone admired Cao Zhiqiang as general manager even more.

After all, although piracy is fun, everyone knows it is wrong.

Only when you do the right thing can you feel confident and hold your head high.

Same reason.

After Hongguang Publishing House received the copyright authorization from Writers Publishing House, it seemed justifiable and confident that the contents of "The Farthest Distance in the World" would appear in the new poetry collection "Journey to Jianghu".

Moreover, the poems borrowed from "Journey to the Rivers and Lakes" also indicate that they are "genuinely authorized".

Only those five new poems did not have the words "genuinely authorized" written on them, but the words "first released new poems" were written on them.

In addition to these, the attached "Shattered Void" also has the words "first release new book" written on it, indicating that this martial arts novel is the first release novel of Qiangzi.

All in all, although Cao Zhiqiang expected that this buy-one-get-one-free package would be very popular, he never thought that there would be a queue to buy it.

What's more, I didn't expect that there were actually many aunts and uncles queuing up to buy.

So Cao Zhiqiang asked the aunt again, do you also like that poetry collection, so you queued up to buy it?

The answer I got was that the aunt didn't want to look at that, she was buying it for her son.

The reason is very simple, that is, this book is so popular that it was sold out as soon as it was put on the shelves.

Although the stock of this work is very large, especially in bookstores in Beijing, it can be replenished in time, but replenishment takes time.

In this era, the replenishment efficiency is very low, so during the replenishment period in the bookstore, people who are eager to buy books automatically form a long queue.

However, most of the people who like this work are young or middle-aged people, but most of these people, except for the unemployed, have to go to school or work, and it is impossible to queue here every day.

As a result, those young people and middle-aged people mobilized the elderly who had nothing to do at home to come and queue up, so that they could work and buy books without delay.

Of course, if it were a normal situation, it wouldn't be like this.

After all, Cao Zhiqiang bought a lot of goods for Xinhua Bookstore at the beginning. Normally, even if they sell well, they won't be sold out within an hour of being put on the shelves.

The actual situation is that many people discovered that this book was selling very well, so they discovered business opportunities, started to buy in large quantities, and then resold them at high prices.

Yes, these are a group of dishonest people, or second-rate dealers!

When these book dealers buy books, they don’t buy one or two sets at all, but buy dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of sets at a time!

It can be said that just this small group of people directly bought out the inventory of this bookstore, forcing the bookstore to restock.

But Xinhua Bookstore is now a state-owned unit, so everyone knows about the replenishment efficiency and service attitude during this period.

Then, these second-rate dealers who bought a large number of books from Xinhua Bookstore took these books and wholesaled them to small vendors at a price of twelve yuan a book.

These small vendors sell books for fifteen yuan a book to real book seekers who can't wait in line or don't have time to wait in line.

As time went by, some old men and women who loved taking advantage also discovered business opportunities and became more willing to queue up.

These old men and women don’t have that much money, so they can’t buy dozens or hundreds of houses at a time, so they can’t become big dealers.

But they come to line up, wait for the big dealers to leave, and take the opportunity to buy five or six units, so they can still become small dealers.

Spend 100 yuan here to buy ten sets of books priced at 10 yuan, and then sell them for 15 yuan each. Each book will be sold for 5 yuan, and you will make 50 yuan at a time!

How could anyone not be tempted by such huge profits?

What? What to do if it can’t be sold?

This doesn't exist!

Nowadays, this buy-one-get-one-free set of "Journey to Jianghu", or the red-light edition of "Hadron Poems", is basically a hard-to-find book near major high schools and universities.

As long as these old men and women are squatting in front of the school, these "black books" will be swept away by the students as soon as the school is over, and they will not be able to keep them for half an hour.

To put it bluntly, there is no need to worry about selling!

Therefore, those who come here to queue up to buy, except those who entrust their family members to buy them, are second-tier dealers, and the main group of book buyers are actually second-tier dealers!