Reborn as a tycoon in Hong Kong

All walks of life have thresholds.

After leaving Ming Pao, Lin Baicheng went to other small and medium-sized newspapers to look for opportunities.

However, the situation was worse than that of Ming Pao. At least Lin Baicheng saw an editor at Ming Pao. He didn't even see anyone from many newspapers.

There are now fifty or sixty newspapers in Xiangjiang, including many small and medium-sized newspapers. These newspapers are willing to serialize novels, especially martial arts novels.

However, when the people at the newspaper learned that the novel was written by Lin Baicheng, a young man who had never even attended college, they shook their heads and refused, saying that they could not risk serializing a novel written by a child. Obviously, they did not believe Lin Baicheng at all. What good novels can young people write?

Even if Lin Baicheng asked them to briefly browse the novel, most of them said they didn't have time, or wouldn't make exceptions, etc.

Only two editors probably read the first part of the novel. However, after discovering that Lin Baicheng's writing was not very good, they just asked Lin Baicheng to leave a copy of the manuscript and contact information, saying that he would read it carefully when he had time, and would wait for the newspaper to serialize it. contact him.

Faced with this situation, Lin Baicheng could only leave with regret. Obviously, the other party didn't attach much importance to his novel, so leaving the manuscript didn't make much sense. The most important thing is that he only has a manuscript, and he will not leave it without a clear answer.

I ran like this for two days and visited more than a dozen small and medium-sized newspapers. Not to mention those who were interested in his novels, even Lin Baicheng, the editor of the newspaper, had not met many of them.

Faced with this situation, Lin Baicheng had no choice but to continue writing novels and contact the newspaper offices according to the phone numbers left in the newspapers, instead of running out all day.

Lin Baicheng will definitely continue to write the novel, but if he still can't find a newspaper to serialize it after the novel is finished, then he can only regretfully give up on the method of getting his first pot of gold by writing novels and look for another opportunity.

The first pot of gold must be there, but Lin Baicheng will not hang himself on a rope. How can a living person be allowed to choke to death?

The worst-case scenario, in Lin Baicheng's opinion, is that he would spend a year or two working part-time, save enough 10,000 Hong Kong dollars, and then ask for some more from his family, and then he would have his first pot of gold.

However, this method is very time-consuming and not cost-effective for Lin Baicheng who feels that this era is full of gold.

The sooner he has his first pot of gold, and the more he has, the sooner Lin Baicheng can make a fortune and accumulate more capital to do great things.

After the family learned that Lin Baicheng's novel serialization was not going smoothly, they were not surprised, but they did not tell him to stop having his own whims, and just let him do it.

In the opinion of Lin's father and Lin's mother, after a month and a half like this, Lin Baicheng would naturally give up the unrealistic idea of ​​writing a novel after suffering enough blows. Then they would just arrange things for Lin Baicheng.

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A week passed in the blink of an eye.

In recent days, several newspapers have been willing to meet with Lin Baicheng and read Lin Baicheng's novels after knowing about him.

These are several small newspapers that are willing to read Lin Baicheng's novels just to try their luck. It is really because a popular novel is so important to the circulation of newspapers, especially for some tabloids.

It's a pity that none of these newspapers took a fancy to Lin Baicheng's novel at the first time. They just thought it was okay and asked Lin Baicheng to keep a copy of the manuscript. Unfortunately, Lin Baicheng couldn't keep the manuscript.

Fortunately, two newspapers may really think that Lin Baicheng's novels are good. After learning that Lin Baicheng was writing novels every day and was planning to finish the novel, they asked Lin Baicheng to come to visit after he finished writing. Then they would Read the entire novel carefully to decide whether you want to serialize it or not.

It can be said that it barely left a way out for Lin Baicheng, and there was some hope that the novel could be serialized in a newspaper.

But even so, Lin Baicheng still contacted the tabloids every day. After all, the sooner the novel could be serialized, the better.

On this day, Lin Baicheng made an appointment with the editor of Star Daily to meet at his door.

Star Daily is also a small newspaper, but what made Lin Baicheng a little confused was that when contacted by phone, the other party said at the beginning that he was willing to serialize the novel as long as it was not too bad. However, the situation of the newspaper was a bit complicated, and some things needed to be discussed in detail. .

Lin Baicheng was puzzled as to why the other party was so willing to serialize the novel. It was really inconsistent with reality. Otherwise, he wouldn't have had to wait more than a week for the novel to be serialized in the newspaper.

But doubts were doubts, and he didn't ask any more questions because he knew it when he met.

At about 2:30 in the afternoon, Lin Baicheng arrived at Star Daily.

Star Daily is the smallest newspaper company that Lin Baicheng has seen recently, with only five employees, one office, and a small single room for the editor-in-chief.

The editor-in-chief of Star Daily is called Hu Zhiwen. He is a middle-aged man in his forties. He wears a pair of glasses and looks gentle.

Hu Zhiwen entertained Lin Baicheng in the office.

"Lin Sheng, did you bring the novel?"

After the two exchanged pleasantries, Hu Zhiwen got straight to the point.

"Brought it."

Lin Baicheng patted his shoulder bag, but did not take out the novel. Instead, he asked: "Editor-in-chief Hu, when we contacted you in the morning, even though you had not read my novel, you said that as long as the quality of the novel is not too bad, Are you willing to serialize my novel, why?"

"The situation is like this. I'm going to start from the beginning. It may be a bit long. I hope you don't mind, Lin Sheng."

Regarding Lin Baicheng's inquiry, Hu Zhiwen was not surprised. Anyway, even if Lin Baicheng didn't ask him, he would have to say something later.

"This Star Daily actually belongs to me. I am both the owner and the editor-in-chief of this newspaper."

"Our place in Xiangjiang is not big, but it has a large population, so there are many newspapers, at least fifty or sixty. In addition to a few big newspapers, there are even more small newspapers like Star Daily, so competition It’s big and difficult to survive.”

"The establishment of Star Daily was only two years ago. As of September last year, the daily circulation of Star Daily was generally only about 5,000 copies. Although it does not make much money, it still makes some money."

"But after September, the newspaper could not compete with other newspapers, so the daily circulation continued to decrease, and in December it fell below 3,000. In this case, the newspaper will lose money, because the daily circulation is increasing The less, the most important advertising revenue will be less.”

"Therefore, the newspaper's daily circulation cannot fall below 3,000 copies, otherwise the advertising revenue will become less and less, and the newspaper's losses will only be greater. Therefore, in order to maintain the newspaper's sales, I can only choose to reduce the number of copies per day." The price of a newspaper can be used to maintain newspaper sales."

"But in this case, the newspaper is actually operating at a loss. Unless the daily circulation of the newspaper can be increased, the newspaper will lose money every day."

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