Resource Tycoon Reborn

George Lennon Starr is the owner of Starr Publishing House, which was founded only three years ago in Manchester. He is a middle-aged Caucasian man in his forty-five years. By chance, he learned from his peers.

I learned that a young woman named Joanne Rowling has written a children's fantasy novel and is looking for a publisher to publish it. However, since she has never published any articles before, these publishers who have received submissions

, they were all dismissive of her submissions! Some of them were even thrown aside directly.

Starr asked someone to make a copy from these publishing houses and read it from cover to cover. Although Joanne only sent the first two chapters, Starr still felt that this book was suitable for children.

It still has a certain appeal.

Since the establishment of Starr Publishing House, although its performance has been pretty decent, and its annual after-tax profits have barely reached the average level of the British publishing industry, Starr did not create this publishing house just to make a living.

Of course, he is not satisfied with such performance. But Starr Publishing House, after all, in the eyes of the British, is not as good as those big publishing houses with a long history and well-known to everyone. It is not easy to further improve the performance of the publishing house.

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There is an old saying in China - if you are poor, you will change, if you change, you will be successful, and if you are consistent, you will be long-term. It means that when things develop to the extreme, they will think of changing them in order to gain access. The latter usually means that people will try to change the status quo when they are in trouble.

Seek development.

Although Starr does not understand Chinese, the principles of the world are the same. Starr also understands that if the publishing house's performance is to have significant growth, then there must be a breakthrough! And to get a best-selling book

Publishing rights are undoubtedly what he needs at the moment.

So, Starr decided to give it a try!

Starr happened to be in Glasgow to attend a conference on the British publishing industry in the past few days, so he found Diana's home based on the address and phone number left on Joanne's submission.

Of course, Diana was overjoyed. After chatting with Starr for a few words, she found her husband and asked him to accompany Starr at home. She hurried to find Joanne. When the door was opened,

When he pushed away, Starr already had a very clear understanding of Joanne's current situation from Diana's husband's mouth - as a woman who has been in the society for many years, she can be considered a successful person.

For him, this is not difficult.

Starr is quite satisfied with this result. Joanne Rowling's financial situation is not good, which means that she urgently needs a stable income, even if this income is not that generous. Moreover, Joanne

Rowling has not published any literary works in the past and is a complete novice in the author industry. This undoubtedly gives him a lot of room to lower the price.

To be honest, Starr believes that Rowling's writing prospects still have a certain potential. This can be seen from the novel "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone". If she can be collected,

Being owned by the company, even if this novel can make a slight profit, it is worth it! After all, how many writers can become famous in this world in one fell swoop? Most of them still require the accumulation of time and experience!

Starr doesn't mind making an appropriate investment in Rowling because he knows that once he makes the right bet, he will be rewarded with a steady stream of huge wealth. This is something that his peers in the publishing industry have no idea about.

Enough examples have been provided for him!

But how to keep the royalties as low as possible and tie Rowling to the chariot of Starr Publishing requires Starr to show his negotiating skills! However, Starr believes that for a long-term economy,

For Rowling, who was in a bad situation and urgently needed an income, the conditions she proposed were definitely not harsh!

But what surprised him was that although Joanne Rowling came back with her sister Diana, there were actually three young yellow people, one man and two women, who came with her.

"Mr. Starr, it's a pleasure to meet you!" Joanne, who was obviously nervous, hugged her daughter and Starr and said, "I'm sorry to keep you waiting for so long!"

Starr waved his hand and said: "Ms. Rowling, this doesn't matter. I rushed over here without informing you in advance. I'm very sorry."

Rowling asked Fang Mingyuan and the others to sit down, and poured tea for everyone. Then she sat on the sofa opposite Starr and said: "I'm sorry, Mr. Starr, I don't remember submitting a manuscript to your company.

, and how did you know?" On the way back, Joanne kept thinking about this question. She had never heard of the name of Starr Publishing House, so naturally she could not talk about submitting manuscripts to them!

Starr smiled and said: "I heard it occasionally from other people in the same industry, and also read your submission, Ms. Rowling. Although the writing style is still very childish, in terms of plot arrangement and character characterization,

, there are still many shortcomings, but I think your novel is still readable to a certain extent and deserves to be published in a small amount. I came here this time just because..." Starr's words are still quite good.

, the long and eloquent speech not only affirmed Joanne's writing style, but also vaguely expressed the shortcomings of some parts of it - this was to facilitate Starr's psychological suppression of Joanne, so that in the contract,

Obtain more favorable terms for publishers.

Joanne couldn't help but be overjoyed. Now, as long as she can publish her novel, she is already very satisfied. Naturally, she would not have thought that her novel would actually make her famous in less than ten years.

, she became a super rich woman with a net worth of nearly 500 million pounds.

"You mean, my novel can be published?" Joanne's voice was trembling.

"Yeah!" Starr nodded heavily, took out a contract from the briefcase on the side, put it in front of Joanne and said, "If Ms. Rowling is satisfied with this contract, we will do it tonight.

You can sign the contract. Of course, if Ms. Luo Lin feels that some of the terms in it are inappropriate, I can also take your opinions back. After everyone discusses it, I will give you a reply to Ms. Luo Lin."

Joanne's trembling hands clearly showed her excitement. She picked up the contract in front of her and read it carefully.

Zheng Jiayi, who was sitting next to her, was also sincerely happy for Joanne. Although Starr Publishing House was also an unknown small publishing house in the British publishing industry, this represented recognition of Joanne's hard work over the past few years.

Positive recognition for writing! However, Zheng Jiayi still glanced at Fang Mingyuan. She felt that if Fang Mingyuan was willing to help Joanne, it should be able to bring more benefits to Joanne.

Uda Mitsuri gently poked Fang Mingyuan and whispered in Japanese: "Don't you also think Joanne's novel is good, why don't you buy it?" Although she has not read "Harry Potter and the Magic"

"Stone", but judging from Fang Mingyuan's attitude, it can be judged that Fang Mingyuan still attaches great importance to Joanne's novel. Otherwise, even if Joanne Rowling is Zheng Jiayi's good friend, Fang Mingyuan would not be able to accompany Joanne personally.

Come here with Zheng Jiayi.

"Without comparison, how can you tell whether it's good or bad?" Fang Mingyuan said with a faint smile. He believed that no one in the world understood the value of Joanne Rowling's novel better than him, so in "Harry.

Before "Bot and the Philosopher's Stone" was officially published, no one would dare to compete with him for the publishing rights of the novel, the rights to adapt the novel, and the rights to film adaptations, as well as the rights to related derivative products.

Zheng Jiayi also heard the conversation between Fang Mingyuan and Uda Guangli, but her Japanese was only so-so, and Fang Mingyuan and Uda Guangli's speaking voices were not high, so she didn't understand it very well.

Seeing Joanne turn the contract to the third page, Starr secretly let out a sigh of relief. In his briefcase, he actually prepared two contracts. One contract was based on the new contract given by the British publishing industry.

The average manuscript fee of the author; and the other contract is the one in Joanne's hands. Not only has the number of novels published and the manuscript fee been reduced a lot, but also the novel's movie is required at a very low price.

The right to adapt the TV series, as well as the image rights of the characters in the book and other related rights. And the most important thing is that not only the future publication of the "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" series of novels must be published by Starr Publishing House, Joanne

Starr Publishing House will have priority in publishing other works in the next few years!

If Joanne's children's novel, even if it does not reach the level of a best-seller, can reach the average level of novels published in the UK, it will be enough for Starr Publishing House to make a lot of money this time. If

It would undoubtedly be even better if it could be noticed by a certain film director! Of course, Starr has no extravagant hopes for this!

Although this contract is indeed a bit harsh, and the rights and obligations between the two parties are somewhat unequal. But he has just learned from Diana and his wife that Joanne Rowling's life is quite stressful now, and the government's

A small subsidy and the income from her odd job can barely make ends meet for her and her daughter. Without the continuous support of Diana and his wife, Rowling's life would have collapsed. If she wanted to live a better life, if she said

What if she wants her daughter to have a better childhood, a better education, and a bright future?

Starr believed that Joanne should have no choice!

Therefore, Starr confidently waited for the moment when Rowling picked up the pen and signed her name on the contract!ro!.