In the room, Li Chencan brought a glass of water for Shi Chuanfeng. After Shi Chuanfeng thanked him, he temporarily put it aside and said to Li Chencan," Chencan, I'm here today, so I won't beat around the bush with you. I want to take over the publishing rights for the next few books of 'Those Incidents in the Ming Dynasty'. As for the terms, I won't hide it from you. I'll give you the best contract I can, but to be honest, I can't guarantee that other publishing firms won't give you better terms.”
Li Chencan felt a little strange. This guy was really honest.
In fact, Shi Chuanfeng was just playing to his liking. He felt that if he were to cheat, Li Chencan would be able to see through it easily, so he might as well be honest with him.
Li Chencan nodded and then said," No matter what, you gave me the chance to publish this book of mine. You even gave me a good price. I know that you might have been under some pressure behind this matter, so I'm still quite grateful to you…As for the other books, as long as the conditions are not too bad from other publishing firms, I'll still choose to publish them at Hundred Flowers.”
Li Chencan's words moved Shi Chuanfeng…
It turned out that Li Chencan knew everything. Moreover, he was such a grateful person!
All the grievances Shi Chuanfeng had suffered during that period of time had now vanished into thin air because of Li Chencan's understanding!
To be honest, they would also give Li Chencan a price based on the contracts of other publishing firms. They would not lower his interests just to take advantage of him. Shi Chuanfeng and the others could understand that draining the pond to catch the fish would not work at all. A win-win situation was the way to go! If they suppressed Li Chencan's contract price because they were greedy, he wouldn't cooperate with Hundred Flowers in the future. He might even flirt with other publishing firms and affect the quality of his books.
Therefore, they would only try their best to offer better contracts than other publishing firms!
And now, Li Chencan's words really touched Shi Chuanfeng. An 18-year-old boy was able to keep a calm head in the face of such a rapid increase in sales, and he also had a grateful heart. It was really amazing. Moreover, he also thought that he would go further than other young people in the future.
"Alright, Chen Can. Thank you for your trust.”Shi Chuanfeng said," The contract we can provide you with is 200 yuan per thousand words, plus 15% of the royalties. What do you think?"”
In fact, this was already a very generous contract. Generally, only relatively well-known authors could get a share of the royalties. Even if they got it, it was mostly between 10% and 16%. Shi Chuanfeng gave Li Chencan a 15% share of the profits, and there was also a contract of 200 yuan per 1,000 words. This treatment was not bad.
Li Chencan nodded. He thought for a moment and said,""How about this, Chief Editor Shi? I think there will definitely be other publishing firms looking for me in the next few days. Other than those publishing firms that cheated, as long as the profit share they give is not more than 17%, I will still choose to sign a contract with Hundred Flowers.”
He didn't want to change to an unfamiliar publishing firm. As long as the contract Shi Chuanfeng offered wasn't too low, he would choose Hundred Blossoms.
Anyway, he had a lot of books, so he didn't care about the loss of profits.
Moreover, he also knew that Shi Chuanfeng and the others would not be so short-sighted as to make a fortune by taking advantage of him. Moreover, 15% was already very high.
Hence, Li Chencan had his own explanation.
After Shi Chuanfeng heard Li Chencan's words, his heart relaxed. Since Li Chencan said that he would eliminate the publishing houses that cheated the manuscript, then he did not have to worry too much. Other publishing houses would not use more than 16% royalties to negotiate a contract with Li Chencan. Therefore, Shi Chuanfeng smiled and said,"Alright, then let's have a happy cooperation.”
"Happy cooperation."
Then, Shi Chuanfeng suddenly took out a card and said,"Oh right, Chencan, there's fifty thousand yuan in here. It's a little gift from the publishing firm. The first volume of your 'Those Incidents in the Ming Dynasty' sold very well. Although we agreed to buy out the entire copyright, we can't let you suffer too much. If the sales of this book can exceed 500,000 copies, we will give you a red packet.”
Li Chencan didn't decline. Not only was he short of money recently, but it was also because he deserved it. The sales volume of " Those Incidents of the Ming Dynasty " had already reached 100,000 copies. The publishing firm had earned at least a few hundred thousand from this, so it wasn't too much to give him a bonus.
However, to be able to directly take out 50,000 yuan as a bonus, and with the promise of follow-up bonuses, it was almost comparable to the profit sharing.
It seemed that Hundred Flowers Publishing Firm had spared no effort in trying to win him over. However, Li Chencan could also use this to think of the cooperation between Hundred Flowers Publishing Firm and him. It should give him a lot of advantages.
After that, the two of them talked about other things. The two of them mainly talked about books. Shi Chuanfeng also provided Li Chencan with a lot of interesting things in the publishing and literary circles. In this world, Li Chencan naturally wanted to know a lot of questions about this, so he liked to listen.
Of course, Li Chencan didn't forget to ask about movies. Although Shi Chuanfeng didn't know much about movies, he definitely knew more than ordinary people. In this world, the film industry in China was definitely different from the one in the other world. The system here was more complete, and it was far from being as dirty as the film industry in his previous life. The audience here was also more mature. The quality of the movie's box office was usually determined by quality, not publicity...
In short, this was a paradise for movies! It was also the perfect place for Li Chencan to showcase the hundreds of classic movies in his mind.
After the conversation between the two came to an end, they walked out of the room. Yang Yifang had already prepared dinner outside and insisted on asking Shi Chuanfeng to stay. Shi Chuanfeng's bitter refusal was ineffective, so he could only stay and eat with Li Chencan and his family.
When Wang Fen saw that Shi Chuanfeng had also stayed, she felt a little uncomfortable--because it was this guy who had shattered many of her previous visions and made Li Chencan's best-selling book instantly shock everyone's eyes.
But Wang Fen couldn't say anything more…
Therefore, Wang Fen ate the meal in a very dull manner. Li Chaoyong, Li Chaoguo, and Shi Chuanfeng talked a lot.
Although Shi Chuanfeng wouldn't curry favor with Li Chaoguo because of his identity as the director of the Construction Bureau, the two of them had many common topics, so they got along better at the dinner table. Li Chencan occasionally made some comments, but he always gave people a very mature feeling, which made Li Chaoguo look at him in a different light!
Wang Fen could only grit her teeth and think, Wait, when the college entrance examination results are out, Li Chencan might cry!
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