At first, Rising Sun Press only planned to print 20,000 copies of " The Best Young Master " and 50,000 copies of " Ethereal Journey." However, the number of pre-orders online was far more than that.
Today was the first day that the two books were on sale. Bookstores in almost all the major cities in the country called one after another. Almost all the bookstores were out of stock. These bookstores no longer ordered three to five or seven to eight sets. They directly ordered fifty or a hundred sets. As for the better selling Ethereal Journey, it started at a few hundred sets.
As a result, a group of middle and high-level executives of Rising Sun Press were gathered in the printing workshop. The president, Shen Chong, even offered 50 yuan per hour for overtime. He requested that they work overtime and complete the supply of the booksellers from all over the world.
After the signing, Li Yi only asked about the sales of the books for the day. He rejected Qian Chen's treat and brought Qing Gua and Qiao Xiaojiao out for a feast.
Li Yi was starving today. He only ate a piece of bread and drank some water at noon. Qiao Xiaojiao was even worse off. She ate very little for breakfast and did not eat anything for the entire day. On the other hand, the cucumbers had snacks in their bags all the time. Just the snacks in her bag could feed her for three days.
Ever since Li Yi transmigrated, he had heard Zeng Xiaoxian mention the Drunken Immortal Residence four times, Hu Yifei twice, and Meijia twice. This made Li Yi yearn for the Drunken Immortal Residence, but he only found out after he came.
In fact, this Drunken Immortal Residence was just a slightly high-class restaurant. The reason why it was repeatedly mentioned by the few people in the apartment was mainly because it was relatively close to the apartment…
Hu Yifei had already booked a private room. What was worth celebrating was that Li Yi's royalties had finally arrived. This was his first royalties, and it would also be his last royalties for the next year. The rest would be converted into shares of Singularity Chinese Network. Of course, only the profits from the e-book would be converted into royalties. The royalties from the publication would still belong to Li Yi.
In addition, the 5 million royalties that he had previously predicted on Singularity Chinese Network were also directly cancelled.
Li Yi wasn't too sure how the royalties were calculated and what the deadline was. However, he was a shareholder of Singularity Chinese Network, so he didn't care about these details. Excluding the Singularity Chinese Network's share and the tax, the total amount that Li Yi received was 2.17 million.
This money was not much. If he wanted to buy a decent house in a good location in Shanghai, it would not even be enough, let alone drive a luxury car and live in a villa. It was not a small amount, but it was actually not a small amount. If he lived a normal life at home, it would be enough for him to spend more than ten years.
However, to Li Yi, he was currently lacking this money. Previously, he, Hu Yifei, and Meijia only had less than 10,000 yuan left to repay Zhanbo's debt. They had spent almost all of it in the past half a month. They didn't even have the money to record the accompaniment for the song. They still owed him the money for the recording of " Li Ge "!
Besides, he planned to rent apartment 3603. There were many things that needed to be added. One room in apartment 3602 was obviously not big enough.
Just as they finished eating, Li Yi received a call from Shen Chong from Rising Sun Press.
"President Shen, hello!" Li Yi said.
"Haha, Brother Li, you really gave me a surprise this time. Today's sales figures were already out. Excluding the pre-orders online, the total number of copies sold in the major bookstores had reached 370,000. Among them, Ethereal Journey was almost sold out.”"Brother Li, you have a great chance of winning the title of best-selling author this year," said Shen Chong excitedly.”
"President Shen, thank you for your kind words. In comparison, Rising Sun Press's harvest this time is not small, right? You've successfully opened up the print publishing market for web novels. In the future, we web novelists will have to rely on you guys to have a good life!”Li Yi said with a smile.
Of course, Li Yi wasn't complimenting Shen Chong. Instead, he was giving Shen Chong a warning. Everyone was smart. Some words would seem hurtful if they were said too bluntly.
Of course, Shen Chong knew that Li Yi's current identity was no longer a simple web novelist. He had become a shareholder of Singularity Chinese Network.
Before this collaboration, novel websites and authors were the ones begging the publishing house to publish. At that time, the publishing house was in a strong position.
However, with the success of Li Yi's two web novels, it had been proven that web novels would definitely have a foothold in the print publishing market. As long as it was an excellent web novel, there was no need to worry about not having a publishing house to publish it. No one would go against money.
As for the copyrights of online novels, a portion of them were in the hands of the novel website and a portion was in the hands of the author. The author had to rely on the website to survive. This meant that the Singularity Chinese Network had complete control over the copyrights of these outstanding novels.
The truth was, other than the Singularity Chinese Network, it was very difficult to find a large number of excellent novels on other novel websites. If a publishing house wanted to publish online novels, they could not go around the Singularity Chinese Network.
Shen Chong understood this, which was why he lowered his stance.
"Brother Li, I also know that our Rising Sun Press didn't do very well this time, but you should also understand our difficulties. Our Rising Sun Press really doesn't have the ability to take risks. However, I can promise you that in the future, as long as it's your novel, regardless of the quality, I can give you 25% of the royalties.”
Royalty for a novel was calculated based on the selling price of the novel.
For example," Top Grade Young Master " was priced at 20 yuan per volume. In that case, Li Yi could earn 5 yuan. The remaining 15 yuan would be split between the publishing house and the bookseller, and the bookseller would take up most of the money. Similarly, for the book " The Best Young Master ", the Rising Sun publishing house was only selling it for 12 yuan each.
In this way, there was only seven yuan left for Singularity Chinese Network and Rising Sun Press to distribute. To publish a book, the cost of the book number, editing fees, publishing fees, cover design fees, paper fees, printing fees, and taxes were very high.
The two books that Li Yi published this time, all the expenses were paid by Singularity Chinese Network. It could be said that Rising Sun Press only provided a channel, and the profits they received were all net profits.
If they continued to follow the previous model, Li Yi would definitely not continue to work with Rising Sun Press. It was the same for Singularity Chinese Network. Anyway, the first shot had already been fired. It did not matter if they had Rising Sun Press as a partner.
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