Hello Brother Liu, I am the kid that Brother Gao is talking about!”Qi Ming said with a smile.
"Why didn't you tell me your name first!”
"I want to see how my work is. I don't want to go through the back door. If Brother Liu was not satisfied just now, I would have turned around and left!”
"Haha, I like your personality!”Liu Qing happily patted Qi Ming on the shoulder. Actually, he was still such a person. Although there was a huge problem with the newspaper office, many of the columns in their newspaper office were empty.
This was not because he could not find the author, but because Liu Qing was still insisting on his philosophy. He was a stubborn person, so he would rather his newspaper be empty than publish some rubbish. In his opinion, those rubbish would only tarnish the reputation of his newspaper.
Due to the lack of good manuscripts, coupled with the lack of funds, he had previously begged his grandparents to get a few months of investment from venture capitalists. Now, more than half of the time had passed, and the publishing firm was about to collapse.
Today, he had gone out to look for help, but unfortunately, he didn't have any, which was why he looked so down and out like Qi Ming had seen before.
But now, he saw hope again. Qi Ming's work gave him a new hope.
"Brother Liu, as long as you're satisfied!" Qi Ming said with a smile.
"To be honest, when Gao Yan called me yesterday, I thought you wanted to publish a book about your memories!”Liu Qing mocked himself.
"Alright, alright. If I come up with a book like this in the future, I'll have to ask Brother Liu for help!”
"Of course. It's a pity that you don't produce one! By the way, do you still have the copyright to this work?”
"They're all here!"
"That's great. We're currently lacking excellent works like yours. What kind of price do you want?”Liu Qing asked Qi Ming.
"How much can Brother Liu give?"
"Five hundred per thousand words! I only want the Chinese version of the book. This is the highest price I can offer. You said that this book has millions of words, but my hands are a little tight now!”Liu Qing said, a little embarrassed.
" I see!" Qi Ming frowned and thought for a moment. Actually, Qi Ming wasn't too dissatisfied with the price. He was a newcomer to begin with, and the fact that the other party was willing to pay such a price was already a sign that he was very optimistic about the book.
However, if he were to buy this classic at this price, Qi Ming was a little unwilling. Although 500,000 seemed like a lot in the end, Qi Ming, who knew how powerful Condor Shooting was in the future, was really unwilling. After thinking for a while, Qi Ming said,
"Brother Liu, how about this?" Qi Ming looked up at Liu Qing's ugly expression and immediately understood. He thought that he was not satisfied with the price, so he said,
"I have a suggestion."
"Tell me!"
"What I mean is to use my royalties on publicity. Although it's not much, it's still meat no matter how small the mosquito is. We'll calculate the royalties according to the sales volume in the end. What do you think?”
"This! You have to think carefully. My current publishing firm might have some problems. There aren't too many people who read the newspapers.”
"But if it succeeds, the benefits will be proportional!”Qi Ming laughed.
"Alright, then what do you plan to do?" After hearing Qi Ming's words, Liu Qing no longer had any concerns and asked.
"Then may I ask, Brother Liu, how many copies do you usually sell now?”Qi Ming didn't answer Liu Qing's question but continued to ask.
"About ten thousand!"
"How about this, Big Brother Liu? If your newspaper sales exceed 50,000, I'll only get the royalties. I want 1% of the profits!”
"This won't do. If you only get 1% of the shares, you might as well choose to buy it out!”Liu Qing said immediately after hearing Qi Ming's words.
"Brother Liu, I haven't finished yet. Don't blame me for asking for too much after you've finished listening! If it breaks 100,000, I want 2% of the profit. After that, every time the sales volume increased by 200,000, the profit would also double!”
"At most, if the sales exceed a million, then I want 40% of the profits!”The profit that Qi Ming was talking about was the selling price of a newspaper, before deducting the printing and publicity costs.
The selling price of a newspaper was two yuan. If it really broke the million mark, Qi Ming would get eighty cents for each newspaper, which would be more than eight hundred thousand yuan in one go.
Yuanguang Magazine had three pages a week, which meant that Qi Ming's weekly income was more than 2.4 million. This was a terrifying number, but the prerequisite was that he had to buy more than a million copies.
Are there any newspapers with more than a million copies in the country now? There were, but those were all national newspapers, and they were all top-notch ones. For a regional newspaper like Yuanguang Paper, if it could sell for 100,000, it would be a first-class newspaper. For example, he could reach that number for Capital News.
"Little brother, you're really brave. Alright, I won't lose out on this anyway. I'll make this bet with you. If one day I can really make a million, I'll give you half of the profit, 50%! However, when you publish this, you have to give priority to my publishing house!”Liu Qing said straightforwardly.
"Happy cooperation!"
"Deal!" Liu Qing did not say it casually. If there were really a million copies, then he really did not care much about the money spent on buying newspapers. At that time, advertisements would become the bulk.
However, he didn't expect to sell the newspaper to a million copies. In his opinion, this was Qi Ming's way of getting him to agree to his proposal.
"Gao Yan really found a very good artiste this time. If this book is published in the future, I will definitely make it up to him!”In Liu Qing's opinion, it would be a lot if he could sell it for 100,000 yuan, but Qi Ming wouldn't be able to get much money from it.
Indeed, according to Qi Ming's method, it would only be slightly more than 10,000 yuan per week. It was not even as good as the price of 500 yuan per 1,000 words. That would still earn him 20,000 yuan.
However, Qi Ming didn't have such thoughts in his heart. He just wanted to maximize the profits. This could be considered as going with the flow. The two of them reached an agreement on this matter.
Liu Qing was also a decisive person. He immediately drafted the contract and the two of them signed it.
"Brother Quinn, I have a very important request now!”
"What?" Seeing Liu Qing suddenly speak to him with such a serious expression, Qi Ming was truly shocked.
"Can you bring me the rest of the manuscript first?”
"Hahahahaha! I'll send it to Brother Liu's email when I get back!”
"That's great. Hurry up and leave!" After saying this, Liu Qing realized that he seemed to have said something wrong." This isn't, I…"
"Hahaha!" Date:07 10 2019 7:01PM
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