"If it's in Los Angeles, we can print a thousand copies to test the waters.”
Toussaint Hanses thought for a moment and said to Zhu Shengkai.
"A thousand books?"
Zhu Shengkai frowned slightly.
Toussaint Hans smiled bitterly and said,""Your Highness, as you know, Los Angeles is only a small city with a fixed population of only 10,000. Including the floating population, there are only 20,000 people.”
"The literacy rate of the fixed population in Los Angeles is less than half. In other words, only a few thousand people can read.”
"Plus, we're just a small publishing firm. A thousand copies is the maximum amount that the city of Los Angeles can accept.”
"If you want to sell more, you have to promote the book to a big city like San Francisco with a population of more than 100,000.”
"Then there are the other densely populated states in the east.”
"California's population is still too small compared to other states with millions of people.”
Zhu Shengkai heard this and nodded slightly.
The western part of the Mi Federation was sparsely populated.
"Then we'll print 1,000 copies in the early stages and test the waters in Los Angeles.”
"I will send the remaining manuscripts of Journey to the West to your publishing house tomorrow.”
"Also, Luris, you must do a good job in the follow-up publicity work.”
Then, Toussaint and Zhu Shengkai discussed the contract and the share.
In this regard, Toussaint said that their publishing firm only took 5% of the profits, and the majority of the profits went to Zhu Shengkai.
An ordinary contract would be 70 - 30 or 50 - 50, but Toussaint was very respectful to Zhu Shengkai. His publishing firm was only willing to take 5% of the contract.
Toussaint sighed. A 5% share of the profits was definitely a loss for their publishing firm.
If the first batch of 1,000 copies sold well, they would be able to earn some money. If they did not sell well, they would not even be able to recover the cost of printing.
Zhu Shengkai divided the entire Journey to the West into three volumes.
The first volume was sold at the beginning.
The price wasn't expensive either. It was two dollars per volume.
It was almost the salary of an ordinary worker in a day.
Ordinary workers might not be willing to buy it, but the workers who did manual labor were not very literate.
In this era, those who could read were not ordinary workers.
Zhu Shengkai's goal was naturally the middle class and the rich.
To them, the price of one book was two dollars. All three books added together were only six dollars.
It was more than enough for the middle class.
As for the rich and powerful, Zhu Shengkai also had the means to harvest money.
That was to release a collector's edition.
He made a tall and fancy box, then inlaid the book with patterns that looked tall and fancy, full of the mysterious style of the Far East.
He added an illustration.
Well, a collector's edition of Journey to the West, which was aimed at the rich and powerful, was born.
A set of Journey to the West, which was targeted at the rich and powerful, could be sold for tens of dollars or hundreds of dollars, right?
A hundred dollars was almost half a year's salary for an ordinary person.
Of course, rich people wouldn't care.
Then, they would cast a poll for the rich 19th-century fanatics and choose the top ten most popular characters.
Finally, they produced the figurines of these ten characters. At the same time, the North American Ming Clothing Company started to operate, and they produced some clothes with the Great Sage Equal to Heaven, Zhu Bajie, Monk Sand, Tang Sanzang, and so on.
He wanted to create some means of operating the fan circle.
Look, isn't the money here?
Moreover, he could not only export his culture, but he could also earn a lot of cultural points.
Kill two birds with one stone.
The next day.
Zhu Shengkai and a report about Journey to the West appeared in the Los Angeles newspapers!
It was the headline!
Anyone who bought a newspaper, or even those who didn't, could see Zhu Shengkai's photo.
" His Majesty Zhu Shengkai: A great noble from the Far East's Former Ming Empire who has inherited the noble royal bloodline for 400 years! And his work, the mythical novel of the Ming Dynasty, Journey to the West
Immediately after was a photo of Zhu Shengkai.
Sitting on a luxurious chair, the mysterious noble from the Far East crossed his right leg over his left leg and placed his hands on it. His luxurious military uniform with a nine-clawed dragon pattern showed his might. Even if he was sitting, people could tell that he was different from ordinary people. He was tall and strong.
Above that was the handsome face that was carved like a divine axe.
The corner of his mouth seemed to be slightly raised, with a slight arc.
His tall nose bridge was almost perfect.
Any higher and it was blocked by the military cap with a dragon emblem.
No one could see what that pair of eyes looked like.
However, it also made people extremely curious. What kind of color would the eyes of the mysterious aristocrat from the Far East be filled with?
Immediately, when the newspaper was published, the sales volume was even higher than before!
Moreover, the buyers were mostly young girls.
Many white girls in Los Angeles who were in love were completely attracted to this handsome young man from the Far East.
The newspaper was also published in San Francisco, San José, Sacramento, and other major cities.
For a moment, countless young girls in these cities knew that there was such a mysterious, handsome young noble from the Far East in Los Angeles.
A few days after the newspaper was published.
When Zhu Shengkai walked out of the Los Angeles hotel he was staying in, he was shocked.
He was almost frightened by the enthusiasm of the white girls who surrounded the hotel.
The white girls were like a wave of heat.
Some even came from San Francisco, which was hundreds of kilometers away.
Just to see Zhu Shengkai.
They were all young girls who wanted to see Zhu Shengkai's true appearance.
They shouted and screamed.
Zhu Shengkai never expected that a photo of him would attract so many butterflies.
"Protector beast!"
"Protect the Emperor!"
The Brocade Guards guarding Zhu Shengkai were also shocked, thinking that someone was going to assassinate the king.
However, when they figured out the situation, they didn't know whether to laugh or cry. They could only escort Zhu Shengkai and leave Los Angeles.
After leaving Los Angeles.
Zhu Shengkai sat in the luxurious carriage with six horses and heaved a sigh of relief.
"Damn it, I didn't expect that my photo would cause such a huge commotion when it was published.”
"We're finally out of Los Angeles.”
However, although this effect was beyond Zhu Shengkai's expectations, he liked it.
This meant that Journey to the West had received widespread attention.
After that, the first volume of Journey to the West was sold in Los Angeles.
At the end of November.
Zhu Shengkai received a sum of money from Los Angeles.
One thousand nine hundred dollars.
There was also Toussaint Hanses 'excited letter.
It was described in the letter.
All 1,000 copies of Journey to the West were sold!
It was sold out on the same day.
The entrance of the Los Angeles publishing house was crowded with people who wanted to buy Journey to the West.
There were even many people who came from San Francisco, San José, and other places, rushing hundreds of kilometers to buy it.
In the letter, Toussaint also expressed that he was willing to reduce the publishing house's share from 5% to 1% in the future!
He only wanted the priority to sell Journey to the West in the future.
Obviously, he had realized the value of Journey to the West.
However, Zhu Shengkai would not agree to this because he wanted to establish Da Ming's own publishing company!
This time, selling Journey to the West in Los Angeles was just testing the waters.
That was why he had found a publishing company in Los Angeles to cooperate with. In the future, if he wanted to sell it to the entire US Federation and the entire world, he would naturally have to use Big Ming's own publishing company.
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