"If it's appropriate, I'm naturally willing to hand 'To Live' over to your club.”
Yu Xian said with a smile.
Although he suspected that there might be some changes in the other party.
But for him," The Plough " was still his first choice.
Liang Yian had received Yu Xian's confirmation before, so he was not surprised.
He stated his conditions." The conditions we're offering are that we'll sign the contract for ten years and eight points in royalties.”
Generally speaking.
The royalties for original works in this world ranged from six to twelve points.
Newcomers had a lower score of six points, while famous authors could reach twelve points.
There were even higher ones that were not among them.
Therefore, for him to be able to get eight points for " Cultivated Land ", it could only be considered average.
Therefore, Yu Xian had no objections to this.
He suggested other things." Film and television adaptation rights, audio adaptation rights, traditional Chinese publishing rights, foreign language publishing rights, what about these?”
Liang Yian could not help but mutter.
This Yu Xian was clearly a personal author. Why was he so familiar with these things?
"These things will be reflected in the contract.”
"Mr. Yu, you will be paid a certain percentage of the profits generated from the work that you have authorized to our 'Cultivation'.”
Yu Xian frowned as he listened.
Liang Yian was being too general.
Moreover, once these things were signed together, it meant that he no longer had any control over his work.
At least for the next ten years.
As for their so-called profit distribution, would they still be able to give them whatever they wanted?
There were too many loopholes.
"Editor Liang, I don't think your sincerity is high enough.”
"What do you think, Mr. Yu?" Liang Yian grinned.”
"If you have any conditions, you can state them.”
"We can have a rough idea of the scope over the phone. We can sit down and talk in detail when the time comes.”
Hearing his words, Yu Xian finally understood.
Why didn't he come over directly? He was most likely the one who suggested the agreement from the previous day.
As for the editor-in-chief, he definitely wouldn't think so simply like him.
Yu Xian didn't waste any time talking nonsense with him and told him his conditions.
"I want to keep the film and audio adaptation rights.”
"As for the rest, I can give you all the rights. As for the royalties, I want at least nine points.”
"Moreover, ten years is too long. I can only accept five years.”
"Editor Liang, if you think the conditions I've mentioned are acceptable, we can discuss them.”
"If you can't, I can only say sorry.”
Yu Xian's attitude was very unyielding. This was completely his style of doing things when he was on Earth.
Besides, he didn't want to sell Living to Plough Magazine at a low price.
Liang Yian really gritted his teeth.
He had discussed copyright matters with many authors.
Others were either not good at talking about these things and could say whatever they wanted.
Or they would ask for a sky-high price and stall for time.
However, there were very few people who were as decisive as Yu Xian, who did not even leave any room for negotiation.
However, Yu Xian's conditions were not high in terms of royalties. It was even lower than the ten points given by the chief editor.
As for five years or ten years, it didn't make much of a difference to the publishing firm.
Normally, a book would only last for one or two years.
After this period of time, the sales would basically drop to the point of suicide.
Under normal circumstances, the sales of a book would only last for about a week. After that, it would not sell much.
After all, there were so many books waiting to be sold.
Unless it was a classic work or a great work.
Or perhaps, the work won an award and became popular because of the film adaptation.
Liang Yian and the editor-in-chief both felt that 'To Live' might not be a great work, but it would definitely have good commercial value.
He also felt that he should be able to perform well in the film adaptation.
In that case, five years or ten years would make a huge difference.
Not to mention, Yu Xian had already made it clear that the film adaptation rights would not be authorized at the same time.
"It's not easy to talk about it!"
Liang Yian scratched his head and said awkwardly,"Mr. Yu, regarding the film adaptation rights and copyright duration, it's really not very good for us to accept your conditions.”
Yu Xian smiled.”
"Editor Liang, you can discuss it with the chief editor. If it really doesn't work, there's no other way.”
"Besides, I'm not in a hurry to publish it now.”
The current royalties were enough for him to use temporarily.
Moreover, Yu Xian had a premonition that the next book was almost ready.
Therefore, he was not in a hurry.
Yu Xian wasn't anxious, but Liang Yian was. Or rather, Cultivated Land Magazine was anxious.
He knew that with the quality of 'Alive,' the conditions for free time were acceptable.
It was just that they felt that Yu Xian was a newcomer, so they wanted to lower the price.
Of course, even if it was a veteran author, they would still lower the price first.
This was a necessary process, just like buying vegetables. No one would go against money unless they were fools.
Now that the price had not been lowered, the pressure naturally came to Cultivate Cultivation magazine.
However, if they really wanted to lower the price, the magazine agency could still use other methods.
For example, to cool down the physics of 'Alive.'
However, this method was basically a method of killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 of their own.
Plough Cultivation was not some random magazine. They were the biggest traditional literature magazine, so they would not do something that would damage their reputation.
Apart from the benefits, there were also other benefits.
Cultivated Land magazine was also responsible for the pure literature standpoint as a simplified version of contemporary literature.
This position would make them insist that interests should be given way to literature itself when considering problems.
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