Signing "Detective Sherlock" is a sure profit for Nanhai Publishing Company. Even if the craze for the top scorer in the college entrance examination has subsided a month later, they are confident that they will re-explore.

"Student Zhang Chu, if you are willing to sign a five-year publishing agreement with our company, then we will use all our resources to build you into a signboard for Chinese mystery novels. What do you think?"

Gu Xinxue simply wanted to tie Zhang Chu to Nanhai Publishing Company. Domestic mystery novels are declining and they are just in need of someone to carry the banner.

However, Zhang Chuzhi was not here. He hadn't read a few mystery novels in his previous life. If he hadn't watched the prize money for the Holmes essay contest, he wouldn't have digged it into a novel for a British drama.

Among so many novel types, the prospects and money of mystery novels are very weak.

"There is no need to sign this contract. I don't know if I can write a book when I go to college."

This is equivalent to an alternative body sale contract, which is a shackle for Zhang Chu.

Gu Xinxue also knew that what he said was too early, so he took the initiative to discuss: "Maybe you also know that the domestic mystery novel market is not particularly prosperous. If we publish books, the cost pressure is relatively high. It is easy to have inventory rotten in the warehouse, so overall, the level of manuscript fees for mystery writers is not very high."

"It's true. I haven't read a few novels written by domestic writers. So what price do you want to give?"

Zhang Chu is now in a state of asking for a thousand women. His book "Sherlock" should not only be attracted by Nanhai Publishing Company. As long as the editors of other publishing houses are not blind, they will try to contact the reasoning of time.

"There are two models. The first is to buy out the entire book for 100,000 yuan, and the subsequent sales revenue has nothing to do with you. The other copyrights are in your hands, and we will not interfere with it."

"This is not possible, what about the other one?" Zhang Chu refused without thinking. He wanted to buy out the simplified Chinese copyright of "Detective Sherlock" for just 100,000 yuan. This is too cheap!

Gu Xinxue didn't care, "The other model is that we sign an agreement to pay the first printing manuscript in the form of a royalty three months after publication. If you trust, we can give the first printing of 20,000 copies at most, and the royalty is 5% of the royalty."

At this moment, Zhang Chu quickly started to make mental arithmetics, printing 20,000 copies for the first time, and the royalties were 20,000 times 5% and then multiplied by the price. Regardless of whether these 20,000 copies of the books were sold or not, the royalties were basically fixed.

If the physical book of "Detective Sherlock" is priced at 30 yuan per book, then Zhang Chu's first printing fee is RMB 30,000 before tax!

This is a big difference compared to a buyout of 100,000 yuan, and it seems to be very unprofitable.

However, the advantage of the royalty model lies in its development potential. What if this book becomes popular!

If you buy it out, no matter how many copies you sell at the end of the book, it has nothing to do with you.

However, if you want to earn 100,000 yuan, then Zhang Chu has to hope that "Detective Sherlock" will sell 60,000 to 70,000 copies, which is a relatively difficult task for a new writer.

The famous "Years - Reasoning" can usually sell tens of thousands of copies in one issue. If a new author of ordinary mystery novels can achieve this data, he will become a god in the world of reasoning!

Even though the cultural environment is very good, there are few piracy and many readers, it only makes the pyramid of book sales a few levels higher.

It is still difficult for the lower-level authors to sell their works, especially for this kind of unwelcome reasoning classification, which makes it even more difficult for newcomers to get along!

Zhang Chu weighed the pros and cons in his heart, and finally chose the royalty model. He planned to take a gamble.

Nanhai Publishing Company did not make too many discounts to Zhang Chu. It is already a bold approach to print 20,000 copies of this song, and it is entirely because it is believed that it is still popular now.

Compared with those new writers who have nothing, Zhang Chu has too many things to promote.

"Then you can hand over the follow-up content to us as soon as possible, so we can hurry up and release it."

This is not the first person to urge him to write.

Zhang Chu agreed. The road was clear now, so he opened the door of his bedroom and started the computer.

...

Xu Fei right-clicked and refreshed it, and suddenly found that Zhang Chu's votes for "Detective Sherlock" had reached 410,000 votes, successfully ranked fifth in the voting list of Sherlock's essay contest!

"This is too fast. Even if he has so much news exposed, it is still too fake."

As long as it's okay, Xu Fei has been staring at the voting list in the past two days. He has another identity, the author of "Shelmes's Will" currently ranks first in the rankings.

I originally thought that the first prize of 500,000 was already stable, but who would have thought that such a fierce man would be killed by the deadline?

There were 410,000 votes in two days, and the popularity continued to increase!

In the past few minutes, it increased by nearly 10,000 more votes, and the speed was really amazing.

"Today is already June 29th, and it will be closed at 12pm tomorrow. This should not exceed me, right?"

He was a little lucky, after all, the gap was close to 800,000 votes, but he was always a little worried in his heart.

Xu Fei's colleagues didn't know that he was writing novels, which was a secret he had hidden.

Now everyone is actively discussing in the group called Reasoners in QQ.

"Lao Lin, you are also in a bad mood. You were actually pulled down in the last two days. Seeing that the 100,000 yuan was waving, should you go and check the ticket?"

"Forget it, I wrote this to realize my dream, and I don't make a fortune with that 100,000 yuan." Lin Yong replied, he was the unlucky guy who had just been surpassed by Zhang Chu.

Liu Zhuo, who had spoken before, gave another worship expression, "Looking at Zhang Chu's trend, let alone the top three, I think it's possible that the first one is. Fei Shen, your chrysanthemums must be clean!"

Xu Fei was particularly depressed, "It took us so long to only one million votes, but he only had 400,000 in less than two days. If I hadn't brushed the votes, I wouldn't believe it. It's shameless to write so badly, but he's even brushed the votes."

"Just say what you say among us. Don't talk nonsense about things without evidence." Lin Yong said very carefully.

At this time, Liu Zhuo simply chatted with Xu Fei privately, "Fei Shen, do you still need to operate it now? Our Blue Whale Public Relations Company provides list operation business and online water army comment business. Your current position is very dangerous. Do you know? The first place is a 500,000 yuan bonus, if you don't, you will only have 300,000 yuan."

Xu Fei originally did not plan to follow such a wrong way, but he could not withstand the dual temptation of fame and fortune!

He was leading for more than half a month, but if he was surpassed in the last two days, Xu Fei felt that he would vomit blood and die.

After the inner gods and gods fought, he asked, "Then how do you calculate the price?"

"Our public relations company can manually provide 200,000 votes, and will not be discovered by the anti-cheating system. In addition, some negative reviews of "Detective Sherlock" can be published on the Internet to expose the truth about the top scorer in the college entrance examination to netizens! These two prices only cost 50,000 yuan, and you can go to Taobao. This will make you feel more at ease."

50,000 yuan is a huge sum of money for Xu Fei, who is a working class, but as long as he succeeds, it will only be one-tenth of the bonus!

Xu Fei decided to grit his teeth, borrow some money, and then use his credit card to make up the 50,000 yuan.
Chapter completed!