Chapter 57 - Discussing Conditions with Qiyue
"Whatkind of theme will it be?" Hu Da asked tentatively, "Is it modernpeople going back to the past?" Or is it another cheat character?"
Yang Yishook his head and said: "Neither, the theme is very traditional. I"mgoing to write a story about an ordinary regiment commander!"
Hu Da was alittle disappointed but felt relieved.
Judging fromthe previous "Soldier a.s.sault", Yang Yi is more familiar with writingtraditional themes. if Yang Yi was going to write ReadNovelFull, he may not be ableto write a similar excellent story.
In addition,the reason why he attached so much importance to Yang Yi was that Yang Yi canwrite excellent traditional military novel! On Qiyue Chinese Website, there area lot of military ReadNovelFulls, and there are many excellent ones! (TN:Traditional - more realistic; ReadNovelFull - more fictional)
But onlyYang Yi can help to win over more netizens from the Iron Blood Network! (TN:netizen - internet user)
Hu Da saidwith a half-compliment and half-earnest smile: "I believe Yang Yi"swriting will definitely be wonderful!"
Yang Yismiled faintly, but he didn"t respond. After a while, he brought up two cups ofcoffee: "Mandheling, you have the luck of tasting something good. Iroasted a batch of raw beans the day before yesterday. I"ve brewed them in thepast few days, and the taste is the best!" (TN: Mandheling - a type of coffee.)
In thisworld, this kind of coffee bean is, of course, not called Mandheling, but YangYi still liked to call it with this name. He searched at the supplier for morethan half a day before finding two cans of Sumatra Mandheling in the old goods.It seems that people in this world didn"t regard it as a treasure, but let YangYi get it at a low price.
When he cameback the day before yesterday, Yang Yi let himself loose, which rarely happened,and danced with Xixi as if he had picked up gold!
It must beknown, in his previous life, before Blue Mountain Coffee came out, Mandhelingwas the best coffee! But in this world, Blue Mountain Coffee is very famous, butMandheling has become a low-end product that few people pay attention to, becauseits beans are ugly!
However,Yang Yi knew that the more ugly Sumatra Mandheling coffee beans are, thebetter, mellower and smoother the taste will be!
However,Yang Yi seems to be using Mandheling to entertain these two, which seemed to bea wasteful use of nature"s product.
"It"s alittle bitter!" Qiang Zi took a sip, then frowned and said, "Can Iadd some sugar?"
Yang Yihanded over the sugar jar without a word.
Next to him,Hu Da looked at it eagerly, and said, "Give it to me after you"re done, Iwant some, too."
Yang Yi"sheart was bleeding, and he remembered the conversation just now.
"Do youusually drink coffee?"
"Yes,we usually drink it at work."
That"s whyYang Yi took out Mandheling to share it with them…
Cr*p, if Ihad known, I would have asked one more question: "Do you usually drink instantcoffee?"
The answer wasnow obvious.
It was toolate to regret it. Yang Yi no longer took it to heart and continued to talkabout the previous topic.
He didn"tbother to beat around the bush with Hu Da and asked directly, "Qiang Zitold me before that you wanted me to continue to publish my new book on Qiyue,so what conditions can you offer?"
Hu Da wa.s.secretly surprised in his heart, and knew that this wouldn"t be easy!
Most of theauthors in Qiyue were otaku. They generally don"t know how to strive for betterbenefits when negotiating contracts with the webite.
Of course, Qiyuealso has its own strength and tenacity to say no to the author who asks for it.
Only a fewwell-known authors, who are familiar with some hidden rules in the onlineliterature world, and can also come into contact with some of the compet.i.tors,have the ability to make Qiyue make a concession.
But Yang Yiis a new writer. Before Hu Da came, he thought it was easy to persuade Yang Yi.
However, thingslook different now!
First ofall, Yang Yi was not an otaku writer. He seems to be quite old, and he also ha.s.such a big daughter. No matter what ideals Hu Da talks about, he can"t foolYang Yi.
Secondly,Yang Yi has his own business, and looking at his coffee shop, he can see thatthis man should not be short on money! In that case, if their own conditions weretoo small, he might be disdained to pay attention….
Even if YangYi didn"t write a novel, he wouldn"t starve to death! So why would he want topublish a book on their website?
But Hu Da didn"tlose heart, he said with a smile: "But Qiyue"s user coverage is thewidest, and the promotion we can give you has the best effect! I believe that youshould have felt the effect of promoting "Soldier a.s.sault" to the recommendations,that was given by Qiang Zi before!"
"However,the Qiyue readers didn"t seem to like my book very much." There were noemotional changes on Yang Yi"s face.
"Well, theywill change their opinions!" Hu Da said awkwardly, "After all,readers who like you still account for the majority."
"Manyreaders think that I should go to the Iron Blood Network, where I will have abetter development." Yang Yi said.
Of course,Yang Yi will not choose to go to the Iron Blood Network. He didn"t want towrite military novels all his life. Military novels are just a stepping stonefor him to cover up himself. In his previous life, Yang Yi didn"t like militarynovels. Except for these two books, none of the others seemed to meet Yang Yi"sstandards.
Yang Yi plannedto transform his next book, "Drawing Sword". Therefore, Qiyue, this highlycomprehensive platform, was more suitable for his development.
Having no choice,Hu Da had to talk about conditions with Yang Yi. The two started from the salesshare of the work, and Qiang Zi, who was not good at talking, didn"t have theopportunity to interject.
Yang Yi wantedto increase the sales share, but it was very difficult. Starting from the 50% sharegiven by Hu Da, almost every percentage was taken into account.
"It"sreally impossible to be 70%! Our website also has to pay 10% of the profit tothe Copyright a.s.sociation." Hu Da said angrily, "and I will give youa half-year bonus and year-end bonus. You can"t let the website not eat meal,right?"
Onlineliterature was a new industry, the degree of difficulty in copyright protectionis much greater, so the commission charged by the Copyright a.s.sociation willalso be relatively higher.
In the end,Yang Yi accepted Hu Da"s final proposal of 60% of the sales and 70% of thereward (the amount of the reward will not be split by the Copyright a.s.sociation),but Hu Da was also forced to accept one of Yang Yi"s conditions.
"I havea veto over all my works, including "Soldier a.s.sault", as well as all futureworks, the transfer of copyrights such as physical publishing, and film andtelevision rights, and the site"s share of the copyright of thesenon-electronic publications is reduced to 5%! You can provide advice orchannels, but the decision is in my hands! " Yang Yi said, "This mustbe written in the contract!"
Hu Da spenta lot of energy in the previous negotiations with Yang Yi. Now he thinks about.i.t a little and doesn"t see any loopholes. After all, there are really very fewfilm and television adaptations of online novels at present. Otherwise, theirshare of profit will not be so low, and the 5% of share of profit proposed byYang Yi is not unacceptable.
But on the aspectof physical publishing, this is a big deal, and many online novels ent.i.ties areselling very well.
But Yang Yihas only a few books, and Hu Da thought that it wouldn"t hurt to share them.And as long as the website still has the right to distribute, what does itmatter to which publishing house it is handed over to publish?
Besides, themain purpose of Hu Da"s visit this time was to keep Yang Yi at Qiyue. He wantedto compete with Iron Blood Network for readers with Yang Yi"s works……
Now thatthese goals can be met, Hu Da felt that he can make concessions on theseseemingly insignificant copyright issues.
"Then Iwish us a happy cooperation!" Watching Yang Yi signed the revisedelectronic contract, Hu Da smiled and extended his right hand to Yang Yi.
Yang Yinarrowed his eyes, held the other party"s hand tightly, and said calmly:"Happy cooperation!"
In fact, Yang Yi was full of happiness in his heart. He felt that these two cups of Mandheling didn"t go to waste, not at all!