Chapter 57 – Discussing Conditions with Qiyue
“What kind of theme will it be?” Hu Da asked tentatively, “Is it modern people going back to the past?” Or is it another cheat character?”
Yang Yi shook his head and said: “Neither, the theme is very traditional. I’m going to write a story about an ordinary regiment commander!”
Hu Da was a little disappointed but felt relieved.
Judging from the previous “Soldier Assault”, Yang Yi is more familiar with writing traditional themes. if Yang Yi was going to write webnovel, he may not be able to write a similar excellent story.
In addition, the reason why he attached so much importance to Yang Yi was that Yang Yi can write excellent traditional military novel! On Qiyue Chinese Website, there are a lot of military webnovels, and there are many excellent ones! (TN: Traditional – more realistic; Webnovel – more fictional)
But only Yang Yi can help to win over more netizens from the Iron Blood Network! (TN: netizen – internet user)
Hu Da said with a half-compliment and half-earnest smile: “I believe Yang Yi’s writing will definitely be wonderful!”
Yang Yi smiled faintly, but he didn’t respond. After a while, he brought up two cups of coffee: “Mandheling, you have the luck of tasting something good. I roasted a batch of raw beans the day before yesterday. I’ve brewed them in the past few days, and the taste is the best!” (TN: Mandheling – a type of coffee.)
In this world, this kind of coffee bean is, of course, not called Mandheling, but Yang Yi still liked to call it with this name. He searched at the supplier for more than 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 Yang Yi get it at a low price.
When he came back 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 be known, in his previous life, before Blue Mountain Coffee came out, Mandheling was the best coffee! But in this world, Blue Mountain Coffee is very famous, but Mandheling has become a low-end product that few people pay attention to, because its beans are ugly!
However, Yang Yi knew that the more ugly Sumatra Mandheling coffee beans are, the better, mellower and smoother the taste will be!
However, Yang Yi seems to be using Mandheling to entertain these two, which seemed to be a wasteful use of nature’s product.
“It’s a little bitter!” Qiang Zi took a sip, then frowned and said, “Can I add some sugar?”
Yang Yi handed 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, I want some, too.”
Yang Yi’s heart was bleeding, and he remembered the conversation just now.
“Do you usually drink coffee?”
“Yes, we usually drink it at work.”
That’s why Yang Yi took out Mandheling to share it with them…
Cr*p, if I had known, I would have asked one more question: “Do you usually drink instant coffee?”
The answer was now obvious.
It was too late to regret it. Yang Yi no longer took it to heart and continued to talk about the previous topic.
He didn’t bother to beat around the bush with Hu Da and asked directly, “Qiang Zi told me before that you wanted me to continue to publish my new book on Qiyue, so what conditions can you offer?”
Hu Da was secretly surprised in his heart, and knew that this wouldn’t be easy!
Most of the authors in Qiyue were otaku. They generally don’t know how to strive for better benefits when negotiating contracts with the webite.
Of course, Qiyue also has its own strength and tenacity to say no to the author who asks for it.
Only a few well-known authors, who are familiar with some hidden rules in the online literature world, and can also come into contact with some of the competitors, have the ability to make Qiyue make a concession.
But Yang Yi is a new writer. Before Hu Da came, he thought it was easy to persuade Yang Yi.
However, things look different now!
First of all, Yang Yi was not an otaku writer. He seems to be quite old, and he also has such a big daughter. No matter what ideals Hu Da talks about, he can’t fool Yang Yi.
Secondly, Yang Yi has his own business, and looking at his coffee shop, he can see that this man should not be short on money! In that case, if their own conditions were too small, he might be disdained to pay attention….
Even if Yang Yi didn’t write a novel, he wouldn’t starve to death! So why would he want to publish a book on their website?
But Hu Da didn’t lose heart, he said with a smile: “But Qiyue’s user coverage is the widest, and the promotion we can give you has the best effect! I believe that you should have felt the effect of promoting “Soldier Assault” 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 no emotional changes on Yang Yi’s face.
“Well, they will change their opinions!” Hu Da said awkwardly, “After all, readers who like you still account for the majority.”
“Many readers think that I should go to the Iron Blood Network, where I will have a better development.” Yang Yi said.
Of course, Yang Yi will not choose to go to the Iron Blood Network. He didn’t want to write military novels all his life. Military novels are just a stepping stone for him to cover up himself. In his previous life, Yang Yi didn’t like military novels. Except for these two books, none of the others seemed to meet Yang Yi’s standards.
Yang Yi planned to transform his next book, “Drawing Sword”. Therefore, Qiyue, this highly comprehensive 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 sales share of the work, and Qiang Zi, who was not good at talking, didn’t have the opportunity to interject.
Yang Yi wanted to increase the sales share, but it was very difficult. Starting from the 50% share given by Hu Da, almost every percentage was taken into account.
“It’s really impossible to be 70%! Our website also has to pay 10% of the profit to the Copyright Association.” Hu Da said angrily, “and I will give you a half-year bonus and year-end bonus. You can’t let the website not eat meal, right?”
Online literature was a new industry, the degree of difficulty in copyright protection is much greater, so the commission charged by the Copyright Association will also be relatively higher.
In the end, Yang Yi accepted Hu Da’s final proposal of 60% of the sales and 70% of the reward (the amount of the reward will not be split by the Copyright Association), but Hu Da was also forced to accept one of Yang Yi’s conditions.
“I have a veto over all my works, including ‘Soldier Assault’, as well as all future works, the transfer of copyrights such as physical publishing, and film and television rights, and the site’s share of the copyright of these non-electronic publications is reduced to 5%! You can provide advice or channels, but the decision is in my hands! ” Yang Yi said, “This must be written in the contract!”
Hu Da spent a lot of energy in the previous negotiations with Yang Yi. Now he thinks about it a little and doesn’t see any loopholes. After all, there are really very few film and television adaptations of online novels at present. Otherwise, their share of profit will not be so low, and the 5% of share of profit proposed by Yang Yi is not unacceptable.
But on the aspect of physical publishing, this is a big deal, and many online novels entities are selling very well.
But Yang Yi has 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 it matter to which publishing house it is handed over to publish?
Besides, the main purpose of Hu Da’s visit this time was to keep Yang Yi at Qiyue. He wanted to compete with Iron Blood Network for readers with Yang Yi’s works……
Now that these goals can be met, Hu Da felt that he can make concessions on these seemingly insignificant copyright issues.
“Then I wish us a happy cooperation!” Watching Yang Yi signed the revised electronic contract, Hu Da smiled and extended his right hand to Yang Yi.
Yang Yi narrowed 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!
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