Chapter 1567 Making Money From Publishing

During the Spring Festival in China, the weather is still very cold.

In winter, most people use coal stoves for heating.

Despite years of publicity by the state, some cases of gas poisoning always happen every year.

But there was no such hidden danger in Ling Jiefang's home.

Because they use air conditioning in winter.

Ling Jiefang's home has not just one air conditioner, but seven in total, installed in four bedrooms, two living rooms and a study room.

However, they did not pay for it. Wei Xiaofan from Huajing specially bought the air conditioners imported from Japan to give them to celebrate their new house. Ordinary people could not buy these air conditioners outside.

Hitachi's air conditioner makes no noise when used, and the temperature is particularly suitable. It is very warm when you enter the house in winter, and it is so cool that you don't want to go out in summer.

Its only drawback is that the electricity bill is too expensive.

For example, in one month in the summer, the electricity bill for seven air conditioners is more than 100 yuan, which is almost two months' salary of a household in the city.

The same is true in winter. After using it for half a year, it cost more than 500 yuan. If it were in the past, Mrs. Ling would never dare to use it like this.

But why do you dare to use it now?

Because Ling Jiefang published two novels and made a lot of money.

Needless to say, if it is published in China, it only costs more than 5,000 yuan. After all, in China, it is now a one-price buyout.

What really makes Ling Jiefang make a lot of money is the royalties from Qilin Culture in Xiangjiang.

One of Ling Jiefang's acquaintances, the nationally famous Bao Qingtian and Wei Xiaofan, happened to be the vice president of Kirin Group and the general manager of Kirin Group's Huajing Branch.

He admired Ling Jiefang's talent very much and applied for Ling Jiefang's "Art Development Fund" on his behalf a few years ago.

Then at the end of 1982, Ling Jiefang wrote his first novel - "Emperor Kangxi? Seizing the Palace". After reading it to Wei Xiaofan, Wei Xiaofan not only contacted domestic publishers for him, but also helped Ling Jie Global rights were sold.

The so-called global copyright is actually the Traditional Chinese version, and then there are a lot of things like film and television adaptation rights.

The first domestically published "Emperor Kangxi? Seizing the Palace" brought Ling Jiefang an income of more than 2,000 yuan, equivalent to three years of Ling Jiefang's salary. This greatly improved the life of Ling Jiefang's family.

But compared to the money given by Qilin Culture in Xiangjiang, this is simply scum.

The first royalty payment from Qilin Culture was HK$100,000. Including film and television copyright fees, the total was HK$200,000.

When the money was converted into RMB and delivered to Ling Jiefang's home by someone from the Huajing Branch of the Kirin Group through remittance, Ling Jiefang and Mrs. Ling couldn't believe it when they held their bankbooks.

Even in the next seven or eight days, they were unable to get a good night's sleep - their bankbooks were also pressed under the pillow, and they did not dare to leave their bodies for almost a moment.

After more than a month, their lives returned to normal, but they still did not dare to use the money, for fear that one day the state would send someone to say that this was illegal income and must be handed over to the public.

However, more than two months later, the second royalty payment came one after another, another 100,000 Hong Kong dollars in RMB, which made the couple feel numb.

But this time, the employees of Qilin Group's Huajing Branch, in addition to the second royalty payment, also brought tax payment certificates from the Ministry of Culture, which made them feel more at ease.

Finally the money is available.

It was also at this time that Ling Jiefang realized that his book was very popular in Chinese circles across Asia and was selling very well. The second batch of additional copies had been sold out, and the third batch was being printed urgently, and the quantity had doubled. Times.

It was also at this time that he realized that every time a book published in Xiangjiang was printed, royalties would be paid according to the contract. The more books were sold, the more shares he would get.

Compared with Xiangjiang’s method, the domestic publishing buyout model is simply a form of plundering of authors.

Ling Jiefang even called Wei Xiaofan to ask Wei Xiaofan how to spend his income of almost 60,000 yuan.

After putting down the phone, he asked his wife to see if there was a house with a good location, and then bought a lot of new furniture and appliances before moving.

The house he lives in now is a large courtyard with an area of ​​more than 300 square meters. In addition to two courtyards, it is also divided into twelve rooms.

In addition to their family of three, they also brought their parents over, so the house was not so deserted.

Then, in August 1983, Ling Jiefang finished writing the second part of "Kangxi Emperor" "The Whispers of the Wind". It was published in the same two ways as before, and the film and television rights were sold.

In fact, Ling Jiefang didn't know how much the film and television rights would be sold for, but he signed the quote from Qilin Culture without even looking at it.

In his words, "I believe Mr. Wei will not lie to me. He and Qilin Culture are both my benefactors."

With the foreshadowing of the first part, the number of initial prints of the second part "Emperor Kangxi? Whispers of the Wind" has increased several times, so that by this year's Spring Festival, Ling Jie had an extra 100,000 yuan in his bankbook. bucks.

What made him even more happy was that the person who came to deliver the money also brought him some newspaper clippings, which were all about the evaluation of "Emperor Kangxi".

Comments from more than a dozen newspapers all praised "Emperor Kangxi" for its superb and penetrating writing. It is simply a rare imperial novel in recent years.

Literary people, after being satisfied with food and clothing, what they like most is honor and appreciation.

Originally, high sales volume meant that the novel was popular, but now literati are singing his praises one after another. It's no wonder that Ling Jie feels relieved.

For this reason, he became much more motivated to write the third part of "Emperor Kangxi".

When the Spring Festival came, Ling's family and his wife's family came to his new home for a New Year reunion, and Ling Jiefang felt proud and proud for a rare time.

Not only did he buy five luxurious banquet tables with chicken, duck and fish, he also gave out a large amount of red envelopes.

The parents of both parties each took 1,000 yuan.

Nowadays, there are no RMB worth 100 yuan a piece. At most, there are only RMB 10 yuan a piece. 100 pieces of RMB are squeezed thickly into the red envelope, which makes relatives stunned.

Then the second brother, the third sister, the brother-in-law, the sister-in-law...etc., all of them are 500 yuan red envelopes.

Even the children could get a huge red envelope of 50 yuan, which made them scream with joy.

This can't be blamed on Ling Jiefang and his wife who gave him money randomly. It was really hard in the past few years and he was always taken care of by his family.

For example, when they first got married, they had nothing, but these relatives brought them food and clothing.

After the daughter was born, didn't my sister-in-law carry 100 eggs from her hometown to supplement her wife's nutrition?

Now that they have finally made money, of course they want to repay their families.

This is also a manifestation of the general development of Chinese people.

Wealth without showing off is like walking in brocade at night, right?

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Ling Jiefang was not the only one whose destiny was changed.

The current principal of the "Literary Development Fund", which provides subsidies every month, has been increased to 10 million US dollars.

Calculated based on the high interest rate of US dollars, its annual income is 1.4 million US dollars, which is 3.25 million yuan.

Although the exchange rate was based on the official exchange rate, it was a bit of a loss, but this was money distributed through the official cultural department, so naturally it could not go to the black market's 1:5 exchange rate.

This money has currently supported and is supporting more than 5,000 writers, screenwriters, poets and directors, distributing 50-100 yuan to them every month.

And with the support of this money, many people have achieved results like Ling Jiefang.

Since 1981, Qilin Culture has published 15 novels for mainland writers.

The sales volume was not very good at that time. Even if it was published for Chinese people all over Asia, the best short story collection by Lu Yao only sold about 15,000 copies, but the profit of more than 50,000 Hong Kong dollars still greatly encouraged him. .

The same is true for other writers and individuals. They devote themselves to writing and create better works.

So in 1982, Qilin Culture published 39 novels, poetry collections, essays and other works.

In 1983, Qilin Culture published another 85 novels, poetry collections, essays and other works.

Moreover, as overseas Chinese have become familiar with them and the prejudice against some cultural people in the mainland has been eliminated, sales have also increased significantly.

The best one is of course "Emperor Kangxi" by Yue Erhe. The two volumes sold hundreds of thousands of copies in one go, and are still being reprinted.

Then there are works by other authors, ranging from seven to eight thousand, ten to twenty thousand, thirty to fifty thousand...

There are always many close friends in the huge overseas Chinese market, which has earned them high praise and the royalties they need most at this time.

The royalties that Qilin Culture gave them were of course registered and reported through official channels, and then taxes were paid on their behalf in accordance with the law before being handed over to the authors in person. Everything was legal and reasonable, and no one could find anything wrong with it.

If you want to say that those officials are not jealous, that is definitely a lie.

But they don’t just want to put it in their own bags, but their current work requires money everywhere. They are going crazy because of poverty, and they can’t wait to use it in their own departments.

But this matter was tracked and handled by Qilin Culture throughout the entire process, and they couldn't interfere even if they wanted to.

Considering the strength of the Kirin Group, and considering that Mr. Xiao and Mr. Yun would personally go over to congratulate a food factory when it opened, few people dared to use their brains.

These literary and artistic workers can earn their own labor income through their own wisdom and talents. For them, it is an act that greatly improves their self-esteem.

Literati must all hate food that comes from outside, and it would be very gratifying for them to be able to write books, poems, and scripts to make money.

This is the case for these literary and artistic workers in the mainland now.

With such a huge Chinese market abroad, even if their sales are average, with the domestic standard of living, it is enough to become wealthy.

In this case, what reason do they have for not working hard to create?

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