Chapter 280 Los Angeles (First Update! Please Subscribe!)

When Xiangjiang was so lively, Yin Jun had already left Xiangjiang and took a day and night flight, including a layover in Hawaii, before arriving in California, the United States.

What Chinese people like most about the United States is the west coast of the United States that is closest to China.

This place is different from the fat land on the east coast of the United States. It is more of a relaxed atmosphere, not as prosperous and impetuous as New York, so there are the most Chinese here.

Yin Jun had never been to the United States in his previous life. Firstly, he did not have enough money, and secondly, he had to take a full 24-hour flight. Thinking about it, he felt horrible.

It is the same in this life.

But there was no way, Tang Shuxuan had already helped him find a publishing house, negotiated the publishing conditions of "Jurassic Park" and "The Da Vinci Code", and told him to sign the contract, Yin Jun could only bite the bullet.

Besides, he also has a very important task, that is, he has thousands of scripts, variety show ideas, etc. in his hand, and he has long planned to go to the United States to stamp the postmark.

So in order not to be robbed of so much of his future wealth, Yin Jun had to fly if he didn't want to.

Because these scripts and variety show ideas add up to thousands of copies, Yin Jun packed three big boxes, so he specially brought Le Yiling's assistant Tian Jiachun over, on the one hand to help push the luggage, on the other hand, the woman is more careful, Can help to watch when postmarking.

Originally, Yin Jun planned to bring Guan Zhilin and Wen Bixia to play. During the holiday a few days ago, the two girls went to Baodao with the crew of the original "Wulin Biography". This is Jiashi They organized a commercial catwalk to make money, but in the 7-day trip, they each earned 200,000 Hong Kong dollars and came back. The two little girls became little rich women.

But Zhang Bingqian was planning to go to Australia and New Zealand in the summer. She went with a few friends and children, and Guan Zhilin was forced to go along with her helplessly.

Wen Bixia, who had finished filming "The Star Knows My Heart", was supposed to come, this little girl has never been abroad yet.

When I was excited, some problems were discovered in the post-production of "The Star Knows My Heart". Her eldest daughter needs to assist in making up a lot of shots, and it will take at least a week to complete. This makes the little girl very depressed. .

She is not only depressed about coming to the United States, but also traveling with Yin Jun, which is where she feels the happiest.

It's just that when she was depressed, Guan Zhilin was happy. Anyway, I can't go, and neither can you, a young girl.

Tian Jiachun has never been on a plane for such a long time, but she is much more adaptable than Yin Jun. Yin Jun's body is soft when he gets off the plane, but Tian Jiachun can still greet Tang Shuxuan politely.

"Ah Jun, you are really inferior." Tang Shuxuan looked at Yin Jun's pale face from the rearview mirror, and said while driving, "You said that you are a big man, flying by plane is like going to the battlefield, and you are not as good as Xiao Tian sharp."

"Sister Xuan, look at your words, where have I ever been on a plane before? One day and one night, it's amazing that I didn't pass out." Yin Jun said, "I'm praying now, get to the hotel early, take a shower and sleep Once I wake up, don’t let anyone bother me.”

"I was going to take you to Hollywood for a walk tomorrow." Tang Shuxuan said with a smile.

"Farewell." Yin Jun said, "The day after tomorrow is the signing day. Let's get down to business first, then go and postmark my script, and finally play when we have time."

"You, you are not born to enjoy life." Tang Shuxuan shook her head.

Yin Jun came with many scripts, and planned to use postmarks to insure himself. Tang Shuxuan was very surprised when he heard about this method.

But after thinking about it carefully, Tang Shuxuan nodded secretly. This method is very good, much better than getting the scriptwriters' association to record it.

After all, not to mention the risk of leaking, even if someone else violates your rights, the degree of protection is not that great - with the original script in your hand as evidence, you are not afraid of going to the Supreme Court, as long as you have money to support it. The cost of the lawsuit.

Hearing that Yin Jun was going to do this, Le Yiling sent Tian Jiachun to be with Yin Jun.

What kind of person Sister Le is, she has already seen through her two assistants.

Although Ding Linxiang has a more cheerful personality and is more suitable for socializing with Yin Jun, but her personality is not stable enough, and this matter happens to be the one that needs stability the most.

Therefore, Tian Jiachun is the most suitable candidate.

What's more, Le Yiling also told Yin Jun that he must buy the best suitcase, and the password set on it should not be told to anyone—even to Tian Jiachun, there must be a place to keep secrets.

This made Yin Jun admire for a while. Compared with Sister Le, he was simply the type of idiot.

Therefore, Tian Jiachun and Tang Shuxuan only knew what was inside the three big boxes just now.

Tang Shuxuan's home is in Los Angeles, but not in downtown Los Angeles, but in the suburbs 20 kilometers away from downtown Los Angeles, and less than 10 kilometers away from Beverly Hills, the core area of ​​Hollywood.

Beverly Hills is not a mountain villa, it is actually the name of a small town, the area is very large, located at the foot of Beverly Hills, winding up the hill, there are many villas of the rich and famous.

Speaking of places like Europe and America, rich people like to live in the mountains, but rich people in China prefer to live in the city.

Come back to Tang Shuxuan's house.

A large area here is full of villas, that is, HOUSE as Americans say, and it is also a very famous middle-class community in Los Angeles, especially the majority of Chinese.

The west coast of the United States, that is, the area of ​​Los Angeles and San Francisco, is the place where the Chinese laborers first landed in the United States in the late Qing Dynasty. After hundreds of years, the Chinese here are also the largest in the United States, and finally formed a proportion of Chinese that accounts for almost 40% of the total population. .

Therefore, there are a lot of Chinese here. When Yin Jun and the others entered the hotel only a few hundred meters away from Tang Shuxuan's house, there were many Asian faces in it, but many of them could not speak Chinese.

After locking the three large boxes in the hotel's large safe, Yin Jun felt at ease, then went up to take a shower and changed clothes, and then followed Tang Shuxuan to her house for dinner.

When Chinese people are in a foreign country, if they entertain friends, the best etiquette is of course not to entertain them to eat in a restaurant outside, but to eat at home.

The feeling of eating at home is far inferior to eating outside. Although the taste may not be good, it is warm and down-to-earth.

Outside, what is more important than being down-to-earth?

It's a good day at home, it's so hard to go out.

It's also very strange to say that Yin Jun was depressed when he got off the car, but after taking a shower, he suddenly became refreshed. Tang Shuxuan was amazed, saying that young people are good.

Tang Shuxuan's husband is an electronic engineer. He has the personality of a very honest engineering student. He doesn't smile much, but he is very gentle. He also prepares a large table of dishes at home.

When Yin Jun and the others arrived, they happened to see Tang Shuxuan's two sons and youngest daughter stealing food from the dinner table.

Seeing her mother came back, they immediately rushed over, their mouths were full of oil stains, making Tang Shuxuan's face all covered with oil.

Looking at this warm scene, Yin Jun couldn't help sighing, having two or three children, a son and a daughter, is simply the most perfect configuration for a family.

Tian Jiachun immediately took out the gifts prepared in Xiangjiang and handed them to the children. It is a necessary etiquette to come to visit.

Tang Shuxuan's house didn't have many guests, so Yin Jun, who seemed not much older than them, became the object of their inquiries. The oldest of these children was only 10 years old, and the youngest daughter was only 4 years old. I went to Xiangjiang.

Yin Jun told them about Xiangjiang's situation, and then chatted with them about some topics that the children were interested in. By the time they had dinner, they were already full of affection for Yin Jun, thinking that this big brother knew too much.

After dinner, seeing that Yin Jun was in good condition, Tang Shuxuan drove the children to play with her husband, and dragged Yin Jun and Tian Jiachun to talk about signing the contract.

Tang Shuxuan studied at a university in the United States, and is a top student in the Film Department of Southern University. She is very clear about publishing scripts and novels.

She spent more than two months translating and perfecting these two books. The language and terms are more suitable for European and American book fans to read, and then she went out to find those publishing houses.

There are many publishing houses in the United States, no less than a thousand large and small.

They have always advocated that knowledge is wealth, so they have done very well in books.

In the United States in the future, when the electronics industry is extremely developed, book sales will be very good, so it has to be said that people have a strong mass base in this regard.

There are many publishing houses to choose from, but Tang Shuxuan knew Yin Jun's dream, so she naturally hoped to find a large-scale one with a good reputation.

As a result, after running for more than half a month, there are only five or six publishing houses interested in the two books, and the largest ones are only ranked after the 50th in the United States, and the royalties they give are only 4%. ——This is the amount of royalties that they receive for the global distribution copyright.

What is the concept of the 4% royalty rate?

In the United States, new writers generally use a relatively fixed ratio to calculate their income.

That is selling price x royalties x number of first prints.

Naturally, the selling price depends on the exquisite printing of the book. Generally, the hardcover version is 15 to 40 US dollars, and the softcover book is 5-10 US dollars.

For ordinary new writers, the publishing house will give 5%-8% royalties.

The number of first printed volumes is generally 5,000 to 10,000 volumes.

If the quality of the work is good, the number of first prints can be increased, but the royalties are generally unchanged.

The price of 4% is basically difficult to give. To the publishing house, this is a tasteless book, which shows that they are not optimistic about this book. They only think that this book will take three to five years to make a profit. Opportunity.

Moreover, the number of first prints given by the largest publishing house is only the minimum of 5,000, and the books are naturally the cheapest soft-cover books. This means that if a book is published, Yin Jun may only get $1600 pre-tax income.

According to the approximate tax rate of the annual income, Yin Jun basically does not have to pay taxes, and can get about 1,500 US dollars.

"Jurassic Park" and "The Da Vinci Code" add up to about $3,000.

At first glance, the income of 14,000 Hong Kong dollars is really too little, not to mention that Tang Shuxuan knows that these two books are very good, so this price is definitely a loss.

If you want to say that after the sales of these two books have increased in the future, the royalties will follow the rules, but this publishing house is bullying customers, and there is no additional increase at all, so Tang Shuxuan thinks twice, and for the time being Leave it alone.

The rest of the publishing houses also have a lot of strange things. Some want to buy out a book for 1,000 US dollars, and some give 8% royalties, but hope to have all the derivative rights represented by them, and even participate in 50% of the share.

In the end, a company called Henry Publishing House gave a more suitable price.

This Henry Publishing House was a bookstore more than 20 years ago, and it was also a local bookstore in Los Angeles. The name was Henry Bookstore, which was the surname of their boss.

It’s just that they are doing very well. Over the years, they have developed a total of 15 directly-operated bookstores in Los Angeles and San Francisco. So after preparing to expand their business in the past two years, they thought of starting a publishing house business.

Establishing a publishing house in the United States actually requires a lot of hard work, but fortunately Henry Bookstore has been a bookstore for so many years, and has many channels of its own in printing and sales networks, so it is easy to operate as a publishing house.

But their influence is still too small, just a little network in California, not much outside here, which is the typical style of small presses.

At the same time, the reputation of Henry Publishing House is still very good. Over the past few decades, their members have exceeded 2 million people, accounting for about 8% of the population of California.

Kant Henry, the second-generation owner of Henry Publishing House, is only 33 years old this year. He is in the prime of life and wants to start a career.

He took a fancy to the two books written by Yin Jun and thought they were very well written. Although they were written by Xiangjiang natives, the layout of the writing was very good, so he came to find Tang Shuxuan specially.

Of course, the price Kant offered was not high. He only wanted the North American publishing rights, and the royalties were 5% of the standard line. The number of first printed copies of his favorite "Jurassic Park" was 10,000, and "The Da Vinci Code" was 6,000. The price of the two softcover books is 10 dollars a book.

Then, if the sales volume exceeds 50,000 copies, the royalties will be 8%, if the sales volume exceeds 100,000 volumes, it will be 10%, and if the sales volume exceeds 200,000 volumes, it will be 15% of the highest-level royalties for newcomers in the industry, and more than 15% are the prices of super writers. Newcomers will never get it, and if the royalties exceed 20%, only Michael Clayton and Stephen King can get this price.

In the end, Kant did not want any other rights and interests, and even gave his own set of sales plans, which seemed very sincere.

Although Henry Publishing only has a network in California, and the most important base for selling books in the United States is New York, if "Jurassic Park" and "The Da Vinci Code" are not good enough, it is likely to stop at 20,000 to 30,000 But Tang Shuxuan saw Kant's sincerity and the influence of Henry's bookstore, so she leaned towards him.

After all, Tang Shuxuan knew that what Yin Jun cared about was only the copyright of TV and movies in the future, and the publishing of novels was second.

In fact, Tang Shuxuan knows that these two books are absolutely excellent. Even if Yin Jun doesn't care about the sales volume, she hopes that the two books with her hard work will sell well, so that everyone can know Yin Jun's talent. and their translation skills.

The current contract with Henry Publishing House is already the best contract Tang Shuxuan can fight for.

Although Yin Jun came to the United States and was about to sign a contract, Tang Shuxuan didn't know if Yin Jun was satisfied.