Chapter 872

At noon, Pei Qian and He An went to Mr. Li's Mingfu family banquet for lunch.

The reason why I didn't go to the unnamed restaurant was mainly because I didn't have a reservation and couldn't eat.

However, every weekend, Pei Qian reserved the largest private room in the nameless restaurant for banquets, and he could invite He An to have another meal at that time.

He An knew that Boss Pei was busy with work, and he happened to be going back to take a break at noon, so the two agreed to go to an unnamed restaurant to have dinner together on the weekend, and then said goodbye to each other.

He An obviously still has a very strong curiosity about how the game "Mission and Choice" succeeds, but seeing Mr. Pei's confident and tight-lipped appearance, he knows that he can't ask, so he can only restrain himself Curiosity, continue to wait for the day when the game is released.

After eating, Pei Qian looked at his watch, it was not yet 3 o'clock.

It is Friday afternoon, and there is still time to arrange another department.

Tomorrow weekend, except for a very few departments such as Headwind Logistics that need to take turns off, other departments will be on holiday, so the arrangements for other departments will have to wait until Monday.

"Which department should I arrange for?"

"Hmm... The terminal Chinese website is relatively close, let's arrange it first."

Pei Qian originally wanted to go to the Jingpal Hostel, but the Jingpal Hostel is far from the city center after all, so it is a bit troublesome to go there. Pei Qian didn't want to bother too much, so he decided to go again on Monday.

Today, I will arrange the Chinese website of the destination first.

The Chinese website of the terminal is just above the Tengda game. Although Pei Qian usually only needs to take two more elevators to get there, he has not visited the Chinese website of the terminal for a long time.

Because there is really nothing to see.

Although Diandu Chinese.com also makes money, it doesn’t make much money compared to other industries, and it’s very stable, there won’t be a sudden surge in income.

Pei Qian has always felt that the Chinese website of the terminal is not close to each other, which is a tasteless state of "tasteless food and a pity to discard it", so he completely let it go in the past few months without asking.

But this morning, seeing the steady increase in the various revenue data of the Chinese website at the end, Pei Qian became vigilant again, and felt that he could no longer let it go like this.

Now that I have free hands, I can make some arrangements.

Pei Qian came to the terminal Chinese website, and first glanced at everyone's work status.

Well, it’s okay, at least better than Tenda Games.

When I went to the Tengda game department before, the group of people stared at the screen intently. Either they tapped the keyboard quickly with both hands, or they frowned and meditated hard. It seemed that they were all concentrating on their work.

But on the Chinese website of the terminal, everyone's working state is much more relaxed. Some people are reading novels on their mobile phones, and some are looking at various data on the website aimlessly. In short, it is a very relaxed state.

Although there are no obvious signs of fishing, compared with the working status of Tenda's game department, it is obviously much better, which makes Pei Qian feel very relieved.

Zhu Xing'an, the current editor-in-chief of the Chinese website at the end, saw Mr. Pei, and hurriedly got up to greet him: "Mr. Pei, why are you here?"

Zhu Xing'an was a little surprised, because Mr. Pei hadn't been to Dianzhong Chinese.com for a whole year to inspect the work, and he didn't give any guidance to Diandian Chinese.com.

Many colleagues thought that Mr. Pei had forgotten the Chinese website of the destination.

But now that Mr. Pei is here, it means that Mr. Pei has not forgotten the Chinese website of the finish line!

This made Zhu Xing'an quite happy.

Pei Qian smiled: "It's okay, just stop by and take a look, where are the horses?"

Zhu Xing'an said, "In the office."

Pei Qian nodded, came to Ma Yiqun's office, and knocked lightly on the door.

A group of horses were also very surprised when they saw that Mr. Pei had arrived: "Mr. Pei, why are you here? Please sit down."

Pei Qian sat down on the sofa in the office.

A group of horses poured a cup of tea: "Mr. Pei, I came here specially today. Is there any work to arrange?"

While drinking tea, Pei Qian said leisurely: "I just remembered that I haven't been here for a while, so I stopped by to have a look. How is the current status of the website? Is the study class still going on?"

Ma Yiqun replied truthfully: "The current situation of the website is very good, and the revenue has grown steadily, especially the number of authors has been increasing."

"A batch of popular books appeared on the website. The subscription results of these top books have been steadily increasing. In addition, we give authors more share than other websites, so they are becoming more and more popular among authors."

"Moreover, our website has never been in arrears or deducted manuscript fees for no reason. All data are open and transparent, which is also a major advantage of us."

"Many authors have come to our website to test the waters, and our website's reputation in the circle is getting better and better!"

"The training class for Internet authors is still going on, and the effect is remarkable. Now the list of training classes is no longer voluntary, because everyone has to participate, and the number of places is not enough. We can only choose among the new authors who have achieved certain results, and In principle, those who have already come in the previous period cannot come again in the next period.”

"But even so, the authors are still chasing after them, and the readers are clamoring every day to send the authors they follow to study classes to close the small black room and update them seriously."

"Whether it is an author who is slow in coding, uninspired or lacking in writing skills, there will be obvious progress and improvement after the study class! Once such an atmosphere is formed, coupled with the old-fashioned model, the study class will be The website has cultivated batch after batch of outstanding authors, and the content of novels on the entire website is naturally becoming richer and more exciting."

Pei Qian drank his tea, the more he listened, the more melancholy he became.

It sounds like the situation is very bad!

Apparently, Dingdian.com has entered a virtuous circle, with the authors’ income continuously increasing, their enthusiasm for writing fully stimulated, and their writing skills improving with the help of other authors. At the same time, because there are more and more good works, readers' stickiness to the website is also increasing.

If this continues, the consequences will be disastrous!

Although the current market share of Dingdian Chinese.com is not as large as Unlimited Chinese.com, it is already among the top three choices in the minds of the authors because of its high share and good benefits.

And once the website grows bigger, it will definitely develop steadily in the future. As long as the person in charge does not have cerebral palsy or engage in some mentally retarded operations, it will be difficult for the website to go downhill.

Pei Qian carefully looked at the group of horses and felt that he must not be cerebral palsy.

That being the case, it must be a high probability event that Dian Dian Chinese.com will develop better and better in the future.

I can't go on like this anymore, something has to be done!

Pei Qian can also be regarded as a reader of online novels, and he knows a thing or two about these things in the online novel circle.

He thought for a moment, and soon found a good entry point.

"Currently, our website is still dominated by subscriptions, right?"

A group of horses didn't know why Mr. Pei asked this, and nodded: "Yes, Mr. Pei, since the establishment of our website, you have always emphasized that we should focus on subscription revenue, and try not to engage in buyouts."

Pei Qian thought for a while, and it seemed that this was indeed decided by himself.

Because at the beginning of the establishment of Diandian Chinese.com, the entire website was in a state of no one caring about it.

Pei Qian was worried that a group of horses would use buyouts to dig out some great authors from other sites at high prices, which would bring popularity and traffic to the Dianzhong Chinese website, so he repeatedly reiterated that the subscription share should be the main thing, and no buyouts should be made.

Because there are no readers, the subscription share is naturally not very much. The authors have no money to write books here, so naturally they will not come.

But now, times have changed.

After the Chinese website of Dian Dian has developed, subscription sharing is definitely a model that can motivate authors more. Because the better the writing, the higher the subscription, the more money you make, so the authors will work hard to polish the plot and dedicate better-looking works to readers.

Pei Qian took a sip of tea and said, "This principle needs to be changed. In the future, we will do both share and buyout. However, we only buy out the works of our own authors!"

A group of horses froze for a moment: "Only buy out the works of your own author?"

It stands to reason that since a buyout is going to be done, one of the most important uses is to poach people from outside sites.

Because the excellent authors of the outstation are not sure whether they can maintain their current income by subscribing after changing the website, they are worried that they will not adapt to the environment, and they will look forward and backward when they are poached.

Therefore, it is relatively easier to poach people in the form of buyouts.

As for the works of their own authors, there is actually no point in signing and buying out.

Because a buyout is not an unlimited high price, the website must also ensure that it will not lose money.

The website will estimate the manuscript fee that the author can get for writing subscriptions, and then give a buyout price that is higher than the subscription fee.

If the content written by the author is lower than the value of the subscription, then the website loses money; and if the content written by the author is higher than the value of the subscription, then the author loses money.

But for the authors of this site, if they make a lot of money writing subscriptions and feel that they can make more progress, then they will definitely not sign and buy out, because it will destroy their fighting spirit; and if some subscriptions are not very profitable The author himself is not capable enough, and signing a buyout will not motivate him to work harder to write books, but objectively encourage him to eat and wait to die.

Therefore, the method of buying out is more useful when poaching people, but if it is used on one's own people, it is likely to cause a lose-lose situation for both the website and the author.

That's why Ma Yiqun was full of doubts about Mr. Pei's buyout strategy.

Pei Qian looked at the confused expressions of the horses, and smiled without saying a word.

Confused?

Doubt is right!

I was originally trying to kill the fighting spirit of the authors!

Many authors know that writing buyouts is actually very easy to write people off.

Because buyouts are generally calculated according to the number of words, the quality of the work will not affect the author's income. As long as the contract is strictly followed, no matter how rubbish the author writes, as long as there is no obvious violation of the contract, the website will pay according to the number of words.

For the author, if he writes well and exceeds the price given by the buyout, the money he earns will remain the same, which means he has lost money. Therefore, they will lack the motivation to write well.

Of course, in order to avoid these problems, many websites add a lot of supplementary clauses to the buyout contract, such as: when the data is not good, the editor has the right to ask the author to modify it, or finish the book ahead of schedule; when the data of the book reaches a certain height At that time, the author can make a request to the website to buy out and transfer the share; or simply sign a "guaranteed share", that is, to buy out when the subscription does not exceed a certain value, and to take the share after it exceeds.

But Pei Qian obviously didn't intend to use this method.