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853、Inspiration for the manuscript fee

Jing Wen thought about how to protect the interests of those technicians, but he couldn't think of it any way, because once the technology spreads, their interests would be damaged. Unless they could know the benefits of technology spread, they would willingly teach the land. However, Jing Wen couldn't figure it out, and the diffusion of technology would be beneficial to them. The diffusion of ancient technology was not good at all. Therefore, Jing Wen was completely clueless. Then, Jing Wen went home.

"Lin'er, your belly is getting bigger and bigger, and you're going to give birth in less than three months. You have a good rest!" Jing Wen said.

But Cheng Lin took the initiative to say, "Husband, I received a good news."

"What good news?" Jing Wen asked.

"Husband, our current publishing house has just made a lot of money! The editors of the publishing house published a book, and then sold it, and got a lot of money. The author also received a lot of manuscript fees. According to your opinion, we gave him the manuscript fee according to fifteen percent of the printing. This time, he sold 20,000 copies, and according to the proportion of one copy, he could get 3,000 currencies. This is just the first batch, and maybe it will be spread all over the country in the future, so he can get less than 10,000 currencies. So, if he saves some money in this life, he can live a lifetime. Our publishing house has not opened for three years, and it has been three years since it opened. And now there are more and more people coming to contribute, so we can choose to produce more good manuscripts." Cheng Lin said.

Jing Wen knew what Cheng Lin was talking about, that was the business of the publisher founded by Jing Wen. According to the business of the publisher, Jing Wen could give the author a 15% price of the author's book as royalty, and a book could be sold for a 10% monthly salary. Although this money seemed very high and reached a half month salary for many people, it was not high in ancient times. Before Jing Wen invented new papermaking techniques, a book could reach more than tens of 100% of the price, so it was already amazing to reduce it to a 100% monthly salary.

The standard for Jing Wen to give manuscript fees is to follow the methods of later generations, and the author can pay the manuscript fees for the whole life before his death. Then, the manuscript fees will be distributed to their descendants after their death. This also brings great benefits to those authors writing books.

Originally, those so-called scholars did not have much way to make a living. They thought it was a low-key career. They asked them to work for others, and obviously they couldn't bear to be too embarrassed. Therefore, they could not make a living by writing books, and they were all happy with this. Now they had this path, so naturally they would not object. Moreover, there are already a group of people who have made a living by writing books. Some even wrote a big-selling book, and then they could have food and clothing for the rest of their lives. This has to be said to be an ideal that ancient people wanted to achieve in their dreams.

He made money by writing books and then gained wealth. No one could scold him. Even those old masters would agree with this result, because this also shows that there is a golden house in the book and Yan Ruyu's statement. Although there is no such thing as a golden house in the Tang Dynasty and Yan Ruyu, everyone can understand this situation after seeing this. Many people made a fortune because they sold a big seller. Then they could buy land to be a landlord.

"Well? Sales have increased, and you can get royalties for copyright? Then why can't you get this thing into ordinary technical aspects?" Jing Wen suddenly thought.

Jing Wen suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Since literati could make money by writing books and selling books through publishing houses, why could those technicians not make money through these research products? Jing Wen also thought about why those technicians were unwilling to impart the technology in their hands to others in ancient times, it was probably because there was no patent protection in ancient times. Once those technicians were taught to others, others could also use these technologies for free without having to continuously give money. And others could continue to impart them to others, and then pass them down layer by layer, and finally the technology spreads. As the source of technology, the first person who taught them not only could not gain benefits, but would suffer great losses. This is why those technicians were unwilling to impart technology.

Once patent protection is provided, those senior technical workers can make a living by invention, and then they constantly create new products and then impart these production technologies to others. Others also rely on patents to the source of technology to the source of technology. As the source of technology, once patent protection is provided, the diffusion of technology will not only not bring them great losses, but will instead make them gain great benefits. If this diffusion of technology can bring great benefits, will the source of technology teach technology more hard? Even they will be eager to spread the technology a larger range, so that they will have more benefits.

With patents, greater benefits can be obtained, so those high-tech people may work harder to research new technologies and then obtain more profits. Patents can be said to be something that stimulates the development of science and technology, and many civilizations in later generations are promoted by patents. Because of the protection of patents, scientists will gain great benefits, and then they will work harder to promote the development of science and technology, because they can gain great benefits in this process. As for the beginning of patents, they all rely on their own interests to study, and once the research is done, the whole nation can use it for free. I am afraid that not many people can support this kind of loss of money and gain publicity.

So why later generations attach so much importance to scientific and technological patents? This is actually because patents have greatly promoted the development of human civilization, so everyone attaches so much importance to it. Now that Jing Wen can propose copyright and the benefits of literary works, why can't he provide these patents? As long as patent protection can be provided, will workers and technicians resist the diffusion of technology? Once the technology spreads, they will gain greater benefits and they will continue to support the diffusion of technology.

"I'm so genius. I actually thought of this method, hohohohoho..." Jing Wen smiled proudly.

Cheng Lin thought Jing Wen was sick and almost let the doctor see him. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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