Chapter 834: We can only talk about cooperation later
After Jerred, Mule of Bergodhez Publishing House and the heads of several other publishing houses also stated that if Li Fan's fantasy literary works have certain distribution value, they are willing to publish them for free for Li Fan and publish them in their country.
Their potential meaning is that if Li Fan's fantasy literary works have no distribution value, if Li Fan wants to publish them, he can only publish them at his own expense.
Of course, this is indeed true. If the author’s book quality is not good and he wants to publish it, he can only pay out of his own pocket and ask the publisher to publish it.
However, facts are the facts. Now the major publishers are so direct, and the slight sarcastic meaning in their words can be understood by everyone present.
For a moment, everyone turned their heads to look at Li Fan, wanting to see the embarrassment, shame, or anger on Li Fan's face.
However, they did not see any of these in Li Fan's face.
All I saw was Li Fan and smiled faintly and said, "I haven't finished what I just said. I don't want copyright fees, but it doesn't mean I don't want money. There is another way of cooperation between publishers and authors, that is, the author does not have copyright fees, but uses a sharing method. I wonder if Mr. Mule, Mr. Jerryde, and other publishers in charge have such a way of cooperation?"
The heads of all publishers were stunned. Then Jerry said: "Of course there is a way of cooperation, but ordinary authors would not choose this way. Because they don't know how their books sold? Getting the copyright fee that they are satisfied with at one time is the safest way."
Li Fan said: "As long as you have it, I plan to cooperate with publishing houses in this way. As for how much I divide the money, on this special day, I will divide the money a little less, just 10 percentage points."
"More, how much?" Everyone at the scene was stunned and thought they had heard it wrong.
The people on site, except for the authors and publishing people, also basically understand the publishing industry.
The share of the authors given by the publisher is based on the pricing.
For example, if a book priced at 30 yuan and the author is divided into 10 percentage points, it will be 3 yuan.
In other words, every time a publisher prints a book, he will give the author 3 yuan.
However, the cost of publishing physical books by publishing houses is actually very high. In addition to the author's remuneration or copyright fees, there are many other costs.
For example, printing fees, paper fees, transportation fees, storage fees, discount differences between Mayang and Shiyang, plus a certain damage rate, etc.
After counting it, a book priced at 30 yuan will usually only make the net profit of a publishing house worth five or six yuan, and six or seven yuan will not exceed 10 yuan.
The share of this ten percentage points is considered very high.
Of course, everyone also knew that Li Fan was not asking for a price maliciously.
If it is a super bestseller, not to mention 10 percentage points, it is 11, 12, or even higher, and the publisher is willing to give it to it.
But the key is that Li Fan's fantasy literary works dare to ask for a price like this, so everyone has to doubt their ears.
In the eyes of the publisher, it would be too naive to ask for a book that requires the author to pay for a 10 percentage point share.
Jerry said with a slight smile: "Mr. Li Fan is joking, this is absolutely impossible."
After Jerry, Mule and other publishing house leaders also said that it was impossible, and they were fools again.
Jim, Andelin, Gesen and others also sneered in their hearts. In their opinion, this must have been what Li Fan said on purpose, hoping to resolve the embarrassing situation before.
Li Fan nodded and said, "I can understand your concerns, but this is really a pity. Now it seems that my entries can only be published in our China for the time being. Fortunately, the evaluation rules this time do not depend on sales, otherwise, I will have been eliminated now."
Jim laughed and said, "Mr. Li Fan is too modest. After Mr. Li Fan's works are created, if Jerry, Mule and others think it's okay, they can still be distributed abroad."
Li Fan nodded and said, "Then I would like to thank Mr. Jim for your words."
Jim said again: "Where, where, I believe Mr. Li Fan has this strength."
Regarding the copyright issue, Jim, Anderin, Gesen and others were in a very good mood.
Everything is similar to what they expected. Li Fan's entries cannot even sell the copyright of publishing in other countries. After the news was found out by netizens in China, it will probably be very lively again.
At this point, this children's literature exchange summit has really come to an end.
Yu Qiu, president of the Chinese Writers Association, and Laruf, president of the Lan Kingdom Writers Association, made final summary speeches respectively.
After that, the exchange summit finally ended successfully.
All the writers are very satisfied with this trip to China.
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After the summit, Han Feng, a representative of the Chinese publishing industry and the head of Qiuyu Publishing House, found Li Fan and expressed his willingness to purchase the copyright of Li Fan's entries in China.
Li Fan said that naturally there was no problem, and it was only 8 percentage points according to the share.
8 percentage points are indeed the low price given by Li Fan.
You know, the work he was planning to bring out created a sales myth in his previous life and is one of the best-selling works in the world.
Even the 10 percentage points given to Jerry, Lof and others before is not considered a high price.
It's just a pity that no one wants to believe him.
Of course, Li Fan could understand it, but he really felt a little regretful.
Han Feng also seemed to not believe in Li Fan, and said with a slight frown: "Mr. Li Fan, with your current fame, we believe that many people will definitely be willing to buy your works. But the market for fantasy literature in my country is still uncertain, which is also a fact. Moreover, it is the first time Mr. Li Fan tried to create fantasy literature, and there are too many uncertain factors. Is the 8 percentage points too high?"
Li Fan nodded and said, "I understand Mr. Han's concerns very much, but this price is indeed my bottom line price."
Han Feng frowned even more, thought for a while and said, "Since that's the case, we can only talk to Mr. Li Fan about cooperation another day."
Li Fan smiled and said, "I know Mr. Han wants to wait for the fantasy literature market in our country to be clearer, and after reading my works, we will talk about cooperation. Of course there is no problem, but Mr. Han, if someone is ahead of you and reaches a cooperation agreement with me, then I can only say sorry at that time."
Han Feng also smiled and said, "It's okay. If there are other publishers who are willing to cooperate with Mr. Li Fan, Mr. Li Fan just agrees."
Li Fan nodded, and after saying a few more words, they said goodbye to each other.
Another person in charge of Qiuyu Publishing House, Huang Zhaoyang, saw Han Feng coming back, asked, "Old Han, how are you?"
Han Feng shook his head, sneered, and told Huang Zhaoyang about the situation.
After hearing this, Huang Zhaoyang sneered and said, "We saw that he was rejected by so many foreign publishers and was very embarrassed, so we kindly bought his copyright. He was still so ignorant. He really thought that the fantasy literary works he created would have a very good market?"
Han Feng smiled and said, "I guess he has been on the altar for a long time and thought that no matter what book he wrote, he would be very popular."
Huang Zhaoyang shook his head and said, "Forget it, don't care. Let's talk to Mr. Jim now. His entries are copyright issues for publishing in China. We just couldn't talk about them at the venue, so it doesn't matter in private now."
Han Feng nodded, and then the two went to Jim to discuss related copyright matters.
Chapter completed!