Chapter 293 The word of mouth of the common people
As Xu Hao guessed, the leaders of Nanhai Publishing Company all gritted their teeth and swallowed them into their stomachs with blood.
The biggest joke in the publishing industry is that you guard the Baoshan Mountain but return empty-handed!
Originally, when they signed Zhang Chu, the popular star, they were envious by other publishers. After all, the copyrights of "Detective Sherlock" and "Psychological Crime" were sold in full swing, and "Boys Pi" was also not simple.
Just when everyone thought that "Ghost Blows Out the Light" was no exception and would be launched by Nanhai Publishing Company, the Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House made a fuss and snatched away this series of works!
Now after seeing Zhang Chu's sales for the past three days, the entire office of Nanhai Publishing Company has become low pressure, and the employees are not afraid to show up for fear of causing trouble.
"It would have been great if we had relaxed the conditions a little, and Zhang Chu would not have been replaced by other publishing houses."
Gu Xinxue felt very regretful. It seems that "Ghost Blows Out the Light" may have sold over one million in the first week. If this book is operated under his own hands, it will definitely be a trump card qualification!
When Zhang Chu wanted to write this novel, he was the first to send a message to Gu Xinxue, but in terms of royalties and prepaid royalties, he did not have much say in editorials like him.
Changjiang Literature and Art Publishing House can give a sky-high royalty of 15%, but its company leaders think that Zhang Chu has no other choice, so he insists that 12% will not let go!
Although it is only a 3% gap, as long as the books are sold more, the manuscript fee gap may be several million yuan.
The leaders who made the decisions thought of using the royalties of Zhang Chu’s previous works as a threat. Gu Xinxue’s colleague suggested that the company block his monthly royalties and force Zhang Chu to surrender.
After all, if Zhang Chu combined the first four books, he would still earn millions of dollars every month, and this money is quite large!
Gu Xinxue shook his head in his heart, "This approach has no effect except pushing Zhang Chu further."
Now the sales of books are clear at a glance, and it is difficult to make fake accounts in publishing companies or bookstores. Once the matter of blocking the author's manuscript fee is exposed, it will be a shocking scandal!
It is easy to keep those swaying authors away. Many people write books for the sake of manuscript fees. Today they can block the manuscript fees, but tomorrow they may get stuck on their heads.
What's more, everyone knows that Zhang Chu's personality is better than his whole body. It is impossible to make him swallow his anger. Maybe he will sue him directly to the court and ask for his salary with confidence!
At that time, you will lose face and the inside, and it is completely unnecessary.
Fortunately, the company is not all fools, and there are still people who can see the truth clearly. Even if Zhang Chu does not continue to work with them now, he can make a lot of money just by relying on the previous four books.
BBC has released the broadcast time for "Detective Sherlock". If the quality is good after the broadcast, the novel will be much more sold than the original cumulative sales.
The same is true for "Psychological Crime". It has movies and TV series, and it is also produced by reliable film and television companies. It takes a long time to eat your old capital.
Gu Xinxue does not want to get into evil with Zhang Chu. He is still discovering Zhang Chu's Bole. This title is very useful whether it is in his own company or changing jobs.
He also bought a physical book about "Ghost Blows Out the Light" in private, but he didn't tell anyone else in the company.
The novel with a total of more than 200,000 words was quickly finished. Now when he was at work, he clicked Douban Reading to see what the readers of this book commented on. Anyway, he felt comfortable reading it himself, and it was worthy of being a work that sold a million yuan!
In Douban Reading, more than 20,000 people have already scored and evaluated the work "Ghost Blows Out the Light: The Ancient City of Jingjue".
This is a very popular scene for a work that has just been on the market.
"8.7 points, similar to what I guess." Gu Xinxue nodded, saying that this book is perfect and of course unrealistic. If it is really a full score, it must be an over-reputation.
This score is very reasonable, and it can be seen that readers are also more rational. They did not blindly score five stars, nor did they blindly give one star.
The comments from netizens named "Xuanyuan Baigui" were deeply agreed by Gu Xinxue, and he wrote:
[The story is written in a stunning way, and it makes people unable to stop reading it, and it is very coherent. During the reading process, I kept admiring Zhang Chu. Even if the story was fabricated, the author needs to make up his own words, let alone the Feng Shui knowledge mentioned in the book, such as the heavenly stems and earthly branches, the astrological signs and the eight trigrams, rivers and mountains, these seem to be embedded in his mind, and they are lined up, waiting for him to use it at will.
This requires a lot of knowledge accumulation and can also be absorbed for your own use, which has a bit of a pastoral investigation by anthropologists.
As the author borrowed the protagonist Hu Bayi, tomb robbing is a technical job, and there is also a way to steal. Tomb robbing is to let some old things hidden deep in the mountains and forests regain the light of heaven, and it is a karma that accumulates virtue.
Of course, this should not be Zhang Chu's main purpose. We encourage everyone to go out of the city, out of their homes, into the mountains, forests, and the Gobi desert, and explore the cultural beauty of thousands of years ago that was destroyed in the ancient tomb.
The novel is curious and the story is thrilling, and it is shown in Zhang Chu's narrative. It is full of fun and realistic images. It seems that there are really a group of tomb robbers exploring in the deep mountains and forests, experiencing the thrill of death!]
Another netizen named Mutou also gave the novel five stars. He believes that this book triggered a fresh genre in online novels. Zhang Chu showed the thrilling journey of the Jinshi Captain with his profound traditional cultural foundation. He has humorous pen tips and twists and turns. He even asserted that he would definitely not be worse than the Raiders of the Lost Ark when he was moved to the big screen!
[Give Zhang Chu a rich imagination! The ancient rules of the tomb robbery industry are well written in the books, and they are even divided into sects, but in fact, all of these things were fabricated by Zhang Chu himself and do not exist at all.
In addition to these tomb robbers and techniques, all kinds of strange things are also amazing. Queen Jingjue uses the thousand-year-old Kunlun divine wood as a coffin, with strange flowers, corpses, and konjac on it. Anyone who approaches will have hallucinations. There are also strange creatures such as human-faced black pigeons to protect the ancient city tomb, and the nine-story demon tower is extraordinary.
Zhang Chu's plausible writing style draws on ancient Chinese unofficial history, legends and modern strange stories, which is quite unique in writing. It confuses reality and illusion, has caused a huge impact on readers, and has also caused some troubles to literary creation.
He obviously did not want to write a textbook on history and archaeology, but was pursuing an imagination that exists wonderfully in the real world!]
This comment received more than 3,000 likes, almost writing the readers' voices.
Chapter completed!