I just want to copy books quietly

After signing more than 1000 copies, I was about to go to the hospital due to heat stroke. If I signed [-] copies, I would not be allowed to go directly to the morgue!

By 6 o'clock, Du Caige had already signed 3000 books, and he was too tired to move his fingers, but there was still a long line behind him.

Fortunately, some book fans and spectators couldn't help being hungry and ran to eat.

Du Caige took a short break, drank some electrolyte-supplementing beverages, and continued to sign for sales.

While signing, while calculating.

The hardcover version is a set of 5 volumes, priced at 299 yuan.

A set of 5 paperback editions is priced at 199 yuan.

He gets 14 royalties.

所以如果两周内真的能把首印的22万套全部卖完，2万套精装版总共销售额是600万，20万套平装版总销售额能达到4000万。

He will be able to share 644 million royalties.

Of course, a tax of 20% has to be paid, and the actual income is a little more than 500 million.

But that's just the beginning.

If it is true that 2 sets can be sold in 22 weeks, then the total sales volume of this book will be 800 million, or even 1000 million sets.

This is not a book worth ten or twenty dollars!

This is a very expensive set of books with a paperback price of 199 yuan!

And if in the next few years, Zhu Xian's sales can really exceed 500 million, or even reach 1000 million, then the social attention it brings will be enough to prop up the box office of a movie with fans, and it will not be possible to shoot with your eyes closed. The kind that loses money.

Even though Du Caige is not that keen on money, after thinking of those numbers, his heart beats faster, he feels the vitality returned to his body, and his swollen wrist no longer hurts.

The signings continued until 10 pm, and a total of 8500 sets of books were signed.

There were some small episodes during the period, but no major accidents occurred.

When the signing was over, Du Caige's hands kept shaking, and he felt that he would never eat with chopsticks in the next three days.

And the clothes he was wearing had been changed several times, and they were all soaked within a short time each time.

Fortunately, the organizer was considerate and prepared a few more sets of clothes for him, otherwise he would have a serious illness.

Du Caige was really scared, he had never been so tired running a road show in his previous life.

He doesn't want to do the signing event again in his life.

He went back to sleep soundly, and slept until the sun was three poles before getting up.

When I got up to look at my phone, my hands were still shaking and sore.

Because the phone was turned to silent, even though there were dozens of missed calls and countless text messages, it didn't wake him up.

The text message was nothing more than congratulations on the hot sale of Zhu Xian, and Xinya Publishing House also sent him the latest sales statistics of Zhu Xian.

In Weilanxing Dahuaguo, the physical sales statistics of books are mainly based on the sales of chain bookstores "Dahua Bookstore" and "Huaxiatu" and several large supermarket chains, as well as the sales of e-commerce websites "WOI" and "Tanbao". Based on sales data.

According to statistics, in the "Dahua Bookstore" alone, the national sales volume of Zhu Xian yesterday exceeded 8 copies. Because some book buyers do not buy the full set, they are measured by "books".The hardcover edition can only be purchased as a set, but the paperback edition can be purchased in separate volumes.

The total online and offline sales, plus the 8500 sets sold at the autograph session, have reached 38 copies.

The largest sales volume is not offline channels, but online channels.

Professionally operating books, similar to the "WOI" network of "Dangdang" on the earth, Zhu Xian's sales exceeded 10 copies.

On the comprehensive e-commerce website, "Tanbao.com", which is controlled by Yuanguang Group, the first-day sales of Zhu Xian also exceeded 7 copies.

Only 22 sets, or 110 million copies, were printed for the first printing, so half of the inventory was cleared in one day.

Of course, Zhu Xian is actually more fan-oriented, and it is far from being comparable to classic masterpieces.

Therefore, Du Caige estimates that in the next 10 years, its sales volume will be fixed at between 500 million and 600 million sets.

It is not realistic to think of more than 600 million sets.

Unless movies and TV shows are released in the future, word of mouth is very good, and some fans of TV shows and movies are driven to buy books for collection.

"38 volumes! Zhu Xian is selling like crazy! On the first day of release, it was listed in the top 3 of Dahua Cui Nanxue's best-selling list, and the top 10 of Mingde Daily's best-selling list. Mr. Du, please reply as soon as possible, we want to Buy the physical publishing copyright of your ghost blowing lights, and then discuss about reprinting Zhu Xian. At the same time, the headquarters called and wanted to sell Zhu Xian on FINDER, hoping to discuss this topic."

This message was personally sent by Lei Qifeng, the general manager of New Sprout Publishing House.

Du Caige ignored him for the time being.

If it is necessary to negotiate conditions, it is Fan Ge who will negotiate. He will definitely not be able to go into battle by himself.

He learned a little bit about it. Both Dahuacui and Nanfangxue are the best-selling newspapers in Dahuaguo, and these two newspapers will be the best-selling statistics books.

As for the Mingde Daily, as the top 10 newspapers in Dahua, its rankings include all book categories, not just academic books.

Relatively speaking, Mingde Daily's bestseller list is more authoritative.

In addition, "FINDER" is an e-reader, similar to "KINDER" on the earth, released by Zhizhenghua, and it is also an e-reader that currently occupies 80% of the e-reading market.

Needless to say, Zhizhenhua belongs to Caiwei, so even if the conditions are not good, Du Caige will agree to sell the electronic version of Zhu Xian in FINDER. In addition, the publication of Ghost Chuideng will definitely give priority to Xinya Publishing House.

Fertilizer water does not flow into the fields of outsiders.

But he didn't intend to appear too eager either.Let Brother Fan discuss the conditions carefully.

The royalties of Ghost Blowing Lantern have to be 18 no matter what.

This isn't about picking up his daughter's wool, he's also waiting for the rice to go into the pot.

If you want to achieve financial freedom as soon as possible and bring your own funds to film a film, then you must not be soft on the money you should earn yourself.

Chapter 218 The New Finale of "Zhu Xian"

After washing up, Du Caige was not in a hurry to call back.

He first went to the post bar and went to the fan group to read the comments of book friends.

Because Zhu Xian, which was serialized in the founding middle edition, is basically in a state of suspension, so readers have long been looking forward to the ending.

This time, many cash-strapped readers just bought the fifth volume alone, wanting to preview the ending.

The ending of the original Zhu Xian on Earth has always been criticized by people. Du Caige made a lot of changes this time, and then invited senior editors from Xinya Publishing House to revise and polish it.

Most of the characters have given an explanation.

As for Zhang Xiaofan's ending, although he still didn't get together with Lu Xueqi and didn't resurrect Biguio, it gave an open ending.

Didn't use the original version of "The two just stood still, staring at each other. How many years, the sorrows of the world, all in this deep look. Then, they laughed at the same time."

The original version was written like this.It's too scribbled.

Du Caige's new version is written like this: After Lu Xueqi took over as the head of Dazhu Peak, she was very quiet and thoughtful one day, traveling down the mountain, in Heyang City, suddenly her heart moved, and she walked into an antique shop.Met Zhang Xiaofan by chance.

But saw Zhang Xiaofan sitting behind the counter, with sleepy eyes, shaking and shaking, seemed to be dozing off.

A gray monkey hopped up and down on his back, and a big yellow dog stuck out its tongue at his feet.

After Lu Xueqi approached, he looked up, with a calm and peaceful expression, like a commoner who just went out for a walk after eating, calmly nodding to his neighbors.

Lu Xueqi looked at him for a while, then suddenly smiled, like flowers blooming on the snow, "You are very different from what I imagined all these years. But it's okay."

Zhang Xiaofan threw away the gray monkey that was making trouble on his back, and said lazily: "Recently practicing Taoism, I suddenly understood some truths. Looking back at myself, I was actually a bit biased."

"Why do you practice Taoism?" Lu Xueqi asked.

"There are no words in the heavenly book. So, cultivating the Tao is just going back to the origin, let's go back to the beginning. What do fellow Taoists think?"

Fellow Daoist?Lu Xueqi's heart trembled.After a long silence, he asked softly: "Your way is very interesting, I want to discuss it with you."

"But I want to look at the store."

"I'll look after the store for you, and you discuss the Tao with me."

Zhang Xiaofan glanced at her, with a smile on his lips, he did not refuse.

Lu Xueqi asked: "Is there any room in the back?"

Zhang Xiaofan lazily said, "Yes."

Lu Xueqi held the sword and walked in by herself.

Zhang Xiaofan looked at the street outside, full of pedestrians and heavy traffic.

In the hustle and bustle, there seemed to be the sound of bells drifting by, mixed with the woman's indistinct chuckle.

There seemed to be eyes staring at it with deep affection, but when he went to catch it, there was nothing there.

Zhang Xiaofan's smile didn't change, he bent down and patted Rhubarb's head, and said softly: "Famous mountains and great rivers, mountains and rivers, and purple smoke in vain. After all, it can't compare to this soft red ten feet, smoke and dust in the world."

He glanced at the screen for a while, because many book fans have become regulars, so many people in the book friend group are discussing it now.

In terms of evaluation, it is generally okay.

Bad reviews are basically "I've got my pants off and you just show me this?"

Or "Is this the end? What about XXX? What about XXXX? Haida doesn't plan to fill in the hole?"

Unlike Zhu Xian on Earth, book fans vent their dissatisfaction and anger in various extreme ways.

Most people feel that it is not very satisfactory, but it is acceptable.

The general opinion is that although there are some holes that have not been filled in, Zhu Xian is already a classic.

Your requirements for classics are really low, Du Caige thought.

Carrying out a pertinent self-evaluation, Du Caige felt that the ending he wrote was actually not much better than the original version.

It can be regarded as turning a failing score of 55 into a passing score of 62.

Even if the score doesn't improve much, but from failing to passing, that's really a leap, isn't it?

But in fact, the reason why Zhu Xian was judged to have a bad ending, Du Caige thinks it is because too many pits were dug, which could not be filled later, and the ending was rushed due to various reasons.

When Du Caige first started moving Zhu Xian, he didn't have the idea to modify it by himself, so he didn't expect to fill in those pits, such as the book of heaven.

By the time he wanted to change the ending, it was hard to get back, and some things were not easy to change.

If you want to change Zhu Xian into a classic handed down that can stand scrutiny and test, and reach the heights of The Condor Shooting Trilogy, The Swordsman, The Peerless Twins, and the Legend of Chu Liuxiang, then you must start from the middle and refine the big ones. Change, otherwise it is absolutely impossible.

And if you do this, you will almost overthrow and rewrite the second half of the book.

Du Caige didn't want to bother to do this either.

Zhu Xian is indeed flawed.

But even Xiaolongnv is not perfect and has flaws.So what if there is a defect.If you should like it, you will still like it.

He is just a porter, not a master.

And he has too many things to do, and he really doesn't have the time or experience to dig through a book of Zhu Xian repeatedly.

Put Zhu Xian down for the time being and go do other things.

In the half month since it was put on the shelves, Ghost Chuideng is still in full swing, with the average subscription constantly rising, and it is also constantly attracting new users to watch the website.

It can be said that it is a foregone conclusion that Ghost Chuideng will become the top spot in the 2008 Internet industry.

You can even say with pride that if Du Caige stops writing online, there will not be any book that can achieve the effect of ghost blowing lights in the next few years.

Of course, this is what Du Caige had expected.

On Earth, Ghost Chuideng and Zhu Xian are not at the same level.

Both Ghost Blowing Lantern and Tomb Raider Notes have physical sales of tens of millions of sets on the earth, and film adaptation works also have a box office value of billions or even tens of billions.

As for Zhu Xian, the volume of physical publication is only 200 million, and the box office of film adaptation is only a few hundred million.

He doesn't need to worry too much about Gui Chudeng now.

He has already carried all the first 4 parts, and then he had the idea to knead the last 5 parts into a wrathful Xiangxi. Now when he is writing Xianjian in his spare time, he will write a little bit, and the progress is currently 5 words.The writing was not smooth, but the quality of the [-] words that have been completed is not bad.

As for the Immortal Sword, due to too many things recently, he did not carry it fast, so there are only 20 words in the manuscript.

The Legend of Sword and Fairy written by Chu State is also the version of the plot of Xian Yi. The original book is 1 words.

Du Caige simplifies it to a certain extent, which is more in line with the fast pace of the Internet, but retains some classic dialogues and plots. It is estimated that the final word count will be 3336 million words.

This is definitely not enough to support a complete network.

But in the writing training class, after chatting with those authors and the founding executives, Du Caige didn't plan to spend too much time on Xianjian.

At that time, he showed the first tens of thousands of characters of Xianjian to the deputy editor-in-chief Qingyu and Lu Xudong, and then chatted about the plot behind it.