fish out a entertainer

Chapter 248 No Royalty
At night when Li Yi returned to the apartment, he saw Li Muqiong chatting live with his mother as soon as he opened the door. Xiao Bailing was also held in Li Muqiong's arms and timidly chatted with Li's mother. After all, Xiao Bailing was still the adopted daughter of Li's father and Li's mother.

Li Yi moved his head closer, and just covered the camera when he heard Mother Li shouting.

"Go, stay there, don't block Little Bailing's camera."

Li Yi walked away resentfully under Li's mother's dislike, feeling extremely sad in his heart. As expected, the old saying is true, the youngest is the most loved one in the family.

He kind of understood Li Muqiong's feelings when he was a child.

But when he saw Li Muqiong's snickering, that trace of empathy dissipated without a trace.

"Go eat, the food is on the table." Li Muqiong covered her mouth and smiled.

"understood."

Li Yi went to eat resentfully.

While eating and watching the happy live broadcast of Li Muqiong and Xiao Bailing with his mother, his thoughts wandered away before he knew it.

Now that Clash of Clans is online, the situation is very good, and Mao Sui has also been sent to make short videos.So Li Yi thinks whether to continue to make mobile games or develop stand-alone games next, or shift the focus from the game.

The current flow of Clash of Clans has provided the company with enough cash flow. As long as it operates well, it should not worry about spending money for at least two or three years.

So whether it is making an animated film, or a long-form animated series, or developing a large-scale 3A type game, it can be put on the agenda.

At present, the company's manpower is limited, and it is impossible to carry out various tasks simultaneously.Li Yi doesn't have that much time to look at all the projects. Just like Li Tianxing's "Assassin Wu Liuqi", Li Yi just threw out a planning project, and then he didn't pay much attention to it. The current participation rate is only 18 %.

However, "Assassin Wu Liuqi" is just a work to test the water. Although the quality is good, it is not too amazing, so Li Yi didn't put too much expectation from the beginning.

Now that Li Yi is starting a new project, he needs to use the money wisely.

After thinking for a long time, Li Yi pondered for a long time.

Whether it is developing a long-running animated movie or developing a large AAA game, there are pros and cons.

The investment in animation is large, and whether the cost can be recovered is another matter.

Whether or not the domestic game market buys 3A games is another matter.

At present, the animation industry and the stand-alone game industry are both very weak industries in China, with a small audience, so there is a high chance of encountering Waterloo.

Otherwise, you can keep your hands safe and continue to develop a few small-cost independent games or mobile games to stabilize the income, and then develop such large-scale games or long-form animations, so that you won’t be in Waterloo. The old capital will be compensated.

Just when Li Yi was hesitating, a phone call interrupted Li Yi's thoughts.

It's Han Shuang's call.

Li Yi quickly picked it up.

"Sister Han, what's the matter?"

"Li Yi has good news for you."

Han Shuang's voice came from the other side of the phone, and his tone seemed a little excited.

"What good news?" Li Yi had a rough guess in his mind, but he still asked quietly.

"Guess." Han Shuang seemed to be in a very good mood, and was even in the mood to joke with Li Yi.

In fact, Han Shuang was in a good mood.

In two months, The Three-Body Problem has sold more than 35 copies, making it the only best-selling book in China's science fiction literature industry.

And the popularity shows no signs of declining.

According to the current trend, the sales volume in the first year has steadily exceeded 100 million copies, which is already an achievement that countless practitioners in the publishing industry have to look up to.

Kyoto Publishing House is now putting all its energy on the three-body problem, and the whole press revolves around the three-body problem.

But they are also willing, after all, with the book Three-Body Problem, the annual performance of the publishing house has almost doubled, not to mention the salary and bonus. Now the whole society respects Li Yi very much, respecting the respect of the God of Wealth .

"Could it be "From One to Infinity"?" Li Yi guessed slightly.

"That's right!"

Han Shuang said with a smile.

Although Li Yi didn't change jobs to major in physics before, he also authorized the Department of Physics of the Imperial University and the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to compile and revise the book from one to infinity.

What Li Yi can do in "From One to Infinity" is to understand it, to ensure that there are no mistakes in the content, and that it will not mislead his children.

But Li Yi can only tell whether the contents are outdated or how time-sensitive they are, and some of the deeper knowledge is not even noticed by Li Yi during the review.

However, the big guys at the Chinese Academy of Sciences saw some flaws in this book at a glance, so they took the initiative to request to re-edit "From One to Infinity". After learning about it, the Department of Physics of Imperial University also took the initiative to request a cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Filling in the gaps.

Li Yi naturally readily agreed to this.

After all, the profession has a specialization.

Moreover, the main task of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Department of Physics of the Imperial University is not to check for omissions and fill in vacancies.

Instead, "From One to Infinity" was translated into a foreign language, and then handed over to Kyoto Publishing House for overseas publication.

Kyoto Publishing House has overseas cooperative publishers and a dedicated translation team, but for a highly professional book like "From One to Infinity", no matter how professional the translation team is, it will be a headache.

But now there are professionals to help check for omissions and fill in vacancies, and to help with translation, just write "thanks to the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Department of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences" after the anonymous name on the book cover. It is simply mutual benefit and the best of both worlds.

After all, the University of Science and Technology of China and the Department of Physics of the Imperial University are not short of money for translation. What they want is to make a name for this popular science work. For them, this is more important than a little translation fee.Moreover, Kyoto Publishing House also left a large sum of money to hire a professional translation team.

"The Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Department of Physics of the Imperial University have completed the English translation of "From One to Infinity". The English translation of the three-body problem has also been handed over to the Department of Physics of the Imperial University."

Han Shuang said happily.

Hearing this, Li Yi was also surprised.

When did the Department of Physics of Imperial University switch to English translation? Isn’t this a matter of the School of Foreign Languages?
It is understandable to translate a professional popular science book like "From One to Infinity", but "The Three-Body Problem" is just a hard science fiction novel, and it has nothing to do with academics. The Department of Physics of the Imperial University will help with the translation , this was beyond Li Yi's expectation.

As if aware of Li Yi's astonishment, Han Shuang continued: "The publication and translation of hard science fiction literature like "The Three-Body Problem" is not very easy, so we asked the Department of Physics of the Imperial University to help them translate "Three-Body Problem" by the way." "Three-Body" was also translated, and the translation fee was paid according to the market price. However, Dida did not ask for translation fees, but only asked for the name of the Department of Physics of Dida University to be signed by the English publisher of Santi."

Li Yi understood immediately.

Compared with lack of money, many colleges and universities lack money, and what they lack is fame.

As far as schools and majors are concerned, there are students who are famous, and students who have more funds will naturally have more money to buy professional equipment and invite famous teachers to teach, and then continue to increase their reputation. This is a virtuous circle. It is far more important than the five or six figure translation fees.

If the Three-Body Problem becomes popular overseas, it can be regarded as helping the Department of Physics of the Imperial University to promote it, and Li Yi also has professional popular science books such as "From One to Infinity", which is not considered a translation for laymen. What's more, Li Yi is also a master of the emperor, so it's not too fat to flow to outsiders.

After thinking about this point clearly, Li Yi also smiled, and at the same time, he also accepted the favor of the Department of Physics of Emperor University in his heart.

""From One to Infinity" gave you 20% of the royalties, what do you think? If it's not enough, we can talk about it again, but the highest royalties are 25%." Han Shuang said with a smile.

Li Yi also smiled wryly upon hearing this.

Is it really okay for you to expose your old background directly when you get old, even if I really want to bargain, I'm embarrassed.

"I'm not going to ask for the royalties of the book From One to Infinity. Sister Han, you can donate the royalties of this book for me. Or save the cost of my royalties and let the book's It’s okay to lower the price a bit.” Li Yi said with a smile.

Li Yi is currently not short of this amount of manuscript fees, so although Li Yi will not pay out of his own pocket to reduce printing costs for this popular science book, it is still possible to donate this part of the royalties, or put it in the interest of readers .

What Li Yi does, whether it is games, animation, or literature, in the final analysis is the entertainment industry, which is China's soft culture.

But behind the soft culture is China's economic strength, military strength and other hard power as support.

Without the support of these hard powers, China's soft culture is just empty talk.

Therefore, if the price of this book has been lowered by a few dollars, Huaxia has a few more aspiring young people who love physics, and it can be regarded as an indirect contribution to Huaxia's scientific research.

(End of this chapter)