Gossip King

Starlight Group is going to enter the children's book market. The news spread throughout the paper media industry before the conference was over. Not only children's books, but several other fields were also very concerned.

While Auli quickly joined the Starlight Group, Li Ze and others also entered the Starlight, a children's book magazine gathered the country's top painters and fairy tale writers, this can only be described as shock for the children's book industry.

"Although there are hundreds of children's magazines in China, none of the artists of these hundreds of magazines add up to a beautiful gold content, and I don't know how much they cost."

"Fairy tale writers are also great. Li Ze and the others have gone. I heard that Star Group is still recruiting writers for children's books and spend so much money to make a magazine. Isn't this magazine going to sell for a high price?"

"Domestic children's magazines selling sky-high prices...sounds like..."

There are discussions and ridicules in the industry, but they are all small-scale smiles. At a crowded dinner party, I will not say much. After all, the current high-cold strength will make people a little jealous.

In terms of news, Gao Leng did not promote it. It seemed that everything was quiet after the meeting. With the issue number, everything is functioning normally.

Auli came to Gao Leng's office for final employment negotiations, discussing salary, position, and magazine trends.

"Children’s publications, I think it’s more appropriate to issue one month in the first period. Although we have a lot of authors, the early period needs to be run-in and the creative cycle is guaranteed." Wa Li handed the information to Gao Leng, which wrote some of her ideas for children’s magazine .

Gao Leng turned over.

"Page 28-32, very thin."

"The age group positioning of the publication is 3 to 5 years old. For children of this age, this thickness is more appropriate."

"Imported excellent books, each issue has a short story, a long story, and a long story serialization. We have only one story written by ourselves."

"Import excellent stories, one short story for one issue, the price can be kept a little lower, and the manuscript fee is enough. A long story is serialized so that the child reads this month and wants to know what will happen next, so he needs to buy the next issue. As for why we have only one story written by ourselves, it’s because since we are going to be a masterpiece, then a story I paint requires at least three people to cooperate, and a story can be as small as a dozen pictures, and it takes a month."

Wa Li is an expert in this field. She has thought about many details that Gao Leng hadn't thought of.

Including the type of paper, except that the cover is made of matte coated paper, the paper inside is light paper with low gloss and will not hurt the eyes.

"Although this kind of paper does not look high-end, it actually protects children's eyes. Three-year-old children should not look too bright and have more colors, but they should not be too bright. Otherwise, the colors will become fatigued. Aesthetics has an impact, but ours won't." Wo Li explained.

Those “boutique magazines” that look beautiful outside are the dirtiest.

Children’s eyes are different, and what they really need is different, and only experts know this.

"Children's publications should be done by experts like you. Anyone can do it now, what good magazines can they produce?" Gao Leng nodded in recognition: "You are the editor-in-chief, you have the final say."

Wali smiled embarrassedly when she was praised: "I thought about the name of our children’s magazine. What do you think of Empire Doll? I know that many children’s magazines now write about champion babies, science babies, and art. Names like babies are so easy to sell. But I think since what we want to do is the best children’s magazine in our empire, it’s called Empire Dolls."

"Empire doll..." Gao Leng nodded, "Okay."

Wu Li didn't expect Gao Leng to agree so quickly, but she didn't react for a long time.

"How to make children's publications, how many pages, and what columns are there? You and your team are experts in this area. You have the final say. Let's talk about your salary and position." Gao Leng handed over a contract.

"An annual salary of three million?!" Wa Li raised her head in disbelief, "So much?!"

Although Auli is a top artist in children's magazines in the empire, it is embarrassing to say that her annual manuscript fee income is not high, and even her income is far less than those of online comic novelists.

She draws a cartoon of a children’s fairy tale. Sometimes it takes a month to draw, and it’s common to draw more than ten days. The cost of the manuscript can be up to several thousand yuan. A few thousand dollars is not enough to live, so top children's cartoonists like her will draw excellent works, such as Andersen's fairy tales. However, she did not make the best products. With so many stories from Andersen's fairy tales, she had to paint for ten years to complete.

And those small workshops can be completed in one month, just use the computer to paint casually.

"What's the mess in this painting?! When reading the storybook, I look at the accompanying pictures to improve the children's artistic appreciation. This kind of painting has no sense of beauty at all, how can it be done?!" The mess of Andersen's fairy tale books are everywhere on the market, and every time he gets angry.

We all say that there are artists from France. That's because there are art exhibitions everywhere in France. Every week there are many artists exhibiting their works. What children see is real works of art. Children's books are the first window for children to see art, and our children's books, especially public children's books, are 90% garbage.

And this 90% of **** makes the economy of a top children's story illustrator like Auli, not to mention getting into trouble, at least not getting the respect it deserves.

"The editor-in-chief of the best children's publication in the empire, with an annual salary of three million is not too much." Gao sneered: "You can continue to create your Andersen story series illustrations, you can do it in the company, and I allow it."

Wa Li stroked the contract and moved her lips: "But, my salary is so high, and Li Ze's salary is also high, can this magazine make a profit?"

"Look at you, here again." Gao sneered: "I have said that you are creating creations for children. Everyone, you don't need to calculate profit. Profit is mine. It’s a layman’s consideration. All you need to do is make a good magazine."

Auli nodded with tears in her eyes: "I have lived for fifty years. I have been looking forward to it for fifty years. I hope the Empire has a good children's magazine."

"Good foreign stories, if you think that is good, you can talk about it. Our children’s magazine wants moms who don’t have the money to buy so many good imported books, so that their children only need one of our magazines. Can make the best books in the world."

"How much is the price?"

"12 yuan."

Auli's eyes widened, and she blurted out: "12 yuan, 12 yuan we...we are not profitable..."

"There is no need to consider profit." Gao sneered: "Look at you, here again."

Wa Li only shut her mouth with joy and sorrow. Hi, there is finally someone who really wants to make a good children's magazine, but the worry is how to make a profit?

...

"Brother Jia..." A somewhat flattering voice.

"Tsk." An impatient voice.

"Brother Rujia."

"Yeah." The impatient voice sounded more satisfied.

In a study room with four walls and three walls full of bookshelves and bookshelves, there is a large tea table. A 30-year-old man with a paper fan and glasses, looking like a white-faced scholar, is slowly Tasting tea, it looks elegant and extraordinary.

This is the boss of two hundred public book workshops who publish one to two thousand children's books every year: Brother Rujia.

Confucian businessman is the title given to him by Brother Jia himself. He is an elegant businessman. Therefore, in daily life, he especially likes others calling him Brother Confucianism. It sounds as if he is surnamed Confucianism, showing a refined style. . In fact, his surname was Yu, Yu Jia, and he had a nickname when he was a child. People changed his name. Yu Jia became a turtle, and the turtle became a king.

This nickname is not good.

Therefore, after making children's books, Yu Jia slowly asked people around him to call him Brother Jia, and then slowly, some people always said that he was a Confucian businessman who made children's books, so he called him Brother Rujia.

This name is good, much better than turtle.

"Star Group has run a children's magazine, and also invited Auli and the others, saying that it is to make fine books..." The younger brother beside her smiled.

"I knew it." Rujia frowned.

"Brother Rujia, I heard that Gao Leng gave Wo Li an annual salary of two to three million yuan. There are also several other famous artists. The total annual salary is eight or nine million yuan, plus some other personnel input. I heard that The other artists invited are all graduates from the Central Academy of Fine Arts, and they are all quite expensive."

Compared with five people in a workshop, who can write, draw, typeset, and publish all five people, and produce ten books a month, the scale of Gao Leng is really shocking: this is the scale of a domestic first-line publisher.

"Meng De, Ling Wuqiang..." After taking a sip of tea, Confucian businessman Jia said this, and the younger brother next to him was dumbfounded.

"What do you mean, brother."

"Fuck, it's okay." Brother Confucianist Jia gave his little brother a contemptuous look.

"Did I say something wrong?" The little brother was confused.

"No culture." Brother Jia of Confucian merchants looked at the younger brother aside with disgust as a literati. The translation said: "Meng De, Wu Qianghua, meaning, fuck, okay..."

"Yes, this is sickness. And I heard that their pricing will not be very high. Such a large group of people make a magazine, make one book a month, and sell each one for so little money. This is pure illness!" The younger brother shook his head and looked at the attitude of the senior looking at the younger generation. When he said that, he gave a thumbs up: "You are too elegant, and you use ancient Chinese to scold people. I am really stunned by the uneducated person. "The little brother gave a thumbs up.

"Read more, whether it's ancient or english." The Confucian businessman first raised his voice: "If you have a lot of knowledge, you will not be like you. I don't understand this, and I don't understand that. One is surprised and one is always at a glance. one stunned and one stunned."

It took a minute for the little brother to realize the meaning of one startled and one startled.

Thumbs up: "Oh my mother, Brother Rujia, your English is really good!"

Brother Confucian businessman first smiled faintly, very humble.

"If Mr. Gao is a children's magazine, let's do his own. He makes fine products. We walk the meter. The well water does not interfere with the river water or block my financial path. We are all friends."

"Yes, he is his magazine, and we publish our public edition books, and we are not against the river. When it comes to public edition books, who in the industry does not know that you are the most published public edition children's book in our empire? You are the big one in this regard. Brother!" The little brother slapped his **** and slapped it very smoothly: "Just the fairy tales of Andersen, we have published hundreds of copies! Different editions!"

"Biology, there are hundreds of millions of forms, and there are more than 15,000 kinds of ants alone." Brother Confucian businessman Jia said with an educational gesture: "Andersen's fairy tale is such a classic story, we want to produce 10,000 versions of it! For our empire The story business, make our Contribute."

Brother Rujia, who was dragging loose English and ancient Chinese, didn’t know. Gao Leng didn’t plan to follow him. The unannounced visit team led by Fatty has arrived on the street of his workshop. There are dozens of such shops in this street. The public children's book workshops are all his.