Reborn as a tycoon in Hong Kong

"Brother, how much money can you make from your novel this time?"

In the evening, my sister Lin Qin asked Lin Baicheng curiously.

"Can I earn tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars?"

Hearing this topic, my sister Lin Shufang couldn't help but ask.

"It must be more than that."

Regarding his family, Lin Baicheng was not prepared to hide anything: "As you know, I get shares, so the better the newspaper, the more valuable my shares will be. The day before yesterday, I also wanted to know how much money I could make, so I I consulted Editor-in-Chief Hu.”

"The daily circulation of the newspaper at that time was about 33,000 copies. Every day just selling newspapers could earn thousands of Hong Kong dollars, which was about 30,000 to 40,000 Hong Kong dollars a month, and more than 300,000 Hong Kong dollars a year."

"This does not include the bulk of the advertising revenue. In the past, because of the poor sales of the newspaper, the advertising revenue was not much. Starting from May, new advertising will be replaced. Then the revenue will be more, at least every month. It’s about 50,000 Hong Kong dollars.”

"Although employee wages, taxes, etc. are all deducted, after seven or eight deductions, you can still earn 6 to 7 million Hong Kong dollars a year. And I hold 25% of the shares, which is about a hundred thousand Hong Kong dollars."

"This is still the amount of money that can be earned in one year from the current issuance. If we look at the value of the shares alone, it will be several times higher than the hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars, and it is definitely possible to reach millions of Hong Kong dollars."

The newspaper offices in Xiangjiang can really be said to be dying of drought and dying of waterlogging.

For example, the three major newspapers have a market value of at least tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars, and their annual net profits are more than one million Hong Kong dollars, sometimes even more. And like Star Daily a month ago, it couldn't even break even and was losing money every day.

In the newspaper industry, the greater the circulation, the more money you can make not only by selling newspapers, but also the advertising fees on the big pages. In addition, the income is stable, so a stable large newspaper will be more valuable.

"So many!"

The whole family was shocked. They knew that Lin Baicheng would make a lot of money this time, but they didn't expect to make so much. They thought it was only tens of thousands of Hong Kong dollars.

"Writing novels is so profitable, I will write novels in the future."

Lin Qin was very envious and said that her academic performance was very good. When she heard that writing novels was so profitable, she couldn't help but think about studying Chinese-related majors after graduating from Form 5. Then I also learned to write novels and make a lot of money.

"What are you thinking about? How can you make so much money writing novels?"

Lin Baicheng said speechlessly: "This time I happened to encounter Star Daily, which was about to go bankrupt, and Editor-in-Chief Hu was willing to take a gamble, so I was able to obtain so many shares and make a fortune after reviving the newspaper. What if this time If the newspaper company is not saved, the most I can earn is more than 10,000 Hong Kong dollars, and even less is not impossible."

"A normal new writer's fee for a thousand words is about 25 Hong Kong dollars, and one million words is just over 20,000 Hong Kong dollars. Taking the novel I'm writing now as an example, the content is less than 2 million words, and less than 50,000. income in Hong Kong dollars.”

"Fifty thousand Hong Kong dollars is a lot."

Lin's mother, Zhao Huilan, heard this and said: "Your father, your sister, I, and I can only make so much in a year. It's a good thing that we own the store, otherwise we wouldn't be able to make so much."

Lin Haishan also said: "No, you don't know how tired we are this year."

"Little brother."

Lin Shufang said to Lin Baicheng: "You are more capable than my sister. Since you can eat this bowl of rice, then you can specialize in writing novels in the future. Maybe our family will produce a great writer like Mr. Cha in the future."

"I don't dare to compare with that person, Master Jin."

Lin Baicheng immediately shook his head. He still knew how many pounds he had. More importantly, he is not going to regard writing novels as his career. He is just doing it to get the first pot of gold, and then he will do other things instead of writing novels all day long.

Of course, Lin Baicheng is not ready to tell his family about this at the moment. He will wait until his next career has made progress before telling his family so as not to worry them.

The next day, Lin Baicheng was writing a novel at home when Hu Zhiwen called.

During the phone call, Hu Zhiwen told Lin Baicheng that someone from a book publishing company went to Star Daily to ask for the contact information of the author of the novel "Wind and Cloud Dominates the World" and wanted to talk to Lin Baicheng about the publication of the novel. Hu Zhiwen had already given his home phone number. I know the other party, now call him and talk about it.

Lin Baicheng expressed his gratitude on the phone, chatted with Hu Zhiwen for a few more words and then hung up the phone.

Although Lin Baicheng was a little confused as to why someone was approaching him about publishing novels now, he would naturally know everything after the other party contacted him.

More than half an hour later, a person who claimed to be an employee of Haohan Publishing Company called and said that he wanted to meet Lin Baicheng to talk about the publication of the novel.

Lin Baicheng did not refuse, and the two made an appointment to have tea together in the afternoon and talk later.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Baicheng asked the typist to go back today while he went out to the agreed meeting place.

The employee of Haohan Publishing House is a middle-aged man in his thirties who calls himself Xie Yunshan. He is responsible for contacting writers and signing contracts at the publishing house.

"Thank you, sir."

After being polite, Lin Baicheng asked his doubts: "Since you took the initiative to contact me, I think you should know that my novel was serialized not long ago. It took less than a month to serialize hundreds of thousands of words. And my novel The entire novel has nearly two million words and will be serialized for about a year."

"Lin Sheng, this does not prevent our publishing house from publishing your novel."

Xie Yunshan said immediately: "Generally speaking, the length of published long novels is usually 100,000 words. In other words, as long as the number of serialized words in the novel exceeds 100,000 words, the first book can be published."

"Lin Sheng, your novel is very popular in Hong Kong now, and it seems to be more popular, so our publishing house is willing to take some risks and publish your novel now. No matter how good the quality of your novel is in the future, after signing the contract , we will not seek compensation from you."

Lin Baicheng nodded and asked: "But there are only 100,000 words, and we can only publish the first book. What if someone buys the book and likes it very much and wants to read the rest of it immediately?"

"While the novel is still being serialized, if this happens, we will recommend them to buy a newspaper that is still being serialized by Star Daily. This is not the first time we have done this, and readers will not mind." Xie Yunshan said Sound explanation.

"Okay, how much are you willing to pay for my publishing rights?"

After hearing this, Lin Baicheng didn't say anything more and directly asked about the publishing fee. This was the most important point.

If the publishing fee is too small, that is absolutely not possible. Lin Baicheng still wants to make a fortune from various copyrights.

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