Reborn as a tycoon in Hong Kong

Three days after signing the contract.

Lin Baicheng came to Star Daily again, and Hu Zhiwen gave him a newspaper.

"This is the first issue of the newspaper we are preparing to publish. Please see if there are any problems."

Lin Baicheng took it and looked at it. The main page of the novel was printed with the six characters "Wind and Cloud Dominate the World", and below were some theme introductions and well-known hot news.

That's right, the name of the novel is not "Wind and Cloud", but "Wind and Cloud Dominate the World".

The two sides of the first page are the content of the novel. There is actually a standard for the page size of newspapers, which is generally the area of ​​A3 paper. If it is a normal font, one page can generally contain about 2,000 words. However, for commercial interests, there are many in between. The space is taken up by advertising.

Because this is the first chapter of a new novel, the first chapter has as many words as possible. The last three pages are all about the novel except for advertisements, and the total number of words in the series is nearly 10,000.

Lin Baicheng browsed it briefly and found that many places in the novel had been changed. The plot has not been changed, some simplified characters have been changed to traditional characters, and some specific descriptions have been written better.

Lin Baicheng originally couldn't write traditional Chinese characters, but after receiving the memory of his predecessor, he could write it. However, when writing novels, out of habit, he would write some words in simplified Chinese. This is a matter of habit.

Hu Zhiwen said aloud: "Lin Sheng, I have made some polishes to the novel in the past two days. I hope you don't mind. After all, we all hope that the novel will be popular. This will be good for both of us."

"Editor Hu, you did a good job in revising it, why should I mind."

Lin Baicheng smiled indifferently. He was not a professional writer and would not let anyone modify a single word.

"As long as you don't mind."

Hu Zhiwen was a little worried before. After all, in his view, novels are the children of writers, and most writers do not allow others to modify their novels. Even if they are really asked to make changes by the newspaper, they will make the changes themselves and will not let others write or allow others to write.

"Editor-in-Chief Hu, you are professional in newspaper distribution. If you think there is no problem, then publish it this way."

Lin Baicheng handed the newspaper back. He was a novice in this area, so he would definitely not give random opinions.

"Okay, then we'll release it like this tomorrow."

Hu Zhiwen nodded and said with worry and expectation: "Tomorrow is the first day of serializing the novel. I hope I can get good results."

"I hope so."

Lin Baicheng couldn't guarantee that the novel would be a hit. After all, it was adapted from the TV version of "The Storm" in his previous life, and there were many adaptations.

Different from the TV series, the beginning of the TV series directly shows that the Tianxiahui founded by Xiongba has become the largest gang in the world and is asking the Clay Bodhisattva to tell his fortune.

In the novel adapted by Lin Baicheng, tens of thousands of words were used to describe Xiongba from the murder of his master to the establishment of the Tianxiahui. This was mainly to describe the hero Xiongba and make the character's image more fleshed out.

After thinking for a while, Lin Baicheng asked: "Editor-in-Chief Hu, how is the distribution of newspapers usually done? Directly to the newsstand?"

"Roughly the same."

Hu Zhiwen nodded: "But not all newsstands want our newspapers. After all, we are just a tabloid and our business scope is limited."

Lin Baicheng asked: "After the newspaper is delivered to the newsstand, how to sell it depends on the newsstand owner?"

"Of course."

Hu Zhiwen nodded and said.

"What do you think, Chief Editor Hu?"

Upon seeing this, Lin Baicheng said: "Let's negotiate with the newsstand owners and let them help recommend our newspapers. For every newspaper sold, we will refund 50% of the purchase price to them. In other words, they only need half the price. Got the goods from us.”

"How can this be done?"

Hu Zhiwen immediately shook his head after hearing this: "Lin Sheng, if we do this, our losses will be too great. Originally, we were not sure whether the novel could save the newspaper. If we do this but cannot save the newspaper, then our newspaper will eventually be sold. Not much money left.”

“Editor-in-chief Hu, since it’s a bet, why not bet bigger?”

Lin Baicheng said with a serious face: "The reason why we do this is to expand the influence of the novel as soon as possible and let more people see the novel. Moreover, we don't do it every day. We do it for three days or five days." God, even if there is a loss, I believe it won’t be too big.”

"After all, to put it bluntly, the daily circulation of our newspaper is less than 2,000 copies every day. Even if the newsstand owner helps recommend it, it won't improve much. Even if we want to thank some money, it won't work. What do you think?"

"Let me think about this."

Hu Zhiwen couldn't help but feel a little shaken after hearing this, and felt that Lin Baicheng's words were not unreasonable.

Seeing this, Lin Baicheng did not bother him. After all, the person who made the decision in the newspaper office was Hu Zhiwen. If Hu Zhiwen really disagrees, no matter how much he says, it will be useless.

"Okay, I'll do what you said, Lin Sheng."

After a while, Hu Zhiwen clapped his hands and made a decision, agreeing to spend more money on the gamble.

…

March 28, 1977.

In addition to a few hot news and advertisements, the newspaper issued by Star Daily on that day contained the nearly 10,000-word first chapter of the novel "Wind and Cloud Dominates the World".

Yesterday afternoon, Hu Zhiwen had reached an agreement with the newspaper kiosk owner he cooperated with to provide cash rebates on newspaper sales in the next five days. Every time a newspaper is sold, half of the purchase price will be refunded, allowing the newsstand owner to earn more.

When newsstand owners heard about such a good thing, of course they would not refuse it. Anyway, all they wanted to do was to recommend Star Daily to customers when they came to buy newspapers, and they were not asking them to break the law.

Therefore, this morning, Star Daily was highly recommended by the newsstand owner. He said that a new martial arts novel was serialized in the newspaper, which really attracted many people to buy it.

In Hong Kong of this era, because of Jin Yong's martial arts novels, many people had the habit of reading serialized novels through newspapers, so newspapers serializing new books really attracted a lot of people.

Lin Baicheng also came to Xingxing Daily early this morning, wanting to know how the newspaper sales were today.

In Hu Zhiwen's office, Lin Baicheng and Hu Zhiwen were drinking tea absentmindedly, both thinking about today's newspaper sales.

Today is the first day of serialization of the novel, and half of the purchase price was given back to the newsstand owner, so the circulation of the newspaper must be higher today than before. It can even be said that if not all the 3,000 newspapers printed today were sold, then the results would be somewhat unqualified.

That's right, Star Daily printed 3,000 copies of the newspaper today, a circulation that can maintain capital without counting cash rebates.

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