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Chapter 011: Deviating from the Orthodoxy

Shi Yuxuan is an assistant editor in Team [-] of the editorial department of TusChinese.com. He is usually responsible for reading and reviewing new articles, and then grading new articles.According to the internal regulations of TusChinese.com, each new article has three chances to be pushed to the assistant editor for review.They are when a new article is published, when it reaches [-] characters, and when it reaches [-] characters.The assistant editor will classify the articles pushed by the system into three grades: "sign immediately", "continue to follow up" and "not suitable for signing".

When the assistant editor checks "Sign up now", this article will be pushed to the editor directly under the assistant editor, who decides whether to sign the contract now; if you check "Continue to follow up", then this article will be pushed next time When the article is published, the system will add red and bold to the title, so that the assistant editor can review it first; and if "not suitable for signing" is checked, then this article will not get the chance to be pushed next time.

Generally speaking, except for the kind of particularly bad novels, the general assistant editors will carefully choose "not suitable for signing", at least not when they are just published.But this time when Shi Yuxuan saw "Looking for Qin Ji" pushed by the system, his brows were tightly frowned.

"What bullshit article?" Shi Yuxuan scolded in a low voice, "Since you want to write about time travel, you should go to the science fiction channel, what are you doing on our martial arts channel? It's too funny to travel to the Qin Dynasty to fight for justice. ? You thought you were Mr. Ying Xiong!"

Shi Yuxuan thought for a while, and very bluntly rated this article as "not suitable for signing".

It's a pity that Sun Ping didn't know that his "Looking for Qin Ji" had been sentenced to death by the editor of Qidi.com, and he was still updating two articles every day.Although Sun Ping was also surprised why no editor had come to sign the contract, he still had two regular updates every day.Fortunately, as long as the author works hard to update, he can still attract the attention of some readers.

"It's science fiction and martial arts, interesting!"

"Modern people acted chivalrously and righteously in the Qin Dynasty? Wouldn't this change history?"

"Why didn't modern people with foresight go to ancient times and change history?"

Some discussions about the article started appearing in the comments section.The vast majority of readers said that the author's update has been regarded as the conscience of the industry, and at the same time expressed interest in the theme of "modern people travel through historical time and space".This kind of discussion not only appeared in the exchange area of ​​TuShuawen.com, but was also brought up in the "Shenyu" forum.It's a pity that the theme of "Looking for the Qin Dynasty" is too powerful. Some people think it is an update of the theme, but more people think it is deviant.Many keyboard warriors of conspiracy theories have wondered whether the author is deliberately deviant to attract readers to read, while those who love it ironically say that the foxes who can't eat grapes say that grapes are sour.

However, the controversy in God's Domain also brought many readers to Sun Ping. Everyone saw the updates that were updated twice a day, and they all kept them in their collections, waiting to be fattened.When "Looking for the Qin" reached [-] words, the book also honorably topped both the newcomer list and the new essay list on the homepage of Tus.com.But even so, Sun Ping has not received the signing text message from the Qidi editorial department, which makes Sun Ping feel a little puzzled.

At the same time, some readers have already opened a reader group for Sun Ping.Sun Ping went in and saw that there were about five hundred people. From this, he knew how many readers his "Looking for Qin Ji" had.Although Sun Ping didn't care about signing the contract, other websites have begun to notice such a work.Tus.com has too many excellent works, so it is forgiven to have one or two rare gems occasionally.But for other websites, the legacy of Tus.com is very likely to be a god on their website.

This time, it happened that "Zhao Zhuo Qihua", the editor of the century, paid attention to "Looking for Qin Ji". Although Zhuo Zhuo Qihua is a female editor, she still saw the appeal of this book to male readers.As a man, he will be a boy full of fantasy until his death, always wanting to change the world.Obviously, Xiang Shaolong, the leading actor in "Looking for the Qin Dynasty", gave men such a possibility to realize their wishes.At the same time, the female characters in "Looking for Qin Ji" are also very plump, and the author does not treat these female characters as pure male vassals.Although the male protagonist is entangled with these female characters, he is still "in heat but not polite".After thinking about it, Zhuo Zhuo Qihua also joined the reader group of "Looking for Qin Ji", and found Sun Ping smoothly.

"Excuse me, is this Wubai from the Central Plains, fifth brother?" Zhuo Zhuo Qihua asked tentatively.Because people in this time and space don't know what the five whites of the Central Plains are, they think that Sun Ping is the fifth eldest at home, so Sun Ping also has the nickname Wuge among the readers.

"Huh? What's the matter?" Sun Ping happened to be checking the prices of flowers and trees on the computer, so he saw this message.

"Hi, I'm Zhuozhuoqihua, the editor of Shiji. What I want to ask is, have you signed a contract with Qidi.com?"

Seeing this sentence, Sun Ping suddenly felt like flowers blooming inside the wall and fragrant outside the wall.In Aurora, Qidi.com and Jingjing.com are the two top ranking websites, accounting for almost [-]% of the traffic on the Aurora website.Fortunately, Qidi.com and Realm.com have different readerships, so not only did the two websites not conflict, but they also formed a literary alliance and shared channels.Qidi.com mainly focuses on martial arts and science fiction, and the main readers are male; while Jingjing.com mainly focuses on romance and campus novels, and is also the main site for domestic BL novels, so the main readers are female.

The third-ranked Century is a site invested by Century Culture Communication Group. Their Century Publishing House and Century Newspaper Syndicate are very famous companies, so they plan to enter the online novel market.It's a pity that it entered the stage too late. Although Century Culture Publishing Group burned a lot of money, its influence is still not as good as Enlightenment and Realm.In order to improve the strength of the website, Century actually encourages its editors to dig out some leftover gems from competing websites, so that they can improve themselves while weakening the strength of the other side.

"I have pre-signed with them, and you know, they have to check some authorizations to publish their works." Sun Ping replied.

"It doesn't matter. According to the "Internet Literary Copyright Management Method", all electronic contracts or pre-contracts are not legally binding before the contract is signed." Zhuo Zhuo Qihua comforted Sun Ping, "So should I It is understandable that all the copyrights of "Looking for the Qin Dynasty" are still in your hands? So, would Mr. Zhongyuan Wubai be willing to change places?"

When Sun Ping saw this sentence, the corners of his mouth immediately turned up, and the meat finally came. "Of course I don't mind changing places to publish my works, but I want to know what kind of treatment Shiji can give me? After all, we also know that the traffic of Qidi.com is almost twice that of Shiji.com, even if I can't sign a contract here in the end. , the accumulated popularity is also very good.”

"Of course, in order to show our sincerity, we are willing to sign a first-class buyout agreement with you. At the same time, we will give priority to internal signing of your future works and appropriately increase the share ratio. How about it?" Zhuozhuoqihua certainly knew that he would not give anything dry. If so, people like Zhongyuan Wubai may not be interested in quitting. "Our first-class buyout agreement means that the buyout price of your work will be 60 yuan to 80 yuan per thousand words. The specific needs to be determined by the editor-in-chief. This buyout agreement is only available on the WEB, WAP and APP sides of this site. Execution; we will divide the income from other channels on a [-]-[-] basis, of course, the income from other channels is to exclude the cost of the channel; as for other income such as rewards and monthly tickets, we will implement according to the general author's share."

"It means that after I sign the contract, the subscription income has nothing to do with me?" Sun Ping asked.

"That's not what it means. If your final subscription income is higher than our buyout price, we will execute the contract based on the subscription income." Zhuo Zhihua said, "But this kind of thing rarely happens, you know, even now The 100-word income of the Platinum Masters of Qidi.com is between 150 yuan and [-] yuan. Their main income comes from copyright adaptation and other channels. We will also expand these channels for you, but you are still a newcomer after all, I hope you I can understand."

Although Sun Ping knew how popular Huang Yi's book was on Earth, it was after all a water blue planet.He thought for a while, "I agree to sign a contract with Century, but I only sign the book and not the person. At the same time, I reserve all rights to the entity and film and game adaptations."

"I understand, I will communicate with the editor-in-chief." Zhuo Zhuo Qihua smiled wryly.In fact, according to the unspoken rules of the Internet, buying out the contract is equivalent to buying out the global copyright, but Sun Ping asked for special treatment. I don't know what his editor-in-chief will think.

The editor-in-chief of Century is named Hou Shengye. He was originally the manager of the copyright operation department of Tus.com, and he has always been known in the industry for his discerning eyes.Because he didn't agree with the current editor-in-chief of Tus.com, and because of the recruitment of Century Culture Publishing Group, he jumped ship to form Century.Although Shiji is considered well-known at the moment, he is far from meeting the expectations of the head office, which has caused him to be criticized on the board of directors of the group. If it weren't for the insistence of the chairman and president, he might have resigned a long time ago.However, if there is no further achievement, I am afraid that the chairman and president will not have much patience.

And when Hou Shengye was checking his work email, he saw the scorching letter.In Hou Shengye's heart, although Zhuo Zhuo Qihua is a rare female senior editor in the company, his vision has always been vicious, and even he himself intends to promote her to the top.Seeing her recommending a work so formally, Hou Shengye clicked in.Unlike ordinary editors who pay attention to plot and writing, what he looks at is the dissemination of this work.After reading a few chapters, Hou Shengye discovered the uniqueness of this work.For example, modern people return to the known historical era; another example is the theme of multiple women falling in love with a man... I have to say that these themes are easy to make male readers feel good.

Hou Shengye lit a cigarette and said with a dark smile, the eyesight of the review editors on Qidi.com really got worse and worse.He replied Zhuo Zhihua, "His request can be agreed to him, but he must guarantee to write at least five books on our website. The treatment of each book can be signed separately, but he must promise this amount. I don't want to pay for it. Others make wedding dresses, making one author popular but making other websites cheaper.”

After Zhuo Zhuo Qi Hua got the authorization from the editor-in-chief, he started talking with Sun Ping.As for the additional condition that Shiji.com required him to write at least five works, Sun Ping agreed after pondering for a moment.Anyway, the treatment of the five works is discussed separately, so Sun Ping didn't have much to lose.In order to avoid having long nights and dreams, Zhuo Zhuo Qihua delivered the contract by courier on the same day, and reminded Sun Ping to remember to register his pen name on Shiji.com.

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