Xueba Fengyun

If the country wants to select the best new publishing house, then the Youth Club is the undoubted champion; even if it is to select the best publishing house in the country, there is no objection to the Youth Club being included in the top ten.

However, most of the achievements of the Shonen Club come from the manga department. "Sunday" and "Dream over Flowers" have already monopolized the juvenile manga and girl manga market; After gaining a firm foothold in the youth comics and lady comics market, it began to erode the market share of other comic agencies.In particular, the Manga Channel of Shonen Club also has regular cooperative animation production companies and peripheral promotion companies, so the income of manga authors of Boys Club is basically 50% higher than that of the industry.

Now the four major comic magazines are already weekly magazines, and the magazine has changed from 32 to 16, and the number of pages has also increased from more than 20 pages to more than 25 pages, which cannot meet the needs of authors.Especially "Sunday", which is known as the world's first comic book, has regularly published [-] (now expanded to [-]) works since its inception, and determines the ownership of the weekly cover and the order of the works based on the ranking every week.If it ranks at the bottom of the list for three consecutive weeks, the work will be ruthlessly cut in half.Therefore, "Sunday" has also been complained by industry authors as "Sura Arena", but even so, there is nothing the author can think of.

If those manga works that cannot be serialized are considered good enough by the editor, they may also be released as experimental works by Boys Club to test the market response. If the effect is good, they will naturally continue to publish the single volume.Although this kind of pure book works are not as popular as serial works, but because people don't have too much pressure to serialize, sometimes good works can appear instead.

The success of the Manga Department of the Boys' Club has led to enormous pressure on the Magazine and Publishing Departments of the Boys' Club, especially since the president, Zhang Meiqing, is a supporter of the Magazine and Publishing Departments.But to this day, although the sales volume of the three magazines in the magazine department is also the leader in the youth literature and youth literature and art magazines, the actual sales volume is only a fraction of the "Dream over Flowers" among the four major comic weekly magazines.

Moreover, there are a lot of excellent writers under the four major comic magazines. The author's annual meeting at the end of each year is already a grand event in the animation industry.Even some starlets and young models are aiming at the direction of gaining fame at the author of the comics. Qi Shi, the author of the No.1 domestic comic "Assassin's Biography", just because of watching a movie with the young model Yu Jingya made this almost The young model who no one cared about suddenly became a celebrity with constant advertising contracts.

But looking at the combined celebrity authors in the publishing department and the magazine department, maybe Liu Miao is considered a celebrity, and the other two double-walled authors of the youth club, Mario and Chen Cheng, can each be considered half a celebrity.So Zhang Meiqing is very dissatisfied with the current juvenile club, especially the split sentiment in the manga department.Thinking about it, if the manga department became an independent juvenile manga club, everyone's bonuses would not have to be shared equally with the publishing department and the magazine department.

Therefore, Zhang Meiqing is very eager to introduce other best-selling authors, and Gu Chongguang and Quan Xuenai are undoubtedly the best list.In terms of popularity among young writers, Gu Chongguang is far superior to Liu Miao, especially Gu Chongguang has an excellent vision. Several authors under the Sogo Studio have been cultivated and can already support an article.And Quan Xuenai is the eternal queen of the female market, and Quan Xuenai covers a wide range of subjects. She can write novels, essays, and travel notes, and she can even collaborate with musicians across borders. .

What is important is that the main reader groups of Quan Xuenai, Liu Miao and Gu Chongguang do not overlap with each other. Quan Xuenai focuses on the white-collar men and young mature women market, targeting male and female readers over 25 years old; Miao and Gu Chongguang are mainly aimed at young men and women aged 14 to 25. Among them, Liu Miao has recently switched to writing martial arts, science fiction and fantasy, which has won him the love of male readers; while Gu Chongguang sticks to the theme of campus love and youth growth, Let him be worthy of the title of "the most beloved author of Chinese girls".

"Both Quan Xuenai and Gu Chongguang said that they each have a novel in the works. Once we sign the contract, the new novel can be serialized in "Flower Season Rainy Season" and "Youth". In particular, Gu Chongguang said that his novel is three The trilogy can be serialized for at least three to five years." Zhang Meiqing analyzed, "Of course, I value the new generation of authors from Sogo Studio more, they can support the second-tier market of our magazine and publishing house. Gu Chongguang's queen You also know the level of the photography agency Hasa. Didn’t you always want to cooperate with him? And his literary director Yingluo, not to mention her management ability, but her own creative ability is also among the first-line authors in China. Let’s talk The books of people like Leslie, Isabel, Xiao Feng, Mo Mo, and A Zhuo in Sogo Studio are even praised by you. So, I very much hope this cooperation."

Liu Miao closed her eyes and thought about Zhang Meiqing's proposal. In fact, Liu Miao's positioning of the Youth Club is somewhat similar to her positioning of Penguin Literature, which is her future copyright library.

"There is nothing wrong with signing contracts with Gu Chongguang and Izumi Xuenai. The Youth Club really needs to be reformed." Liu Miao basically agreed with Zhang Meiqing's statement, "But the cooperation method must be in accordance with my regulations. First of all, the current Youth Club is reorganized into a Youth Club holding company. In the company, the shares are still divided between you and me at six or four points. Isn’t that a problem? Now the Boys’ Club is split into two parts, the literary part is formed into the Boys’ Club Literature Publishing Company; the comics part is formed into the Boys’ Club Comics Publishing Company. The publishing company is still a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Boys' Club Holdings Company, but the Boys' Club Literature Publishing Company can sell up to 40% of the shares to Gu Chongguang and Quan Xuenai. You can estimate for yourself how much shares you can give them. Take out the rest 9% of the shares are used as option incentives within the Youth Society Literature Publishing Company to ensure that the current old editors and old authors will not be lost."

"There's no problem with that." Zhang Meiqing also knew that once the Manga Department of Boys' Club formed a separate company, the Literature Department and the Publishing Department would be in turmoil. Appropriate option incentives would be enough to appease senior editors and authors. "If I didn't miscalculate, you should suggest that I give up the actual management positions of the two subsidiaries? Otherwise, many people will not be easy to arrange."

"Yes." Liu Miao did not hide her thoughts, "You retain the status of the president of the holding company and the publisher of the publications of the two subsidiaries. Gu Chongguang can arrange for him to become the CEO and editor-in-chief of the literature company and the editor-in-chief of "Flower Season and Rainy Season" Izumi Xuenai is the creative director and editor-in-chief of "Youth"; Hasa is the art director and chief photographer; Yingluo is the executive editor-in-chief and editor-in-chief of "Youth". The manga department should all employ old people, after all, they have no equity for the time being. Motivation, then promote the next position."

Zhang Meiqing nodded, expressing her approval of Liu Miao's decision.Now Zhang Meiqing is more often a qualified company decision-maker, and is no longer the patient with the late stage of Secondary Disease and Princess Disease.Although Zhang Meiqing would sometimes cosplay a pink princess to entertain his subordinates, it was just a performance at the annual meeting.After all, the subordinates at the annual meeting are still very happy to see the bosses "make a fool of themselves". Even a handsome guy like Liu Miao was caught by Zhang Meiqing to pretend to be a girl idol at a certain annual meeting.

But that time Liu Miao got so playful that he specially copied the twins' "No Tears in Moscow".As a result, the chorus performance of the two bosses won unanimous praise from the editors and authors in the audience. Unfortunately, there is only a cover station and no video station at this time, so a certain author of a good thing will sing the live version of "No Tears in Moscow" by Liu Miao and Zhang Meiqing. Shared to a well-known cover site.As a result, Liu Miao and Zhang Meiqing became very popular on the Internet. In the end, the right to sing this song was taken away by Liu Mama's Star Disc Records.

The two giants of the Boys Club separated after discussing the matter in the box of a French restaurant. Liu Miao continued to prepare his model, while Zhang Meiqing began to implement the plan set by the two.Gu Chongguang was very friendly to Liu Miao's goodwill, saying that he would try his best to bring all the contracted authors of Sogo Studio.Although neither party has officially announced yet, a major change is brewing under the seemingly peaceful youth literature publishing market.

The one-model exam in Tanzhou No. [-] Middle School was held as scheduled, and the exam at the branch school was also held on the same day.According to the school's notice, this will be the last test involving student migration.Therefore, for the students of the school headquarters, as long as they keep their identities in this exam, they can finally take the college entrance examination as graduates of Tanzhou No. [-] Middle School; and for the students of the branch, this is also the last An opportunity to hit the headquarters, so all the students are gearing up to prepare for the exam.

The school board and school management are very satisfied with this learning atmosphere, and said they will promote this experience.At that time, only the experimental class, gifted class and ordinary class will be kept in the school headquarters. In addition to the Tanzhou branch school, one branch school will be added in Jianning and Liancheng respectively. , gifted and regular classes will also allow transfers.However, the school tentatively decides to use the final exam results of each semester as a reference for the transfer, and the third year of senior high school will add another exam and a model test result.After this plan was announced, Liu Miao suddenly felt that the school was playing akb48 to develop a game.If this goes on for a long time, the branch school will be completely ruined.

But these things have nothing to do with Liu Miao. While being caught by his elder brother Liu Yan to review carefully, Liu Miao is also setting an example to watch Tan Yaohua reviewing.Yimo successfully passed the exam in one weekend, and the next round was still the third round of review.Due to time constraints, previous holidays after exams have been cancelled.

However, when everyone was preparing for the third round of review, those students who applied to overseas prestigious schools also received their notification letters one after another.Zhang Yao successfully got the admission notice from Stanford University, and Long Yuan also got the admission notice from Mount Holyoke Women's College for Political Science. In addition, Liang Tian, ​​who has always been obsessed with Two-dimensional, got the admission notice from the University of California, Berkeley. Admission notification.On the side of the science experiment class, as many as ten people have received admission notices from prestigious overseas schools, which makes the liberal arts class a bit interesting.

Originally, Liu Miao would persist until the end of the semester because of Long Yuan and Zhang Yao, but he did not expect the two of them to apply for home study immediately after receiving the admission letter, and the school naturally agreed with half push and half.The early departure of Zhang Yao and Long Yuan made Liu Miao and other students in the liberal arts class feel that it was a bit too much. After all, Liu Miao had obtained the independent enrollment qualification of Jingshi University earlier and was still insisting. The sudden departure of these two is a bit too much up.However, Liu Miao didn't say anything publicly, but temporarily adjusted the off-duty committee to avoid insufficient class staff.

Although dissatisfied, Liu Miao still sent a congratulatory text message to Long Yuan and Zhang Yao, "Mo Chou has no confidant in the future, and everyone in the world does not know the king."