Chapter 132： 1 book fame

It's also fortunate that the people in the printing house kept printing up the night before, otherwise the book would be out of stock the next day.

Don't say that foreigners don't work overtime. That's all bullshit. If the money is enough, who doesn't work overtime.

Do you think foreigners are rich people? There are many poor people in foreign countries. Look at how many unemployed people on the streets of foreign countries, but their media did not report it.

What they let you see is good and make you think that foreign countries are heaven, but when you really go, you will find a fart heaven.

Xiao Zhengnan is very generous. Whether it is an employee of a publishing house, a printing house, or a clerk in a bookstore, the salary he pays is high enough to enable these people to live even in the international metropolis of New York. An adequate life.

In particular, the employees of the printing plant have not worked for three months, but their wages have not been underpaid, and there are a lot of subsidies that should be provided. Now let them work in three shifts, how could these people not do it.

Three shifts, according to Xiao Zhengnan's regulations, they can still get more money.

Foreigners are also under pressure to support their families.

In the printing factory, people stop the machine and print at full speed.

A printing factory with tens of thousands of people, three shifts of non-stop printing, can't keep up with the speed of sales.

As soon as the books here were shipped to the bookstore, they were sold out by readers who had been waiting a long time ago. This is still the case where the bookstore is limited to one book per person. If there is no restriction on the purchase, I am afraid that one person will directly buy it out.

Don't think it's impossible, there are scalpers in foreign countries.

The book of Harry Potter is so popular and the market is still out of stock. Do you think no one will be a second seller?

Foreigners are not fools, they also want to make money.

With a population of over 100 million in New York City alone, there are more than 3,000 bookstores.

With so many bookstores, only the more than one hundred publishers sell this book. Do you think the remaining bookstores will not be jealous?

They also want to buy, and they want to make money.

But the key now is that the printing plant cannot print so many books. The books printed every day can only barely be supplied to the one hundred bookstores directly under the publishing house. If you want to supply other publishing houses, you can’t do enough. .

Of course, it's not that Xiao Zhengnan can't supply it, but Xiao Zhengnan will not let it supply now.

why?

It's very simple, just for hype, just for free advertising.

Over time, the word-of-mouth of this book has fermented, and many well-known writers in New York City have commented on this book. The reason these people commented on this book is because before that, no writer would ever think of writing a magical book.

The most popular is science fiction, followed by history, and finally the literary love category. There is no magical category. When Harry Potter came out, it really created a new type. Can you say it can not be popular?

As we said before, this is a parallel world. The history and the earth have the same place, but most of them are different. The same is true for literary works. There are almost no literary works and novels, whether they are Chinese or foreign, on the earth in the past.

This is also one of the reasons for the fire of this book.

In this parallel world, especially in foreign countries, they attach great importance to various copyrights, and the laws protecting copyrights are very complete.

Harry Potter's book is so hot and so out of stock on the market, but it's stunned that there is no bookstore or printing house doing pirated printing.

Why is this happening? Because the cost of piracy is too great, if you dare to piracy, once discovered, you will be punished directly.

There should be no chance of luck. Before a perfect law, there is no chance of luck.

Word of mouth, coupled with the comments and likes of those famous writers, as well as TV stations and news media reports, Harry Potter's book is a complete fire in the United States.

Booksellers in major cities in the U.S. waved banknotes to order from publishers, because the book is not available in any other U.S. city except New York.

Not only that, booksellers in North America and other countries in Europe joined the robbery after seeing Harry Potter's book so popular.

The printing factory can't even meet the needs of a New York City, let alone other cities in the United States, let alone those countries in North America and Europe.

At this time, Xiao Zhengnan began to come forward to talk about cooperation with the big publishing houses in other countries.

The cake is too big, Xiao Zhengnan can't eat it alone, especially for his newly established publishing house, eating alone is undesirable. If you don't share some benefits, believe it or not, those established publishing houses will unite to suppress his publishing house every minute.

Never underestimate the power of foreign capital. When you are not qualified to sit on an equal footing with them, you have to abide by the rules of the game set by them.

For this, he saw clearly.

For the publisher’s first book, Xiao Zhengnan had no idea how much money he would make. His goal was to make the publishing house famous, establish channels, and prepare for the future.

His strategy is very simple, that is, win-win cooperation, and slowly grow himself, until his publishing house can be equal to those old publishing houses.

But it takes time. You have to eat one bite at a time, and you have to go step by step.

As long as the publishing house he established continues to publish high-quality books that are loved by readers, then his publishing house does not have to worry about failing to grow.

Xiao Zhengnan is not worried about the future of the publishing house.

With those novels given to him by Lin Chen, it would be difficult for a publisher to not grow.

There are as many as seven Harry Potter novels. The first step is popular, and the next few are equally good. In addition to this book of Harry Potter, Xiao Zhengnan has better novels in his hands.

When negotiating with other established publishing houses, Xiao Zhengnan has always held the initiative. After some intense negotiations, an agreement was finally reached.

New York and the surrounding cities are owned by Xiao Zhengnan’s publishing house. As for other U.S. states, it has given it to several major U.S. publishers. Other countries outside the U.S., as well as Europe, Asia and other regions, have all given it to the largest local publishing house. .

Xiao Zhengnan's cooperation with them is very simple. The price of this book is 25 US dollars. Every major publishing house needs to pay 2 US dollars to Xiao Zhengnan for printing a book. In addition to this, they have to pay the author, which is Lin Chen's 15% royalties.

As for the film and television adaptation rights of this book, Xiao Zhengnan still holds it. It is not that these publishers have never thought about buying the film and television rights, but it is a pity that Xiao Zhengnan does not sell it.

This book is so popular that it is definitely a big box office when it is made into a movie, and some of the profits from the film and television surroundings are not low.

Just look at the quantity sold in the past half month.

Not talking about the United States, just talking about foreign ones, in half a month, foreign countries alone sold more than one billion copies, plus the sales volume in the United States, the total sales reached more than 1.18 billion copies. .

Don't think that this number is a lot. In fact, it is not a lot. The total sales volume of seven Harry Potter in the previous life reached nearly 340 million.

That number was sold under the premise of a global population of 7 billion, but in this world, the population of the United States alone exceeds 10 billion. How do you think the figure of 1.1 billion is?

Not much, as time goes by, this number will increase. According to the estimates of major publishing houses, the global sales of Harry Potter's first Philosopher's Stone will exceed 2.5 billion copies.

If this number can be reached, then Xiao Zhengnan's publishing house will have a revenue of 5 billion U.S. dollars, and this figure does not include the revenue of the tens of millions of books sold by his own publishing house.

As for Lin Chen, his income is even more. Preliminary estimates can at least exceed 9 billion U.S. dollars.

Of course, this figure is pre-tax, but even after paying the tax, Lin Chen's royalty income exceeds 7 billion, plus Xiao Zhengnan will help him avoid tax reasonably, that's even more.

There are a total of seven Harry Potter books. If each of them is sold at this level, then Lin Chen will have an income of 50 or 60 billion U.S. dollars based on the Harry Potter novel alone. I am afraid that even he himself would not have thought of this figure. .

Lin Chen made a lot, but those publishers also made a lot. Excluding the six dollars for Xiao Zhengnan and Lin Chen, there is still nineteen dollars left. Of these nineteen dollars, at least ten dollars are purely earned by those publishers. profit.

If you can't make money, will those publishing houses be so active?

With the global sales of the Harry Potter Philosopher’s Stone, Lin Chen, as the author of this book, has become the current best-selling author without any consideration.

Of course, those foreign readers didn't know the existence of Lin Chen, all they could know was the pen name Lin Chen gave him, the little boy.

English: Littleboy.

Readers all over the world want to know who this Littleboy is, especially the reporters, who are pervasive and want to dig out the true information of Littleboy.

Unfortunately, UU reading www. These reporters at uukanshu.com are doomed to be disappointed, because there are only two people in the world who know the true information of Littleboy, one is Lin Chen himself and the other is Xiao Zhengnan.

Those reporters went to interview Xiao Zhengnan, but Xiao Zhengnan did not disclose at all. When asked in a hurry, he said that this was requested by the author. Otherwise, once he leaked the author’s information, the other authors of the novel would not give it to him. Published by the publisher.

boom!

Although Littleboy's true identity information was not obtained, it is not a disadvantage to be able to get the news about Harry Potter and the second one from Xiao Zhengnan.

The most popular novel at the moment, readers from all over the world are expecting the author to write the second one, because the first one is so good-looking. They expected that there might be a second one, but they didn't expect it to be.

As soon as the news came out, Harry Potter fans all over the world were boiling, and they were eager to see the second one out.

And Lin Chen became famous in the world with this book, but people all over the world didn't know him, all they knew was his pen name, Littleboy.