Chapter 754 You Must Be Mindful of the Scale
In fact, Xiao Liu had already mentioned all of these things at the summary meeting before New Year's Day. The main purpose of his coming to report on his work today was that the radio series of "White Deer Plain" was about to be launched.
For a epic like "White Deer Plain", any form of adaptation is a huge project.
It was only after several months of attempts that Tiantian Changting dared to tackle this classic work.
The radio series "White Deer Plain" involved more than 40 voice actors, and the completed radio series was 30 tape hours long. Assuming each tape is 1.5 tape hours, a set of radio series would require 20 tapes. In other words, the price of 80 yuan for a set of radio series is itself a limitation for the dissemination of radio series.
The production cost of the "White Deer Plain" radio series was high, with a profit point of around 8,000 sets, setting a record for daily listening. Lin Weimin also said he wanted to lower the price of tapes, so one can imagine the pressure in Xiao Liu's heart.
"Don't feel pressured. The price of radio dramas cannot be aligned with pirated copies endlessly. It's just that the profit margin is larger now, so this adjustment is made."
"I understand that this is a consideration based on the overall situation."
After talking about the radio drama of "White Deer Plain", Lin Weimin asked: "How are you adapting to the new office?"
The construction of the staff housing building of Guowen Society was completed, and a store on the first floor was reserved. Tiantian Changting had not had a proper office location, but after several months of hard work, it has achieved some results. Lin Weimin discussed with Cheng Zaochun and decided to allocate one store to Tiantian Changting as an office.
Of course, the rent must be paid to the community according to the market price.
Today, Tiantian Changting has gotten rid of the hardships of its early days as a start-up and is slowly beginning to look like a company.
Xiao Liu, the "Executive Vice Minister", was officially appointed as the general manager of Tiantian Changting. He already has four people under him, but they are all contract workers.
As for the Copyright Operation Department, it is no longer under his charge. Just after New Year's Day, there were personnel changes in the company, and three people were added to the Copyright Operation Department. The editor-in-chief Lin Weimin is still in charge.
The work report is almost done, Xiao Liu plans to say goodbye.
Lin Weimin suddenly asked, "Has the manuscript fee been deposited into your account?"
"Alai's royalties have been transferred. I have confirmed with him that they have been received. Yu Hua's royalties have not been transferred yet. It has been less than three months since the release of To Live, and the payment has not yet been due."
"It has to be distributed by the end of the year, so a few days late won't matter."
Xiao Liu nodded, "Yes."
According to the path planned by Lin Weimin, although it has only been implemented for half a year, Guowen Publishing House's copyright operation has achieved initial results.
In the six months since its establishment, Tiantian Changting has produced three radio series, with revenue of 3.6464 million yuan and a net profit of 788,600 yuan.
Compared with the hundreds of millions of yuan in annual revenue of Guowen Press, this figure is of course insignificant, but Tiantian Changting is, after all, just a new media company, and the fields it covers are also fields with a relatively narrow audience. It is already commendable to achieve such results in half a year.
Just now Lin Weimin mentioned the royalties. Tiantian Changting has produced three radio series in half a year. In addition to his own "The Cliff", there are Yu Hua's "To Live" and Alai's "Dust Settles".
The royalties for radio series are based on a royalty-sharing system, where writers don’t have to worry about anything and can get 10% of the royalties.
The radio series was a big hit, and Yu Hua was able to get 31,200 yuan and Alai was able to get 165,100 yuan. For them, this amount of royalties was a pleasant surprise.
Also because Alai received the first payment for a radio series, the radio series produced by the Guowen Society has recently become a news in the literary world.
Many writers who have published works in Guowen Press have been secretly contacting editors to inquire about the requirements for adapting their works into radio dramas.
Alai received more than 160,000 yuan in royalties, and it is not known how much he will get in the future. This is definitely another way to get rich. Writers also have to eat grains and cereals, so how can they not pay attention to it?
Unfortunately, the editors of Guowen Publishing House knew little about the radio drama adaptation. I asked Xiao Liu about it, and Xiao Liu's answer was that in the short term, the scope of radio drama adaptations would still focus on popular novels.
This statement immediately discouraged most writers. If their novels were good sellers, they wouldn't have to focus on being adapted into radio dramas.
Many people complained that it was really a case of "someone will die of drought, some will die of flood".
These people don’t know that the radio drama adaptation is just the tip of the iceberg of Guowenshe’s copyright operation.
Wencheng and Wenhua were established at the same time. Wencheng focuses on TV series and Wenhua focuses on movies. The acquisition of "The King of Painting Books" is awaiting approval from the Press and Publication Administration. The copyright operation network of Guowen Publishing House is gradually expanding.
On Friday afternoon, Lin Weimin ran to Cheng Zaochun's office and blocked him.
"Can you get the painting king's formalities done?"
Feeling Lin Weimin's strong distrust, Cheng Zaochun said impatiently, "Then go tell the leader?"
"Look at you, shouldn't I ask? It's almost Chinese New Year."
"Do you think approval is that easy? If it weren't for my old face..."
Lin Weimin looked at Cheng Zaochun's mouth shape and couldn't help but daydream.
Wang Yongsheng helped to purchase "The King of Painting Books". Ningxia People's Publishing House had already agreed to it. Now all that was left was the approval of the Press and Publication Administration. The special thing about "The King of Painting Books" was not only the change in the organizer, but also the fact that it was a publication that was forced to cease publication.
When discussing the matter in the office that day, although Lao Cheng said that he didn't care, it was impossible for him to really not care.
Matters involving the acquisition and approval of publications are the president's business. Letting Lin Weimin take over his duties, wouldn't that give him an opportunity to usurp the throne?
Old Cheng will never let this kid succeed!
"The leaders don't have a big problem. We are going to change the name of the publication, which is equivalent to a major overhaul. The agency can also justify it. But now is the end of the year, and everyone is busy. Just wait and see. It will be difficult before the New Year, but there will definitely be news after the New Year."
Lin Weimin finally extracted useful information from Cheng Zaochun's long speech.
After the New Year, Lao Cheng's efficiency is really average, but it is acceptable.
On the weekend, Lin Weimin drove to Shi Tiesheng's house.
Last night, Qu Xiaowei called Lin Weimin and told him that his Feiyue Internet Cafe had opened a dial-up Internet service in the past two days and sincerely invited Lin Weimin to experience it.
"Tiesheng! Tiesheng!"
Lin Weimin slammed the iron door of Shi Tiesheng's house. When he opened the door, Shi Tiesheng smiled and said, "I can see that you ate a lot of breakfast!"
After entering the door and exchanging a few pleasantries, Lin Weimin told Shi Tiesheng about Feiyue's dial-up Internet access, and Shi Tiesheng was indeed very interested.
"Come on, come on, I'll take you to play for a while!" Lin Weimin excitedly pushed Shi Tiesheng out the door.
Shi Tiesheng's home is near Jintai Road, outside the East Third Ring Road. The Feiyue Internet Cafe co-opened by Qu Xiaowei and Zheng Guo is near the Capital Gymnasium, in the HD District, outside the Northwest Second Ring Road. The distance is not close, and it took 40 minutes to drive there.
It was just half past nine when the two arrived, but Feiyue Internet Cafe was already packed with people.
Today is the weekend. Feiyu Internet Cafe is located on Zhongguancun South Street, surrounded by major universities in Yanjing. Since its opening a few months ago, business has been booming. Many college students would rather skip a few meals just to come and experience the computers.
When it opened, there were 12 computers in the Internet cafe, but now, the number of computers has increased to 20.
Half a month after opening, Feiyu Internet Cafe's daily turnover was half a computer. After deducting expenses such as labor, water, electricity, and losses, the daily profit exceeded 3,500 yuan.
In the meantime, Qu Xiaowei and Zheng Guo purchased two batches of computers, increasing the number of computers to 20. Now the daily profit has stabilized at more than 5,000 yuan.
In the words of Qu Xiaowei: Opening an Internet cafe is very profitable!
He now wishes he could clear out all the sofas in the Internet cafe and put computers on them instead.
In the past two days, Feiyu Internet Cafe has launched dial-up Internet access services. If you want to dial up to the Internet, the Internet fee has doubled to 40 yuan per hour. Qu Xiaowei's hands are numb from collecting money every day, and his face is numb from smiling.
The Internet cafe was packed with people, and seeing that there were still people queuing up, Qu Xiaowei planned to use his privileges as the boss to ask two college students who were absorbed in playing games to give up their seats. However, Lin Weimin stopped him and directly resorted to the method of throwing money around.
The two college students played on the computer for an hour and not only did they not spend any money, they also earned fifty yuan. They happily gave up their seats to Lin Weimin and Shi Tiesheng.
Sitting in front of the computer, Lin Weimin inexplicably felt a sense of nostalgia.
It’s not that he doesn’t have a computer at home, but sitting at home using a computer and sitting in an Internet cafe playing with a computer are two completely different feelings. What he misses are those nights in the Internet cafe in the future.
Nowadays, there are very few things you can do with dial-up Internet access.
Maybe the word that shouldn’t be used to describe it is “limited”, but boring.
Netscape's Netscape Navigator browser had just been released for two months, and there was very little entertainment content available.
Or you can use CompuServe's network service, subscribe to newsgroups, browse web pages...
It's quite functional, but still pretty boring.
After playing for a while, the initial excitement passed and Lin Weimin began to write emails to his friends overseas.
France's Gallian, America's Mark Mon, Roger Strauss...
After writing the email, Lin Weimin sent it with a tap of his finger, once again feeling the power of technology.
Although the entertainment value has not been shown much yet, the convenience has indeed been greatly improved compared to before. In the past, it would take at least ten days or half a month to receive a letter!
While he was writing the email, Shi Tiesheng was scratching his head.
Nowadays, a lot of information on the Internet is in English. Shi Tiesheng's English level is average, so it is very difficult for him to operate. He has to guess and guess, which makes the fun much less.
He looked at Lin Weimin's operation and asked, "Is this for sending E-girls?"
Shi Tiesheng had never sent an email, but he used computers regularly so he naturally knew "E-meier".
"Well, do you want to try it?"
“Who am I writing to?”
Lin Weimin thought for a moment and said, "Didn't that French sinologist Anna write to you some time ago? Do you have her email address?"
Shi Tiesheng clapped his hands, "By the way, she also left me E'er's address in the letter!"
"Come on, let me help you write a letter to her."
Lin Weimin opened a blank email with great interest and was about to take action.
Turning to Shi Tiesheng, he said, "Let's make a deal first. I can write for you, but if Ximi finds out, you can't betray me! Also, you have to be careful about the limits!"
Shi Tiesheng looked at Lin Weimin and wanted to hit him on the head with the mouse in his hand.
(End of this chapter)
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