In a room on the other side of Yuefu Community, Miss Xu's fingers were flying on the keyboard.
I finished writing it quickly, looked at the time and it was 11:58. I didn't proofread it and quickly uploaded it. It was 11:59 and I finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Another day of perfect attendance, damn it, every day is like death time.
Zhou Yi had always been curious about what this girl did, because her family didn't seem to be wealthy.
Miss Xu is just an office worker, doing some administrative secretarial work, but privately, she is also an online writer, and she writes for men.
She herself is also very conflicted now. She is too busy at work, but the money she earns is far less than what she earns from writing.
But I can't just rush into it full-time. What if my novel fails? I'll have no way to make a living.
Just finished the update and remembered what happened before.
To be honest, Miss Xu is quite knowledgeable about the online literature industry. She knows that once a book written by one person becomes popular, ten thousand more books will follow suit in the blink of an eye.
It was fine in the past few years, but in the past two years, the opening of some free websites, coupled with some websites that have been copying from everywhere, have directly turned this trend-following behavior into blatant plagiarism.
Of course, those authors call it "purchasing goods".
In the past, the editor taught her to scan the charts and learn how to write those popular books.
But now, people just "purchase" your book, strip it of its creative ideas and plot, turn it upside down, translate it into Chinese, and publish it under a completely different name.
There is no way. It is difficult to make money now. Coupled with the instigation of some outsiders, it seems that writing online articles is a very simple thing. As long as you have hands, you can make hundreds of thousands or even millions of yuan a month without any problem.
What a joke! She has been writing online articles for so many years and knows better than anyone that this industry is about panning for gold in the waves.
I only see those who make money, but I don’t see the many authors who are not signed, or who cannot even make back the express delivery fees even if they are signed.
Under such circumstances, the situation of "purchasing goods" naturally came into being.
Just copy it anyway. They are all very smart. They just make some minor changes, or even don’t bother to change them. You can tell by just looking at the title and introduction that they are plagiarizing.
Miss Xu has also heard about the issue of following the trend and killing original works. Here we have to talk about another deformed existence in the online literature industry, the studio.
They will strip away your creativity, copy your beginnings, and then rely on the large number of authors to overwhelm you with the volume of updates.
What do people call writing? It’s called “making a book”.
Just list out all the detailed plot outlines of a popular book, and then fill it in according to these frameworks.
So many people will find that the plot they are watching is not much different.
A book becomes popular, and then the entire internet is filled with books of the same type, leading to serious homogeneity. And then, nothing happens.
The idea died, and the studio moved on to look for other books and repeat the previous process.
These things have never happened to me before, but I often see some fights and stuff like that on many forums.
At that time, Miss Xu didn't feel anything, but now, her book has achieved some success. Not to mention this website, many neighboring websites have a lot of books that follow the trend or even plagiarize.
The point is, when she left messages under those books, she was permanently banned and silenced by the authors, which almost made her die of anger!
I contacted the customer service and editor of the other website, but all my responses fell on deaf ears, or they only gave me one sentence at most: "If you think they have plagiarized, then you can sue them."
Miss Xu felt that she had never been so angry. Why? Why did they copy my book and still be so stubborn?
She couldn't understand it, she wanted to follow their wishes. You want me to sue, right? Then I will sue!
But she doesn't know any reliable lawyer, and as for the lawsuit, to be honest, Miss Xu is very clear about the difficulty of plagiarism lawsuits.
It's too difficult to define.
The cost of defending rights is sky-high, but the final result is not satisfactory. The consequence is that plagiarists are fearless. At most, their books will be banned, and at worst they will change their accounts and continue plagiarizing.
So she wanted to ask Zhou Yi to see if Mr. Fang had any good ideas.
But many days have passed and there is still no news from Brother Zhou. What's going on?
Alas, unable to swallow the anger in her heart and unable to sleep, Miss Xu opened the forum again.
I have already sent out my plagiarized post, but it is useless.
Clicking on the reply above, Miss Xu plans to see what suggestions everyone has given today.
She read through the messages one by one, and after seeing one of the replies, Miss Xu was suddenly stunned.
This was replied by a forum user named "Flying Superman".
"I finished writing today, but then I heard someone had me hanged, so I came here to check. The book that was hung is mine."
"In the first half of this year, I was browsing the charts on the website and saw this idea that seemed good, so I wrote it. As for the plot, to be honest, the idea is good, but the plot is rubbish. It's a complete flop and a complete waste of creativity."
“So I rewrote the content.”
"As for the introduction and the beginning, you say it's plagiarism just because the introduction is the same as the beginning? It means that the first part was borrowed a little bit, and that's also plagiarism?"
"Is his rubbish worthy of being copied? Everyone, please read it first before you start complaining."
The entire comment is very long, but the core meaning is only one: what a rubbish content! I copied you because I think highly of you. If you can't do it, you can come and be my ghostwriter, and I will help you make money.
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