Lin Shu didn't pay much attention to the backend revenue, only occasionally. During the serialization of "Today's Fortune Telling", he had been reading various materials and thinking about the subsequent plot. After the plot of the Hanging Temple ended, Lin Shu remembered to check the backend revenue. The result - because "Today's Fortune Telling" was already his seventh serialized article, the numbers accumulated from the old articles were quite terrifying.
To be honest, he could retire right now.
But for Lin Shu, the current pace of life is just right. He doesn't have to worry about money and can do what he likes.
Lin Shu's plan is to keep writing until he is 40. By that age, his brain probably won't be able to keep up with the trends in online literature.
If you think about it carefully, his writing style should have been heavier than it is now, the pace could have been slower, and it would have been better to reduce the amount of updates.
He has never considered what else he can do besides writing. He probably won't be able to adapt to the life of an unemployed person for a while, so he may have to continue writing.
The Hanging Temple chapter is one of the longer plots in "No Fortune Telling Today". In the following chapters, he connected it with a shorter plot, which makes it easier for readers to read.
Later on... there should be a longer story.
Lin Shu continued to repeat the process of drawing, outlining and circling, feeling that half of his brain cells had been killed.
After thinking about the plot halfway, Lin Shu stretched and noticed that Cheese Bean had sent him a message - the paper copy of "Wind Rises and Green Duckweed" had been sent to him, and Lin Shu needed to cooperate with the publisher to write a signature.
The address sent by Carving Entertainment is not Lin Shu's real address, so this batch of books may not reach him until tomorrow.
Lin Shu went to Star Online to take a look and found that Sculpture Entertainment was already promoting it.
As everyone uses the Star Network, the number of paper publications is decreasing, but the Federation still publishes a batch of new books every year - after all, the feeling of holding a paper book in your hand is different, and readers also have the need to read paper books.
In the eyes of many readers, "The Wind Rises in the Green Duckweed" is the most worthy of collection among Lin Shu's several books, and there is a high demand for its publication. Compared with several other articles, "The Wind Rises in the Green Duckweed" is slightly shorter, making it more convenient to make it into a book.
The moment he got the finished book, Lin Shu was impressed not only by the exquisite binding but also by the price of the book.
Compared to the era he lived in, the price of books in the Blue Galaxy was indeed too high. Although the people of the Federation had always been wealthy, Lin Shu was very skeptical whether "The Wind Rises in the Green Ping" would sell well.
"It shouldn't be bad." Cheese Bean answered Lin Shu's question, "Your set of books is very competitive."
Lin Shu expressed doubts about this.
Subscription is subscription, buying books is buying books. The online literature of Star Age is not cheap in itself, but the price of physical books is much higher than that of online literature.
Of course, Lin Shu could see that the quality of the printed version of "The Wind Rises in the Green Duckweed" was very good, and the cost should not be too low.
In order to help with sales, Lin Shu signed the paper books meticulously. The publishing house wanted him to sign a thousand copies, and Lin Shu did all of them.
"Will it sell better if I add a pen name?" Lin Shu was still skeptical.
"You have to have confidence in yourself." Cheese Bean couldn't see Lin Shu in person, otherwise he really wanted to slap Lin Shu's shoulder, "You are a teriyaki chicken leg!"
The author himself has no awareness of being the top, which is really distressing.
Paper books are indeed more expensive, but the subscription to "The Wind Rises and the Green Ping" is terrifying, okay?
Cheese Bean wanted Lin Shu not to underestimate the financial resources of readers, but after thinking about it, he decided not to tell him. Lin Shu might not believe it if he told him, so he decided to let him see the sales of "The Wind Rises in the Sky" with his own eyes.
Cheese Bean himself is very optimistic about "The Wind Rises in the Sky".
Indeed, the sales of paper books are mediocre nowadays. Readers usually buy books for collection, and have already read the original text on Starnet.
Lin Shu is not the kind of author who knows how to manage himself and rarely does marketing. If he follows the same route as Qiao Da, he won't have to worry about his books not selling, because readers will definitely respond to his call.
But - this is "The Wind Rises and the Green Duckweed"!
Cheese Bean still remembers the shock and emotion he felt when he first saw "The Wind Rises and the Green Duck". Although "The Wind Rises and the Green Duck" was not yet publicly available, he had already kept a set for his collection.
His colleagues also pre-ordered a copy.
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Redapple Publishing is a publishing house in poor operating condition. If it were not for the financial support provided by its parent company, Redapple would have gone bankrupt long ago.
It's not just them, this is the current situation of almost all publishing houses.
Of course, this doesn’t mean that all books lose money. There are still a few books that can make money in a year. The key is that there are only a few writers who make money, and every publishing house wants to sign exclusive contracts with them. If they can sign them, the profits are still worth seeing.
Other times it depends on luck.
Resapple is not a large company and was able to make money when it was first established, but in recent years, the authors that the publishing houses have favored have not achieved good sales results.
The recently signed book "The Wind Rises in the Green Duckweed" will be on sale soon. The editor-in-chief signed the book at a high price under the high requirements of Sculpture Entertainment, but other editors in the publishing house have different opinions on the sales of "The Wind Rises in the Green Duckweed".
The collection value of online literature is obviously weaker than that of traditional books. Will readers be willing to pay for it?
In addition, the price signed by the editor-in-chief was too high, which meant that "The Wind Rises and the Green Ping" had to sell a much higher number than the average sales volume of Redapple in order to make the same profit as other books.
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