However, Chen Ming, the father, was not much better. After receiving the home game console, he and Xu Jianguo immediately hid in a corner and tried to take it apart to study it. The two almost got into a fight over whose game console to take apart.
Leaving the onlookers speechless.
Another important thing for Xu Manman in the second half of the year is to organize and publish the teaching materials.
Before this, she mostly used handouts she compiled and mimeographed translations in her teaching. This was also because the teaching conditions were a little poor in the early years. Later, Xu Manman and her students got used to this model.
Isn’t there a recent teaching reform in colleges and universities? Everything has to be standardized. Not only Xu Manman, but all the famous professors in the school have to organize textbooks and publish books.
Even Xu Jianguo and Chen Ming are now organizing materials and preparing to jointly publish a book.
In fact, organizing teaching materials is very simple. She had already organized them, and even Xiao Jin helped her with the proofreading one by one.
However, this involves some copyright issues of the original translated text. It was previously only used internally, not for profit, and not circulated externally, so it is not a big problem if you don't take it too seriously.
But now it is officially published. Schools will purchase it as a textbook, and it will also be sold in bookstores. Although it may not make much money, it already involves commercial activities, and copyright issues must be resolved in advance.
She was busy until National Day, and the sample books came out. She published a total of three books this time.
One book on economic theory as an introduction to undergraduate studies, and one on international finance, both of which are textbooks.
There is also a book that is a collection of some of her previously published papers. This is a monograph, but it is not on the list of textbooks and is mainly sold externally.
"Professor Xu, the first two books have no problem with printing and publishing. However, for this second book, since we can't guarantee sales, the publisher can only print a maximum of 1,000 copies in the initial stage. We will consider printing more copies based on subsequent sales. However, the maximum royalty we can give is 6%."
Xu Manman looked at the editor from the school publishing house and had already expected this result.
At this stage, people are impetuous and knowledge is not as valuable as bread. It is better that she studies economics, because at least people doing business will still pay attention to related content.
For fields like physics or biochemistry, which are highly professional and have only a very small audience, if she guessed correctly, publishing non-textbook books in these fields might have to be entirely at her own expense.
Compared with this, her treatment seems to be pretty good.
"Okay. Let's do as you say."
After saying this, the editor did not leave immediately. He had another task today.
"Professor Xu, as far as I know, before returning to China, you worked for a Wall Street investment firm in the United States. Your first pot of gold also came from the U.S. stock market, and you have never failed in the Hong Kong Stock Exchange or even the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
I wonder if you would be interested in publishing a set of books on stock market analysis?"
The publishing house did a very detailed background check on her in the early stages, but Xu Manman had no such intention.
After being rejected by Xu Manman, the editor was not discouraged and continued to use his eloquence.
"Professor Xu, you might want to think about this carefully. Since the establishment of the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges, China's stock market has been booming. However, the market is volatile, and many people rushed in headfirst, only to lose everything they had.
I think that at times like this, the guidance of professionals like Professor Xu is particularly important.
Don't worry, if it's published, we'll give you the highest commission of 12%.
Xu Manman was unmoved. "This is not a question of royalties. You also said that the stock market is changing rapidly. Even if I am optimistic about it being a bull market now, it might suddenly plummet one day.
Moreover, I have always been doing small things, so I cannot give you the professional guidance you asked for.
However, many big names on Wall Street have published related articles. You can obtain the copyright and then publish the translation."
Xu Manman doesn't want to portray herself as a so-called beacon of the Chinese stock market. Apart from the account in Caleb's hedge fund, she only has a few stocks in her Hong Kong and Chinese stock accounts that she is optimistic about in the long term, and the amounts are not large.
The domestic financial market is not very perfect now, and the stock market is mostly controlled by securities companies or consortiums. Unless you can predict the development in advance like she and Jin Zichu, or get some insider information from the big guys, if you enter the market rashly, you will only be treated as a leek and be harvested.
In her previous life, she was the one who was cut off. Fortunately, she had no money at that time and only threw in 10,000 yuan. However, she was trapped and her living expenses for several months were gone.
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