31. You were fired, throwing money at people
Zhu Haibo is visiting the forum.
Although he is not a profession like the editor in charge, the contracted editor can also be considered an editor, so he often pays attention to changes in the industry, hoping to change from a contracted editor to a responsible editor, and then appreciate the editor-in-chief, or even the editor-in-chief.
There must be dreams.
Qixia Forum is the largest forum related to martial arts novels. It gathers hundreds of millions of martial arts readers, tens of thousands of professional or part-time authors who write martial arts novels, as well as almost all editors and editors in the industry, etc., all gather here to discuss information related to martial arts novels.
And today!
This forum has almost been flooded with the screen. This is a phenomenon that has not happened ten years ago since the emergence of the Internet.
Martial arts novels are now in a state of blooming flowers. There is no martial arts novel or martial arts comic that is the only one that can be compared with it.
Therefore, everyone usually discusses their favorite novels or comics, and most of the time there are still debates because they like different things.
But today, when Zhu Haibo entered the forum, he immediately saw that all the titles related to the same novel were related to the one.
Legend of the Condor Heroes!
Zhu Haibo looked familiar, but he didn't care about it. He clicked on the post on the top of the homepage.
"The pioneer of the new martial arts novel - The Legend of the Condor Heroes!"
"I saw it when I was in the first issue of the release of Heroes. This new martial arts novel published in Global Novel Weekly aroused my great interest. It has the style of everyone, the detailed and distinctive character descriptions. After reading it, I can remember every character and tens of thousands of words, which are completely different from those fast-paced martial arts novels today."
"Just like listening to stories when I was a child, I told you everything clearly, the novel setting and unique martial arts that I could not extricate myself."
"Have you ever seen a Taoist priest who lifts a cauldron with one hand? His name is Qiu Chuji, one of the seven sons of the Chongyang Palace of Quanzhen Sect. There are also the seven monsters in Jiangnan who have different personalities and everyone has unique skills. There are also the Black Wind Twin Evil who use human heads to practice the Nine Yin White Bone Claws. I thought the Nine Yin White Bone Claws were extremely awesome, but this martial art was originally called the Nine Yin Divine Claws, which was only part of the Nine Yin True Sutra. The Black Wind Twin Evil is just a disciple of a strange man named Huang Yaoshi. He betrayed the master's sect because of stealing the Nine Yin True Sutra. How powerful is Huang Yaoshi?"
"I was very excited when I thought about it. This was the touching and expectation I was when I first read a novel when I was a child."
"Have you ever seen the two protagonists and have prepared tens of thousands of words, but I can't extricate myself from reading it? This is, but I promise you will definitely be like me. After reading it, you can't read other martial arts novels anymore, and it's just like chewing wax."
"This novel will definitely become popular. Although the author has published it in Global Novel Weekly, and this magazine only sells hundreds of thousands a week, I am still sure it will become popular."
The poster of this post is Feitian Qihe, one of the moderators. It is rumored that in reality, a business tycoon is worth tens of billions and has invested in the forum, so he asked for an identity as a moderator, and every time he appears, he will attract the attention of the forum.
However, no one expected that this big guy would actually admire a newcomer novel so much, and most of the tens of thousands of replies below agreed.
There are also other posts that are almost all related to the Legend of the Condor Heroes.
"Shocked, Global Novel Weekly's sales tripled last week to 1.25 million, and without using the group's distribution channels, they sold 1.25 million copies in just one province, which was so terrifying. The reason was that a new novel was serialized, and this novel also created records. It was serialized in a magazine that sold only 1.25 million copies, and it actually received a vote of 1.37 million readers. When I first saw the list today, I was scared."
This is the editor-in-chief of a magazine.
Another post was also topped and extremely hot.
"Dongyue Novels will regret the decision that has been made for a hundred years."
"The Legend of the Condor Heroes was originally submitted to Dongyue Novel Weekly. The review was also passed, but the contract was not successful because the author asked to retain the full copyright, and the signing editor refused, so he failed. Then the author submitted to Global Weekly. Li Qingyuan, the editor-in-chief of Global Weekly, agreed to the author's full copyright conditions, and then officially entered the serialization. In just the second week last week, terrifying energy burst out, bringing Global Novel Weekly, which originally sold only more than 300,000 yuan to 1.25 million yuan in sales, and it received 1.37 million yuan in readers' votes, creating an unprecedented record."
"This novel originally belonged to Dongyue's novel, but Dongyue's novel thought that why should a newcomer have a full copyright contract? So he refused, and finally missed the novel very regrettably. I think all the editors of Dongyue's novel weekly now regret it. This novel has just begun to become popular. This week, Global Weekly used the group channel to distribute goods nationwide, and sales will surely explode again."
"Dongyue novels may regret it for many years. Global Weekly wants to thank Dongyue Weekly for its contracted editor and reject the book The Legend of the Condor Heroes. Global Weekly is made at home, and is happy from the sky and gets a bargain for free!"
The author who posted this post was anonymous, but he must be the editor of Dongyue Weekly, because only the editor of Dongyue Weekly knew that The Legend of the Condor Heroes had contributed to Dongyue before.
Zhu Haibo also felt cold all over when he saw this post.
Because, he remembered why the name The Legend of the Condor Heroes was so familiar.
Isn’t this the newcomer novel he rejected at the time?
The arrogant newcomer who asked to retain full copyright?
Zhu Haibo's hand holding the mouse was trembling. He knew what he had missed. Although he had never read that novel, he knew how popular this novel was from the forum.
Hundreds and thousands of posts discussing the plot, tens of thousands of posts requested by readers across the country, as well as many professional editorial analysis posts, and so on!
He had never seen such a grand occasion before.
And this book slipped away from him.
"Zhu Haibo."
A voice woke Zhu Haibo up.
The leader of the signing editorial group asked in a deep voice: "Last time, was it your responsible for the signing of the Legend of the Condor Heroes?"
Zhu Haibo looked nervous and nodded: "Team leader, yes, it's me, but he asked for full copyright, which is not in accordance with the rules, so I refused."
The team leader said directly: "This is not a reason. Now you pack up your things and go and handle your resignation. You will be fired."
Zhu Haibo was stiff all over. Under the joking and disdainful gaze of several colleagues around him, he shouted: "Team leader, it's not my fault, why should I fire me?"
The team leader turned around and said, "Who's fault? Do you know how much damage has it caused to our magazine because you failed to successfully sign the Legend of the Condor Heroes?"
"Preliminary estimates that at least hundreds of millions of profits are gone, it's not your fault. Could it be mine, editor-in-chief Qin, or editor-in-chief Liu?"
Zhu Haibo suddenly fell silent, his face was sad, and he stood there stiffly and could not speak.
The boss must be right.
But he knew best that he had the opportunity to contact the author of The Legend of the Condor Heroes again and relayed the new conditions of Editor Qin. As long as the comic adaptation rights are right, the contract may be successfully signed, but he lied because of his disdain for the newcomer and did not continue to contact the author of The Legend of the Condor Heroes to discuss the contract.
If The Legend of the Condor Heroes has no fire or is not as hot as this level, then this is nothing, at most it is a mistake.
However, now this book of The Legend of the Condor Heroes is showing signs of popularity across the country, so it is not explained by mistakes, and someone will inevitably come out to take the blame.
So, he knew that being fired was not unfair!
Qin Shuming, the martial arts editor-in-chief of Dongyue’s novel, has been called to the office by editor-in-chief Liu Dongyuan!
"You can't tell me? Let me make a decision?"
"We missed a phenomenal martial arts novel for nothing. Do you know how many years have you published such a novel?"
"You, the editor-in-chief, are so failed. Do we know what we are laughing at in the industry now? We are blind to jokes."
Qin Shuming dared not speak, he knew that everything he said now was just a quibble.
Liu Dongyuan cursed for a while and stopped. Looking at the silent Qin Shuming, knowing that things have come to this point, and cursing people cannot turn back time. He said seriously: "Now you call the author again, dig, and spend money to dig him. Our Dongyue now has a large amount of funds. What is lacking is high-quality content. If it is lost from us, we will use the money to smash it back!"
Qin Shuming was stunned for a moment and asked: "Editor-in-chief, he asked for full copyright at that time, which means he was very ambitious. If we want to poach people, how much should we bid? Also, there may be a considerable liquidated damages on Global Weekly!"
Liu Dongyuan said loudly: "They are now in the third issue, and his newcomer contract fee must be very low. This week, the whole country has just started to be distributed, and the data has not been summarized yet. We still have the opportunity to spend money to poach people. When the novel is really popular across the country, we can't even dig it. You can contact the author now and give him the standard of the great-level manuscript fee. All copyrights are left to him. We only have to give priority to signing the contract."
"I'll give you the royalties, well, give you 5,000 thousand words first, with a maximum of 5,000 thousand words. We will pay the penalty for liquidated contract. We will give you as much as the penalty for liquidated contract between him and Global. As long as he is willing to bring the novel to job, we will give you as much contract fee as much as the signing fee. If you don't have five million, you will have 10 million. If you don't have ten million, you will have 30 million. If you don't have 50 million, you will get it for me."
Qin Shuming widened his eyes. The first time he saw the editor-in-chief so disobedient, he didn't talk nonsense at the moment. He took out the phone and asked his assistant to send the contact information of the Legend of the Condor Heroes recorded last time, and called him in front of Liu Dongyuan.
With 50 million, you can really dig up a great god from the top three magazines with sales.
However, Liu Dongyuan knew that even the great master who was dug up by 50 million could not make the sales of Global Novels soar from 300,000 to 1.25 million in one week!
If such a novel is placed on his Dongyue Weekly and operated it well, Dongyue Novel Weekly will have the opportunity to increase sales of tens of millions.
For this reason, even if you spend hundreds of millions of funds, it is worth it.
Chapter completed!