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I drove Lao Taishan and my second uncle around to the west of the city. When Zhong Yi returned to the city hall, a guest was already waiting in his office.
This guest is none other than the American Minister Commodus.
Seeing Zhong Yi, Kang Maode immediately came forward enthusiastically and gave Zhong Yi a warm bear hug.
"Zhong, that's great!" Commodus also changed his title to Zhong Yi. It was no longer the mayor, but the friendly word "Zhong". He added, "You know, you've made a fortune." !¡±
Zhong Yi sat on the big chair and asked: "It seems that the sales of Harry Potter are good?"
"God, it's more than good!" Commodus said exaggeratedly, "It's simply great! It can't be better! There has never been such a work in the history of American literature!"
Zhong Yi just smiled slightly when he heard this, because he was mentally prepared for this.
In another time and space, the Harry Potter series has sold 500 million copies!
Although it is impossible for Zhong Yi to retell the original Harry Potter 100%, there are no problems with the basic plot and key dialogues. Some details may be slightly different, but it will not affect the quality of the entire novel. Therefore, the sales volume in this time and space will not be much different.
Zhong Yi smiled and said nothing, but Kang Maode couldn't hold himself back.
"Bell!" Commodus said eagerly, "Don't you want to ask how many copies of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone have been sold?"
Zhong Yi shrugged and said, "I don't care at all about the sales of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. I just want to know how many thousands of copies your Commodus family's publishing house printed for the first time?"
"You're such a boring guy." Commodus shrugged and said, "Okay, I admit, our Commodus family still underestimated the novel you wrote. The first printing was only one million copies! But you know Well, in less than half a month, all one million copies of the first printing have been sold!"
"Not only the first printing, but now even the two million copies of the second edition have almost been sold!"
"God, if I had known it would be so easy to sell, we wouldn't have to spend so much money on advertising in a dozen big cities such as New York and Los Angeles at the same time. In this way, we could save hundreds of thousands of dollars!"
"According to this trend, there is no pressure to print another two million copies!"
Zhong Yi then interrupted: "Kang Maode, your family is too conservative, just print 20 million more copies!"
"Printing an additional 20 million copies is still the most conservative estimate. If he hadn't been worried about intimidating Commodus, Zhong Yi would have just said that he would print an additional 50 million copies first!"
"Oh Tefalk?" Commodus shouted, "Twenty million copies? Are you kidding me!"
Although Commodus also admitted that the market potential of Harry Potter will never be much worse than that of the Hobbit, but having market potential and whether the potential can be truly tapped are two different things! Therefore, the Commodus family would never dare to print so many copies, but hope to put them on the shelves little by little. This is the safest way.
Zhong Yi was too lazy to say anything more and directly stretched out his hand and said: "Where are the royalties? Since the two million copies of the second edition are about to be sold out, it's time to settle the royalties, right?"
Now Zhong Yi is anxiously waiting for money.
Because all the work in Yinjiang has been fully rolled out, money is needed in all aspects.
The urban construction aspect has been outsourced to the Zhang family, so Zhong Yi doesn¡¯t have to worry about it. However, the Zhaobaoshan Fortress and Jinjishan Fortress that have already begun construction are simply gold-swallowing behemoths!
There are also officer training classes and the training of the Yinjiang Guard Corps, which also require a lot of funds!
The money originally obtained by cracking down on evil forces has already bottomed out. Finance Director Chen Jiming has complained to him several times, saying that he cannot survive this year.
"Don't worry, the first royalties have been brought to you." Commodus turned around and waved, and the secretary behind him immediately put a password box at his feet on Zhong Yi's mahogany table.
Kang Maode stepped forward to open it, then turned the box around and pushed it in front of Zhong Yi.
Zhong Yi looked closely and immediately saw a box of green dollar bills.
Commodus pointed to the box and said: "Zhong, three hundred thousand dollars are all here!"
Zhong Yi was a little surprised, but on the surface he remained calm and said, "Why is it three hundred thousand dollars?"
Commodus immediately explained: "Zhong, there is nothing we can do about this. Although our country has emerged from the Great Depression in recent years, this unprecedented economic depression has changed the consumption habits of American people. They cannot help but Are you willing to spend as much as you did before?Money buys bestsellers. "
After a pause, Commodus added: "So, we can only lower the price and price Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone at one dollar. You have to know that even best-sellers like The Hobbit have lowered their prices. From the original The two dollars per copy has dropped to the current one and a half dollars, so one dollar is really not low."
Zhong Yi couldn¡¯t help but put his hand on his forehead. Only then did he realize that in this era, best-selling novels in the United States were so expensive! The price of one dollar per volume is really not low. You must know that the average monthly salary of Americans in this era is only fifty dollars. In other words, one month's salary is only enough to buy fifty novels.
By comparison, a magazine costs only twenty cents.
Therefore, the royalties were more than Zhong Yi imagined, but he still found them too little.
At that moment, Zhong Yi frowned again and said, "Commodus, didn't you sell almost the two million copies of the second edition before? You might as well settle the royalties for the second edition. I need the money urgently."
"How can this be done?" Commodus said in stunned silence, "In fact, the money for the first edition of the book has not been fully returned. Our Commodus family only paid the royalties in advance to show you our sincerity! But let us pay the second edition The royalties for the edition have also been paid in advance, which is too difficult for others to do, and we don¡¯t have the strength.¡±
Zhong Yi said coldly: "If this is the case, I'm afraid I will have to consider cooperating with another publishing house."
"Oh special? Zhong, you are too uninteresting." Commodus said angrily after hearing this, "You said before that you would give us the Commodus family exclusive publishing rights."
Zhong Yi said: "I'm just talking about Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, not the entire Harry Potter series!"
"Okay, okay, I'll help you fight for it later." Commodus immediately compromised, because after all, this involved millions or even tens of millions of dollars. In order to continue to obtain subsequent copyrights, it does not seem unacceptable to pay royalties in advance. , it¡¯s nothing more than spending more words to convince those old antiques in the family.
"No, it's not a fight, but a must!" Zhong Yi shook his hand and said, "I must get the royalties for the second edition within two days, a total of 600,000 US dollars!" (Remember the website address: www. hlnovel.com - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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