When Xiangjiang was so lively, Yin Jun had already left Xiangjiang and took a day and a night on a plane, including a transit in Hawaii, before arriving in California in the United States. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The most favorite place in the United States for Chinese people is the West Coast of the United States, which is closest to China.

It is different from the fat land on the east coast of the United States, it has more of a relaxed atmosphere, and there is not as much bustling and impetuousness as New York, so there are also the largest number of Chinese here.

Yin Jun had never been to the United States in his previous life, firstly, because he did not have enough money, and secondly, because he had to take a full 24-hour flight, he felt terrible when he thought about it.

It's the same in this life.

But there was no way, Tang Shuxuan had already helped him find a publishing house, negotiated the publishing conditions of "Jurassic Park" and "The Da Vinci Code", and asked him to sign a contract, Yin Jun could only bite the bullet.

Moreover, he also has a very important task, that is, he has thousands of scripts, variety show ideas, etc., and he has long planned to go to the United States to postmark them.

So in order not to rob him of so much of his future wealth, Yin Jun has to take a plane if he doesn't want to.

Because there are thousands of copies of these scripts and variety show ideas, Yin Jun packed three big boxes, so he also specially brought Le Yiling's assistant Tian Jiachun over, on the one hand, to help promote Li, on the other hand, the woman is more careful, and can help stare at it when postmarked.

Originally, Yin Jun was also going to bring Guan Zhilin and Wen Bixia to play, a few days ago, when they were on vacation, the two little girls went to Treasure Island with the crew of the original "Wulin Gaiden", which was a commercial catwalk circle money activity organized by Jiashi, and as a result, the whole trip took 7 days, and they each earned 200,000 Hong Kong dollars back, and the two little girls became little rich women.

But Zhang Bingqian was going to Australia and New Zealand in the summer, and she and a few friends went with their children, and Guan Zhilin was helplessly forced to follow.

Wen Bixia, who has finished filming "The Star Knows My Heart", was originally going to come, but this little girl has not yet gone abroad.

When I was excited, suddenly the post-production of "The Star Knows My Heart" found some problems, and her eldest daughter needed to assist in reshooting a lot of shots, and it would take at least a week to complete, which made the little girl depressed.

She was depressed not only because she came to the United States, but also because she traveled with Yin Jun, which was what she felt the happiest.

It's just that she was depressed, and Guan Zhilin was happy, anyway, I can't go, you stinky girl, don't even think about going.

Tian Jiachun has not been on the plane for such a long time, but she is much more adaptable than Yin Junlai, Yin Jun's body is soft when he gets off the plane, but Tian Jiachun can still politely greet Tang Shuxuan who came to pick up the plane.

"Ah Jun, you're really inferior. Tang Shuxuan looked at Yin Jun's pale face from the rearview mirror, and said while driving, "You said that you are a big man, and taking a plane is like going to the battlefield, and you are not as powerful as Xiao Tian." ”

"Sister Xuan, look at what you say, where have I ever been on a plane before? One day and one night, it's terrible that I haven't fainted. Yin Jun said, "I'm praying now, get to the hotel early, and then take a shower and sleep, and no one will come to disturb me." ”

"I was going to take you to Hollywood tomorrow. Tang Shuxuan said with a smile.

"Or don't. Yin Jun said, "The day after tomorrow is the day of signing, let's do the right thing first, and then go to postmark my script, and finally go to play when we have time." ”

"You, you are not born with a blessed life. Tang Shuxuan shook his head.

Yin Jun came over with a lot of scripts, and was going to use the postmark to add insurance to himself, which made Tang Shuxuan very surprised when he heard about it.

But after thinking about it carefully, Tang Shuxuan nodded secretly, this method is very good, much better than taking it to the Screenwriters Guild to make records.

After all, there is a risk of leakage, not to mention, even if someone else infringes on your rights and interests, the degree of protection is not so great - with the original script in your hand as a proof, you are not afraid of the lawsuit to the Supreme Court, as long as you have the money to support the cost of the lawsuit.

Hearing that Yin Jun was going to do this, Le Yiling sent Tian Jiachun to be with Yin Jun.

What a character Sister Le is, she has long seen her two assistants thoroughly.

Although Ding Linxiang's personality is more cheerful and more suitable for following Yin Jun to socialize, her personality is not stable enough, and this matter happens to be the most stable.

Therefore, Tian Jiachun is the most suitable candidate.

Moreover, Le Yiling also told Yin Jun that he must buy the best suitcase, and no one can tell the password set on it - even for Tian Jiachun, there must be a place to keep secrets.

This made Yin Jun admire for a while, compared to Sister Le, he is simply the type of stupid.

Therefore, Tian Jiachun and Tang Shuxuan only knew what was inside these three big boxes just now.

Tang Shuxuan's home is in Los Angeles, but not in the city of Los Angeles, but in the suburbs of Los Angeles, 20 kilometers away from downtown Los Angeles, and less than 10 kilometers away from Beverly Hills, the core area of Hollywood.

Beverly Hills isn't a mountain village, it's actually the name of a small town, it's a very large area, located at the foot of Beverly Hills, and winds its way up the hill to the villas of the richest and brightest stars.

In other places, rich people in Europe and the United States like to live in the mountains, but the rich in China prefer to live in the city.

Come back to Tang Shuxuan's home.

A large area here is full of villas, which are called houses in the Americans, and it is also a very famous middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles, especially the majority of Chinese.

The west coast of the United States, that is, Los Angeles and San Francisco, was the first place where those Chinese laborers landed in the United States in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, and for hundreds of years, the number of Chinese here was also the largest in the United States, and finally formed a point where the proportion of Chinese accounted for almost 40% of the total population.

Therefore, there are a lot of Chinese people who can be seen here, and when Yin Jun and they entered the hotel only a few hundred meters away from Tang Shuxuan's house, there were many Asian faces inside, but many of them could not speak Chinese.

Locked the three large boxes into the hotel's large safe, Yin Jun was relieved, and then went up to take a shower and change clothes, and then followed Tang Shuxuan to her house for dinner.

If a Chinese person is in a foreign country, if he entertains friends, the best courtesy is of course not to invite them to eat at a restaurant outside, but to eat at home.

The feeling of eating at home is far less than eating out, although the taste is not necessarily good, but it is better than warmth and steadfastness.

What could be more important than being grounded on the outside?

It's good to be at home for 100 days, but it's so difficult to go out.

It's also strange to say that Yin Jun was depressed when he got out of the car, but when he came out of a shower, he suddenly became energetic, which made Tang Shuxuan amazed, saying that young people are good.

Tang Shuxuan's husband is an electronic engineer, a very honest kind of engineering student, with a small smile, but very gentle, and has prepared a large table of dishes at home.

When Yin Jun and the others arrived, they happened to see Tang Shuxuan's two sons and youngest daughter stealing vegetables at the dinner table.

Seeing that their mother was back, they pounced directly, and their mouths were full of oil, making Tang Shuxuan's face full of oil.

Looking at this warm shot, Yin Jun unconsciously sighed, there are two or three children, children and daughters, it is simply the most perfect configuration for a family.

Tian Jiachun immediately took out the gifts prepared in Xiangjiang, handed them to the children, and came to the door as a guest, which was a necessary etiquette.

Tang Shuxuan's house did not have many guests, so Yin Jun, who didn't seem to be much older than them, became the object of their questioning - the oldest of these children was only 10 years old, and the youngest daughter was only 4 years old, so naturally they did not go to Xiangjiang.

Yin Jun told them about the situation in Xiangjiang, and then chatted with them about some topics that the children were interested in, and by the time they were eating, they were already full of good feelings for Yin Jun and felt that this big brother knew too much.

After dinner, seeing that Yin Jun was in a good state, Tang Shuxuan drove the children to play with her husband, pulled Yin Jun and Tian Jiachun by herself, and talked about signing the contract.

Tang Shuxuan, who studied in college in the United States and is a top student in the film department of USC, is very clear about things like the publication of scripts and novels.

It took her more than two months to translate and refine these two books, and the language was more suitable for European and American book lovers to watch, and then she went out to find those publishers.

There are many publishing houses in the United States, and there are no less than 1,000 large and small.

They have always believed that knowledge is wealth, so they have done a very good job with books.

In the United States in the future, when the electronics industry is extremely developed, book sales will be very good, which has to say that people have a strong mass foundation in this regard.

There are many publishing houses to choose from, but Tang Shuxuan knows Yin Jun's dream, so he naturally hopes to find a large-scale publisher with a good reputation.

As a result, after more than half a month, there are only five or six publishers interested in the two books, and the largest is only after the top 50 in the United States, and the royalty they give is only 4%. -- That's the same amount of royalties they paid for the copyright of the worldwide distribution.

What is the concept of 4% royalty rate?

In the United States, new writers generally use a relatively fixed percentage to calculate their income.

That's the selling price x royalties x the number of first printings.

The price is naturally based on the beauty of the book's printing, generally 15 to 40 dollars a hardcover version, and 5-10 dollars a softcover book.

For ordinary new writers, the publisher will give 5%-8% royalties.

The number of first printing books is generally 5,000 to 10,000 copies.

If the quality of the work is good, then the number of first prints can be increased, but the royalties are generally the same.

The price of 4% is basically difficult to give, and for the publisher, this is a chicken book, which shows that they are not optimistic about the book, and only think that it will take three or five years for the book to have a chance to make a profit.

Moreover, the largest publishing house only gives a minimum of 5,000 first printings, and the books are naturally the cheapest soft-cover books, which means that if a book is published, Yin Jun is likely to only get $1,600 in pre-tax income.

According to the approximate tax rate of annual income, Yin Jun basically doesn't have to pay taxes, and he can get about $1,500.

"Jurassic Park" and "The Da Vinci Code" add up to about $3,000.

At first glance, the income of 14,000 Hong Kong dollars is really too little, not to mention that Tang Shuxuan knows that these two books are very good, and this price is definitely a loss.

If you want to say that after the sales of these two books can have a follow-up increase, it would be good for the royalties to rise, but this publishing house is a big bully, and there is no additional at all, so after Tang Shuxuan thought about it again, he didn't care about it for the time being.

The rest of the publishers also have a lot of oddities, some want to buy out for $1,000, some give 8% royalties, but want to represent all the derivative rights by them, and even participate in the 50% share.

In the end, it was a company called Henry Press, which gave a more suitable price.

This Henry Publishing House, more than 20 years ago, was a bookstore, or a local bookstore in Los Angeles, and its name was Henry's Bookstore, which was the surname of their owner.

It's just that they're doing it well, and they've grown a total of 15 directly-operated bookstores in Los Angeles and San Francisco over the years, so after preparing to expand their business in the last two years, they remembered to be a publishing house.

Doing a publishing house in the United States actually requires a lot of effort, but fortunately, Henry Bookstore has been a bookstore for so many years, and has many channels of its own in terms of printing and sales network, so it is easy to be a publishing house.

But their influence is still too small, they only have a few connections in California, and there are not many out of here, which is the typical style of a small publishing house.

At the same time, Henry Press has a good reputation, and over the decades, they have more than 2 million members, accounting for about 8% of California's population.

Kant Henry, the second-generation owner of Henry Press, is only 33 years old this year, and he is in the prime of life and wants to make a career.

He took a fancy to the two books written by Yin Jun and felt that they were very well written, although they were written by people from Xiangjiang, but the layout of the writing was very good, so he also came to find Tang Shuxuan.

Of course, the price given by Kant is not high, he only needs the rights to distribute in North America, the royalty is 5% of the standard line, the number of first prints of his favorite "Jurassic Park" is 10,000 copies, "The Da Vinci Code" is 6,000 copies, and the price of both softcover books is $10 a copy.

Then if the sales exceed 50,000 copies, the royalty is 8%, more than 100,000 copies, that is, 10%, more than 200,000 copies, give 15% of the highest level of royalties for new authors in the industry, more than 15% are super writers' price codes, newcomers will never get it, and if the royalties exceed 20%, only Michael Clayton and Stephen King can get this price code.

In the end, Kant did not want any other rights, and also gave his own set of sales plans, which seemed very sincere.

Although Henry Publishing only has a network in California, and the most important base for selling books in the United States is in New York, if "Jurassic Park" and "The Da Vinci Code" are not good enough, it is very likely that they will stop at 20,000 or 30,000 copies, but Tang Shuxuan saw Kant's sincerity and the influence of Henry's Bookstore, so he leaned towards him.

After all, Tang Shuxuan knew that Yin Jun only cared about the derivative copyright of TV and movies in the future, and the publication of novels was secondary.

In fact, for these two books, Tang Shuxuan knows that they are absolutely very good, even if Yin Jun doesn't care about sales, the two books with her hard work, she also hopes to have good sales, so that everyone knows Yin Jun's talent and her translation ability.

Now the contract of Henry Publishing House is the best contract that Tang Shuxuan can fight.

Although Yin Jun came to the United States and was ready to sign a contract, Tang Shuxuan didn't know if Yin Jun was satisfied. (To be continued.) )