At noon, Pei Qian and He An went to Mr. Li's Mingfu family banquet for lunch.

The reason why I didn't go to the nameless restaurant was mainly because I didn't have a reservation and couldn't eat.

However, every weekend, Pei Qian reserved the largest private room in the nameless restaurant for banquets, and he could invite He An to have another meal at that time.

He An knew that Mr. Pei was busy with work, and it happened that he was going back to rest at noon, so the two agreed to go to the nameless restaurant together for a meal on the weekend, and then said goodbye to each other.

He An obviously still has a very strong curiosity about how the game "Mission and Choice" will succeed, but seeing that Mr. Pei is full of confidence and his tone is very tight, he knows that he can't ask, so he has to suppress his curiosity and continue to wait for the day when the game is released.

After eating, Pei Qian looked at his watch, it was not yet 3 o'clock.

It's Friday afternoon, and there's still time to arrange another department.

Tomorrow weekend, except for a very small number of departments that need to be rotated such as headwind logistics, other departments will have a holiday, so the arrangements of other departments will have to wait until Monday.

"Which department are you going to arrange?"

"Hmm...... The end point Chinese network is relatively close, let's arrange it first. ”

Pei Qian originally wanted to go to the Palpitation Hostel, but after all, the Palpitation Hostel is far away from the city center, so it is a bit troublesome to make a trip. Pei Qian didn't want to toss too much, so he decided to go again on Monday.

Today, I will first arrange the end point Chinese network.

The end Chinese network is upstairs of the Tengda game, although Pei Qian usually only needs to take two more elevators to get there, but he really hasn't been to the end Chinese network for a long time to see.

Because there's really nothing to see.

Although the end point Chinese network also makes money, it does not make much money compared to other industries, and it is very stable, and there will be no sudden income surge.

Pei Qian has always felt that the department of the end point Chinese network is not next to each other, which is a kind of chicken rib state of "tasteless food and discarded pity", so he completely let it go in the past few months and did not ask.

But this morning, seeing the steady increase in the revenue data of the terminal Chinese Network, Pei Qian was vigilant again, feeling that he could not let it go like this.

Now that I have my hands free, I can make good arrangements.

Pei Qian came to the end Chinese network and first glanced at everyone's work status.

Well, it's okay, at least better than the Tengda game.

When I went to Tengda's game department before, the group of people were all engrossed in staring at the screen, either tapping quickly on the keyboard with both hands, or frowning and meditating, and they all looked at it as if they were all engrossed in their work.

But on the side of the end Chinese network, everyone's work state is much more relaxed, some people are holding mobile phones, some people are aimlessly looking through the various data of the website, in short, it is a fairly relaxed state.

Although there are no obvious signs of fishing, compared with the work status of Tengda's game department, it is obviously much better, which makes Pei Qian feel very gratified.

Zhu Xing'an, the current editor-in-chief of the Chinese network, saw President Pei and hurriedly got up to greet him: "President Pei, why are you here." ”

Zhu Xingan was a little surprised, because Mr. Pei had not been to the end point Chinese network to inspect the work for a whole year, and he did not give any further guidance to the end point Chinese network.

Many colleagues thought that Mr. Pei had forgotten the end point of the Chinese network.

But now that Mr. Pei is here, it means that Mr. Pei has not forgotten the end point of the Chinese network!

This made Zhu Xingan quite happy.

Pei Qian smiled: "It's okay, just by the way, what about the horses?" ”

Zhu Xingan said: "In the office. ”

Pei Qian nodded, came to Ma Qun's office, and knocked lightly on the door.

Ma Yiqun was also very surprised when he saw that it was Mr. Pei who had arrived: "Mr. Pei, why are you here?" You may be seated. ”

Pei Qian sat down on the sofa in the office.

Ma Yiqun poured a cup of tea: "Mr. Pei, I came here today, is there any work to be arranged?" ”

Pei Qian said leisurely while drinking tea: "I just remembered that I hadn't been here for a while, so I stopped by to have a look." What is the current state of the website? Is that class still going on? ”

Ma Yiqun replied truthfully: "The current situation of the website is very good, the revenue is growing steadily, especially the number of authors has been increasing. ”

"There have been a number of popular books on the website, and the subscription results of these top books have been steadily improving, and we give authors more shares than other websites, so they are becoming more and more popular with authors."

"Moreover, our website never defaults or deducts manuscript fees for no reason, and all data is open and transparent, which is also a big advantage for us."

"Many authors have come to our website to open books to test the waters, and the reputation of our website in the circle is getting better and better!"

"The online author training course is still being held, and the effect is remarkable, and now the list of training courses is no longer voluntary, because everyone has to participate, and the number of places is simply not enough. We can only choose from among the new authors who have achieved a certain amount of success, and in principle, if you have already been here in the previous issue, you can't come back in the next issue. ”

"But even so, the authors are still flocking to it, and readers are clamoring every day to send the authors they are chasing to the study class to close the small black house and update it seriously."

"Whether it's a writer who is slow, uninspired or lacks writing skills, there is obvious progress and improvement after studying in the class! Once such an atmosphere is formed, coupled with the old with the new model, the study class has cultivated batches of excellent authors for the website, and the content of the entire website is naturally richer and more exciting. ”

Pei Qian drank tea, and the more he listened, the more melancholy he became.

That sounds like a bad situation!

Obviously, the end point Chinese website has entered a virtuous circle, with authors' incomes continuing to increase, their enthusiasm for writing being fully stimulated, and their writing skills improving with the help of other authors. At the same time, because there are more and more good works, readers' stickiness to the website is also increasing.

If this continues, the consequences will be unimaginable!

At present, although the market share of the terminal Chinese network is not as large as that of a large website such as Infinite Chinese Network, because of its high score and good benefits, it is already the top three choices in the minds of authors.

As long as the person in charge does not have cerebral palsy and does not engage in some mentally retarded operations, it is difficult for the website to go downhill.

Pei Qian looked at Ma Qun carefully and felt that he was definitely not cerebral palsy.

In this case, the development of the end Chinese network is getting better and better, and it must be a high probability event.

We can't go on like this, we have to do something!

Pei Qian is also an Internet reader, and he knows a little about these things in the online literature circle.

He thought about it for a moment, and soon found a good entry point.

"At the moment, our website is still based on subscription sharing, right?"

Ma Yiqun didn't know why Mr. Pei asked this, and nodded: "Yes, Mr. Pei, since the establishment of our website, you have always emphasized that you should focus on subscription sharing and try not to buy out." ”

Pei Qian thought about it, it seemed that this was indeed set by himself.

Because at the beginning of the establishment of the end Chinese network, the entire website was in a state of no one's interest.

Pei Qian was worried that Ma Group would use buyouts to dig up some god authors from outstations at high prices, bringing heat and traffic to the terminal Chinese network, so he repeatedly reiterated that he would mainly focus on subscription sharing and not engage in buyouts.

Because there are no readers, the subscription share naturally doesn't get much money, and the authors don't make money writing books here, so naturally they won't come.

But now, times have changed.

After the end point Chinese network has been developed, subscription sharing is certainly a more motivating model for authors. Because the better the writing, the higher the subscription, the more money will be made, so the authors will work hard to polish the plot and dedicate better works to readers.

Pei Qian took a sip of tea and said, "This principle has to be changed." In the future, we will do both sharing and buyout. However, we only buy out the work of our own authors! ”

Ma was stunned for a moment: "Only buy out the works of your own authors?" ”

It stands to reason that since it is going to be a buyout, a very important use is to poach people from the outstation.

Because the excellent authors of the outsite are not sure whether they can maintain their current income by subscribing after changing websites, they are worried that they will not adapt to the soil and water, and they will look forward and backward when they are dug up.

Therefore, it is relatively easy to poach people in the form of buyouts.

As for the works of their own authors, it doesn't really make sense to sign a buyout.

Because the buyout is not an unlimited high price, the website also has to ensure that it will not lose money.

The website will estimate the manuscript fee that the author can get by writing a subscription share, and then give a buyout price that is higher than the completion fee.

If the content written by the author is lower than the value of the subscription, then the website is at a loss; And if the content written by the author is higher than the value of the subscription, it is the author's loss.

But for the authors of this site, if people make a lot of money by writing subscriptions, and feel that they can make more progress, then they will definitely not sign a buyout, because it will wear out the fighting spirit; And if it is some authors who don't make much money by subscribing, their own ability is not good, and signing a buyout will not motivate him to work harder to write books, but will objectively encourage him to eat and wait for death.

Therefore, the buyout method is easier to use when poaching people, but if it is used by one's own people, it is likely to cause a lose-lose situation for both the website and the author.

That's why Ma Yiqun was full of doubts about Mr. Pei's buyout strategy.

Pei Qian looked at the confused expressions of the horses, smiled and said nothing.

Confused?

Doubt, that's right!

I was originally trying to kill the fighting spirit of the authors!

Many authors know that writing buyouts is actually easy to scrap people.

Because buyouts are generally based on the number of words, the quality of the work is unlikely to affect the author's income. As long as the contract is strictly followed, no matter how rubbish the author writes, as long as there is no obvious violation of the contract, the website will have to pay according to the number of words.

For the author, if he writes well and exceeds the price code given by the buyout, the money he earns remains the same, which is equivalent to his own loss. So, they will lack the motivation to write well.

Of course, in order to avoid these problems, many websites add a lot of supplementary clauses to the buyout contract, such as: when the data is not good, the editor has the right to ask the author to make changes, or finish the book early; When the data of the book reaches a certain height, the author can ask the website to buy out and transfer the shares; Or simply sign a "guaranteed share", that is, buy out when the subscription does not exceed a certain value, and take the share after exceeding.

But Pei Qian obviously did not intend to use this method.