“what？”

Ryan's tone was a little suspicious.

Suddenly interrupted by Li Weiwei.

He and the female assistant named Jenny were a little confused about what Li Weiwei meant.

After all, in the eyes of Westerners, this is an extremely impolite performance.

Li Weiwei didn't care so much at the moment, and showed a hint of apology on his face, but the meaning in his eyes was still obvious.

If you don't let me say it, I'll say it too.

Some helplessly spread their hands.

Ryan had no choice but to let her continue.

Undoubtedly.

The relationship between the two classmates at this moment is likely to be more meaningful than money.

Wang Dongdong also heard the conversation between several people from the translator in his ear.

Looking at Li Weiwei's eyes, he couldn't help but have a hint of gratitude.

It is said that girls are extroverted.

Li Weiwei is no exception at this moment.

"Ryan, Wang's proposal will not in fact reduce the profits of Bristol, we Chinese are more subtle, if you British words.

If you pay the royalties, what if you don't sell a copy of this work? It's like a gamble.

Of course, if you use the sharing method, Wang can pay for the operating expenses, which will save a sum of money for the Bristol company, and if the sales are dismal, you will only pay some labor costs and energy, but what if the sales are not bad? Then it is not only the operating expenses that are earned, but the less cost and more profit. Isn't it? ”

Li Weiwei almost finished his words in one breath.

Ryan and the female assistant named Jenny looked at each other and did not speak.

Obviously, such a simple truth is very clear to both of them.

It's just that there was no such convention before.

In fact, whether it is Chinese or European, they will do things according to convention, which is a prerequisite for ensuring efficiency.

But Li Weiwei's words obviously moved both of them a little.

Comparatively.

Paying a large royalty in Bristol's current financial position was indeed a difficult problem.

Although this point is not clear to Li Weiwei and Wang Dongdong.

But Ryan and Jenny get it right.

"Ryan, I don't think Mr. Johnson will have a chance, and if you do, of course, I hope that the book you said will succeed in impressing those people and getting them to pay you out of their pockets."

Western humor is always a little inexplicable in Wang's eyes.

But he could hear it from the blonde girl's mouth.

Dividing is feasible!

This was undoubtedly the outcome he would most like to hear.

"Maybe we can talk about ways to work together, and I'm curious how you came to a partnership agreement with the author of this work."

In the gap when Wang Dongdong was secretly happy.

Li Weiwei had recently told Lane what Wang Dongdong had mentioned to him before, the beginning and end of the cooperation between Dongjiang Literary Magazine and Lin Tao.

Ryan was a little surprised that a well-known magazine would reach such a cooperation agreement with an unknown author.

After all.

For publishers or magazines, this is undoubtedly a way of cooperation that does not take advantage of the cheap, and even a little stupid.

After Wang Dongdong heard this, he glanced at the translator, and then showed a wry smile.

This Englishman really can't open which pot to mention.

It's a shame for him to put it on hold until now.

Lin Tao's kid slapped the table at the beginning, and he fooled him like this.

Except for Lin Tao himself, I'm afraid no one is sure that kid can really get the highest sales share.

You know, the original contract was signed that if the sales exceeded 1 million copies, it would be distributed according to the highest share ratio.

At the time of signing a publishing agreement.

One million copies is almost an unimaginable number.

In 2005, before "Kung Fu Panda" came to the fore.

The best-selling winner of the year is a work from the Harry Potter series.

Annual sales are less than two million.

Very few of the remaining works can exceed 500,000 copies.

In this case, who would have expected that "Kung Fu Panda" would create miracles one after another, rushing all the way, killing gods when encountering gods, and killing Buddhas in the Buddha's block, setting records one after another, breaking through the sales figures of 1 million, 2 million and 5 million.

Until now, 2006 has just begun.

But the annual sales of "Kung Fu Panda" of 4 million copies have almost already booked this year's sales champion.

Other than that, there's no other home.

Some media even believe that it will be difficult for any work to exceed this data in the next few years, unless Xiaobai himself makes another breakthrough to rewrite the record he created.

This is, of course, an extremely bold prediction.

Without the media knowing, only Wang Dongdong himself may understand that if nothing else, this is almost a sure thing in the class.

Although Lin Tao's second work did not see the complete manuscript and was only an opening prologue, even so, Wang Dongdong almost decided that this work would set a new sales record in China.

It's no surprise that even more than Kung Fu Panda.

It's just that he was surprised that such a work would be made by a high school student.

"Wang, I think you're a good publisher."

After a long silence.

Wang Dongdong was a little surprised to hear Ryan's evaluation of himself.

immediately smiled, but in his heart he was a little disapproving.

In fact.

Wang Dongdong's behavior is indeed extremely challenging in the eyes of Lane, who has always been a standard German, although Lane has become a British citizen, he is still a German at heart.

This practice has exceeded the boundaries of the standard.

Had it not been for Bristol's financial woes and Mr. Levi's personal relationship with him, he would never have agreed to such an unacceptable offer.

5 million copies?

Oh!

No, even 1 million copies seemed to him an impossible number.

Maybe it's luck.

It's the same as when Rowling ran into a wall when she published Harry Potter.

Although Kung Fu Panda didn't suffer from such a situation, it was a stroke of luck that it was able to strike such a sharing agreement with Bristol.

The final signed publication agreement stipulates:

TK Literary Magazine is the partner in investing £2 million in the sales of Kung Fu Panda throughout Europe.

Published and marketed by Bristol, and enjoys the European publishing rights of Kung Fu Panda.

As a report on the sale of the publishing rights of the work, the author Xiaobai, that is, Lin Tao, will receive 30% of the after-tax profits.

Dongjiang Literary Magazine, including Li Weiwei and Wang Dongdong, will receive a 30% share of after-tax sales profits, of which Wang Dongdong and Li Weiwei will each share 5%, and Bristol, as the publisher, will receive the remaining 40% of after-tax royalties.

Of course.

One of the legal prerequisites for such a distribution scheme is that Kung Fu Panda has an annual circulation of more than 1 million copies in Europe.

If it is less than 1 million copies, then Bristol will adopt a tiered approach with different distribution ratios, all the way up to less than 50,000 copies.

This sharing model is almost a copy of the publishing contract signed by Wang Dongdong and Lin Tao.

The only difference is that this time it will be the three parties who will participate in this big gamble, not just Lin Tao and Wang Dongdong.

After the contract is signed.

Next.

It's a long wait.

China in the Far East.

The Chinese New Year of 2006 is approaching.

Wang Dongdong showed no sign of returning to China. (To be continued.) )