Chapter 273 Turning losses into profits
On this day, the most lively place on Yuandian Chinese website is Lin Han’s book review area. Readers from all directions gather here. The hardcore from Hanlin Academy also came over to support the idols, and even applied for two deputy moderators.
Bantui was originally the most powerful recommendation of the website. Only one book can appear there every day, symbolizing an honor and also increasing a lot of income. It is the stage that every author hopes to be on the table.
Now the news that Lin Han has received is that today is Lin Han’s special recommendation. In a few days, three novels, "The Three-Body Problem", "Jurassic Park" and "I, Robot" will be included in this recommendation position one after another. Once a while, it will help expand its influence and at the same time alleviate the anger of other authors.
The website's big recommendation is that there are too many monks and too little porridge. Tens of thousands of authors looked at these few recommendations, but Lin Han has taken away the best ones since he was about to finish.
If I really recommend Lin Han’s book for several days in a row, not only the authors will rebel, but readers will not be able to accept it.
However, the noise has not passed yet. The backstage editors were almost shocked by Lin Han's books. This was indeed their big investment in a large amount of recommended resources, but the sales momentum was too good.
In five hours, the number of purchases of these novels exceeded 3,000, of which 3,900 people purchased "Jurassic Park", 3,500 people bought "Three-Body Problem" and "Martian Rescue", and "I, Robot" was less, just 3,000.
If it is placed in an online novel, three thousand people subscribe to the novel should be considered a high-quality novel and get a high-quality badge.
With the decrease in online piracy, genuine subscriptions are almost step by step. It is not uncommon for 7,000 to 8,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000 to 10,000. However, the sales of publishing books are not calculated in this way. Lin Han’s four books are sold in one go. Readers will not spend money after reading one for 8 yuan.
If you subscribe to ordinary online novels, you will subscribe to the chapter today and you can continue to subscribe and spend the next month tomorrow and the next month.
You should know that these books have been published a long time ago and have been read by many people, but when they first appeared on Origin Chinese, they were sought after like new books.
According to the current trend, the peak period for ordering at night has not arrived yet, so it should not be difficult to make a sprint for tens of thousands of people.
When Lin Han received such data, he felt a little strange. He used to sell new books to be as many as tens of millions, and he was not excited at that time.
But when he saw the order volumes of several thousand, he felt very happy. It was obviously less, which was really strange.
"I hope they don't lose too much, otherwise they won't ask me for the electronic copyright of the subsequent novel in the future." Lin Han joked to Li Wenyuan next to him. Li Wenyuan was also invited to join Yuandian Chinese, but the recommendation was not as strong as Lin Han.
Li Wenyuan looked at the busy figure outside the conference room, and he couldn't help rolling his eyes, "Come on, they are sure to make a profit. You can calculate it yourself. It's just the first day now. Will the novel order explode after the promotion of your two movies begin?"
"Anyway, try to prevent them from losing money." Lin Han's goal is very simple. He is sure that his book is worth more than 4 million and he will continue to write books in the future. This is a long-term cooperation project.
At this time, Editor Tan, who hurried in, had a smile on his face, "Sorry, I just negotiated with an advertiser and made you wait for a long time."
At this time, they were in the conference room of "Fantasy Age". As both bosses, they almost became hand-off managers. Now the magazine is recovering well and all indicators are growing steadily.
Li Wenyuan looked through the October issue of Fantasy Age, and he said, "How is our magazine's business situation now? Is there any obvious improvement?"
"Of course, this should be almost an industry myth. Our October issue of Fantasy Age began to publish the first three chapters of "The Three-Body Problem", which happened to be serialized in the previous "Martian Rescue", achieving seamless connection. Not only did the sales not fall, but instead rose a little."
Lin Han didn't know where the magazines were publishing their books, so he asked: "Is Science Fiction World still publishing "I, Robot"? I seem to remember that they said that the publication would end in September, and I forgot it myself."
Editor-in-chief Tan took out a statistical map and handed it to Lin Han, "September is over, and they are now publishing works by another writer. Although well-known science fiction writers still trust "Science Fiction World", many people have already transferred to our magazines."
The statistics in front of you are exactly the sales trend since the resumption of "Fantasy Age", and it has been growing steadily almost every month. Although it is still a long way from best-selling magazines, at least it can take on its own profits and losses.
The magazines are still on sale this month, and the statistics are not so timely, but the sales of September's magazines reached 280,000 copies. In the past few months when the Fantasy Age was discontinued, it was no wonder that it was an industry myth!
"It looks pretty good. After the series of "Three-Body Problem", Lin Han's "Three-Body Problem 2" has also come out. The speed of your serialization is not as fast as his release of new books." Li Wenyuan said with emotion. He is the largest shareholder of the magazine, but he did not charge any penny from it.
Even though the magazine turned losses into profits in less than five months, he firmly invested these profits into the royalties, allowing the editorial department to make a commission at a higher price to create a better "Fantasy Age".
Lin Han is very supportive of Li Wenyuan's behavior. If you want to make money from magazines now, it would be like killing a chicken to get eggs. The immediate interests are far inferior to long-term interests.
Editor-in-chief Tan is very glad that he has met two such enlightened bosses. He can write articles to attract popularity for magazines, and can also let himself show off his skills and not ask about specific matters, and his vision is still long-term.
"We are not profitable now by relying solely on magazine sales. The sales revenue of channel merchants, postal and retail is close to balance. In addition to sales, advertising is also an important source for us. The advertisement for cover pages is 100,000 yuan once, and the prices of two and three back covers are more than 50,000 to 80,000 yuan respectively. As for the advertisement for inner pages, it is cheaper, spanning advertisements are 70,000 yuan, small advertisements for inner pages are 27,000 yuan, and column titles and column cooperation are 50,000 yuan."
Editor-in-chief Tan bounced the page of a4 paper with his finger, "Of course, the total price will be 10% cheaper if you make an annual loan. We have sold genuine color page advertisements in four locations."
"It sounds quite profitable. There are so many advertising positions that can make money every month." Lin Han murmured to himself, "Next, we should collect more fantasy novels of other types. We cannot be limited to science fiction, otherwise we can only follow the "Science Fiction World" and eat dust." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!