Perhaps it was just after the Spring Festival, or perhaps it was because Renmin University Press wanted to establish a good relationship with Lin Han and also included the latter book under its own publishing house, so the settlement of manuscript fees went very smoothly.

In the teahouse, Zhao Ming, the vice president of the People's Congress Press, sat next to the rattan chair. He handed a piece of paper to Lin Han and Chen Jiaxuan, and said with a smile: "Xiao Lin, our sales statistics in January have been found. Although there is still some funds that have not been recovered, we decided to subvert the royalties to you in advance. It was too late before the Spring Festival, so it should still be too late now, right?"

"Mr. Zhao, you are so polite to say this. I feel very comfortable working with your publishing house."

Generally speaking, the settlement of royalties will not be too fast, because there are so many sales points across the country, and the specific numbers have not been counted yet.

Chen Jiaxuan carefully looked at the sales numbers above. She actually had already understood these numbers, and now she was just calculating them.

In January, "I, Robot" started selling, and three major online sellers in physical bookstores showed their strengths. The total sales volume exceeded 480,000 copies, and the electronic version sales volume was 210,000 copies.

The novel's explosive power is not strong enough, but its victory is stable enough. In February, it is still tenaciously staying at the end of the sales list, but the rest of the books listed with it have basically completed the January trip of the bookstore.

Stamina is a relatively critical issue. Lin Han makes a little news from time to time, and the reputation of "I, Robot" is also slowly fermenting. Now the total sales volume has reached 620,000 copies, and it is extremely firmly moving towards millions of sales.

Lin Han and Chen Jiaxuan were just thinking about when that moment would come, May or June? Because after the novels of the English and Spanish were published, it would definitely drive the sales of the Chinese version in China.

Sometimes readers don’t know what books to read, and some news will help them make choices. In the eyes of many people, they can publish English versions of books, which is definitely a good book, so whether it is following the trend or not, it is a huge advantage.

If the 480,000 physical books are based on the stepped royalties they set, they will enjoy a 10% royalty, and a book is priced at 30 yuan, which means that Lin Han can get 1.44 million yuan in pre-tax income from the sales of physical books.

This income is very high for ordinary people. On the surface, it took two months to get 1.44 million yuan.

But for a writer, this income cannot even be ranked in the top 50 writers’ rich list. Other people’s books are sold well and copyrights are sold, so they naturally lead.

As for the 210,000 electronic sales there, according to the 3:7 share of the website and the publisher, Lin Han, an e-book priced at RMB 5, can only get about 75,000, which is better than nothing compared to the physical version.

This is mainly because the price is cheap and the share ratio is too low. First, it is divided by the website and then by the publishing house. Finally, when it comes to Lin Han, it is only about 7% of the price.

This is why he chose to directly publish the English version of the novel on Amazon. "i,rbt" can get a 70% sales share.

How much is the difference between 7% and 70%? As long as people who are not blind can see that reducing the blood sucking of publishers can increase so much profit.

Back to the point, Lin Han couldn't help but raise his eyebrows after seeing his income of RMB 1.515 million before tax. He smiled and said, "It seems that with this book alone, I can buy a house in Yanjing City."

The sales money is the most in the first month, and there will be a decreasing situation in the next few months, but there will be hundreds of thousands of yuan. The monthly income of hundreds of thousands of yuan was something Lin Han could not have imagined before.

"As the first female work of publishing, you are still a few of them who can sell you such good things. Among the writers we work with, your income is already considered medium. If the next book is handed over to us to continue operating, I believe it will break through this income."

Zhao Ming is a picture of it. If the manuscript fee is just issued, there is no need to invite Lin Han and Chen Jiaxuan to the teahouse to explain in person that the manuscript fee is fake, and it is true that he wants to act as an agent for "Martian Rescue"!

Lin Han replied calmly: "The latter one should be better than the previous one, and you can't go backwards, step by step."

"Mr. Zhao, I have some opinions on the royalty sharing. The royalty agreement we signed is based on the total sales volume, not based on the sales volume that month. That is to say, the total sales volume is now 620,000 copies, and our royalty is not 10%, it should be 12%.

Chen Jiaxuan put forward her own opinions: What is the income of more than one million yuan, and even endorsements of ten million yuan have to be stingy.

Zhao Ming blew up and explained, "Xiao Chen, this is the custom of publishing houses. In February, we will count the 2% royalty in the previous period and multiply 480,000 copies by 2% royalty. This is the content of the guaranteed agreement. After reaching one million copies, we will add the 3% royalty and add it a little bit."

In fact, this is also a trick of the publisher. If you want to grasp the author's money, they have to continue to work with themselves, otherwise the settlement of novel publication may take a long time.

But Renmin University Press still disdains to use this method to attract people.

"So that's the case. Since it's the industry practice, we have to abide by it." Lin Han said, and he began to slowly calculate that he seemed to have to pay a tax of 160,000, and the only one he actually got was about 1.34 million yuan.

At the same time, he had to pay Chen Jiaxuan's literary agent's share. Including the 80,000 pounds in the previous one, he had to pay Chen Jiaxuan a 10% commission, which is about 200,000.

Chen Jiaxuan has been busy for so long, and the commission of 200,000 yuan does not seem to be much, but this is only a part of it, and there are still many that have not been received.

"Mr. Zhao, we are not secretly talking. You know how popular Lin Han's new book "Martian Rescue" is on the Internet. At the same time, we decided to sell the English publishing rights to Penguin Publishing Group. You can check the quality of the novels at that time. This time we do not require ladder royalties, but require that they are the same as Penguin Publishing Group, reaching 15%.

When Zhao Ming heard this, he shook his head first, "Impossible, the 15% royalty is too high. Lin Han is now just a two-star writer at best, and five-star writers can basically enjoy this treatment."

However, after Zhao Ming looked at Lin Han and Chen Jiaxuan's relaxed expressions, he couldn't help but pound, so he asked in a low voice: "Has Penguin Publishing Group really given you such high royalties?"

"Of course, if you don't believe it, I can give you a sneak peek at the contract. This is not a commercial secret. If overseas publishers give high prices and the royalties given by domestic publishers are still low, we cannot agree."

Lin Han is now confident. As long as he speaks out on the Weibo post, he wants to find a publishing house to cooperate with, the publishing house's phone number will definitely overwhelm him.

Zhao Ming was hesitating now. He gritted his teeth and said, "Can I show me the first 60,000 words of "Martian Rescue"? I will go back to the publishing house to discuss it. I can't decide the 15% royalty directly."

"Okay, I'll send it to your email later."

If we can cooperate with a familiar and huge publishing house, it will be a good thing for Lin Han.

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Chapter completed!