Losing Money to Be a Tycoon

At noon, Pei Qian and He An went to President Li's Mingfu Family Banquet for lunch.

The main reason why I didn't go to the nameless restaurant was because I didn't have an appointment and couldn't eat.

However, every weekend, Pei Qian reserves the largest private room in the Wuming Restaurant for banquets. He An can have another meal at that time.

He An knew that Mr. Pei was busy at work, and he happened to have to go back to take a rest at noon, so the two agreed to go to an unnamed restaurant again 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" succeeds, but seeing President Pei's self-confidence and very tight-mouthed look, knowing that he can't ask, he has to hold his own. Curiosity, continue to wait for the day when the game is released.

After eating, Pei Qian looked at his watch, and it was less than 3 o'clock.

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

Tomorrow weekend, except for the very few departments that require shifts such as Upwind Logistics, other departments will have holidays. Therefore, arrangements for other departments will have to wait until Monday.

"Which department should you arrange?"

"Well... the destination Chinese website is relatively close, let's arrange it first."

Pei Qian originally wanted to go to the Shocking Hostel, but after all, the Shocking Hostel is far from the city center, and it is a bit troublesome to go there.Pei Qian didn't want to bother too much, so he decided to go again on Monday.

Today, I have arranged the end Chinese website.

The terminal Chinese website is upstairs in Tengda Games. Although Pei Qian usually only needs to take two more elevators to reach it, he has not visited the terminal Chinese website for a long time.

Because it's really nothing pretty.

Although the Endpoint Chinese website is also making money, it does not make much money compared with other industries, and it is very stable, and there will be no sudden increase in income.

Pei Qian has always felt that the department of the end Chinese website is not close to each other, and it is a kind of tasteless state of "the tastelessness of abandonment", so the previous few months were completely indulgent and did not interfere.

However, seeing the steady increase in various revenue data of the End Chinese website this morning, Pei Qian was vigilant and felt that he could no longer let it go.

It just happens to be free now so that we can make arrangements.

When Pei Qian came to the end Chinese website, he first glanced at the work status of everyone.

Well, it's ok, at least better than Tenda games.

When I went to the game department of Tenda before, the group of people stared at the screen intently, either quickly tapping the keyboard with both hands, or frowning, thinking hard, and at first glance they were all focused on working.

But on the end of the Chinese website, everyone’s work status has relaxed a lot. Some people are reading novels on their mobile phones, and some are looking through various data on the website aimlessly. In short, it is a fairly relaxed state.

Although there are no obvious signs of fishing, compared with the working state of Tenda's game department, it is obviously better, which makes Pei Qian very pleased.

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

Zhu Xing'an was a little surprised, because President Pei had not been to the end Chinese website for a whole year to inspect, and he did not give any further guidance to the end Chinese website.

Many colleagues thought that Mr. Pei had forgotten the end Chinese website.

But now that Mr. Pei is here, it means that Mr. Pei has not forgotten the destination Chinese website!

This makes Zhu Xing'an very happy.

Pei Qian smiled: "It's okay, just stop by and have a look, where are the horses?"

Zhu Xing'an said: "In the office."

Pei Qian nodded, went to the office of the group of horses, and knocked on the door gently.

The crowd of horses saw that President Pei had arrived, and was very surprised: "President Pei, why are you here? Please sit down."

Pei Qian sat down on the sofa in the office.

The group of horses poured a cup of tea: "President Pei, came here today, is there any work to be arranged?"

While drinking tea, Pei Qian said leisurely: "I just remembered that I haven't been here for a while, so I stopped by to take a look. What is the current status of the website? Is that class still running?"

Ma Yichun answered truthfully: "The current situation of the website is very good, with steady growth in revenue, especially the number of authors has been increasing."

"There has been a lot of hot books on the website, and the subscription performance of these top books has been steadily improving. In addition, we give authors more shares than other websites, so they are more and more popular with authors."

"Moreover, our website has never been in arrears or unreasonable deductions for manuscript fees. The data is open and transparent, which is also our big advantage."

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

"Online author training courses are still being held, and the effect is remarkable. Now the list of training courses is no longer voluntary, because everyone has to participate, and the number of places is not enough. We can only choose among the emerging authors who have achieved certain results, and In principle, if the previous issue has already come, the next issue cannot come again."

"But even so, the authors are still eager, and readers are clamoring every day to send the authors they follow up to the study class to close the black room for serious updates."

"Whether it is authors with slow codewords, uninspired writing skills, or lack of writing skills, they have made significant progress and improvement after their advanced studies in the study class! Once such an atmosphere is formed, coupled with the old and new model, the study class is The website has cultivated batches of outstanding authors, and the novel content of the entire website has naturally become more abundant and exciting."

Pei Qian was drinking tea, and the more he listened, the more melancholy.

It sounds like the situation is very bad!

Obviously, the end Chinese website has entered a virtuous circle. The income of authors has continued to increase, their writing enthusiasm has been fully stimulated, and their writing skills have also improved with the help of other authors.At the same time, because more and more good works, readers' stickiness to the website is also increasing.

If this continues, the consequences will be disastrous!

Although the current market share of the Chinese website is not as good as that of large websites such as Infinite Chinese website, it is already the top three choices in the minds of authors because of the high revenue and good benefits.

Once the website becomes bigger, it will definitely develop steadily. As long as the person in charge does not have cerebral palsy and does not engage in some mentally handicapped operations, it will be difficult for the website to go downhill.

Pei Qian looked closely at the horses and felt that he was definitely not cerebral palsy.

If this is the case, the future development of the terminal Chinese website is getting better and better, and it must be a high probability event.

It can't go on like this, something must be done!

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

He thought for a while and quickly found a good entry point.

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

Ma Qun did not know why President Pei asked this, and nodded: "Yes, President Pei, since the establishment of our website, you have always emphasized that we should focus on subscription sharing and try not to engage in buyouts."

Pei Qian thought for a while, it seemed that this was indeed decided by himself.

Because at the beginning of the creation of the end Chinese website, the entire website was in a state of no one to care about.

Pei Qian worried that a group of great authors who used buyouts to dig out some foreign stations at high prices would bring heat and traffic to the end Chinese website, so he repeatedly reiterated that he should focus on subscription sharing instead of buying out.

Because there are not many readers, the subscription fee will naturally not be divided into much money. Authors who write books here have no money and will naturally not come.

But now, times have changed.

After the end Chinese website has been developed, subscription sharing is definitely a more motivated model.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-looking works to readers.

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

Ma Qun was taken aback for a moment: "Only buy out the works of his own authors?"

It stands to reason that since a buyout is to be made, a very important use is to dig people from outside stations.

This is because the excellent authors of the outstations are not sure whether they can maintain their current income by subscribing after changing the website, and worry that they will not be satisfied with the situation and will look forward and backward when they are dug.

Therefore, it is relatively easy to dig people in the form of buyout.

As for the works of my own authors, signing a buyout is actually meaningless.

Because a buyout is not an unlimited price, the website must also ensure that it will not lose money.

The website will estimate the manuscript fee that the author can get by writing the subscription fee, and then give a buy-out price higher than the manuscript fee.

If the content written by the author is lower than the value of the subscription, then the website has lost; and if the content written by the author is higher than the value of the subscription, then the author has lost.

But for the author of this site, if someone writes a subscription and makes a lot of money and feels that they can make more progress, then they will definitely not sign a buyout, because it will obliterate fighting spirit; and if it is some subscriptions, it would not make much money. The author of, his own ability is not good, and signing a buyout does not motivate him to work harder, but objectively encourages him to eat and wait to die.

Therefore, the buyout method is easier to use when digging people, but if it is used for your own people, it is likely to cause a lose-lose for the website and the author.

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

Pei Qian looked at the confused expressions of the horses and smiled without saying a word.

Doubts?

It's right to doubt!

I was meant to kill the fighting spirit of the authors!

Many authors know that writing a buyout is actually very easy to write off people.

Because buyouts are generally based on the number of words, the quality of the work will not 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 pay according to the number of words.

For the author, if he writes well and exceeds the price given by the buyout, the money he makes will remain the same, which means he has lost.Therefore, 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. For example, when the data is not good, the editor has the right to ask the author to modify it or finish the book ahead of time; when the data of the book reaches a certain level At the time, the author can ask the website to buy-out and share it; or simply sign a "guaranteed share", that is, buy-out when the subscription does not exceed a certain value, and share it after it exceeds.

But Pei Qian obviously did not intend to adopt this approach.