Chapter 256: Chapter 256
"It’s not bad, the performance is pretty good, it should get a little popular for a while. However, this author’s novels have a strong sense of disjointedness, I only read the beginning and didn’t continue..."
"No way, I saw the backend performance looked outstanding!"
The other editor seemed puzzled.
"It’s true," Hu Zai sighed helplessly:
"There are quite a few typos, which is one thing, but the problem is the author is too lazy to fix them even when readers point them out. And the main thing is, no matter how well the plot is written, how captivating it is, as soon as he pushes female characters, it’s a complete blunder and looks terrible."
In all the years Hu Zai had been an editor, he had never seen such a split-personality style and could only sigh at the moment: "Ah well, overall the flaws don’t overshadow the merits, let’s hope there are good results to show for it—by the way, have you read ’Lingxiao’?"
"Where’s the time..."
The editor sighed: "Several projects in the copyright department this year are in constant disputes, authors need back-and-forth communications, two chief editors in our group, one on maternity leave, one got married, I’m swamped..."
If it weren’t for the overtime pay, they would really not be able to handle it.
"But, once we get through this month and things ease up next month, we can start catching up on updates, just thinking about being able to read more is kind of exciting, isn’t it?"
The two unfortunate corporate slaves consoled themselves with this.
Before August arrived, Chu River did another big thing.
She spent 35 million to buy back all the rights to Chen Jingbai’s first work.
This price was a bit low compared to his current status, but not too much.
Besides, his first work had an immature writing style, which didn’t cause much of a stir at the time. A certain copyright company bought all the rights for 8 million, which created quite a buzz back then. But they were just a middleman, buying rights mainly to sell at a higher price later.
However, their asking price was too high, with that money, capital could buy Chen Jingbai’s new works with even more buzz.
So, negotiations never came through.
And now, seven years later, 30 million is already far beyond what they expected!
With Chu River’s deliberate promotion, it naturally made the news again with much fanfare, and under this hype, ’Lingxiao’ was updated to 420,000 words, achieving unprecedented daily sales of 100,000.
The editorial department was filled with joy.
Although this time the copyright didn’t go through their channels, and naturally, there was no share, the author’s increased fame meant rising worth, and things would only get better in the future.
Moreover, it attracted more investors to inquire about their other copyrights.
They were, of course, only happier.
However, Chu River wasn’t quite satisfied.
After spending the 30 million, Chen Jingbai, feeling he owed Little He a lot, barely left himself 10,000 yuan after saving up 19 million to give it all to Little He.
She had taken on two more special effects projects, the money hadn’t been fully used yet.
So here she went ahead with the animation of the first installment while turning around to negotiate the full rights of the second one.
The style of this one was quite steady and mature, as some company bought it back then for 13 million, originally planning for a big IP development but due to unsuccessful investments and lack of funds, it got stuck with them.
Now someone came with 40 million to buy it, after internal discussions and some bargaining, they successfully reacquired the rights for 45 million.
But that’s all there was to it.
Chen Jingbai breathed a sigh of relief: "Little He, stop wasting money. Was the term for the copyright contract of my first two books set far out? But from the third one onwards, I required that they start production within five years of selling the rights, otherwise the rights would be reclaimed. Now there’s only a year left, they must have already initiated, otherwise, that money would be wasted."
"If you buy now, it’s unlikely for them to sell, it’s better to wait calmly for their copyrights to expire or for the production to finish, then decide whether to recover or repurchase based on the word-of-mouth." Fınd the newest release on NoveIＦire.net
By then, it’ll be much cheaper.
Chu River sighed—"I’m out of money too!"
She gritted her teeth—"Your work has to be a magnum opus! Waiting is fine, but you should negotiate the current rights while waiting for a few animations to air, then I’ll have the money to surpass them. Since the company is decent, you can ask them if they want to invest, I’m open to them coming in but only with dividend rights."