Chapter 56: Assembly Line Creation
Boss's figure has always been perfect, even if he was fighting with "Golden Book House" all day and night, it didn't make him lose half a pound of flesh! From afar, it looks like a ball of meat piled up there!
"Sit down! There are drinks in the fridge, help yourself to whatever you want!" Fatong said to Suman. Given their relationship, they didn't need to be overly polite!
"I came today because I want to implement a plan! But I need your support!" Su Jin said, taking a bottle of mineral water and drinking a mouthful.
"What plan?" Fatong's expression turned attentive.
"Before that, I'd like to ask, how many copies of books discovered on Dream Net are usually sold in physical sales?" Su Jin asked without directly stating his plan.
"The books on Dream Net, although some are bestsellers, most of them don't sell well. Generally speaking, a book that is recognized by netizens and selected for publication sells around 400,000 to 500,000 copies per year," said Fat Head honestly. These numbers aren't necessary to hide.
Su Jin thought for a moment and said: "I don't understand much about the publishing house, what I want to know is how many books does the publishing house need to sell in a year to make a profit?"
"If it's a large publishing house like Hongwen Press, a book would need to sell around 1,000 to 2,000 copies to guarantee a profit!"
"A few thousand? Not a single book can make a profit unless it sells at least a few thousand?" Su said, furrowing his brow.
"Indeed! Generally speaking, a batch of books in a printing factory is about 1,500 copies! The pricing of the book is usually the cost plus 10%! That means we need to sell at least 1,200-1,300 copies to ensure no loss! Generally speaking, one book needs to sell out the entire first batch issued by the printing factory to guarantee a profit for the publishing house!" said Fat General leisurely.
"But it seems like good books on the market can't reach this standard?" Su Jin said with some doubt.
"Of course!" said the fat general without hesitation, "In fact, even if it's a book published by the best publisher in the world, only thirty percent of books can be guaranteed to make a profit! After all, the unpredictability of the market is something that ordinary people cannot control!"
The pattern of the publishing house is a bit like "wide collection and thin income"! Generally speaking, ordinary publishing houses publish hundreds of books every year. If more than half of them can make a profit, it's enough to make their bosses feel satisfied! After all, among these hundreds of books, they can always pick up one or two bestsellers!
On average, the publisher can continue to maintain it! If a publishing house publishes hundreds of books and not one bestseller, then it's no wonder that such low professional quality leads to the closure of the publishing house!
In fact, this is also the reason why several state-owned major publishers in the ancient city have always been a thorn in our side. After all, money can move people's hearts! Although Dream Network's books are rarely bestsellers, they usually sell around 40,000 to 50,000 copies, and the risk is relatively low!
"For a publishing house, finding such a place is really a piece of fat meat! No wonder they're jealous! Just the other day, I heard that several publishing houses came to secretly contact some of our popular writers. Fortunately, they usually have a good relationship with our publishing house and informed me in time, otherwise we would have been poached!"
He said afterwards, Fatong couldn't help but feel a bit resentful!
"Poaching people?" Su Jin's heart skipped a beat as he said, "Is it those few major publishing houses coming to poach people?"
Boss Wang was taken aback, seemingly not expecting Su Yan to ask this question. After a moment's thought, he replied: "No, it's just several small publishing houses!"
Su Jian's heart sank, was it really so? This didn't exceed his expectations. In fact, he had some understanding of China's publication policy! In today's China, the publishing industry is also one of the most traditional fields!
There is indeed a bias in this traditional field against emerging networks. In the past, early networks were mostly published by Taiwanese publishers! The mainland side did not gradually open up until after 2008.
That is, the publishing house of Boss Peng is a private one, and Su Hangfeng is also the vice mayor of Gucheng. In the absence of clear documents, all aspects will give some face to make Su Jin's online publications possible.
This is also why Su Jing wanted to find a publisher through Su Xingfeng from the very beginning! Because he knew that without Su Xingfeng, no publishing house would publish his book! The strict publication system had already directly killed him off!
This is also the case, although several state-owned major publishers are envious of Bao's wealth, they have not intervened for a reason. If these state-owned publishers had intervened, Bao's life would not be so comfortable!
"After all, do we still want to do this?" Su Jian was a bit hesitant. From the reactions of several publishing houses, it can be seen that although the country has not explicitly prohibited the publication of such books, at least there is no support for them. It's even uncertain whether there will be suppression in the future.
To put it simply, the current Su Jin is just rubbing against the national publishing policy. The most important thing about rubbing against the ball is to grasp a degree! Can't cross the line, otherwise it will be killed! But can't be too square, or there's no profit to talk about!
But where is this degree? Su Jin doesn't know! Is he now attracting the attention of the higher-ups? Su Jin also doesn't know! But what he only knows is that what he will do next will be a huge stimulus to the current country, the current publishing house, and even the entire nation!
Based on his experience, he can judge what kind of reaction will be produced after such stimulation, is this really called overreaction!
He had the intention of going to ask for advice from Su Xingfeng, which was not surprising. Su Xingfeng's experience and ability were not something he could compare with. Most importantly, he was his father, and he would absolutely stand on his side when considering problems, and would never harm him.
But he eventually gave up, because he felt that he had already developed a psychological dependence on Su Hangfeng. Firstly, such unprecedented events in history might not even prompt Su Hangfeng to give the right advice. A more likely possibility is that Su Hangfeng, out of love and care for his own child, would instead offer more conservative opinions!
On the other hand, he also felt that he already had his own independent career and would face all sorts of things in the future. He couldn't always go back to ask his father, or else he would be too incompetent!
"Whatever! If a man dies, the birds will still sing in the morning; if he doesn't die, he'll live for ten thousand years! Let's just do it this way! Anyway, there's no dead end! Even if that day comes, I won't lose miserably!" Su Jing said to himself.
"Boss Huang, I want to discuss with you a plan called 'assembly line creation'!" Su Jin said firmly, looking at Boss Huang.
