During class the next day, Xu Xiangdong was still thinking about Jiang Yulou's answer.
From this answer, he had a feeling that Jiang Yulou was not the same person as him.
After all, he is a poet and writer, but his ideas are still so childish.
Can't he see the trend of the world?
Still, he didn't have much ambition to begin with, and his current achievements were all due to fate.
Perhaps, it is too early to draw conclusions now and we should observe more.
Jiang Yulou has no time to care about other people's thoughts. He is already busy enough. In addition to school affairs, he also has to seize the time to finish the book "The Conspiracy".
He had to admit that it was not easy to write a spy-suspense novel. Although he knew the general plot, he still needed to restore some classic plots, which had already burned out a lot of his brain cells.
Fortunately, the writing progress of the novel is going quite smoothly. The first draft of the novel, which costs more than 200,000 yuan, is expected to be successfully completed around October.
While Jiang Yulou was busy writing manuscripts at school, the poetry publishing house also made a final decision on the remuneration for his first collection of poems.
When Li Zhenpeng brought the collection of poems to the meeting for discussion, everyone in the editorial department was shocked.
If at the beginning, they still had doubts about Jiang Yulou's talent and doubted whether those popular love poems were really written by him, then now, it can be said that their doubts are gone.
Moreover, the editors also thought about his age, which was eighteen years old, far from the golden age of creation.
Everyone simply couldn't imagine how many poems he would come up with that would amaze the world if given enough time and deep accumulation.
At the seminar, there was no doubt about the publication of Jiang Yulou's poetry collection, but the focus was on the royalties.
Poetry publishing houses can't afford to pay a top dollar of two hundred yuan for a poem, and the royalties for the number of print runs are not a big deal. The real problem is that they are a central-level publication, and many older generation poets want to promote their style and do not require any remuneration.
Now, they have promised such a high remuneration to a young man. If an old comrade cheats on him, not to mention the president of the poetry magazine, even the Writers' Association, the higher-level unit, will not feel comfortable.
Just when things reached a deadlock, the key to breaking the situation appeared.
Documents were issued from above to reissue royalties to poet writers in those special years and those who had not received royalties since then.
Among them, one was even a founding marshal.
Now, things have reached a breakthrough.
At the last meeting, editor-in-chief Li Zhenpeng once again strongly suggested that the Poetry Publishing House should keep pace with the times and not forget profit while pursuing art.
Since Jiang Yulou's works are well-known and can bring profits to the magazine, then, instead of letting him continue to cooperate with Yanhe Literature, it is better to directly pay him the full royalties plus additional royalties for the number of printings.
So that's how it was settled.
After internal discussions within the Poetry Magazine, Jiang Yulou was specially invited to go to the editorial department of the Poetry Magazine to discuss signing matters.
After hearing the conditions given by Editor Li, Jiang Yulou agreed without asking anything more and signed the contract on the spot.
According to the contract, the publication and distribution of "Sauvignon Blanc" will be handed over to People's Literature.
At that time, the Poetry Society will pay Jiang Yulou the royalties for this book based on the number of prints.
Therefore, the royalties that Jiang Yulou can get are the basic royalties for each poem of "Sauvignon Blanc" added together to get the basic royalties, plus the royalties for the number of prints. The amount of money derived from this is given to Jiang Yulou royalties.
And this royalties are settled monthly.
Assuming that the monthly circulation of "Sauvignon Blanc" is 100,000 copies, then the royalties that Jiang Yulou can receive that month are 4,200 yuan for the basic royalties, plus 4,200 yuan for the printing fee, which is equal to 8,000 yuan in total. Four hundred dollars.
Even though it was only 8,200 yuan, this was in 1979 when the currency was strong!
There are more than 8,000 yuan, which is already a huge amount of money. The price of the Jialing motorcycle, which was just launched this year, is only 1,100 yuan.
Of course, that is just a preliminary negotiation plan. How much you can actually earn depends on the sales volume of your work.
As for the price, there are twenty-one poems in total, priced at 50 cents per book.
Don't think it's too expensive. Magazines with Jiang Yulou's love poems are selling very well now. Even if they cost 50 cents a copy, you won't have to worry about sales.
It’s hard to say whether there are 200,000 or 300,000 copies. If there are only 100,000 copies, post offices and Xinhua Bookstores in various places can easily digest them.
What Jiang Yulou didn't expect was that after finalizing the publishing plan, Poetry Magazine, or rather, the People's Literature Publishing House behind Poetry Magazine, would publish books so efficiently.
In the morning, he negotiated the book publishing plan and signed the contract with the Poetry Publishing House. The next day, they got the ISBN, and then they started typesetting overnight that night. On the third day, they started printing, and the first printing was 100,000 copies.
It took five days to complete the process from negotiating the contract to starting production and printing. This speed simply shocked Jiang Yulou.
Good guy, it turns out that publishing organizations in this era are also so efficient.
He asked curiously, only to find out that the news that he was going to publish a collection of poems had long been revealed by the Poetry Publishing House. After learning the news, Xinhua Bookstore came directly to his door waving banknotes and asked for a bulk order for his collection of poems.
Apparently, Jiang Yulou’s previous cooperation with Yanhe Literature made them a lot of money.
It is indeed the year 1979 when literary works flourished wildly.
If it were a later generation, just a book number could take a child for several months.
This was still an era before computer typing and computer printing, everything was typesetting.
The news that Jiang Yulou's first collection of personal poems, "Sauvignon Blanc", was about to be published spread quickly, and all poetry lovers in Yanjing City knew about it.
While the teachers and students of Yan University congratulated Jiang Yulou, they were also filled with envy in their hearts.
This is so worthy of bragging that for some people, it is not an exaggeration to even write it into the family tree.
It is not that no one in the entire Yanda has published a book or collection of poems, but they are all highly respected seniors in the literary and poetry circles.
And what about Jiang Yulou?
Just a freshman, a young man with no hair on his mouth!
While Jiang Yulou was proud of the blessings from his classmates and teachers, it also made him distressed.
Obviously he had planned well and tried to keep a low profile during the four years of college, but now he is doing well, and he would not dare to talk about it when he is older. But in the small area of the school, he can arrogantly say that no one in the world does not know you.
I made myself a cup of tea, sat comfortably at my desk and enjoyed the rare leisurely moment.
It is good to be famous, but if he is too famous, more classmates will come to see him every day.
It was okay to talk about literature or poetry, but he was afraid that some girls would be concerned about his appearance.
The girls at Yan University were naturally different from the ordinary vulgar girls, but who made him already have his heart set on them?
Especially when he rejects a girl’s advances, the girl’s eyes look heartbroken...
Oh, what a worry!
