Chapter 762

Cecil and linden look at Yang Rui curiously.

Yang Rui's youth is completely beyond their expectation.

As a member of the publishing house, they are responsible for dealing with authors. They have seen too many young and promising authors, but that does not include academic publishing.

An academic monograph takes too much time. Think about it. It takes students a semester or even a year to learn a textbook with hundreds of pages. How long does it take to write a textbook?

If it is a brand-new research-oriented academic book, the time consumed by the writing of comparative papers is very terrible. In order to write a paper of about 10 pages, many scholars need a year or two of continuous research. Even if they brush the paper fast, three or five months of busy work is inevitable. How long it takes to assemble the paper into a book is daunting to think about.

Even if it is a non research academic monograph, it is time-consuming to write rigorous and correct. In ancient China, the best literary scholars in the country were often selected for the historical compilation work. Referring to the historical materials from the whole country, it would take several years to complete the work. We can see the difficulties.

After all, the timeliness of monograph is weak, so people put forward higher requirements for its correctness and functionality.

If there is something wrong with a paper, people will laugh at the author for two sentences at most, as long as it is not intentional fraud.

There is something wrong with an academic monograph, but the degree of disgrace is different.

If you work in a serious University, many people will lose their jobs.

In such an environment, any young person who writes academic monographs will be strictly examined.

Of course, successful people will get high rewards.

In a flash, Cecil thought of Professor Leo again, so he shivered, woke up, made a surprise expression, and said with a wild smile: "Mr. Yang Rui, it's great to finally meet you. I've admired you for a long time..."

Professor Leo of the University of Chicago is the most rigorous and authoritative critic of academic monographs, New York University Press saw Professor Leo's article and immediately sent Cecil, who was in Japan, to the North! From Beijing.

Professor Leo's comments are obviously more valuable than analysts at New York University Press or Norton press.

The private sector can't afford to hire scholars like Professor Leo. Even if they can afford money, the credibility of scholars who serve the private sector will be greatly reduced.

Although scholars in the business world make a lot of money, they are not discriminated against by scholars in the academic world for a day or two.

The conservative New York University Press is most obedient to the status quo, so that employees like Cecil don't have to read scholars' books in person, just express their opinions according to the comments.

Cecil's point of view now is admiration. Many Chinese people are stunned by his excellent acting skills and facial expressions.

It's a bit of a shock after Huo Yuanjia killed the Russian Hercules.

"Mr. Cecil has praised too much, not enough, not enough." Seeing that Yang Rui didn't speak, President Liu went forward to help him be modest.

"Not too much, not too much." Cecil said quickly.

Yang Rui coughed and said with a smile, "I don't think it's too much."

President Liu angrily rolled his eyes and whispered to Yang Rui in Chinese: "you should be more serious. This is a foreign publishing house, no better than the domestic one."

"Foreign publishers speak better, Mr. Cecil." Yang Rui sat down and motioned for the others to sit down.

Around a few tables were instantly full of professors, everyone gathered around, as if to engage in a super brainstorming.

There are curious students around the back, whether you understand or not, first look around and say, the sound of pulling tables and chairs is creaking and noisy.

"We are all good talkers." Linden also moved his position to face Yang Rui, Dean Liu and others, and answered with a smile.

"Mr. Yang Rui, I'm Linden from Norton press." Linden introduced himself and said, "you contributed to genomics published by our publishing house. Manager Daniel likes it very much and has made a good plan. Oh, here is our plan..."

Seeing so many people, linden knew he needed to compete.

Linden stood up and came to Yang Rui. Like a speech, he cheered up and said, "Mr. Yang Rui, Norton press is an unusual publishing house. We are not the largest publishing house in the industry, but our publishing ability is very strong. Moreover, unlike the New York University Press, we can not only sell your books to the East, And it's the East and the West. It's no problem in the United States. ""Mr. Linden, New York University Press also has the distribution capacity in the United States, and we are one of the largest university press." Seychelles also came forward to Yang Rui and refuted Linden's words.

"One of the largest university publishers? You use too many attributives Linden tut tut two, said: "the level of University Press is well known, if it is the University of Chicago Press, it may be able to talk about the United States distribution, New York University Press, can only put books in second-hand bookstores."

"Our goal is to provide channels for universities and New York University Press in the United States to ensure that biology professors from universities in the United States can see your books." Cecil is really weak, so instead of meeting Linden directly, he explained to Yang Rui, and said, "we will put your book on the list of our key recommendations. I guarantee that the sales of genomics will be at the top of education books..."

Two Americans scrambled to speak in front of Yang Rui, as if two lawyers were standing in front of the judge, President Liu and others were stunned.

Such positive foreign friends are rare.

And in this process, the version tax given by both sides also increased, and soon increased to 16%.

Although academic monographs are not as popular as popular novels in terms of large sales and low royalties, 16% is really not good. The 30% limit figure is for Nobel Prize winners, or high-end celebrities like Hawking, who can get a very high number when writing academic monographs.

Yang Rui is still a newcomer in academic publishing. No matter how good the two publishers' expectations are, they don't think they can surpass 10000 copies. As for whether they can reprint, it's also a matter of chance. After Cecil gave 16% of the price instead of New York University Press, it's also the limit.

Linden then gave 15%. He didn't dare to add any more. Instead, he began to increase the number of first prints. He opened up 2000 copies, which immediately shocked Cecil.

The first print of 2000 copies and the total sales volume of 2000 copies are two concepts. Especially for academic monographs, it often takes a long time to ferment. The first print of 2000 copies means that the estimated sales volume will exceed 10000 copies, which is a considerable number and a great risk to the publishing house. Think about it, when this year's students go to school or graduate, Next year's students will see at least 2000 copies of genomics in the second-hand publishing market, which will have a great impact on the second-hand bookstores. Academic publishers, in fact, all rely on the second-hand publishing industry to survive, and the latter will certainly give pressure.

"I guarantee that New York University Press will reprint genomics once..." Cecil cleverly adopted a circuitous tactic. 100 reprints are reprints, and 50 reprints are reprints. In fact, many academic monographs have more than 100 reprints. New books are mixed with old books, and students share one book, as well as the total number of photocopied books, Is the actual amount of reading a book, the latter is often ten times the former.

"Mr. Yang Rui!"

"Mr. Yang Rui!"

Cecil and linden scrambled to speak, their voices drowning out the noise of the dining room.

They talk faster and faster, and there are fewer and fewer professors and students around who can understand.

But, understand, is a strange expression.

We are all smart people. According to the current information, Norton press has given a 15% royalty and a sales promise of 2000 copies, which means that Yang Rui can get the income of 300 US dollars multiplied by the book price.

Even at the lowest price of $30, that's $9000.

As for the book price of $300, the Chinese people here dare not think about it.

9000 The dollar is enough exaggeration!

"Not yet!" More than one person thinks so.

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