Chapter 279： Los Angeles

When Xiangjiang was so busy, Yin Jun had left Xiangjiang and took a day and night flight. Among them, he also transferred to Hawaii before arriving in California.

The place where Chinese people like the United States the most is the west coast of the United States closest to China.

It is different from the fatty place on the east coast of the United States. It is more of a relaxed atmosphere. It is not as prosperous and impetuous as New York, so there are also the most Chinese here.

Yin Jun had never been to the United States in his previous life. First, he didn't have enough money. Second, he had to fly a full 24 hours. He felt terrified when he thought about it.

Is the same in this life.

But there is no way, Tang Shuxuan has helped him find a publishing house, talked about the publishing conditions of "Jurassic Park" and "Da Vinci Code", told him to sign the contract in the past, Yin Jun can only stick on his head.

Moreover, he also has a very important task, that is, he has thousands of scripts, variety ideas, etc., and he has long planned to go to the United States to postmark.

Therefore, in order not to be robbed of his future wealth, Yin Jun had to take a plane if he didn't want to take a plane.

Because these scripts and variety creatives add up to a thousand copies, Yin Jun packed three large boxes, so he specially brought Le Yiling's assistant Tian Jiachun to help push the luggage on the one hand and the woman's heart on the other. Help stare when you can post a postmark.

Originally, Yin Jun was also planning to bring Guan Zhilin and Wen Bixia together to play. Just a few days ago, two little Nizi went to Baodao with the original "Wulin Gaiden" crew. This is Jiashi. Organized a business catwalk money event. As a result, during the entire 7-day trip, they earned 200,000 Hong Kong dollars each, and the two little nizis became little rich women.

But Zhang Bingqian planned to go to Australia and New Zealand in the summer. She went with a few friends and her children, and Guan Zhilin was forced to follow along.

Has finished shooting "Stars Know My Heart" Wen Bixia was supposed to come, this little girl has not been abroad yet.

While I was excited, I suddenly found some problems in the post-production of "The Star Knows My Heart". Her eldest daughter needed a lot of supplementary shots, and it took at least a week to complete. This can give the little girl a depression. .

She was not only depressed to come to the United States, but also traveled with Yin Jun, which was the happiest place for her.

It's just that she was depressed, Guan Zhilin was happy, anyway, I can't go, don't you want to go, your little girl who is still sore.

Tian Jiachun has not been on the plane for such a long time, but she can adapt to a lot more than Yin Jun. Yin Jun is soft on the plane, but Tian Jiachun can also greet Tang Shuxuan who is picking up.

"Ajun, you are really inferior." Tang Shuxuan looked at Yin Jun's pale face from the rearview mirror and said while driving, "You said that you are a big man, flying on the plane is just like going to the battlefield. Awesome. "

"Sister Xuan, look at you, where have I been on a plane before? One day and one night, I'm not bad at all before fainting." Yin Jun said, "I'm praying now. I arrived at the hotel early and took a bath to sleep One night, do n’t bother me. "

"I was prepared to take you to Hollywood to stroll around tomorrow." Tang Shuxuan said with a smile.

"It's good to go." Yin Jun said, "The day after tomorrow is the day of signing the contract, we will do the right thing first, and then we will postmark my script, and finally have time to play again."

"Ah, you are born with no blessed life." Tang Shuxuan shook his head.

Yin Jun came with many scripts and prepared to insure himself by postmarking. In this way, Tang Shuxuan was very surprised when he heard about it.

But after careful consideration, Tang Shuxuan nodded secretly, this method is particularly good, and much better than getting the script guild to record.

After all, there is a risk of leaking. Not to mention, even if someone infringes on your rights and interests, the degree of protection is not so great-with the original script in hand as proof, the lawsuit is not afraid of reaching the Supreme Court, as long as you have money to support the fight The cost of the lawsuit.

Heard that Yin Jun was going to do this, and Le Yiling sent Tian Jiachun together with Yin Jun.

What kind of character is Sister Le, she has already seen her two assistants thoroughly.

Although Ding Linxiang's personality is more cheerful and more suitable for coming along with Yin Jun, her character is not stable enough, and this thing happens to be the most stable.

So, Tian Jiachun is the most suitable candidate.

Moreover, Le Yiling also told Yin Jun that he must buy the best suitcase, and the password set above could not be told by anyone—even for Tian Jiachun, there must be a place to keep secrets.

This made Yin Jun admire for a while, and compared with Le sister, he is just the type of stupid.

Therefore, Tian Jiachun and Tang Shuxuan only knew what these three large boxes were just now.

Tang Shuxuan ’s home is in Los Angeles, but not in downtown Los Angeles, but in the suburbs 20 kilometers away from downtown Los Angeles, less than 10 kilometers away from Beverly Hills, the core area of ​​Hollywood.

Beverly Hills is not a cottage, it is actually the name of a small town. The area here is very large, located at the foot of Beverly Hills, and winding up the mountain, there are many villas of rich stars.

In these places in Europe and America, the rich people like to live on the mountain, but the rich in China prefer to live in the city.

Return to Tang Shuxuan's house.

A large area is full of villas, which is the house that Americans say, and it is also a very famous middle-class community in Los Angeles, especially the Chinese.

The west coast of the United States, the areas of Los Angeles and San Francisco, were the places where Chinese workers first landed in the United States in the late Qing Dynasty. In the past hundred years, the Chinese here are also the most in the United States, and finally formed the proportion that the Chinese account for almost 40% of the total population .

Therefore, there are many Chinese people who can be seen here. When they entered the hotel, which was only a few hundred meters away from Tang Shuxuan ’s house, Yin Jun had a lot of Asian faces, but many people did not speak Chinese.

Locked three large boxes into the hotel's large safe, Yin Jun was relieved, then went to take a bath to change clothes, and then followed Tang Shuxuan to her house to eat.

Chinese people are in foreign countries. If you entertain friends, the best courtesy is of course not to entertain them in restaurants outside, but to go home for dinner.

The feeling of eating at home is far inferior to eating outside. Although the taste is not necessarily good, it is better than being warm and down-to-earth.

Outside, what is more important than being practical?

Have a hundred days at home, so difficult to go out.

Is also very strange to say, Yin Jun was all mentally depressed when he got off the bus, but after taking a bath, he suddenly got up, and Tang Shuxuan was surprised, saying that young people are good.

Tang Shuxuan's husband is an electronic engineer. He has a very honest character of engineering students. He doesn't have many smiles, but he is very gentle. He also prepares a large table at home.

Yin Jun When they arrived, it happened that Tang Shuxuan ’s two sons and little daughter were stealing food at the dinner table.

When they saw her mother came back, they threw them over, all with greasy mouths, and made Tang Shuxuan's face full of oil.

Looking at this warm lens, Yin Jun sighed unconsciously. There are two or three children, some children and children, which is simply the most perfect configuration for a family.

Tian Jiachun immediately took out the present prepared in Xiangjiang, handed it to the children, and came to visit as a guest. This is a necessary etiquette.

Tang Shuxuan ’s family has not many guests, so Yin Jun, whose age does not seem much older than them, became the object of their inquiry-these children are only 10 years old and the youngest daughter is 4 years old, naturally there is no To Xiangjiang.

Yin Jun told them about the situation of Xiangjiang, and then talked to them about some topics that the children were interested in. By the time they had dinner, they already had a good impression on Yin Jun and felt that this big brother knew too much.

After dinner, watching Yin Jun's condition was good, Tang Shuxuan drove the children to play with her husband, pulling Yin Jun and Tian Jiachun himself and talking about the signing of the contract.

Tang Shuxuan ’s university in the United States is also a high-profile student of the film department of the University of South Carolina. He is very clear about the publishing of scripts and novels.

She spent more than two months translating and perfecting these two books. The language is more suitable for European and American book fans to watch before going out to find those publishing houses.

There are many publishers in the United States, and there are thousands of publishers.

They have always advocated knowledge as wealth, so they have done very well in books.

In the future, when the electronics industry is extremely developed, book sales can be very good. This has to be said that people have a strong base in this respect.

There are many publishing houses that you can choose from, but Tang Shuxuan knows Yin Jun's dream and naturally hopes to find a large-scale one with a good reputation.

The result ran like this for more than half a month. There are only five or six publishers interested in the two books, and the largest is only after the US ranks 50th, and their royalties are only 4%. ——This is the amount of royalties they have given to the global distribution of copyright.

What is the concept of the 4% royalty rate?

In the United States, newcomers generally use a relatively fixed ratio to calculate their income.

That is the price x royalties x the number of first copies.

The selling price is naturally the exquisite degree of printing of the book, generally a hardcover version is 15 to 40 dollars, and a softcover book is 5-10 dollars.

Ordinary newcomer writers, the publisher will give 5% -8% royalties.

The number of first prints is generally 5,000 to 10,000.

If the quality of the work is good, you can also increase the number of first copies, but the royalties are generally unchanged.

The price of 4% is basically difficult to give. In terms of publishing houses, this is a tasteless book, which shows that they are not optimistic about this book, but only think that this book will take three to five years to be profitable. Opportunity.

Moreover, this largest publishing house has only a minimum of 5,000 copies, and books are naturally the cheapest soft-cover books. This means that if a book is published, Yin Jun is likely to only get it. Pre-tax income of $ 1600.

According to the annual income tax rate, Yin Jun basically does not need to pay taxes, and can get about 1500 US dollars.

"Jurassic Park" and "Da Vinci Code" add up to about 3000 dollars.

At first glance, the income of 14,000 Hong Kong dollars is really too little, not to mention that Tang Shuxuan knew that these two books are very good, and this price is absolutely terrible.

You have to say that after the subsequent sales of these two books can increase, the rules of royalty increase will be just fine, but this publishing house is a big bully, there is no additional at all, so Tang Shuxuan considers it again and again, temporarily Leave it alone.

The rest of the publishing houses also have a lot of wonderful things, some want to buy out 1,000 US dollars, and give 8% royalties, but they hope that all their derivative rights will be represented by them, and even participate in the 50% share.

Finally, a company called Henry Publishing House gave a more suitable price.

This Henry Publishing House was a bookstore twenty years ago, and is also a local bookstore in Los Angeles. The name is Henry Bookstore, which is the surname of their boss.

It's just that they operate very well. Over the years, they have developed a total of 15 direct-operated bookstores in Los Angeles and San Francisco, so after preparing to expand their business in the past two years, they remembered the business of publishing.

Being a publishing house in the United States actually requires a lot of effort. But fortunately, Henry Bookstore has been a bookstore for so many years. It has many channels in the printing and sales network, so it is considered to be a light vehicle.

But their influence is still too small, just a little network in California, there are not many out of here, this is the typical style of a small publishing house.

At the same time, the reputation of Henry Press is still very good. In the past few decades, their members have more than 2 million members, and have accounted for about 8% of the population of California.

The second-generation boss of Henry Press, Kant Henry, is only 33 years old this year. He belongs to the young and powerful and wants to do some business.

He took a fancy to the two books written by Yin Jun and felt that they were very well written. Although they were written by Xiangjiang people, the layout of the writing and writing was very good, so he specially came to Tang Shuxuan.

Kant ’s price tag is of course not high. He only needs to distribute copyright in North America, and the royalties are 5% of the standard line. The number of first copies of his favorite "Jurassic Park" is 10,000, and the "Da Vinci Code" is 6000. Volume ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Both softcover books are priced at $ 10 per volume.

Then if the sales volume exceeds 50,000 copies, the royalties are 8%, more than 100,000 copies, 10%, and more than 200,000 copies, giving 15% of the highest rank royalties for newcomers in the industry, and more than 15% are the price of super writers Newcomers can never get it, and if they exceed 20% of the royalties, only Michael Clayton and Stephen King can get this price tag.

Finally, Kant does not need any other rights and interests, but also gives his own set of marketing plans, which seems very sincere.

Although Henry Press only has a network in California, and the most important base for selling books in the United States is in New York, if Jurassic Park and Da Vinci Code are not good enough, it is likely to stop 20,000 or 30,000. The book was published, but Tang Shuxuan saw Kant's sincerity and the influence of Henry Bookstore, and he was inclined to him.

After all, Tang Shuxuan knew that Yin Jun only cared about the derivative rights of future TV movies, followed by the publication of novels.

In fact, for these two books, Tang Shuxuan knew that it was absolutely excellent. Even if Yin Jun didn't care about sales, two of them had her hard work, she also hoped to have a good sales, so that everyone knows Yin Jun's talent, And your own translation skills.

The contract of Henry Press is already the best contract that Tang Shuxuan can fight for.

Although Yin Jun came to the United States and was about to sign a contract, Tang Shuxuan did not know whether Yin Jun was satisfied. (To be continued.)