"How could it be so expensive? Why?"

"Yes, the normal price of an illustrator in our magazine is only a few hundred yuan, isn't it? Lao Zhang, don't make random quotes. How can the price of an illustrator be so outrageous?"

"He's not a great painter.

I see some students from art academies, and the price of a painting is only 1,800 yuan."

Some editors were so surprised that they didn't say anything. Some editors felt that Zhang Hongyu was completely alarmist and was deliberately raising the quotation. They were worried that the publishing house would add more tasks and requirements to them in the future and they didn't want to take the responsibility.

"Oh, you are so embarrassed to say that, then why don't you take a look at the quality of the paintings drawn by the illustrators contracted by our publishing house, and what is the quality of the illustrations provided by Xiao Ding's author?

Can this be the same level?

Don't open your eyes and tell lies without conscience.

To put it bluntly, the paintings of the illustrators contracted by our publishing house are so embarrassing to be called illustrations.

It's almost as good as a comic book.

It’s still a middle-to-low-end comic.”

After all, it was related to his own interests, and even the interests of the entire department, so Zhang Hongyu from the design department immediately started arguing with each other. The two sides soon started arguing about this issue. In the end, Zhang Hongyu directly resorted to the International Original Painter Trading Platform.

I will show you the illustrations above that look similar to Ding Yun’s illustrations, or even slightly inferior to Ding Yun’s illustrations.

What price can it probably be sold for?

Then the other editors had nothing to say.

"Without high-end illustrations, if we just rely on the illustrations provided by the few illustrators we contracted to produce a hardcover edition, I think it would be better not to do it."

“If you sell a hardcover version printed with the illustrations and designs of author Xiao Ding, you can even give back to the readers, but if we use our own illustrators and use our own designs to print the hardcover version and sell it.

I guess others will just think we are cutting leeks.

That’s probably all I have to say. It’s up to you, the editor-in-chief, to make your own decision on how to choose.”

After Zhang Hongyu said this, Editor He also hesitated a little. In the end, he just asked people to print an additional 100,000 copies of the hardcover version of Ding Yun's novel, and an additional 200,000 copies of the paperback version. The others were temporarily printed.

Don't mention it.

Let's wait and see.

Just give her some time to ask professionals to calculate the cost risks and then consider whether to specifically add a hardcover version project.

…

After the New Year, one week before the start of school, Ding Yun received the other half of the royalties from the two magazines, and also received the advance royalties for additional printing. Even if all income taxes are removed, her current specific

His net worth is approaching four million.

It's almost time to win the lottery.

As soon as the money arrived, Ding Yun immediately spent money to rent servers and other necessary things to build a website.

And he took an artificial intelligence directly from the soul space and asked it to build and maintain the website for him. With the help of artificial intelligence, the astronomy network envisioned by Ding Yun was built in less than two hours.

, now everything can be considered ready.

All I owe is readers and works.

In terms of attracting readers, Ding Yun's specific operation is to let the artificial intelligence register some small accounts and go to major literary forums, novel discussion bases and other places to promote. If advertising is not allowed, he directly contacts the owner of the relevant website.

Money to buy an advertising space or something.

But before attracting readers.

The most important thing is to fill in the works.

In order to make the data in the Zhutian Literature Network library not too ugly, Ding Yun first moved the world's copyrighted works that have expired and anyone can use printed and published works at will to his own literature website, and classified them into categories, and then entered

The internal bookstore of the cultural communication system purchased a large number of relatively cheap and popular novels.

These novels have no other advantages. The only advantages are that they are cheap and there are very few localization modifications required. Artificial intelligence can directly modify them in batches.

Some of these shorter novels were directly uploaded to literary websites by Ding Yun in their entirety, while some of the longer ones were uploaded first, and the rest were slowly serialized, and the content is still completely free for the time being.

There is no way, after all, you have to attract users first.

In addition, Ding Yun has also added the establishment of a registered author area and permission to upload works to various astronomical websites. As for author benefits, there is no profit channel for the time being, so Ding Yun can only

First, a basic guarantee of one thousand per month is given.

And the guarantee that excellent works can be published.

Of course, there are many restrictions. First of all, you must at least sign a contract. After signing the contract, you must complete a fixed number of words per month. As for the number of readers, because the website has just started, Ding Yun did not impose any restrictions.

I will slowly make up for it as it develops and expands in the future.

After struggling like this until the start of school, Ding Yun finally successfully completed the Zhutian Astronomy Network he founded, and began to let the artificial intelligence advertise frantically.

There is no very blunt advertising.

There is no direct promotion of Astronomy Network.

Instead, I use the most outrageous fragments from some outrageous articles to serve as eye-catching headlines, attracting people to click on them and curiously enter various astronomy websites.

for example--

"Princess, does she realize her mistake?"

"Your Majesty, Princess she ran away with your cousin!"

——

"Princess has been kneeling for three days. Do you realize that you are wrong?"

"The princess died the next day..."

——

"Princess, the prince has been kneeling at the door for three days."

The princess gnawed on the chicken leg:

"So, does he realize his mistake?"

——

The family suffered a tragedy, and the younger brother was wronged. Five years later, the God of War returned and ordered a hundred thousand soldiers to come!

——

The God of War returns and finds that his five-year-old daughter is living in a doghouse! With an order, one hundred thousand retired soldiers rush to the place!

——

You know, this is a world where Internet literature has not yet developed. The majority of netizens have never seen this operation or such an outrageous plot, so they quickly fell into the trap and clicked into the Astronomy Network.

, and then they opened the door to a new world.

And whether it is to continue watching, you must register and log in to read the chapters, or to comment and complain about the illogical plot, but only register and log in to comment, all of them are constantly adding new users to Ding Yun.

In addition, there is also the operation of recruiting new players to upgrade their levels.

Not long after, to be precise, less than a week after Ding Yun started school, her Astronomy Network had nearly two million registered users, as well as about 20,000 new registered authors, and tens of millions of comments.

.

It may still be far away from becoming a giant in online literature, or taking the online literature industry off.

But at least it's a very good start.

The rest can only be done slowly.
Chapter completed!