MMB Chapter 360 Book Publishing
Chapter 360 Book Publishing
Chapter 360 Book Publishing
Because the delivery distance was short, and Liang En had paid an extra fee for expedited delivery, someone delivered the items he ordered by a truck around 2 pm the next day.
After getting these equipment and items, Liang En and Joan of Arc spent an afternoon cleaning out an empty room and turning it into a studio.
Anyway, only Liang En and Joan of Arc lived in this small two-story building with a basement, and most of them were various empty rooms. It was not difficult to clear out one to serve as a studio.
"What kind of work do you plan to create?" Joan of Arc asked while eating the tomato and ham spaghetti in front of her at dinner that night.
Today's dinner was cooked by her. Although Joan's cooking has improved a lot compared to before, the overall situation is still a bit unsatisfactory. Fortunately, this simple cooking will not go wrong.
"The most important thing is that I plan to do a new picture for "Grimm's Fairy Tales." Liang En swallowed the noodles in his mouth and said, "This is mainly because my lawyer reminded me that the publisher has contacted me, so I plan to Come up with something new."
With the continuous publication of stories one by one, the popularity of "Grimm's Fairy Tales" is also increasing. In this case, more publishers come to discuss cooperation.
And the publishers who came at this time are some real normal publishers who are willing to publish these books in a short period of time, and they really intend to publish books.
Instead of those second-hand traffickers who planned to buy the copyright and keep it in their hands, and then make money by flipping these contracts.
These second-hand traffickers are actually quite common in the field of literary publishing, and they especially like to target some new writers, and those new writers are often slaughtered by them because of their lack of knowledge or urgent need for money.
However, the usual methods of these guys are basically ineffective for Liang En, because he can find a professional lawyer to help him deal with these, and at the same time, he doesn't need money urgently, so he has enough time to sell.
These lawyers helped Liang En contact two publishing houses. The English version was published by Bloomsbury Publishing House, while the German version was published by Bertelsmann Publishing Group.
Bertelsmann Publishing Group can be said to be one of the top publishing companies in the world, and ordinary fairy tale books are often not given special attention by them.
It's just because the most original version of the book "Grimm's Fairy Tales" in the world belongs to the famous Brothers Grimm, so as a German company, they will pay attention to it, and then they will be attracted by the quality of the book.
As one of the top fairy tale books in the world, "The Grimm's Fairy Tales" is absolutely excellent in quality, so a top publishing group like Bertelsmann can naturally see its development potential.
So the other party opened a very favorable contract. In addition to the huge discount on the share, it also specifically guaranteed the promotion of the new book in the contract.
And this contract also made Liang En give up his original idea of finding a mid-level publisher, because the reason why he wanted to find a mid-level publisher was because of publicity issues.
Because under normal circumstances, a publishing house that is too small does not have a strong level of publicity at all, which will naturally affect the overall distribution, while a publishing house that is too large often publishes multiple books at the same time, and the allocated resources may not be satisfactory. .
Of course, the current situation is naturally the best.So Liang En changed his original plan and chose Bertelsmann Publishing Group as the partner for the German version.
As for Bloomsbury Publishing House, it was chosen according to Liang En's previous ideas, because this is an emerging medium-sized publishing group, and the main publishing direction is children's literature.
Especially after the other party became popular because of the publication of the Harry Potter series of novels, although the publication of popular novels like "The Kite Runner" stabilized the overall situation, they did not become as popular as before.
Therefore, after discovering the book "Grimm's Fairy Tales", the other party quickly showed the courage when signing Harry Potter back then, and signed the book at a generous price.
However, since most of the contents of this book have already been distributed, the publishing house hopes that Liang En can find a way to make everyone feel fresh when buying the book.
Liang En originally planned to surprise everyone with the three stories that had been withheld and not released before, that is, the three representative stories of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White.
But now he has a new idea, which is to create Mucha print-style illustrations for some of the stories, to make those publications appear more artistic.
After all, Liang En has let everyone know most of the stories of "Grimm's Fairy Tales" online, so if you want to publish a physical book, you must do something unique.
And Mucha's style of painting fits these fairy tales very well, or to be precise, his style of painting fits very well when it comes to shoujo manga and fantasy content.
So for the next whole week, Liang En almost stayed in the studio to start his own creative work. Because he was able to use his extraordinary power to assist in painting, he was now able to create about 5 paintings a day on average.
Purely in terms of extraordinary strength, his current daily limit is to draw 30 pictures, but the problem is that it is much more difficult to create these fairy tales by himself than to carry them, because he needs to spend a lot of time on the design of the pictures.
But then again, thanks to Mucha's genius in this area, he was able to quickly design a large number of patterns in a short period of time. If it were an ordinary person, one pattern a day might be the limit.
After a week passed, Liang En scanned the 32 pictures with a scanner and made an electronic version of them, then sent them to his lawyers, and asked them to see if they could be used.
Although Liang En still recognized his painting level, he felt that it would be more appropriate to consult a professional about the transaction.
"These pictures should be imitated by Mucha. To be honest, if I didn't see these stories for the first time, I really thought they were drawn by Mucha himself." Not long after receiving these pictures, Liang En Received a call from my lawyer.
British and American lawyers tend to have relatively high incomes, especially those dealing with economic affairs, so Liang En's lawyers can see that these things are not unbelievable.
"Then can these things be used?" Liang En was naturally very happy to be recognized by the other party, but he also remembered what he was drawing these pictures for.
"Of course it can be used, but I need to confirm whether the copyright of these pictures is in your hands." Speaking of professional issues, the lawyer opposite immediately returned to his original serious state.
"In the case of copyright, these drawings will be able to be used in separate negotiations with publishing companies, in addition to being beneficial to book sales, they can also sign separate contracts and obtain an additional income."
"Of course, the copyright of these pictures is in my hands." After hearing his lawyer's question here, Liang En replied quite proudly. "Because I painted these pictures."
(End of this chapter)