Chapter 384: Summer Vacation!
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
“Yes.” Secretary Xiao Liu nodded. Then, he got agitated again. “Currently, because our Zhong Dian website is too explosively popular, many companies contacted us to purchase the copyright to adapt our app. Negotiations are currently going on for all the copyrights for the novels of the five Supreme Gods, and many have already been sold. And the amount earned from these copyrights…” Speaking up to this point, he paused for a while, then cautiously said, “Extremely high!”
Copyright! The explosive popularity on the internet had resulted in various developments regarding the copyrights of the novels!
This was indeed a super good piece of big news. Though a single copyright alone might not be able to be sold for much, with so many books, if they were all sold, how much money would that bring in?!
“This is good news!” Hong Weiguo was shocked. “Then, Xiao Liu, currently, how much have we earned from the various copyrights?”
Hong Weiguo understood the value of the copyrights. However, he didn’t have a clear idea of how much the copyrights for the online novels could be sold for. He only knew that the copyrights would definitely be worth a lot of money!
“CEO Hong, currently, the movie adaptation copyright for the novels of the Supreme God, Dark Dragon of the Universe, has been sold for 1.2 million, the copyright for the television drama has been sold for 850,000, the copyright for the online gaming adaptation has been sold for 1.6 million, the copyright for the publication of the simplified Chinese version has been sold for 2 million, and the copyright for the comic has been sold for 1.5 million.” Speaking up to this point, Xiao Liu looked at the document again. “Adding up everything, the total is… 7.15 million. This is only for the copyright of one novel.”
Upon hearing what he said, Hong Weiguo and the others stared at each other and took in deep breaths at the same time.
7.15 million!
This figure seemed much inferior to the one from the smartphone reading app, but the significance behind this was definitely extraordinary!
Copyright development, what did this mean? This meant that the online novel website still had much more potential to be discovered!
If one novel’s copyright was sold, there would be a second one! A third one!
By then, the authors would also write better works, and then it would snowball till a solid and huge amount. In that case, coupled with the earnings from the subscriptions, it would increase in many folds!
Reputation effect, this was the reputation effect!
“Old Hong, looks like this time, we’ve earned big money!” Mu Tie sighed. “Though it looks only so-so now, in the future, when it increases in scale, we can better join forces with various companies in various aspects and form a big network! A true network formed between the internet and reality!”
“Yes!” Liu Yihui remarked. “We can venture into other aspects through the novel website. After there are more sales of copyrights, by then, we can firmly take control of the publishing, film, drama, online gaming, comic, and other various channels! Once these channels open… Hehe, we can expand towards anything related to literature and words!”
Three people, by only saying these few sentences, had decided on so many business services. No wonder Xiao Liu said that these were even more impressive compared to purely earning from subscriptions!
After all, there was a limit to the subscription earnings, because there was only a limited number of people who were willing to read books. It was very possible that once it grew towards a certain extent, it would reach a point of saturation.
But there was no limit to carrying out expansions through the copyrights!
If people didn’t read books, they would still watch movies and dramas. If they didn’t watch movies and dramas, they would play games. If they didn’t play games, there would still be other aspects that they would come into contact with. Even little children would read comics adapted from novels to kill time.
And once all these had been expanded, by then, the level of influence of Sangle, Jianbao Plaza and Turkey Software would definitely be more wide-reaching!
“Sigh,” Hong Weiguo took in a deep breath. “This child Dali…” Speaking up to this point, he didn’t really know what kind of tone he should use. He only sighed and helplessly said, “Who would think that such a big thing was initially just for that small rascal to squander on?”
“This…” Mu Tie also felt that the world was pretty amazing. “Back then, how much money did Dali spend to make this? It would cost at least tens of millions, right?”
“How is it possible to cost so much.” Hong Weiguo shrugged. “Back then, he only spent 2 million to buy a novel website that was on the verge of closing down.”
Mu Tie: “…” Liu Yihui: “…”
The office was silent for a full one minute, then Secretary Xiao Liu cautiously said, “Oh right, CEO Hong, there is something else that I forgot to say just now…”
“Something else?” Hong Weiguo felt that there was too much information to take in today. “What else is there?”
“Mm…” Xiao Liu looked at the document. “Currently, a few novels at our website have been spotted by an editor at Merika. They’re planning to translate it to English, then publish and sell it in Merika. Currently, the copyright fee that they offered is one million USD per novel.”
“This…” This time, Hong Weiguo and the other two were truly shocked. “Our novels are going out of Asia and onto the global scale?!”
Xiao Liu nodded. “S… Seems like it…”
…
While Hong Weiguo and the others were exclaiming in awe, Hong Dali was preparing for his end-of-year examinations bored out of his mind…
This world was slightly different from his previous life—the lessons here were simpler, and consequently, the holidays were slightly shorter by about half a month or so…
After all, Hong Dali was an outstanding university student in his previous life. He could still handle all these high school lessons, but the problem was that the history of this world was completely different from that in his previous life, so he decisively became a freeloader—
Hong Dali winked at Ji Zhiruo who was not far away from him. “Zhiruo, multiple choice question, multiple choice question!”
Ji Zhiruo stared at the invigilator and didn’t dare to move. However, Hong Dali had provided much help to her family, so she couldn’t reject him. The little lass was, however, quite witty, and very soon, her eyes lit up and she stretched out a finger—question one!
Hong Dali fiercely nodded and asked, “The answer?”
Then, Ji Zhiruo pointed at her chest…
Hong Dali: “What does this mean?”
Ling Yi at the side instantly understood. “C!”
“Oh…” Hong Dali didn’t care about what it meant and directly chose C.
Then, Ji Zhiruo stretched out two fingers. Question two. Then, she pointed at another girl in the class. Ling Yi: “Choose B!”
For the subsequent questions, while Ling Yi wrote his own answers, he relayed the answers to Hong Dali: “A… D… D… C… B… A… D… B… C…”
Very soon, he completed all the multiple choice questions. Hong Dali heaved a long sigh of relief. “Hope that I’ll be able to pass…”
Ring—
Very soon, the examination ended. All the students in the class stood up and cheered, “We’ve finally finished taking the exams! It’s vacation time now, hahahaha!”
Meanwhile, Hong Dali curiously asked Ling Yi, “Ling Yi, how did you know which answers Zhiruo was referring to?”
Ling Yi straightly answered, “Bra size!”
The boys in the class “oh-ed” in unison, and the girls’ faces turned very red!
But after all, it was vacation. He had to go out and celebrate. Hong Dali laughed heartily, ignoring the shy faces of the girls around him as he loudly said, “Summer vacation! Brothers, let Brother Dali bring you to play! Whoever wants to come along, quickly sign up for it!”
“I’ll go, I’ll go!” In no time, all the students in the class raised their hands.
“OK! Then let’s set off! Hahaha!” Hong Dali snapped his finger. “The outer area of Tianjing Mountain, let’s go!”
Everyone instantly went out. Tang Muxin was waiting outside the room long ago, and once she saw Hong Dali, she went forward, smiled and said, “Dali, how was the exam?”
Hong Dali: “No problem, I wrote all the bra sizes correctly!”
All the girls were greatly embarrassed again…
Tang Muxin ferociously stepped on Hong Dali’s feet. “Despicable!”
“Pain pain pain!” Hong Dali jumped up. “I said it wrong. I mean that I’ve managed to answer all the multiple choice questions… Let’s not talk about this, quickly quickly, to the outer area of Tianjing Mountain. I’ve just received a message. Uncle Chief’s side is going to send the Mechanical Holy Garments over!”
…
Tianjing City, southern city area, in the Qian Family’s secret villa.
Through the meticulous styling of the makeup artist, Shiroishi Kazuma had completely changed his style. Now, he looked like a middle-aged man around 40 years or above, and his mustache had been shaved completely. He was bald, and his eyes were not big but were very expressive.
It wasn’t an overstatement to say that unless someone really knew that he was Shiroishi Kazuma, even if they sat opposite him, they would definitely be unable to recognize him.
“Young Master Qian, how are things going regarding the things I’ve instructed on?” Currently, Shiroishi Kazuma was sitting on the sofa, looking through the information regarding online gaming. The two online games that Ko Gohon had managed back then were called “Spiritual Sword” and “Dragon Domain” respectively. They were both the big productions by a Korean company and were full 3D online games. The scene was grand, the magic effects were magnificent, and there was diverse content in the game. Based on this, it proved that Ko Gohon’s taste was still not too bad.
“Mr. Shi, it has all been arranged.” Qian Youjin respectfully said, “Our men have already applied and registered for two readymade companies to create a smoke screen. I believe that nobody will be able to discover us behind it.”
“Mm, that’s good.” Shiroishi Kazuma nodded. “We definitely cannot give them any opportunity to attack me. How’s the development of the online games?”
“They can already be publicly tested.” Qian Youjin slowly said, “The internal testing in the company has been completed; there aren’t any problems. But there are many able people on the internet, and it’s unsure whether someone would find out any BUGs, so the company’s suggestion is to publicly test it for half a month or so, and if there isn’t any problem, then we can officially launch it.”
“OK, I understand.”
Qian Youjin thought for a while, then asked, “But, Mr. Shi, how should we advertise it to achieve the best results?”
Shiroishi Kazuma took a sip of tea, smiled and said, “Speaking of advertising, we can also think about it in another way. If you’re a player and you see a gaming product on the online shop, what would cause you to download it? Most of the players would refer to the introductory page to decide whether to download the game. So, go and get the company to write a complete game introduction right away. The more detailed, the better.”
“Also, create two good-looking and grand webpages for the online games. We definitely cannot neglect the introductory page for the gaming products. This is where the players will form their first impression of the game. And when a player enters in the website out of curiosity, we have only about one minute or less to introduce the game, and from there, let the player decide whether to try playing it or not.”
