"Jiayi, Professor Gwen is looking for you."

Jiayi just finished class, not teaching others, but just finished class, and then saw a senior senior coming to notify him.

Jiayi felt his scalp numb and didn't know what the other party was looking for him, but he always had a bad premonition. Since Jiayi promised Gwen to illustrate her new calligraphy and painting last time, Gwen has come to urge her several times, but Jiayi has been doing a lot recently and has not started writing.

And he always felt that sketches should not be used directly to the illustrations of Gwen's books, at least he should not just use sketches.

Jiayi came to Gwen's office, pushed the door open and greeted him carefully: "Professor, is there anything you can do to serve?"

Before he finished speaking, he found that there was someone sitting next to Gwen. After a closer look, he looked a little familiar.

Gwen waved to Jia: "Come here, see the dean."

Jiayi then realized that it was the dean who came over, and then he had some impression. It turned out that Jiayi had met the dean during the Hailong incident, but he had only seen it from afar and did not react for a while.

He stepped forward two steps, bowed to the dean, then stood aside, looked at Gwen, not understanding what Gwen called him to come over, and even the dean came over.

At this time, Jiayi was also secretly looking at the dean. He looked not very old, but he looked like a middle-aged man in his 50s. He looked younger than Orlando, but in fact, he was much older than Orlando.

The dean's clothes should have been changed, they looked very neat and clean, and they looked very ironed, very crisp. The hair and beard were taken care of, and although there were still a lot of stubble on his face, they were obviously newly trimmed.

It looks more like a young gentleman, although this description sounds quite inconsistent.

Gwen reached out and asked Jiayi to bring a chair to sit down. The three of them sat in a triangle. Gwen and the others approached the table, and Jiayi was a little more outer.

Gwen said, "Do you know what to do?"

Jiayi shook his head a little confused. He originally thought he was asking him to tell him about illustrations, but now the dean is here, so it shouldn't be said about this matter. It's impossible for the dean to put pressure on him just because he delayed the manuscript.

Gwen glared at Jia and said, "Didn't you discuss the magazine with me last time? What do you think when I see you?"

Jiayi suddenly realized that it was this matter. Gwen said that the dean was very enthusiastic about this matter. He had just not linked it. However, he did not pay attention to the college magazine recently. He was busy printing of movable type and focused on research on movable type. In his subconscious, when movable type is successful, the time to publish a newspaper is coming.

Although the college has a copy machine, it is okay to lend it to him for research, and it is impossible to keep giving it to him.

In addition to Jiayi, Yang Xi and others are also studying new printing techniques. They did not choose movable type like Jiayi, but instead prepared to analyze the replication technique, improve the replication technique, and quickly make plates, which is a different solution. However, this solution is more difficult, and the progress is far less than that of Jiayi and the others.

Jiayi said: "I did talk about this last time. Although I already have cheap paper, I think it's not easy to publish a magazine."

The dean looked at Jiayi and did not look down on him just because Jiayi was young. He asked gently: "What do you think is not easy?"

Keis Deng also knew that even if he had cheap paper, he would not be easy to publish a magazine, but when he thought that if he solved the cost problem, he had already solved most of the problems.

When Jiayi saw the dean asking himself, he turned to the dean and said, "Let's analyze first what it takes to publish a magazine."

As he said that, he began to look around and saw the paper and pen on the table. He gestured to the two professors. After getting the approval, he took the paper and pen and put it on his knees.

"Although I have never published the magazine, I think I must consider some points, first of all, sales volume, and then content." As he said, he drew boxes on paper and wrote what he said in the box.

He looked at the key points on the paper and then added: "The college is willing to publish magazines for the sake of influence. This is also very important. This requires distribution to be carried out to different locations, which is the distribution network."

He then added two points, influence and distribution network.

Seeing Jiayi writing this, Keis Deng said strangely: "Why is there no cost? Cost is the most important one."

Jiayi shook his head: "Currently, cost is important, but it is not the fundamental. The most important thing is the profit, or profit or loss. Cost determines this, but it is not just this. In fact, content, sales quantity, etc. all have an impact on profit or loss."

What is the most important thing that a magazine can exist is to at least ensure that it will not lose money. This loss does not only refer to the good fortune on the books. If you look at it this way, basically all magazines will lose money. Even if the price of each magazine like the wizard is calculated in gold coins, there is no room for profit.

However, these magazines have subsidies for the highest parliament and supported by various major organizations. Compared with the influence spread by various organizations and the communications valued by the highest parliament, these are intangible interests, so they subsidize various magazines.

However, it is difficult for the college to receive subsidies from the Supreme Council, and the college does not have much financial resources. Therefore, for the college, the most important thing is to make profits and losses. If you don’t say it will not lose money, at least you must be able to lose as little as possible. The college’s original magazine was not able to be run, and because the gap in losses was too large, the magazine ended in a hurry after only two issues were published internally.

It is difficult for a magazine to make a profit at this time, because there is no circulation and influence, and there is no room for advertising. The main benefit of a magazine is the unit price of sales and the influence of the magazine extension. However, if you want to have influence, you must have high-quality content. However, it is not easy to want high-quality content. If your magazine is not famous, no one will submit articles to this magazine.

Unless the founders are very famous, like the four major magazines nowadays, each one is developed by endorsing one or more than one legendary wizard, and now they have become bigger. Although the deans and others do not know what the Matthew effect is, they also understand that almost all the top content is gathered in the top magazines, and other magazines are just picking up some leftovers to fill their stomachs.

Jiayi said this, and the dean couldn't help but frown and interrupted Jiayi: "According to what you said, can our magazine still be able to get a class? We have so many professors and so many students in the college, like Jiayi, I know that you have written many papers and are of good level. I can also invite my friends to submit articles, so the content will be solved. As for sales channels and sales, now that we have content, we shouldn't have to worry about sales? In addition, paper reduces the cost, so a magazine is not so troublesome. Even if there are some losses, the college can afford it at this level."

Jiayi shook his head: "It's not that simple. The students' papers in the college are limited, and they may not be willing to submit them to the newly established journals of the college. For them, and even for myself, they are submitted to magazines with greater influence, the more beneficial it is for me. We can't force the papers of teachers and students to submit them only. If we invite dean friends to submit articles, we can't always bother them, so the source of the magazine content is very problematic."
Chapter completed!