256.IP Treasure Library

On December 4, 2005, Cao Yang met five founders of Singularity Chinese.

They are—

Lin Tingfeng, Shang Xuesong, Wu Wenhui, Hou Qingchen, Luo Li.

Liu Zhiping has reached an agreement with them and completed a merger and acquisition plan. Starting last month, Singularity Chinese Network is an online online literature company under Bomi.

"Hello, hello." Cao Yang shook hands with the five people one by one.

The inner mood is extremely excited.

Although he has never seen these faces, Singularity Chinese Network has developed considerably, and it is mainly due to these people to promote them.

Singularity Chinese website, for capitalists, this is a golden rooster that can lay golden eggs.

However, for the authors, the singularity at this time is the platform on which they rely for survival.

Singularity Chinese is the first online literature website in China to launch a VIP system. The so-called VIP system means that when this book is put on the shelves, readers will have to pay a certain fee to read it again.

This allowed many authors who originally relied on the generation of electricity to make a living in this sense, thus establishing the position of the overlord of online literature of Singularity Chinese.

At the beginning, domestic online literature was a group of people who relied on electricity to publish their works on it. Because such people have the desire to express themselves and hope that their works will be seen by others, they have always been in a free form.

Later, with the expansion of development, the free model was difficult to support the authors to continue, and the development of the website was also restricted. After all, it was not profitable, the authors could not have enough food, and the website could not operate well without income.

Therefore, Singularity Chinese website proposed the VIP system, which guaranteed the survival of many new writers.

The reading website model he founded has become the most competitive and advanced website architecture and presentation method in the industry, and has been imitated by many websites to this day.

Before Bomi took over, Singularity was basically a situation where the world was divided equally with the Illusion Sword, and the two sides were hard to solve.

So when Liu Zhiping proposed to acquire Singularity Chinese, several founders discussed it and quickly agreed.

The reason for agreeing is simple -

Now that the competition has reached a stage of fierce competition, website fights are mainly about snatching the top authors. Whoever gives the better money and treatment will naturally tilt in that direction.

In addition, it also takes money to cultivate user scale.

At this time, it is no longer just about the business content and the technical level of the website itself, but the most important thing is how much money you can burn later.

With a big backer like Bomi, it basically predicts the victory of the singularity.

So when I saw Cao Yang today, I was very grateful.

"Thank you, Mr. Cao, for being able to point a hand at critical moments." Wu Wenhui said as a representative.

"It should be," Cao Yang smiled, "Being able to join the singularity is actually strengthening Bomi's own strength. I should thank you."

If Singularity Chinese website can become the dominant player in the future, then 80% of writers across the country will come to Singularity.

On the one hand, it provides soil for the creation of new works and can build a better online literature ecology.

On the other hand, this is equivalent to Bomi having an inexhaustible [creative reserve library], and it is also a large IP library. In the future, it will be much easier to produce related peripheral products derived through online literature.

For example, after a work becomes popular, it can be adapted into film, television, animation, and games. It is actually very strategic to use fans that have accumulated in its own work as a drainage to drive more consumers.

Just like the country is engaged in large-scale infrastructure and needs to build railway transportation first, although the railway department has lost money for years, it has driven the development of urban areas on the transportation route.

Being able to cultivate more outstanding creative talents for the country, lay a solid foundation for Bomi's future career and reserve IP is of great significance in itself.

Of course, Cao Yang had to do it, and he had to let it go.

"So what's going on now?" Cao Yang looked at several people and asked.

Several people looked at each other.

Wu Wenhui shook his head and said, "It's not ideal. Since the beginning of this year, Huanjian has found Sina and Sohu and conducted joint operations activities. Many users have gone to their place.

And they also signed a group of top authors.

Like the Wild Fox under a Tree, the Book of Sected Gods has attracted many readers for the Fantasy Sword. This book has also been published in the physical book on Baodao and has been sought after by many offline readers. Some old authors also want to take the publishing route, so they also went to Fantasy Sword.

Last year, "Zhu Xian" was also serialized in Fantasy Sword. This book is a popular work and has attracted many fans.

There are not many masters left here at Singularity. Toad, Blood Red, and Chen Dong can only push up a little, but the new VIP is a bit difficult to pull.

Now we are fighting each other to the death, and we are in a state of blood."

oops……

When Boss Cao heard the word "Zhu Xian", he felt ache.

Why is Zhu Xian in the Illusion Sword?

The value of film and television and gamification of this work is too high.

A Zhu Xian movie has made a lot of money in TV series, movies, and games. Moreover, because of Zhu Xian's fame, it has also made many popular young actors and young actresses.

However, there are still a few great masters in Singularity, which is quite gratifying.

"It's okay, if Bomi is here in the future, Singularity will not be short of money and traffic. It will be a matter of time before winning the Phantom Sword."

Cao Yang said with a smile.

"Yeah." Several people nodded, "We believe in Mr. Cao and hope we can do better and better."

"Of course." Cao Yang said with a smile, "Then the singularity will be managed by you. If you need money, please contact Zhiping. We will do our best to spread channels for the singularity, and at the same time, we will inject users into the singularity through the traffic platform we have. It will not take long before we can defeat other competitors."

"Okay, thank you so much."

Several people were moved in their hearts.

When Wu Wenhui and the others sold the Singularity, they were still a little worried about whether the new owner would interfere with the operation of the Singularity.

After all, Boss Cao was famous before and was a person with his own ideas and persistence. The same is true for playing games. They were particularly afraid that Boss Cao would point fingers at how to do online literature.

Interfering in public management at that time may not be a good thing.

Now that they finished talking, they found that Boss Cao was actually a good person.

There is no such good thing in the world. I’m just a little angel if I give you money, attract traffic, and don’t interfere with your management.

The purpose of giving money is actually to attract more authors, provide authors with better welfare benefits and writing guarantees, and allow more authors to come to the Singularity Platform.

Cao Yang still understands this principle if he wins the author and wins the world.

Traffic is to make the plate. Just like expanding the game market before, it brings QQ users and users from other channels in. As for whether they can stay, it mainly depends on the quality of the works.

There are fewer people who like to read books than those who like to play games, and fewer people who can pay for text.

But no matter how small it is, it needs to be cultivated slowly, otherwise there will be no creative fruit in the future.

Cao Yang did not expect Singularity to make money. Just like in his previous life, the entire China Literature Group's annual income was only more than 7 billion yuan, which was not as good as a Honor of Kings.

But even though you make little money, it can produce many excellent IPs.

There are two ways to sign a contract with Singularity. One is a buyout system, which is equivalent to Singularity buying out your work and giving you a higher income per chapter. No matter how much you write, you will have a guaranteed singularity. In exchange, Singularity has the copyright of the author's work.

Another type is the share system. The author owns the copyright of the work and the income is divided by the website. It is usually 55 points, but it also depends on the contract and the specific signing contract.

For example, if a great master can get 64 or 73 points, it is equivalent to the website giving concessions, allowing these great masters to stay forever and become the cornerstone of the singularity.

The singularity of this year is still very conscientious about the author. Unlike 20 years later, a man named Cheng Wu drove away Wu Wenhui's team and had to squeeze the author's blood naked, let the author sign for free, and also change the copyright contract.

The capitalist cannibalism nature is fully exposed.

However, Cao Yang is not the kind of profit-oriented person. He hopes to have a better network ecosystem, especially for middle and lower-level authors, he still hopes to give them more guarantees so that there will be a future.

After all, great masters will grow old one day, and the books they wrote before will be outdated. Only by protecting the interests of middle and lower-level authors can there be a steady stream of fresh blood injected into it.

We chatted for more than 2 hours and were very happy with each other.

Wu Wenhui's team feels like Kong Ming meets Liu Bei.

Finally, before sending them away, Cao Yang reminded him, "By the way, I think we'd better take the initiative to review it, do a self-inspection, and clean up all the books that have adverse effects in political affairs."

Cao Yang said, "In the past, I wanted to pay to attract readers, so I had to write some vulgar things, but everyone joined Bomi, and the funding was not a problem.

I am mainly afraid that if I touch the high-voltage line, it will be damned."

In fact, Cao Yang was not very worried about the fantasy sword.

Because for a long time in the future, the country will crack down on vulgar online works. Many books under the Fantasy Sword are made of little yellow articles, which are easily taken away by one wave.

It is different from the singularity where flowers bloom and focus on cultivating healthy works.

Of course, it is not to say that the Singularity does not have Xiao Huangwen. Ten years ago, online literature was basically full of colors. Many websites would play the edge to attract readers. It was so fast to drive at this time.

But Cao Yang still needs to restrain himself in this regard, because the sword above is really slashed at the same time. You are not sure when it will fall in this life, so it is better not to be lucky.

"Yes, OK." Several people nodded.

Cao Yang is right. In fact, taking the right path is the king. In the past, it was because it had to rely on vulgarity to cater to readers to generate payments so that the website could survive. Now, with the big tree of Bomi, of course, the website's ecology must be cleaned.

...

After seeing off a few people, Cao Yang suddenly remembered something.

He quickly returned to the front of the computer and started to inquire—

"Perfect World"
To be continued...