Afternoon.
Qin Huaidong @ mentioned all the authors in the group.
In just a morning, he had pulled in nearly 300 struggling authors.
In the group, he organized and sent to them some of the themes Li Yun had told him about.
【You guys will write one of these themes next. After your first book on Potato Novel Network reaches one million words and is completed, you can write whatever theme you want】
【Boss, can we still get a guaranteed minimum after that?】
Qin Huaidong thought for a moment and typed: 【It will still depend on the results. Consider the results of this first signed book. This book is equivalent to your assessment for entering Potato Novel Network】
【If the first book is written well, I can consider continuing to apply for a guaranteed minimum for your second book. If the results are not good, it's better to write on a profit-sharing basis. Profit-sharing has a high probability of exceeding the guaranteed minimum】
【Boss, what's the background of this website? I asked friends of other editors, and they all offered a guaranteed minimum of 30 for the first signing. This is too generous, right?】
Qin Huaidong curled his lips: 【It's only because the website is newly established that there are such benefits. Once the website is mature, do you think they will still offer such a good thing as a guaranteed minimum for the first signing? We will also have a meeting this afternoon to determine the full attendance bonus. I will notify you in the group then】
【Eh? Can we get a full attendance bonus?】
【Nonsense, of course, you can get a full attendance bonus. How else would our website attract new authors to join?】
【Hehe, that's good, that's good】
Qin Huaidong touched his chin, recalling what Li Yun had said before.
The future Potato Novel Network will definitely mainly support brainless, simple novels, which are the so-called Feilu-style novels.
Although that kind of writing style is somewhat unorthodox compared to traditional novel websites.
Potato Novel Network's operating methods are different from theirs.
The quality of the works is not strictly required.
To put it bluntly, the books written on Potato Novel Network are all about attracting attention.
The website doesn't earn money from readers, it earns advertising fees.
There are also membership fees from readers who hate ads and open memberships to clear them.
As for the allocation of traffic, it is still based on big data algorithms.
This is exactly the same as Yang Shizi in his previous life.
He also told these authors in the group.
The content of the new book doesn't need to be too rigorous. Attract attention, guide the readers' emotions, even if it's some bloody plot, it's fine.
So, themes such as village miracle doctors, domineering CEOs, experts coming down the mountain, war gods returning, and crooked-mouth dragon kings appeared in the group.
After he briefly explained the writing ideas for each theme, he didn't care how they operated.
【By the way, everyone must prepare a Bank of China card or a CITIC Bank card. If you use other bank cards, there will be a delay in the payment of royalties.】
【Okay, Editor-in-Chief】
【No problem】
Qin Huaidong's editor-in-chief name on Potato Novel Network is: Dongdong.
He's already quite old, yet he still uses such a name.
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While Qin Huaidong and other editors were busy pulling people from all directions.
Li Yun was not idle either.
He mobilized his connections and began to promote Potato Novel Network through various channels.
First was the [Yunhai] live broadcast platform.
The first thing all domestic users saw when they opened the software was the promotional short video for Potato Novel Network.
Then there was the homepage promotion for the Simple Order takeaway platform.
It changed from a certain merchant's store to Potato Novel Network.
Then there was the game DNF.
Reading novels could earn you rewards for checking in, which required consecutive check-ins for a month.
This made DNF players very speechless.
But the rewards for checking in were quite good.
Publicity has not been launched to foreigners for the time being, because the website is not yet mature. Now, if the novels on the website are released to the foreign market, it will not cause any waves at all.
It's not too late to consider the overseas market after the website has developed and matured.
Then there were major shopping malls, subway stations, bus stops, commercial centers, and so on.
The effect of large-scale advertising was still very good.
In addition, it was promoted as free novels.
In just two weeks, it attracted tens of millions of users to register.
And it also took the opportunity to attract a large number of authors to come and settle in.
Such a huge movement must have attracted the attention of old websites.
Feilu is okay, it has a fixed group of readers, and Feilu's anti-piracy measures are quite excellent, which is why it can retain authors and readers.
Although most of the works will be complained about and even scolded by readers.
It's different for old websites like Qidian.
Their awareness of piracy is very poor. Many readers would rather go to pirated websites to follow the reading than spend money to buy it on the site.
Although pirated websites are poorly made, they have also attracted a lot of traffic.
How do pirated websites make money?
Naturally, it's advertising.
But they are all playing some shady advertisements.
Those who understand will understand.
Who does Li Yun's Potato Novel Network hurt the most?
Without a doubt, it's pirated websites.
If they are both reading free novels, are readers willing to go to the official website to watch advertisements, or to the pirated website?
And pirated websites don't have a VIP ad removal function.
After all, they also need money to maintain the servers of pirated websites, and they are so stingy that they can't wait to add all the advertisements they can to the content of the novel.
Li Yun's Potato Novel Network is different. Not only does it have an ad removal function.
And you can get various coupons for reading novels.
You can also get props in the game for reading novels.
If your hands are itchy, you can go to the website to write yourself. The most important thing is that there are no threshold requirements.
After Qin Huaidong and other editors gave them special lessons.
The first batch of authors to settle in Potato Novel Network began to work hard.
They all understood the meaning of eating the first crab.
Making money is secondary.
The key is to first gather a large number of stable fans on this new website.
Potato Novel Network is more sophisticated than they imagined.
Whether it is the author background or the APP reading interface, it is much better than other novel websites on the market.
And what interests them most is the comment function.
Paragraph comments, chapter comments, and book reviews can be seen directly in the novel.
This is something that other novel websites cannot do.
Li Yun spent a lot of money to bring in top programmers to do this in order to do these things.
Authors can also see readers' comments and messages in the author assistant background.
There are also comparison charts of daily data, etc.
Honestly, it's much more convenient than writing books on Feilu.
The most important thing is that the first signing gives a guaranteed minimum, which is a good thing.
These struggling authors have never enjoyed such good treatment.
They did the math. If they update two or three thousand words every day, they will earn hundreds of dollars a day.
From 100,000 words to 1 million words.
They can earn guaranteed royalties for 900,000 words!
