Book editor Takemura Takeuchi believes that people who can create best-selling works are those who can “control curiosity”. When you input content for yourself, you should maximize the antenna and maximize your curiosity. However, if you want to export the input to the majority, you should lower the antenna and let the person who lacks curiosity receive it. These authors can come from between “fans” and “passers”
In short, the input must be sensitive, and the output must be insensitive
However, there are people who are diametrically opposed: they are not interested in anything at all, but when they want to send out information, they are superstitious that “people will definitely be interested.”
(https://twitter.com/tshun423/status/1184643494884696064).
Adult CartoonistあわじOn Twitter It is said that a company that has worked with him has contacted him, claiming that due to the gratifying sales of electronic works, the royalty rate of electronic books will be reduced from next year.あわじAlthough it is difficult to understand the company, such as physical books Sales are low, but in this way, isn’t the writer less motivated to publish in commercial magazines? At leastあわじAlthough you can barely maintain your life, It is better to be a peer, but I also feel that I must open up my career as soon as possible, otherwise I will become increasingly poor
(https://twitter.com/AHimeji/status/1184126680962490368).
あわじthe release has attracted the injustice of many netizens inside and outside the industry. Everyone is arguing about the company. I hope thatあわじThe name of the company
CartoonistぢたまAt first, I was also angrily said that the company that can lightly say that the electronic royalty rate is lowered is to despise the writer. If you change to him, you must cancel the contract with the company on the spot
However, after having a better understanding of the facts, ぢたまfound that the company that reduced the royalty rate had an original royalty rate. The price is high – although he believes that the price is too low
(https://twitter.com/ditamabow/status/1184341725545779200).
The cartoonist SABUROH also received a notice from the company and sent a portion of the notice online
According to the notice, the company has been paying 60% of the electronic version of the revenue as author’s royalties to the author over the past 14 years, which translates into a royalty of relative book pricing, which is about 26%. The company’s physical book royalty is 7 to 8%, so the royalty of e-books is more than three times that of physical books. Selling an e-book, the author is able to receive royalties equivalent to three books
For the company at the time, the income of the electronic version was added after the book was published. It was the same as the animation rights and overseas translation, and it was a secondary income, so I wanted to return more than half of my income. To the writer. However, time has passed, and now the sales of physical books have fallen to one-third of that year. E-books are no longer temporary income for the company, and they have become the basic source of income for commercial publishing
Previously, the company’s business model was to recycle the magazine’s deficit with the benefits of a single book. Now, relying on the single-line book, the deficit has not been filled, and the electronic version is barely able to maintain publication
The company’s 60% electronic version of the royalty has always been the highest level in the industry, which is their pride. However, due to the sharp decline in the number of physical publications, they had to decide to downgrade the author’s royalties from 60% to 40%
The company’s revenue is 40%, which translates into a royalty of 17.4%. Even after the downgrade, the royalty of e-books is more than twice that of physical books, which is comparable to or slightly higher than other companies
And the company has earned more income than ever before, and is committed to becoming a fascinating adult comics’ electronics and publishing platform that is worthy of this income, and is working hard to develop and implement various kinds of writers. Sales strategy, cooperate with various e-book malls to promote, excavate past works, enrich the original content of electronic version, and also ensure the circulation of attractive physical publications. I hope that even if the royalty rate is reduced, it will enable writers to obtain more than ever. Income
(https://twitter.com/saburoh496/status/1184437707377790976).
Although the physical version of the royalty rate of 7~8% is slightly lower than the general comics market price of 10% (but 10% seems to be only the Chinese-large-scale publishing house can provide the royalty rate), but 17.4% of the electronic The royalty rate is already enviable. Yesterday, the cartoonistユキヲcomplained that his electronic royalty rate is 10%, which is difficult for him to understand
However, there is a more enviable publishing house – the cartoonist Goto Yuyako revealed that the electronic royalty rate of the bamboo study is 50%! The bamboo study is great!
(https://twitter.com/hayakogoto/status/1184640734432903168)