As for the development of Sahara Publishing House, Yang Yi also came up with the idea from Xixi’s children’s books. Although he can write some good-looking storybooks for Xixi, but after all, there are too many words and it is not easy for children to read, and his efforts alone cannot change the current situation of the scarcity of children’s books in China!
“Old Lu, do you know who write fairy tales for children abroad?” Yang Yi said to Lu Benjie.
Lu Benjie shook his head. He had no understanding of children’s literature at all. That is, in the past two years, Yang Yi published a fairy tale book, and Lu Benjie was involved in this field. However, if you want him to say that the situation of domestic children’s literature is good, he will be blind if you say that it is abroad.
“In foreign countries, most of the people who write fairy tales for children are young parents, not professional children’s literature writers!” said Yang Yi.
This statement is not false, like the classic Swedish children’s literature “Pippi Longstocking”, “Naughty Bag Emile”, etc. When their author, Grandma Lindgren, created “Pippi Longstocking”, she was Inspired by storytelling to sick 7-year-old daughter Karin! (Note 1)
When JK Rowling wrote “Harry Potter”, although it was not inspired by the storytelling to her daughter Jessica, she often brought Jay when she wrote in Edinburgh cafes Sika. On the title page of The Philosopher’s Stone, Rowling also wrote: “I dedicate this book to Jessica, she loves this story…”
“The vast majority of parents are also the most potential creators in the field of children’s literature. They have their own children. In the process of interacting with children and racking their brains to tell stories to children, there will actually be many wonderful things. The inspiration burst out!” Yang Yi told Lu Benjie, “It’s just that few people thought of expanding these broken inspirations and turning them into books.”
Lu Benjie understood, and he asked, “You mean, we should dig for this type of author?”
“Yes, we not only want to excavate, but also support and support their creation! Especially for some mothers who have the ability to create, but are worried that they have no financial income to write books, we should start their writing in the early stage of their writing. Give them some confidence!” Yang Yi said.
Afterwards, Yang Yi talked to Lu Benjie about his idea of setting up a children’s book creation fund, taking the children’s reading and non-adult perspective as the basic benchmark, encouraging young parents, or authors who have not yet found a direction, for 0~8 year olds create children’s books.
“Based on their outline and the content of the first three chapters of the story, they can use this to apply to our fund for creative funds. For example, there is a mother who wants to earn some money for milk powder for her children. She has a good story. , and also promised to write this story into a book and authorize our Sahara Publishing House to publish it. We will give her a subsidy of 50,000 to 50,000 depending on the wonderfulness of the story. Of course, the later book sales can be divided according to our normal contract. We will not deprive the other party of the benefits they deserve.” Yang Yi told Lu Benjie.
“We should also give her a limited time for writing, and she can’t stop writing if she gets money,” Lu Benjie said.
“These details, you will discuss and improve them later!” Yang Yi nodded, smiled slightly, and said, “I will invest 10 million as the first phase of funds now, and I will use it up later, and I will add more depending on the situation. “
Lu Benjie nodded excitedly, Yang Yi’s remarks really pointed him in the direction. If it can really stimulate the creative desire of parents and change the status quo in the field of children’s literature, as Yang Yi said, then Sahara Press can become a benchmark in the field of children’s literature publishing even if it cannot become a leader in the publishing house!
“One more thing, I want the publishing house to add a picture book department and recruit a group of comic artists with high salaries. You don’t need to have your own creative ability, like comic artists who can produce comic books themselves, don’t, work for some comic artists. These people, especially the painters who have drawn children’s cartoons, are the targets we want to recruit.” Yang Yi told Lu Benjie.
“You want them to draw children’s books?” Lu Benjie suddenly understood Yang Yi’s thoughts.
“That’s right!” Yang Yi snapped his fingers and laughed, “In the early days, their task was to draw different stories based on several of my previous children’s books, and make them suitable for younger children to read. small picture books.”
Of course, there is no problem asking Yang Yi to paint, but how can he have the time to draw and color the sketches? There is a professional team with experience in drawing comics to help design the sub-shots, assign the plot of each painting, and the final draft of the picture book, and Yang Yi only needs to do the character prototype design, which is much simpler, and publishes a book. progress will be much faster.
Lu Benjie nodded while recording.
“Afterwards, they will also communicate with the children’s book authors we support, and be responsible for helping them draw illustrations and even follow-up picture book adaptations.” Yang Yi said.
“This forms a complete industrial chain!” Lu Benjie clenched his fists and said excitedly, “The picture books we publish are suitable for children from zero to six years old to read. They can read this book in the company of their parents. Picture books with a small amount of text and a large number of color pictures, and literary works with more text and fewer illustrations can be provided to older children after literacy!”
Yang Yi thinks so!
Of course, in the middle, he will make less money, because he has invested a lot of support funds in the early stage to support a large number of authors with ideas, most of which do not necessarily sell for much money. Maybe Yang Yi’s investment will still lose money. After all, the market competition is also fierce, and he did not set up this fund for the purpose of exploiting the author’s interests. Even if he adapts the picture book, most of the money he makes will be distributed to the original author and the comics department. painters.
But even if you can’t make too much money, it’s meaningful to do this. Yang Yi’s children, Xixi and Jiao, will have more exciting stories to listen to and more interesting picture books to read in the future.
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Yang Yi is only responsible for providing ideas and funds, and the rest of the actual operation is of course handed over to Lu Benjie and the people of the publishing house.
After leaving Sahara Publishing House, Yang Yi stopped by the coffee shop. It happened that Yang Huan had no class in the afternoon, so she helped Ding Xiang in the coffee shop.
“Ah! Big brother, why are you here?” Seeing Yang Yi’s sudden appearance, Yang Huan, who had a ghost in his heart, was startled and said with a guilty conscience.
“I can’t come yet?” Yang Yi asked with a smile, “Could it be that you secretly talked about your boyfriend and dared not let me know?”
Yang Yi also teased Yang Huan, deliberately turned his head to look at Ding Xiang, and said, “Ding Xiang, tell me, which bratty brat is, I will break his leg!”
Ding Xiang covered his mouth and snickered, but did not speak.
Yang Huan rolled her eyes, but at this time, she felt guilty and didn’t have the courage to talk back, she just said with a smile: “How can I secretly talk about my boyfriend? My ideal boyfriend is a hero who is indomitable. I don’t know where it is yet!”
After listening to Yang Huan’s words, Yang Yi inexplicably thought of the classic dialogue in “Journey to the West”, and wanted to say: “Do you still want him to wear golden armor and holy clothes and step on seven-colored clouds to marry you? What?”
Of course, Yang Yi didn’t say anything, just shook his head, patted Yang Huan’s head, and said, “I have something to do today, I stopped by the coffee shop and told you, tomorrow is the winter solstice, remember if there is no class , come to the house early, my parents said that it is rare for the whole family to spend the winter solstice together this year, and they have to come back for dinner.”
“Winter Solstice! Is that mom making pumpkin pie again?” Yang Huan said excitedly~IndoMTL.com~ Mom’s pumpkin pie is the best! “
“In previous years, we would have everything to eat.” Yang Yi said with a smile.
“By the way, Ding Xiang, if you have nothing to do, come with Huanhuan too!” Yang Yi turned his head and said to Ding Xiang.
Ding Xiang was stunned for a moment, then waved his hand quickly and said, “No need, I have class tomorrow!”
Ding Xiang actually doesn’t want to disturb the family dinner of Yang Yi’s family, after all, he is still an outsider! Why are you embarrassed to run over to eat and drink during the festival?
Yang Huan also persuaded him for a while, but Ding Xiang just didn’t agree and made every excuse to shirk.
“Alright then, I’ll bring you pumpkin pie when I come back tomorrow night!” Yang Huan said regretfully, “I tell you, the pumpkin pie my mother made is delicious!”
“Tomorrow night, you have to stay at home with your parents, and you won’t go back until the next morning.” Yang Yi smiled slightly, “But it’s okay, let alone pumpkin pie, I’ll keep a copy of the other delicious food for you, and bring it back with you the day after tomorrow. Ding Xiang eats one piece.”