Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 176

On the other side, Li Ang had also been paying attention to the magazine. He read every issue. It was finally coming to the finale, so he was also afraid that the end of story would affect the sales of Wuxia.

Not only him but Editor Bao also had the same worry. They had all experienced the dilemma of magazines piling up in the warehouse and being unable to be sold.

He called Editor Bao in Guangzhou, “Tell the people at the printing factory to reduce the first print run to two million. We will see the market feedback. If the market reaction is still the same as before, we will slowly increase the number of prints.”

Editor Bao had the same idea as him. Now that Li Ang was in charge of Jin City, focusing on the northern market, she was the only one who could make the decision in Guang City.

In fact, their market forecast was correct. The release of the book still caused a decline in the sales of Wuxia magazines. But fortunately, they opened up the northern market and the market was bigger, so the impact was not that big.

They just hoped that Ning Meng’s novel would not end so soon. They had not yet found a phenomenal work that could succeed after that one and could directly drive magazine sales. The thought that with Catcher in the Song Dynasty ending, magazine sales may even drop further made Director Li Ang, who had stabilized the market, anxious.

A TV station in the provincial capital.

After Detective Bao was released, the TV station replaced it with a new TV series they bought from Hong Kong Island. However, they wondered if they chose the series incorrectly. The ratings of that TV series were far lower than that of Detective Bao. The ratings dropped rapidly. After reaping the huge ratings bonus that Detective Bao brought to their station, the people in the station got a little anxious.

In the director’s office, Director Li kept pacing back and forth anxiously and made a phone call, “What other TV series is there? Didn’t I tell you about the Xiangshuai Legend before? The copyright is bought by Apple TV.”

The Legend of Xiangshuai was just filmed that year. It was first broadcast in Hong Kong. Director Li wanted to buy the mainland broadcast rights of that TV series, but another TV station had already bought it, so he had to change to another TV series.

If this continues, their station’s ratings will be robbed by other stations.

He pressed a number, “Xiao Qin, what did you say last time about that novel? How is the progress? How many cases came out?”

Their station had always wanted to produce a self-produced drama. That year, other stations had produced two self-produced dramas. The ratings were very high, especially the Shanghai TV station’s self-produced drama, which directly hit a record of 43%. The ratings were high, and the copyright was sold at a high price. Major TV stations across the country began dubbing and broadcasting that drama. Director Li was also very enthusiastic about it and wanted to make a drama of their own.

It was just that they hadn’t thought about what to film before. But since the TV series they bought had such poor ratings, Director Li couldn’t sit still. While Detective Bao’s popularity was still there, he wanted to quickly release similar series. They could shoot and broadcast at the same time.

The young woman named Xiao Qin quickly went to the director’s office upstairs, holding two books in her hand.

Director Li was a little surprised. He took the two books handed over by Xiao Qin and said, “A few cases have been published.”

After the magazine came out, she also read it twice, but Director Li was too busy and had not read many of the subsequent plots. If it were not for the wonderful plot, he would not have remembered that work. He did not expect that it would be published into a book.

“Keep the book here for me to read first.” 

Not every book was suitable for adaptation, especially since the protagonist of that book was not Bao Zheng. He needed to borrow Detective Bao’s popularity to make its second part. The protagonist would have to be adapted into Zhan Zhao. It depended on whether the work was suitable for adaptation.

Unexpectedly, he read and couldn’t stop at all. It wasn’t until he finished reading the last case that he finally realized that the writer hadn’t finished writing it yet.

It wasn’t until he saw an advertisement for Wuxia on the last page of the book and knew that the story was still being serialized in the magazine Wuxia that he looked at the time. Many of the colleagues at the TV station had already gotten off work, and there were only a handful of people left in the entire TV station. He was still working overtime overnight to edit the work, and only his office light was still on on that floor of the office building.

He raised his wrist to check the time, took these two books, and quickly went downstairs to read.

The wind was biting in the winter night, and that year was another cold winter. The owner of the newsstand couldn’t bear the cold that winter, so he closed the door early, closed the stall, and went home.

Director Li searched high and low but couldn’t find the follow-up content. Just then, a cold wind blew, prompting him to stop thinking for a moment. He looked up at the night sky, where snowflakes were already falling to the ground. It dawned on him that there were only two volumes of Catcher in the Song Dynasty. He didn’t need to check the subsequent serialized content to confirm that the copyright for it was available for purchase.

People in that era were very active people. It didn’t matter whether things were done well or not. What was important was to do it when you think of it. Director Li came to the TV station the next day and asked Xiao Qin to contact the publishing house.

Xiao Qin was a staff member of the TV station. She did not have her own program yet. She was a brick of the TV station and could be moved wherever needed. After receiving the task assigned by Director Li, Xiao Qin, as a loyal fan of Catcher in the Song Dynasty, immediately rushed to contact Jiang Ning with the publishing house.

She knew that Catcher in the Song Dynasty was first serialized in Wuxia Magazine, and later published in a published book. Moreover, the publishing house and Wuxia Magazine obviously had a cooperative relationship. The magazine kept advertising published books mentioning it on the last page of Catcher of the Song Dynasty. They knew that these two magazines and publishing houses were likely to be partners, and Jiang Ning’s contact information could be found in either one of them.

She also said she wanted to buy the rights to the novel from Teacher Ning Meng

It depended on the copyright matter.

The publisher was very surprised when they heard that a TV station wanted to buy the film and television rights of that book and make it into a TV series.

Although the film and television copyright of Catcher in the Song Dynasty was not represented by their publishing house, if that book could really be released, the sales of the physical book would be greatly increased. He was very active in giving the contact information of Jiang Ning’s editor-in-chief Wang Yong. He even contacted Xiao Qin and strongly recommended other books published by their publishing house to her.