"This essay award is so generous!" Seeing this essay award, Uribuki couldn't help but take a breath.

In fact, many magazines in Fusang basically have essay awards every year, and some magazines even have essay awards every day.

Of course, it is not that there is an essay award every day, but that the essay award is fully covered. After one essay award is over, another essay award immediately follows. Therefore, there are many essay awards itself. As long as you are willing, you can find at least dozens of essay awards organized by different magazines.

But it is precisely because of the frequent essay awards that the award itself does not give too many rewards. The first place can be rewarded with 100,000 yen. The most important reward for these essay awards is actually the reward that the publisher guarantees to print and publish the winning works, which is the most important reward.

But with the emergence of this essay award in the Electric Shock Library, everything became different in an instant.

The first place prize is as high as 30 million yen, which is probably unique in the entire history of Fuso. Even the second place can have a prize of 5 million yen. In the end, even the third prize without a limit on the number of prizes is 100,000 yen, which is the same as the prize for the essay award champions in other magazines.

This was like a slap in the face of those magazines. Anyone who saw this essay award would probably have an irresistible impulse.

"30 million yen!" Urizumari Gen took a deep breath and said, "Let me tell me what the rules are like this time!"

"You can see it yourself!" Nasu Mushroom gave the rules column only to Uruzumi Gen, and it said it

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Rules for writing:

1. This essay must be light, and the subject matter includes but is not limited to reality, another world, science fiction, games, sports, history, love, detectives, demons, Warring States, time travel, etc.

2. This essay contest must be exclusively published and no submissions may be made on any other platform. Once discovered, the qualifications and all rewards will be immediately deprived of.

3. Participants need to put the outline and the first 50,000 words together and send them to the magazine for review. They can write or typescript by hand, but the handwriting is required to be clear and easy to identify.

4. The entry of this competition ends on September 30, 1993, and the mailing time of the letter shall prevail. Those who exceed the time will automatically lose their qualification for participation.

5. Anyone who participates in this essay and wins the award will automatically be regarded as signing a contract with the Electric Shock Library, and the Electric Shock Library is responsible for publishing and selling it. All copyrights of the article, including but not limited to copyright, audio adaptation copyright, comic adaptation copyright, game adaptation copyright, film and television adaptation copyright, interpretation activity adaptation copyright, commercial adaptation copyright, work renewal rights, etc., will automatically be regarded as being transferred to the Electric Shock Library, and the Electric Shock Library is responsible for development and sale, and the duration is 60 years.

If you do not agree to this rule, please refuse to submit.

6. All benefits brought by publication and copyright shall be distributed by the electric shock library and the author at a ratio of 7:3 (only for participation). Other first editions in the future may be subject to specific circumstances.

7. The review is divided into initial review and re-examination. The initial review process is reviewed by the electric shock library editorial department. The review process will be compiled and published and handed over to 1,000 randomly selected readers for scoring. The final review results will be reviewed by the editorial department based on reader scoring.

8. The reward is introduced in accordance with the title, but in addition to cash rewards, works that receive the Winning Awards and Excellent Awards will definitely get the opportunity to publish and will be published by the Electric Shock Library.

Works that have won the high-quality awards will be evaluated by the editor based on the work itself. Even works that have not won the high-quality awards will have the opportunity to publish them.

9. For any work that is decided to publish, the number of words in the future is no less than 300,000 words. The specific situation will be discussed by the author and the relevant editor.

10. Any work that has obtained publication qualifications can receive a guaranteed manuscript fee of 20,000 yen per volume regardless of the final sales.

11. The right to interpret this award belongs to the Electric Shock Library.

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"What a great rule, this electric shock library is so conscientious!" After reading the entire rule, Uriuma Chin couldn't help but praise.

"Yes! He's so conscientious. He's not like the garbage companies in our Fusang!" Nasu Mushroom also sighed.

In fact, it is not just these two homes. In the eyes of all homes, the rules this time are simply extremely conscientious.

The first thing is the reward. I won’t talk about this. I’m afraid that there will be no second essay contest in Fusang that has a higher reward than this.

The most important point is that there is no limit on the subject, which is a great benefit. You should know that many magazines now basically need social types of essays, which require realistic subjects, and at most they will accept science fiction.

As for the themes of different worlds, demons, and time travel, the Fusang literary circles seem to be nothing but a rebellious thing. They are not qualified to stand on the palace. They are completely insulting the word "literary".

Therefore, many young generations who grew up like to play games, like to have different worlds, and other enthusiasts who are incompatible with mainstream traditions have no chance to contribute and publish their own articles.

Just like Uriuma Gen, he wrote about a magic girl, but ended up investing in more than 20 publishing houses and participating in more than a dozen essay awards. All of them were beaten back directly. Some editors even added the words "trash" to him, which caused Uriuma Gen to suffer countless blows.

Now that I saw the requirements of the essay contest, another world, demon, and time traveling through these new themes that are not tolerated by secular culture, Xu Yuan felt that his blood was stirring up. Then his magic girl should finally have the opportunity to show her grand plan!

Finally, what everyone had never expected was that the electric shock library also pioneered the establishment of a guaranteed manuscript fee.

This is something that has never appeared before in the Fusang world.

You should know that even if a family is lucky enough to publish, judging from the current declining sales trend in the Fusang world, 80% of the published sales are basically less than 10,000 copies, while about 50% of the sales are less than 1,000 copies, and even the printing costs of the publisher cannot be compensated.

The rules for sharing the share between Fusang Publishing House and the author are calculated based on the sales volume of each book. The share of the author for each book sold is about 20 yen.

Some publishing houses also set a sales lower limit, which is what they call the publishing cost. If the money earned after publishing a book is not enough to make up for the publishing cost, then a penny will not be distributed to the author. After all, publishing houses cannot lose money to sell books.

Therefore, most families have a tragic situation where they finally survived to publish, but they could not make a penny, and their efforts for several years were zero.

In the end, these families had to accept reality and rely on odd jobs to survive, and some families even starved to death.

This has led to more and more parents strictly prohibiting their children from writing when planning their future.

Because in the eyes of parents, in this era of TV and movies and various games dominate entertainment, this is a sunset industry that is destined to lose money and cannot make any profit.

Now, this electric shock library has published a 20,000 yuan guaranteed manuscript remuneration income per volume. Although this income is not high, only 40% of the monthly income of a normal Fuso worker, this money is enough to maintain a month's food expenses for a person. Anyway, it's right to starve to death.

In the eyes of all homes, this introduction is a conscience benefit that is comparable to an angel. It allows 90% of homes to see this rule and increase their favorability for the electric shock library by 100%.

Of course, there is something worse in this rule than the traditional publishing industry.

The most obvious thing is the copyright aspect. After traditional publishers get it for publication, they only have requirements for text copyright. Other adaptation rights, film and television rights, and game adaptation rights, etc., they have no requirements. These are all their own.

But the electric shock library is different. These electric shock library are all tightly held in their hands in one breath. When they are divided, they only give the author 30% and take 70% away by themselves. In the eyes of later generations, this is a complete overlord clause and the most disgusting thing.

You should know that even the most deceptive China Literature Group, that is, the boss of Qidian and QQ, has a copyright share of 50% from the author. As a result, the electric shock library directly costs 70%. This is simply a clause that a landlord bully is even more important than a landlord bully.

But all the authors automatically ignored this clause, because these days, although there are TV series and movies adapted, the number is too rare, and the copyright fee itself is not too high. 99% of the underlying authors have never expected how huge the copyright can bring.

So they naturally ignored the overbearing terms on copyright, because they never thought that their copyright could be sold and they would be satisfied if they could get the royalties.
Chapter completed!