Chapter 475
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Hello, readers, Ashtray would like to thank you first.
Since May, Ashtray had been working hard to maintain a stable state of updating. His subscriptions and favorites had also started to slowly increase. Ashtray sincerely thanked his readers for their support.
Yesterday, Qidian introduced a new reward policy to encourage authors. The general rule was that every 1000 words would be increased from 2 cents to 3 cents. This meant that a high V subscription for a 3000 word book would be increased from 6 cents to 9 cents. I believe many readers have noticed, so Ashtray's subscriptions … … A lot less … … Ashtray kneeled … …
Ashtray really wanted to say something, but he really did not have any special marketing techniques. He did not know where to start. In Ashtray's memory, there were three things that did not seem to have increased in price for ten years.
First, Ashtray's salary from the sanitation department for ten years. The last salary he got when he resigned in April was 900 RMB after deducting his pension.
Second, cigarette money! This definitely did not increase! That was why Ashtray could still afford to smoke when he was at his poorest!
Third, that was Qidian's author's remuneration. The author's remuneration for ten years was 2 cents per thousand words. There were a lot of calls for lower level authors to increase their remuneration.
Many netizens did not agree. These web novel writers easily earned hundreds of thousands, even millions. How could they have the nerve to raise the price? That's right, these people were at the forefront of the public media. Their income was magnified in front of the spotlight, and it also attracted countless newbies who had no connections to enter the web novel industry.
However, take the number one person in the web novel industry, the Tang family's third young master as an example. He had been continuously updating for ten years, did his net worth exceed 100 million? Probably a little bit more. But in our small county, Ashtray could still count one or two real estate bosses with net worth over 100 million. In the end, the difference between the top of the industry and the real estate industry was a few levels! And the real estate boss was actually not that great. The netizens all over the country knew that Guo Meimei showed off 3 billion cash in her bank account.
When people focused their attention on the top of the industry, very few people paid attention to the "losers" at the bottom.
When I was working, there was a guy my age who often read web novels on his phone. When he heard that I was writing a book, he laughed and asked: "I just don't understand, where does your income come from? I just don't understand, why would you read the original if there are pirated versions? My phone's data fee is only 100 something a month. Also, children need money to go to school, why would I read the original? "
This question was too sharp. I could only look at him in disdain. "Do you think everyone else is like you? Betrayal?
For authors, they would always find a reason for the drop in subscriptions. If the drop was too big, it would shake their confidence. The price increase this time didn't have much of an impact on some books. Those books were well-written and had a lot of rich readers. Not to mention subscriptions, it was normal to casually tip them.
But Ashtray's book was probably just a little too lame, and rich people didn't like it. Moreover, it was a low-level online game, so it was affected a little too much.
However, there was still a way. Qidian had launched the Gold Rush Channel. Everyone could go to the Gold Rush Channel to complete missions and earn Starting Coins. They could easily earn one to two hundred Starting Coins, which was enough to offset the price increase.
Ashtray's book was an online game, so it couldn't be published. The subscription to the main website was everything he had to survive. Therefore, there were only three words: "Please subscribe"!
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