"This prize is so generous!" Xu Yuanxuan couldn't help but gasp when he saw the prize this time.
In fact, many magazines in Fusang basically had an event like the Essay Prize every year, and some magazines even had an Essay Prize every day.
Of course, it wasn't that there was an Essay Prize every day, but that the time of the Essay Prize was completely covered. After one Essay Prize ended, another Essay Prize would immediately follow. Therefore, there were many Essay Prizes. As long as one was willing, one could find at least dozens of Essay Prizes organized by different magazines at the same time.
However, it was precisely because of the frequency of the Essay Prize that the prize itself wasn't too much. The first place would be rewarded with 100,000 yen at most. The most important prize of these Essay Prizes was actually the guarantee that the publisher would print and publish the winning works. This was the most important prize.
However, with the appearance of the Dengeki Bunko's Essay Prize, everything changed in an instant.
The prize for the first place was as high as 30 million yen, which was probably the first in the entire history of Fusang. Even the second place could get a prize of 5 million yen. Finally, even the third place, which had no limit on the number of prizes, had a prize of 100,000 yen, which was the same as the prize for the champion of the Essay Prize of other magazines.
This was like a slap to the faces of those magazine publishers. Any novelist who saw this award would have an irrepressible urge to join the competition.
"30 million yen!" Xu Yuanxuan gasped, then said, "Hurry up and tell me, what are the rules this time!"
"Take a look at it yourself!" Narusu gave the rules column to Xu Yuanxuan, which read:
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Rules of the Essay Prize:
1. This Essay Prize must be a light novel. The theme includes but is not limited to reality, another world, science fiction, games, sports, history, love, detective, demons, warring states, time travel, and so on.
2. The novel for this Essay Prize must be published exclusively, and the novel must not be submitted to any other platform. Once discovered, the participation qualification and all rewards will be immediately revoked.
3. The contestant needs to combine the outline of the novel and the first 50,000 words of the novel together and send it to the magazine for evaluation. The manuscript can be handwritten or typed, but the handwriting must be clear and easy to recognize.
4. The deadline for this competition is September 30, 1993, based on the time of mailing. Those who exceed the deadline will automatically be disqualified.
5. Any novel that participates in this essay competition and wins an award will automatically be regarded as signing a contract with Dengeki Bunko. Dengeki Bunko will be responsible for publishing and selling the novel. All copyrights of the article, including but not limited to novel copyrights, audio adaptation copyrights, comic adaptation copyrights, game adaptation copyrights, film adaptation copyrights, performance copyrights, commercial adaptation copyrights, continuation copyrights, and so on, will automatically be regarded as being transferred to Dengeki Bunko. Dengeki Bunko will be responsible for developing and selling the novel for 60 years.
If you do not agree with this rule, please reject the submission.
6. All profits from the publishing of the novel and the copyright will be distributed by Dengeki Bunko and the author in a ratio of 7: 3 (limited to the novels in the competition). In the future, the first editions of other novels can be decided based on the specific situation.
7. The review is divided into preliminary review and review. The preliminary review will be reviewed by the editorial department of Dengeki Bunko. The review will be published together and given to 1000 randomly selected readers to grade. The final review result will be reviewed by the editorial department and the readers.
8. The rewards will be described according to the title. However, other than the cash reward, works that receive the Outstanding Award and the Outstanding Award will be given the opportunity to be published by Dengeki Bunko.
Works that receive the Outstanding Award will be evaluated by the editor based on the work itself. Even works that do not receive the Outstanding Award will have the opportunity to be published.
9. For works that have been decided to be published, the number of published works will not be less than 300,000 words. The specific situation will be discussed by the author and the relevant editor.
10. For works that have received the right to be published, regardless of the final sales results, they will receive a guaranteed fee of 20,000 yen per volume.
11. The right to interpret the Outstanding Award will belong to Dengeki Bunko.
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"What a great rule. Dengeki Bunko is so kind!" After reading the entire rule, Xu Yuanxuan could not help but praise.
"Yeah! It's simply too kind. It's simply not like those trashy companies in Japan! "Narushu also sighed.
In fact, it was not only these two novelists. In the eyes of all the novelists, the rules this time were extremely kind.
First of all, the reward. Needless to say, the reward was extremely kind. There was probably no other writing competition in Fusang that had a better reward than this.
Most importantly, there were no restrictions on the subject matter, which was a great advantage. One should know that most of the writing competitions nowadays were mainly about the social genre. They would only accept novels with realistic themes. At most, they would accept novels with science fiction themes.
As for the themes of alternate worlds, demons, transmigration, and so on, in the eyes of the Fusang literary world, they were simply disgraceful things. They didn't have the right to stand in the palace of novels. They were completely insulting the word literature.
Therefore, many of the younger generation who grew up and liked to play games, otherworlds, and so on, did not have the opportunity to submit their own works.
Take Xu Yuanxuan for example. He had written a novel about a magical girl and submitted it to more than 20 publishers. He had participated in more than a dozen literary competitions, but all of them had been rejected. Some editors had even added the word 'trash' to his novel, causing Xu Yuanxuan to suffer a lot of blows.
Now that he saw the requirements of the writing competition, otherworlds, demons, and transmigration, which were completely new themes that were not accepted by the secular culture, Xu Yuanxuan felt his blood boiling. Then, his magical girl novel should finally have a chance to be successful!
Lastly, the most unexpected thing was that Dengeki Bunko even set up a guaranteed amount for the author.
This was something that had never appeared before in the world of Fusang's novels.
It should be known that even if a novelist was lucky enough to get his novel published, based on the current declining sales trend in Fusang's literary world, 80% of the published novels sold less than 10,000 copies, and about 50% of the novels sold less than 1,000 copies. Even the printing cost of the publishing house could not make up for it.
The Fusang Publishing House and the author's share of the profits was calculated according to the sales of each book. For every book sold, the author's share was about 20 RMB.
Some publishing houses also set a lower sales limit. This lower limit was their so-called publishing cost. If the money earned from publishing a novel was not enough to make up for the publishing cost, then not a single cent would be given to the author. After all, the publishing house would not sell a book at a loss.
Therefore, most of the novelists had a miserable situation where they could not earn a single cent after their novel was published, and their years of hard work were all for nothing.
In the end, these novelists had no choice but to accept reality and rely on odd jobs to survive. Some novelists even starved to death.
This caused more and more parents to strictly forbid their children from writing novels when they were planning for their children's future.
This was because in the eyes of the parents, in this era where television, movies, and all kinds of games dominated the entertainment industry, novels were destined to lose money and not make any profits.
Now, this Dengeki Bunko had a guaranteed income of 20,000 RMB per volume. Although this income was not high, only 40% of a normal Japanese worker's monthly income, as long as this money was spent sparingly, it was enough to cover one's food expenses for a month. After all, one would not starve to death.
In the eyes of all the novelists, the introduction was like an angel's conscience benefit. 90% of the novelists saw this rule and their impression of Dengeki Bunko increased by 100%.
Of course, this rule was worse than the traditional publishing world.
The most obvious one was the copyright. Traditional publishing houses, after they received a novel and published it, only requested for the copyright of the text. As for the adaptation rights, film rights, and game adaptation rights, they did not request for any of these. These were all the author's own.
However, the Dengeki Bunko was different. These Dengeki Bunko were all held tightly in his hands. When it was time to split the profits, he only gave the author 30% while he took 70%. In the eyes of the later generations, this was a completely overbearing clause. It was the most disgusting part.
One had to know that even the most fraudulent Yuewen Group, which was the boss of Qidian and QQ Reading, split the copyright 50% with the author. In the end, Dengeki Bunko directly asked for 70%. This was simply an even more overbearing clause than a landlord tyrant.
However, all the authors automatically ignored this clause because, in this day and age, although there were TV dramas and movies adapted from novels, there were too few of them. Moreover, the copyright fee itself was not too high. 99% of the authors at the bottom had never expected that the copyright could bring them huge profits.
Therefore, they naturally ignored the overbearing clause in the copyright, because they never thought that their copyright could be sold. They were satisfied with just receiving the remuneration.
Therefore, not to mention 73%, even if Dengeki Bunko took away all the copyright income, they would not have any objections. This was because to these penniless authors who did not have a single best-selling novel, copyright income did not exist.
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