Mu Suxing could probably guess what these channel dealers were thinking.
Whether it is kicking someone when they are down or taking advantage of someone's misfortune, they are just relying on the fact that Huaying Manga cannot do without them. No matter how angry Huaying Manga is now, it is impossible for them to really break off relations with them or refuse to cooperate.
There are quite a few channel dealers in Xingning Province, but when all the channel dealers are connected and colluded by Baiyun Culture and are determined to cheat Huaying, unless "Huaying Comics" is no longer distributed through their channels in the future, no matter how annoyed they are, they can only endure it obediently.
On this point, they have nothing to fear.
Although Huaying Comics can still sell its comics through online stores, Huaying is a large company and cannot survive only by online sales, right
The middle-aged man who was sent out as a channel dealer obviously understood this. He coughed and said in a pretentious manner: "Of course, as a partner, we still believe in Huaying's strength, but..."
Having said this, he paused deliberately, waiting for the other party to ask further questions, but Mu Suxing didn't even look at him, and said simply: "No need, since we can't reach an agreement, let's terminate the contract."
"Now is a special period, and it's not easy to draw comics. So, let's both take a step back..." The middle-aged man was halfway through his words when he realized what the other party had just said. He was the one who was shocked: "Are you crazy? Terminate the contract? All the distributors in Xingning Province are here. Now that the contract is terminated, who are you going to sell comics for you in the future?"
Muxuxing shrugged and said nonchalantly: "I don't think this is something you need to worry about, right?"
The middle-aged man frowned slightly.
After a brief loss of composure, probably because he thought Mu Suxing was just trying to trick him, the middle-aged man quickly regained his composure. He no longer put on that overbearing attitude, but instead said in a brotherly tone, "Boss Mu, when it comes to doing business, harmony brings wealth. Why do you have to fight with me? You may not understand, so let me tell you..."
Muxuxing began to get a little impatient.
"You don't really think that the development of animation and comics cannot be separated from you and there is nothing we can do without you, right?" he asked sincerely.
The middle-aged man didn't say anything, but his indifferent expression told Mu Suxing that it was obvious that this was what he thought.
Mu Suxing was too lazy to talk nonsense with this idiot who was completely immersed in his own world. He dialed a number on his mobile phone on the spot, turned on the hands-free mode directly, and turned up the volume of the mobile phone to the maximum to ensure that everyone in the room could hear the voice on the other end of the phone.
After less than two seconds of waiting, the call was quickly connected. Mu Suxing did not hesitate and asked directly: "I wonder if Mr. Li is interested in adding another product to your store?"
His words were so incoherent that the person on the other side obviously didn't react for a moment and just subconsciously followed his train of thought and asked: "Oh? What is it?"
Muxiuxing gave a brief answer: "Comic magazine."
Li Ruiming was slightly stunned.
As the owner of the largest audio-visual store chain in Xingning City, Li Ruiming is certainly a shrewd man. Considering the recent rumors in Xingning City, he immediately understood the purpose of Mu Suxing's call.
Li Ruiming suddenly became interested.
It's not that he wants to add insult to injury - he runs a video store, not a bookstore, and has nothing to do with magazine publishing. The most important thing is that just a week ago, he was still grinning from ear to ear about the sales revenue of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" bd and dvd. The cooperation between the two parties is in the honeymoon period, and he didn't have time to please Huaying, so how could he rush to offend the other party when he knew that the other party was not in a good mood
He's not stupid.
"Originally, there wasn't any," Li Ruiming smiled lightly and said without any hesitation: "However, if it is Director Mu's comic weekly, then of course it is a different matter."
Li Ruiming meant what he said.
Comic magazines are not confined to bookstores. Today Audio has no experience or foundation in this area, but there is actually not much difference between the two - audio and video stores are as common as bookstores, and they all sell comics, and there is not much difference in price. Is there a big difference between buying them in a bookstore and in an audio store
What's more, in the opinion of Li Ruiming, who has been cooperating with Huaying since the "is" period, all of Huaying's investments are reliable. If no one had deliberately reported the current "Huaying Comics", it would obviously be a dream start in another field.
Although adding icing on the cake is a good thing, there may not be many opportunities to provide timely assistance to Huaying.
Thinking of this, Li Ruiming seemed to think it was not enough, and added: "Today Audio doesn't have much else, but it has many branches. As a sales point for comic magazines, I think it should be more than enough."
But in fact, it is more than just today's audio system.
Which of the famous audio-visual stores in Xingning Province had not cooperated with Huaying and sold the popular BDs produced by Huaying? In the situation where they were eager to maintain a good relationship with Huaying, if Muxuxing really wanted to borrow their channels, who would refuse it outright
Thinking of this, not only did Qiu Fengmao's expression change slightly, but the expression on the middle-aged man's face also couldn't be changed.
But this has nothing to do with Muxiuxing.
After hanging up the phone with Li Ruiming, Mu Suxing used the company's internal landline to call the security guard downstairs and asked someone to "send" the person out.
"Borrowing the channels of the audio-visual store is indeed a good method. At least from now on, I don't have to worry about the channel problem anymore," Qiu Fengmao breathed a sigh of relief, but his frown did not relax. He said with a headache: "The only thing that bothers me now is the popularity of the comics."
No matter how highly they evaluate the Sherlock Holmes series internally, it cannot change the fact that the sales of "Huaying Comics" are indeed mainly supported by "Taking Las Vegas". Now that "Taking Las Vegas" has been forced to be removed from the shelves, how should they solve the problem of insufficient popular comics in comic magazines in the future
Is it possible to create another popular comic
"No need to go to so much trouble," Mu Suxing said calmly, as if he had seen through Qiu Fengmao's thoughts: "Don't remove "Taking Over Las Vegas" from the shelves, just keep it as it is and continue to publish the fifth issue."
Qiu Fengmao was surprised and said: "But the General Administration..."
He was a little confused.
Official institutions like the General Administration are different after all. Since the official has spoken, then no matter what, Huaying Manga has no choice but to follow the instructions. But Mu Suxing said, keep it as it is
What does this mean
Mu Suxing did not answer this question directly, but instead raised another seemingly irrelevant question: "How much was the sales of the last issue of the weekly magazine outside Xingning Province?"
"About 700,000..." Qiu Fengmao answered subconsciously. As soon as he said that, he immediately reacted and said in surprise: "Wait, you mean-"
"Not all regions have this kind of inexplicable review mechanism," Mu Suxing said, "Sales will drop anyway. Rather than being neutered in Xingning City, it's better to keep it as it is and give it a try in other regions that are not affected."
At the beginning, Mu Suxing actually considered whether he should simply give up the attack, remove it from the shelves, and then continue to publish the incomplete "Huaying Comics".
Later, Mu Suxing thought about it for a long time and still felt that it was not necessary.
Huaying Comics is a comics magazine, not a separate comic. Although it was ordered to be removed from the shelves, did Fengxiang really do anything wrong? Why should an innocent comic pay for the failure of others
Most importantly—
Turning his eyes to the manuscript he had worked so hard to finish in the past few days, Mu Suxing shook his head: "Obviously, from the beginning I decided to promote the Sherlock Holmes series as the main comic series..." As a result, everyone's eyes fell on Conquest.
You know, Conquer represents the present of comics at best, but Sherlock Holmes represents the future of comics.
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"A month has almost passed. I wonder if Teacher Zhuo has had enough rest?"
It seemed like a routine question.
Zhuo Liming looked at the other party's polite and calm appearance, as if everything was within his expectations, and all he needed to do was wait until he had enough rest and then come back to continue serializing.
That's a given, right
One is an emerging magazine that is about to fall into a trough and is deserted by its friends and relatives, and the other is a top comic that has been famous for many years and has a peak sales volume of six million. Any comic book author who is slightly intelligent would seem to make a wise choice.
But-
He thought of "Red Moon", which had made great contributions to the magazine earlier but was discarded after being exploited to the point of having no value anymore; he thought of "Night Watchmen", which the editor asked to add a sex plot because of its low popularity; he thought of "Taking Las Vegas", which had caused a lot of controversy on the Internet recently and was forced to be removed from the shelves.
Zhuo Liming suddenly lost interest.
"No need." After a long silence, he heard his own voice clearly ringing in the office, slowly but firmly: "Terminate the contract."
The next day.
When Zhuo Liming said that "Returning Home on a Snowy Night" had been completed, and the final chapter and the extra chapter had been handed over to "Baiyun Comics", and the cooperation between the two parties had ended, the entire comics industry was shocked.
This is Zhuo Liming!
During the serialization period of "Returning Home on a Snowy Night", Zhuo Liming brought at least one million sales to "Baiyun Comics" just by his works!
Baiyun Culture is actually willing to let him go
While other comic magazines were racing against time to get in touch with Zhuo Liming first, or even to get him, the person who had caused a sensation on the Internet stood in front of the editorial office of "Huaying Comics" with a neatly packaged document envelope.