The income from writing novels usually included royalties, copyright sales, adaptation rights sales, authorization fees, advertising revenue, and many other sources. The author's fee usually referred to the original manuscript created by the author based on the content of the novel. The payment standards for the author's fee varied according to the publishing house or platform. Generally speaking, the remuneration for the author was based on the number of words, quality, market, and other factors. The price per thousand words varied. Selling copyrights referred to selling the copyrights of a novel to a third-party platform or company to earn more money. For example, adapting novels into movies, TV series, games, animations, and other forms of income through copyright sales. The sales of adaptation rights referred to the adaptation of the novel's content into other forms of work such as games, television dramas, movies, etc., and the profits from the sales of adaptation rights. The royalties referred to the other forms of income that the author received, such as advertising revenue, brand cooperation, and so on. In addition, authors could also earn money through other means, such as participating in the platform's traffic sharing, cooperating with the media to promote, and so on. The income from writing novels was a complicated process that required a comprehensive consideration of many factors. Different types of novels, publishing houses, platforms, audiences, and other factors would affect the income of a novel.