Chương 72: Chapter 72 Shameless
Joseph said in a deep tone: "Then she saw the gun, surrounded by blood, and in the mirror, she had a hideous wound on her head with a burned edge! Yes, it was obviously hit by a bullet."
Barre's eyes suddenly widened: "Oh God, it's incredible! She's not dead?!"
"Yes," Joseph said, "Moreover, she also discovered that she had divine power and could float in an endless gray mist..."
"That's amazing! What's the name of this novel?"
"It's called "The Lord of Girlfriends."
Joseph continued to the next writer: "This is a story about a nobleman who was imprisoned in the Bastille because of mental illness.
"This young man's name is Phil Lee. He claims that when he closes his eyes, he will enter a magical world.
"There was an evil wizard there who captured many boys and girls with deformities or diseases and used them to refine immortality potions. And Phil Lee was also captured..."
When Joseph set his sights on Beaumarchais, the famous old writer was already impatient: "Oh, your highness, what is my story?"
Joseph immediately thought of Tian Haishan, his favorite Internet writer in his previous life. Each of his books could quickly become popular across the country, and he was only 100 million steps away from the Nobel Prize for Literature. Joseph was so familiar with every book in Tianhaishan that he immediately blurted out: "This novel is called "Lady, Please Stop"..."
The day passed quickly, and at dusk, Joseph received four manuscripts.
Beaumarchais and others are indeed a famous French writer. The novel is extremely vivid. Whether it is the characterization or the description of the plot, everyone's style is revealed between the lines, making people read it like drinking wine.
However, Joseph found that each person submitted only 4 pages of work, with a maximum of 2,000 words.
He had no choice but to tactfully suggest that several great writers should write more every day.
Beaumarchais and others looked at each other. You know, because the story was so exciting, they were so fascinated by it that they didn't even eat lunch. This was already more than twice the amount of manuscripts they usually produced.
And the crown prince seems to be too young!
After several people went back, they called in their disciples or writer friends to help. It was not to earn a few extra royalties. These big writers were all short of money. The main reason was to write faster and listen to the prince's story as soon as possible. .
On Joseph's side, he sent someone to send the manuscript to the "Paris Business Times" overnight, asking Denic to print it as soon as possible.
At dawn the next day, Denico rushed to the Palace of Versailles with a sample of the magazine to report to Joseph on the status of the first publication after the revision.
Joseph first roughly flipped through the two newspapers.
One is "Paris Business". The overall style is still based on the previous "freedom and ideals", which introduces market trends, business insights, etc. The difference is that the second page is full of a novel called "Refining the Sky", and the third page is the content of the new tax bill. explanation.
The other one is the newly published "News and Pictures" - the publication license can be obtained at noon. Of course, this is the speed exclusive to the crown prince. It usually takes more than two months to apply for the license.
"News and Pictures" was not so polite. The title on the front page was "Exploring the deep-seated reasons for repeated failures to register the new tax bill." The second version is "The Lord of Girlfriends". Most of the other pages are related to tax bills, with some hot news from across France interspersed.
As for the pictures, since lithographic printing is not yet online, we only include some Paris landscape paintings that have been engraved on the plates before. In the future, a large number of news illustrations will be published, but in this era there are no photos, so we can only ask artists to draw illustrations.
Joseph is quite satisfied with Denico's work. He is worthy of being a family with three generations working in the newspaper industry.
When these two newspapers appear in the hands of the Paris people, the big aristocratic group will no longer be able to monopolize the channels of public opinion.
When Denic saw that the Crown Prince had read the sample issue, he immediately reported: "Your Highness, according to your instructions, the monthly subscription price of both newspapers is 3 livres.
"I feel I must remind you that at this price we will make a serious loss."
Most daily newspapers nowadays cost 6-8 livres a month, and weekly newspapers cost between 1 livre, 10 sous and 2 livres.
Both "Paris Business" and "News and Pictures" are daily publications, and the price of 3 livres is definitely a loss.
Joseph nodded calmly: "It doesn't matter, just sell it at this price. Once the lithographic printing is completed, the cost should be reduced to less than 3 livres per month."
In fact, it doesn't matter to him even if he loses a little bit. Once the sales volume of the newspaper increases, he will definitely be able to turn losses into profits by relying on advertising revenue alone.
Seeing that he was very determined, Denico had no choice but to continue reporting the next thing: "Your Highness, of those 'newsboys' you mentioned before, I have recruited more than 40 people here."
He hesitated for a moment and said carefully: "I think there may not be many people willing to buy newspapers on the streets of Paris."
The newsboy is the new newspaper sales method prepared by Joseph.
At present, the newspaper industry in various European countries basically adopts the model of ordering newspapers in advance and then delivering them to customers by "paper delivery boys".
And the newsboy who will be familiar to later generations has not yet appeared.
One of the important reasons that restricted the retail sales of newspapers in the past was the high price. On average, a newspaper cost 4 to 6 su, and the average craftsman's daily wage was only 5 to 10 su. Few people would buy a newspaper on a temporary basis.
Now Joseph has lowered the price of a newspaper to 2 sous, and in the future it will be reduced to 1 sous, or even lower. Many people can afford this price.
Joseph knows very well that street retail is the best channel for newspaper sales!
The newspaper boy shouted out the interesting points of the newspaper, and passers-by who were interested in it could easily buy a copy. Moreover, the newsboy can also sell other items and use the profits to lower the cost of the newspaper.
As for "child labor"...
There is no such thing in this era.
At present, in any European country, there are many children working in workshops at the age of seven or eight. They are the important economic pillars of their families.
It is estimated that people will rush to take the relatively easy and high-paying job of selling newspapers soon.
After Joseph gave Denic some more instructions, the newspaper manager said goodbye and returned to Paris.
What they didn't know yet was that the two newspapers had already caused quite a storm in Paris.
On the streets of Paris, someone heard a child waving a newspaper shouting, "Read the newspaper! 2 sous a copy. The newspaper has the latest novel, the alchemical boy was divorced by his fiancée! Can he get justice after three years?"
The man had just received his salary yesterday and bought a newspaper out of curiosity. He was immediately attracted by the wonderful stories on the second page. He read while walking. It was not until he hit a tree that he realized that he had gone the wrong way.
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