Chapter 325

No wonder someone once said that the money-making machine of media magazines is probably not inferior to the money-making machine.

Because at that time, not only did they sell newspapers to get rewards from customers, but the important thing is that advertisements and a large number of advertisements also brought great and extremely generous returns to these newspapers and magazines, which is the most important thing.

"But there are not many people who can afford tabloids in Tokyo Bianliang, right? You know that such a tabloid is almost twenty yuan. It's okay to buy one or two of them occasionally. Who has so much spare money to read these things?" Liu Yiyi looked at Wang Yang with a headache and explained helplessly.

"Twenty coins?" Wang Yang looked down at the tabloids in his hand, and trembled with disgust. "It costs twenty coins just this kind of broken thing?"

"What do you think? Such a piece of paper, which adds up to four or five hundred words, is about ten cents for copying one piece, and one person can copy at most ten such tabloids a day. If the price is not high, who would be willing to do such a hard work?" Liu Yiyi curled her lips.

"And those who want to get the news have to give money to those insider people. These are also costs. So, a tabloid can only make 30 cents per share. Sometimes some tabloids even sell for 30 cents."

"These tabloids can be sold in one issue of three to five thousand copies. If there is any real big news, I'm afraid there are seven to eight thousand copies to sell..."

A scholar who copied ten copies every day would have to look like four or five thousand words. And don’t forget that this is a brush calligraphy, practice four or five thousand words a day... Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk, this is simply the rhythm of the wrist being about to be broken.

And after a day, he could only get one hundred coins. No wonder Liu Yiyi's teacher stopped working after working for a while. He could only get one hundred coins in a day, and in a month, he would only get three jin of coins. If Mr. Wang, who is active and active, he would probably have turned over the table and stopped doing it.

Wang Yang saw that the paper was thinner than rice paper and worse in quality, but it saved a lot of money from paper alone, and the money for those pens and ink was impossible. As for the salary given to those copyists, it was naturally even more indispensable.

Wang Yang is a literary youth after all. He has used a lot of pen, ink, paper and inkstone during this period, and has opened a printing shop, so he naturally knows the price of this aspect very well.

Thanks to the Song Dynasty's emphasis on culture, the papermaking industry was very prosperous. Taking paper as an example, the big green and white paper used as the cover of the book is big green and white paper. Each hundred pieces of this kind costs 750 cents, and each piece of big green and white paper is about six feet long and three feet wide.

The same is true for the large paper length and width format required for printing content, but the price is extremely low, and every 100,11 and a half. One piece is only one tenth of a cent. It is completely enough to cut such a large paper into four four-page newspapers.

In other words, the paper cost of running such newspapers is extremely low. After that, with the printing ink and labor costs, the ink consumed for each newspaper is also very small. Wang Yang had calculated before that the three volumes of the Analects of Confucius consumed only more than seventy cents of brown, ink, paste medicine, craftsmanship, etc.

For things like newspapers that are just positive and negative, in addition to being a little troublesome when typing, it is not too easy to print 3,000 copies per day with a hydraulic printing machine. At the cost of cost is less than one cent per piece.

In addition to the distribution channels, um... there are ghost distribution channels now, so if it is manually issued, if a tabloid is calculated at three cents.

Every newspaper boy sells a newspaper, he can get a rebate of one penny. I believe that many people will like this job very much.

Even if he only sells fifty newspapers a day, he will be able to earn five per month in one month. If he has one hundred, he will be able to earn three per month. For an ordinary citizen in Tokyo Bianliang, it is enough for a family to live for a month.

After all, in Tokyo Bianliang, where the most expensive, a pancake costs only two cents, a bowl of tea costs only one cent, and a plate of more refined dishes costs about ten cents, and if it is in other places, it will be much cheaper.

Even if Wang Yang sets the newspaper as three months, he will count the cost of one article and give money to the newspaper boy, while the other article will be pure profit.

Compared with the past twenty-month tabloids, it is very cheap. I believe that with the living standards of the people of the Song Dynasty, anyone who knows literacy can see so much content by spending three cents a day, and they will definitely be very happy.

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"Do you really want to do it?" After getting off the car and returning to the mansion, Liu Yiyi couldn't help asking.

"You said, if each newspaper only costs three cents, will anyone buy it?" Wang Yang asked without raising his head.

Just as he sat down, Liu Yiyi, who was about to pour tea into Wang Yang's cup, couldn't help but burst out laughing. "Brother Wang, are you kidding? Can you earn back three cents?"

"Of course I can make it back." Wang Yang raised his head and looked at Liu Yiyi and said seriously. "We have calculated the cost just now. The cost of each newspaper is less than one article. At that time, we will hand it over to others to sell. For every newspaper the other party sells, he will be able to make a penny, and the remaining one article will naturally be earned by ourselves."

"...How could it be so low?" Liu Yiyi and Li Shishi both stared in surprise.

"Because I don't need others to copy, I just need to print." Wang Yang blinked proudly. "Invisibly, the cost of copying is gone. This item alone saves ten cents of each piece."

"In addition, I don't look for any provincial and internal exploration. What I compiled is the kind of things that literati and the people like to see, or that women like to appreciate..." Mr. Wang was talking nonstop while spitting on the stars.

"...It seems that no one can stop you." After Liu Yiyi and Li Shishi looked at each other, she rolled her eyes helplessly and smiled bitterly. This guy looked like he was almost glad to heaven, which was speechless.

"And I plan to issue 5,000 copies of the newspaper in the first issue, and in order to create momentum, I decided that the first five issues will be free. If they are popular, then each issue will be printed, and I will try to increase it to 30,000 copies before the end of the free period." Wang Yang slapped the table with great enthusiasm, raised his eyebrows at Liu Yiyi and said.

"Five thousand servings... Huh? Even if the price of 5 thousand servings is calculated based on the price, it is only fifteen stakes. The fifth period is only seventy-five stakes..." Liu Yiyi couldn't help but take a breath and her eyes fell on Wang Yang.

"Even if it's 30,000 copies, it's only 90 coins. Be good... Master, you are so awesome." Li Shishi's mental arithmetic was also very good. When he thought of the 30,000 newspapers being packed together, he would probably be taller than the house.
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