If Jimmy's interest in Jeff Bezos was only 50% before, then after Shinji Mikami came to him, his interest in Jeff Bezos increased to 90%.
Because he suddenly realized that he really needed someone to help him take care of the website.
Last year, Jimmy told Yu Dong that he was going to invest in games, and he did.
Later, he formed a game company specifically to produce "Resident Evil".
The other people in this company were recruited by Jimmy on his own initiative from various companies. Only Shinji Mikami came to join him on his own initiative because Shinji Mikami is an avid fan of "Resident Evil".
He originally worked at Neon Capcom. Last year, Jimmy wanted to poach Capcom's Totsuro Fujiwara, but failed.
However, it was precisely because of that contact with Capcom that Shinji Mikami knew that "Resident Evil" was going to be produced, so he found Jimmy, hoping to join the team.
Jimmy was worried that there was no one around, so he accepted Shinji Mikami.
However, Jimmy did not attach too much importance to Shinji Mikami at that time, and instead placed his hope on the others he had recruited personally. Compared with others, Shinji Mikami had only been working for a few years and his experience was not as rich as theirs.
But what Jimmy didn't expect was that Shinji Mikami performed very well after he came over, and was excellent in all aspects. Moreover, he was indeed an avid "Resident Evil" fan, and his understanding of this book far exceeded that of others.
The game faced many problems, which were all solved by Shinji Mikami.
Moreover, Shinji Mikami did not follow the original plot, but wrote a game plot by himself based on the original work.
This time Shinji Mikami came to him to tell him that he needed to start promoting the game. The implication was that the problems facing the game had been basically overcome.
So Jimmy will have to free up his hands to promote the game in a while.
Now he needs someone like Bezos. Of course, if Bezos can't get him, it doesn't matter. Jimmy believes that there is no shortage of talents in the world.
Originally, Jimmy wanted to get to know the senior management of Ingram Book Group through Dante, but an unexpected surprise was that Dan Brown's fiancée Bryce actually knew Ingram himself and expressed her willingness to help match him.
Later, Jimmy successfully met Ingram through Bryce's relationship. After the meeting, Jimmy showed him a plan.
But this plan is not for a trading website, but for another genius idea from Yu Dong - printing on demand.
The so-called printing on demand refers to a printing model produced in order to cope with the coming digital era. It is a customized business that is printed from one copy.
In other words, if someone wants to buy a book in the future that has not been printed, it doesn't matter. They only need to place an order directly, and the on-demand printing company can print it and deliver it to the customer.
Jimmy started working on this plan in Chengdu, and it was also a preparation for the trading website.
There is also a plan document, which only has a rough outline, which is the publishing service plan, but Jimmy has not thought of throwing this plan to Ingram for the time being.
When he first saw the "print on demand" plan, Ingram was very surprised. They are a book industry group, so they have always paid close attention to the printing technology, and the new digital printing machine on display this year was their first choice.
There was a lot of discussion within the group.
But he didn't expect that he would see a planning document for this kind of digital printing press so soon.
After reading the plan, Ingram stared at Jimmy. He knew that Jimmy had not written everything in the plan. There must be some details that he did not know, especially some of the subsequent strategic planning.
Without thinking for too long, Ingram decided to cooperate with the Deep Space Company.
After Ingram decided to form a joint venture with Deep Space to create an on-demand printing company, Jimmy came up with another plan.
What is thrown out this time is the trading website plan.
Jimmy hopes that the company will exist as a joint venture again, but this time Ingram can only get 10% of the new company's shares. Of course, they only need to contribute a symbolic investment of one million US dollars, while Deep Space Company will
$16 million.
With the cooperation of "print on demand companies", cooperation with trading websites has become much simpler.
For Ingram, they only need to pay one million US dollars to get 10% of the shares and a channel that is likely to grow.
And after seeing this plan, Ingram also understood Jimmy's final idea. If the trading website can be launched, it will complement the print-on-demand company. Online customers can order an unprinted book through the website at any time.
, and then produced by a print-on-demand company.
Ingram has supplied books to Amazon before, but it was only a small effort. Now that Deep Space Company has appeared, they naturally know who to choose.
During the operation of this series of plans, Jimmy went to see Bezos, but the other party only agreed to sell up to 30% of the shares and to raise 18 million.
So Jimmy simply stopped talking to them and chose to cut off their escape route. This led to the fact that Jimmy wanted to jointly set up a website with Ingram.
After the cooperation between Jimmy and Ingram was reached, Bezos was notified that Ingram would no longer agree to their application for delayed payment.
Prior to this, Amazon first sold books online, and then found Ingram to ship them to customers.
They will first receive the book payment from the customer, and then settle the bill with Ingram three months later.
In this way, as long as their operations are stable, the sales in the past three months can always be used as their company's operating funds.
As the plates get bigger and the sales increase, they will have more and more cash in their hands. As a financial practitioner, Bezos understands this very well.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! But now that Ingram is only willing to accept cash settlement, this scheme will not work anymore.
Of course, Amazon can go to "Baker and Taylor", but the market share of "Shell and Taylor" and Ingram are not at the same level, and Amazon will lose its original geographical advantage as a result.
Even if they barely persist, if Deep Space develops in the future, there will be no room for Amazon to survive. He comes from finance and knows clearly that between "Deep Space and Ingram" and Amazon, no capital will choose them.
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Bezos is a very smart man. He knew that he was being suppressed in all aspects, so he chose to compromise early, making his surrender posture more elegant, and at the same time gaining more benefits for himself.
In the end, Bezos received 10% of the shares and a severance package of $2 million, and kept the Amazon name.
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Yu Dong didn't know about Jimmy's running around. During this period, he first took Ruan Xiaohu to visit the Shanghai Writers' Association, and then sent invitations everywhere.
It wasn't until the 15th that he flew to England. This time, in addition to Cheng Yanqiu, there were also Bi Feiyu and Yu Hua, as well as his assistant Jiang Jie.
They had already discussed the trip to the UK before.
Yu Hua and the others will accompany Yu Dong to a book signing in the UK, and then rush to France to visit Actes Sud Publishing House. This publishing house set up a Chinese literature series this year and published the works of the three of them one after another.
Air France's largest partner.
Before going to the UK, Yu Hua and Bi Feiyu called Yu Dong and asked him what they needed to bring to the UK and France. Yu Dong told them that in addition to documents, they only needed to bring a change of clothes.
Later, the two guys discussed and decided to bring a few decks of pokers. They were afraid that they would not be able to buy the same kind of pokers in China when they went abroad.
After arriving in London, after taking a short rest, Yu Hua and the others proposed to play poker, but Du Dong ignored them at all and took Cheng Yanqiu directly to Charles Cross Street.
Cheng Yanqiu liked the book "84 Charles Cross Street" very much, so she said she wanted to check it out before she came. Of course, Yu Dong couldn't disappoint her.
Yu Hua and Bi Feiyu saw that there were not enough people playing cards, so they had no choice but to put down their pokers and follow them.
Charles Cross Street is a famous bookstore street in London. It is right in the city center and has a very good location.
The street is adjacent to Leicester Square to the south and St. Giles Circle at the intersection of Oxford Street to the north.
The road in the commercial street is not wide, with only four lanes, but it is very lively and full of people, including foreigners.
Of course, to the other people on the street, Yu Dong and the others are foreigners.
In fact, Yu Hua and the others didn't think it was very crowded, because they had seen even the most crowded scenes in China, and Charles Cross Street was really a child's play.
You can see a small bookstore at the corner of the intersection. Bi Feiyu pointed to the sign above and said, "Look, isn't this No. 84 Charles Cross Street?"
Yu Dong looked over there, shook his head and said, "No way, No. 84 Charles Cross Street is already closed."
Bi Feiyu came closer and sighed, "Hey, it turns out to be No. 48."
Yu Hua smiled and said, "Since we've already reached 48, I guess No. 84 is not far away."
But later they discovered that No. 84 Charles Cross Street was no longer there. There was only a nameplate nailed on the wall facing the street. When they arrived, there were still many people taking photos in front of the nameplate. It was obvious that these people were all because of "
"84 Charles Cross" is here.
The nameplate was really not interesting, so they wandered around again and walked to the entrance of Foyle's Bookstore. Yu Dong had heard about this bookstore. It was said that it was the largest bookstore in the world. Later, because of its long history,
The thirty-mile-long bookshelf is famous for setting a Guinness record.
As soon as he entered the bookstore, Yu Hua was attracted by a book on the bookshelf in the front row. He pointed at the book and asked, "Is this a biohazard?"
Yu Hua couldn't understand the English title on the book, but he could understand the picture on the cover. The cover of the English version was more unrestrained than the cover of the Chinese version, with a zombie directly on it.
Yu Dong glanced at it and nodded: "Yes, it's "Resident Evil"."
After hearing the affirmative reply, Yu Hua said sourly, "I asked you why you came to the bookstore. It turned out that you came here just to show off."
Yu Dong didn't refute, and pointed to the two books next to him and said, "That's not all. This is "The Second World" and this is "Fatal Identity"."
"Okay, I know you are also famous in the UK."
With that said, Yu Hua picked up another copy of "Resident Evil" and started reading it.
Bi Feiyu teased from the side, "Do you understand?"
Yu Hua nodded seriously, "Yes, I can understand a little."
Yu Dong gave a thumbs up, "Advanced."
Yu Hua flipped through it a few times and found that he really couldn't understand it, so he lost interest. However, it was not easy to find a Chinese book here. Yu Hua went to look for it, but he couldn't find it after looking around.
Later, they found a place to sit down and rest in the bookstore, and an eight or nine-year-old blond boy came over with a pen and notebook.
He walked up to Yu Dong and handed the notebook to Yu Dong, "Hello, can you write down your name for me?"
Yu Hua looked at the little boy and asked, "What did he say?"
Bi Feiyu smiled and said, "It must be a fan of Yu Dong's books who came to him for an autograph."
"Yu Dong, you have such a young book lover, and you are recognized right now?" Yu Hua said in surprise.
Yu Dong was actually a little strange, but he still smiled and said, "What can be done about this? I can only blame it on me being too famous."
While smiling, he took the book from the boy's hand, signed his name on it, and then thoughtfully wrote down today's date and location.
After finishing writing, he returned the notebook to the little boy, and then asked with a smile: "Kid, which book do you like?"
The little boy showed a puzzled expression, as if he didn't know what Yu Dong was talking about. He twisted his eyebrows and asked, "Excuse me, are these written in Chinese characters or neon characters?"
"Of course it's Chinese characters." Yu Dong was a little surprised. This little book lover could recognize other people, but didn't know that he was from China?
The boy smiled, "I just want to know how to write Chinese characters. Fortunately, you are not from Neon or Korea. Thank you."
After saying that, the boy turned around and ran away, leaving only the petrified Yu Dong and Cheng Yanqiu who covered their mouths and laughed.
Yu Hua didn't understand what was going on and asked, "What's going on?"
Bi Feiyu explained to him with a smile, "I'm not a book fan at all, I'm just a passerby who wants to know how to write Chinese characters."
Yu Hua also smiled, "Hey, who said it just now? There's no way, it's too famous."
Yu Dong pursed his lips. The handsome man acted a little hastily just now, giving Yu Hua a chance.
Bi Feiyu added another blow, "You didn't know just now that Yu Dong asked the little boy which book he liked, and the little boy didn't know what he was talking about?"
"That's not true. I guess the little boy is also wondering whether this person is out of his mind and asks the wrong questions."
Yu Dong couldn't help but rolled his eyes. These two guys were good at other things, but they were very good at yin and yang.
Chapter completed!