Daily entertainment uses love to generate electricity

Bunshunsha, also known as Bungei Chunqiu Publishing House, was founded by the famous writer Kan Kikuchi in early 1923. At the beginning, it was just a small magazine with only more than 20 people and published a monthly "Bungei Chunqiu"

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However, after nearly seventy years of development, Bungeishunqiu Publishing House is now one of the seven major publishing organizations in Japan, along with Iwanami Shoten, Kodansha, Shogakukan, Chuo Koronsha, Shinchosha, and Housewives' Friends Co., Ltd.

It is a large publishing house that publishes a series of publications such as "Literature Circle", "Zhu Jun!", "Quanshu", "Wenzhou Weekly", etc. and publishes various books.

Even two awards with high reputation in the Japanese literary world and even the whole society, the Akutagawa Ryunosuke Award for pure literary works and the Naoki Thirty-five Award for popular literary works are also awarded by the society.

After another day of intense schedule, on Wednesday morning, after breakfast, Takagi Taku drove to the Bungeishunshūsha headquarters at No. 3-23, Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku.

Today, he is going to discuss with this publishing house about the publication agreement of his novel "White Night Walk".

Arriving in front of the headquarters of Literary Spring Society, Takagi Taku sighed in his heart, looking at the nine-story building with black polished walls and the very conspicuous logo with the modified seal character "文" on the top of the building.

Only then can we have such a building of our own.

What Takaki Taku didn't know, who just sighed as he walked through the door, was that the original residence of this publishing house was only two shabby wooden houses.

"Hello, I'm Takaki Taku. I have an appointment with Director Hirao Takahiro of the First Publishing Department." At the front desk of the publishing house, Takaki Taku introduced himself.

"Do you have an appointment? I need to confirm, please wait a moment." The receptionist at the front desk was a man, giving off a gentle and gentle feeling. He picked up the phone and dialed a few numbers. Takagi Taku's name

There was no change in his expression. He still had that serious and unsmiling expression on his face while he was talking on the phone.

Well, this publishing house is just different. Even the receptionist at the front desk is a kind of literary young man with serious literary youth, Takagi Taku thought nonsensically in his heart.

"Well, okay." I don't know what was said on the other end of the phone. The receptionist holding the receiver nodded, and then said to Takagi Taku who was waiting there: "I do have your appointment. Minister Hirao Takahiro is on the first floor.

We are waiting for you in the literary salon on the left."

"Literary Salon?" Takagi Taku asked again strangely.

"Yes, Literary Salon, just walk forward from here and turn left." The receptionist replied in a positive tone.

Is there a salon in this publishing house? With this question in mind, Takagi Taku thanked the receptionist and walked in the direction he pointed before.

When Takagi Taku opened the first door on the left, his eyes lit up. Inside the door was indeed a very spacious, comfortable and elegant literary salon.

Under the diffuse light, there are several sets of sofa seats and matching coffee tables that are novel in this era. Some small bookshelves are scattered among them, with some novels and other publications placed on them.

The end of the salon leads to the kitchen. It seems that many editors will eat here or order some snacks during breaks. On the other side is a small bar room that can be used exclusively for drinking and resting.

In front of the large French window on the side near the door, a middle-aged man who looked to be in his thirties or forties was sitting on the sofa.

Different from the slovenly editors Takagi Taku saw on TV who were focused on their manuscripts, the man in front of him wore a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, a clean and decent black suit, and his face was cleanly shaved.

He doesn't look like the head of the editorial department, but more like a scholar.

At this time, he was holding a novel in his hand and reading it with gusto, and on the coffee table in front of him were two cups of steaming coffee.

"Are you Hirao-san? I'm Takagi Taku." Takagi Taku walked over and introduced himself politely.

After Hirao Takahiro raised his head and looked at Takagi Taku for a moment, he put down the book in his hand and pointed to the seat opposite the coffee table and said: "Hello, Takagi-san, please sit down."

"Thank you." Takagi Taku bowed to greet him and sat down opposite Hirao Takahiro.

"What do you think of this literary salon in our club, Takagi-san?"

"Ah?" Takagi Taku, who had just sat down, did not expect Hirao Takahiro to ask such a question. He was stunned for a moment and then said with a smile: "This literary salon in your company is indeed very flavorful. It is not only spacious but also gives people a good feeling."

It is also very comfortable. Before I came to your company, I thought that the editors of the publishing house must be the kind of serious, unsmiling people who bury themselves in the editorial office and never leave the house all day long. They will never have the leisure to hold any salon.

Woolen cloth."

"Hahaha, it seems that Takagi-san is still biased against those of us who are engaged in publishing." Hirao Takahiro said with a smile.

"It's not prejudice, it's just ignorance." Takagi Taku explained.

"That's true. After all, we are separated by mountains. Takagi-san is in the entertainment industry and I am in the publishing industry. If it weren't for Takagi-san's book, we might never have crossed paths." Hirao Takahiro picked up the book he just read.

The original manuscript of "White Night Walk" said to Takaki Taku.

"So, what do Hirao-san think of this book?" Finally getting to the point, Takagi Taku suddenly became energetic.

Hirao Takahiro took a sip of the coffee in front of him before replying: "How should I put it? It is indeed a rare masterpiece, but I don't understand why Takagi-san didn't participate in the Edogawa Rebellion when he wrote such a work.

What about the selection of the Step Award?"

"It is precisely because it is a masterpiece that I did not submit an article for the Edogawa Rampo Award. Because then, most of the income from the publication of this book would go to Kodansha." Takaki Taku said, looking at Hirao Takahiro.

"Is this why Takagi-san hopes to sign an agreement with our publisher to publish it at his own expense? It seems that Takagi-san is very confident in the book. The Ranpo Award comes with a bonus of 10 million."

"Indeed, I believe this book will definitely be a hit. I really don't like 10 million." Takagi Taku nodded: "That's why I came to discuss the specific details of the agreement with Hirao-san."

"Takagi-san is indeed a courageous person." Hirao Takahiro applauded and said: "Then I won't say anything more. Our agency's opinion is that this book will be serialized by our "Literary World" publication first, and we will pay for the manuscript.

Normal payment. Then when the whole book is published, according to the agreement, we will take a 20% commission as the publishing fee, but the printing cost of the whole book will be borne by Takagi-san himself."

"Kitai-kun, who I talked to you about before, also told me about your proposal. I agree with your company's approach of serializing it in the "Literary World" publication first, but in your company's proposal of replacing the distribution fee with a share of the share

I have a different opinion. I can pay for publishing services according to a normal self-publishing agreement, but if your company can only accept split publishing, the maximum share ratio I can accept is 10%. I hope Hirao-san will forgive me for this.

"Takagi Taku said neither humble nor overbearing.