Chapter 241 Copyright Development and Breaking Million

Liu Zhou had long planned to hand over the position of CEO to Wang Yan.

When Duan Yongji was in office, he was the CEO, but Duan Yongji wanted to remove him at that time.

Later, Liu Zhou took over Sina. In order to better control Sina, Liu Zhou also took the position of CEO himself.

Now that Sina is internally stable, Liu Zhou no longer poses any threat, so he is also ready to give up this position.

After all, the CEO is the person in charge of the highest affairs of a company, and it is more than just a nice title.

Liu Zhou certainly cannot stay at Sina to handle affairs forever. If he continues to occupy this position, it will also affect the operation of the company.

Wang Yan's work ability over the past year has been recognized by Liu Zhou, and Liu Zhou supported him and was willing to give up the position of CEO. It is reasonable and logical that Wang Yan should take over this position.

As for Cao Guowei, his abilities were also greatly admired by Liu Zhou.

Although he was not on his side at the beginning, it did not prevent Liu Zhou from continuing to use him.

So Liu Zhou also asked Cao Guowei to take over Wang Yan's position as president and assist Wang Yan in handling company affairs.

After announcing this decision, Liu Zhou also announced the adjournment of the meeting, but finally kept Wang Yan and Cao Guowei.

After the others left, Liu Zhou said to the two of them seriously:

“Mr. Wang, Mr. Cao, after working together for a year, I fully recognize your abilities, so I am placing you in your current positions.

In the future I may not have as much time to stay at Sina as I did last year, so you will need to work together to run Sina well.

The Internet is developing rapidly nowadays. If you don’t pay attention, you may fall behind. I hope that Sina will always be the one at the forefront.”

"Don't worry, Mr. Liu. Sina is our hard work. We will definitely do our best to run Sina well."

"I believe you, so what are you going to do next?"

"Mr. Liu, we can see that you attach the most importance to Sina Video, Games and Blogs, so we are also going to vigorously develop these businesses in the future."

In fact, this is not them flattering, but Sina Video and Blog are the main support for Sina's stock price surge.

As for games, although Sina has just started out, just look at NetEase and you will know that it has already surpassed Sina in market value because of its games.

So this undoubtedly proves that these businesses have great potential.

“That’s right, but you should also not ignore the news portal that Sina started out as.

And I hope you will put it first and build up the authority of our Sina News. I think you understand what I mean."

"understand!"

"understand!"

They both replied solemnly.

Liu Zhou turned his gaze towards Cao Guowei and said:
"Mr. Cao, do you know the Twitter of the United States?"

"I have a rough idea about it. This application is a bit like a microblog."

“So what do you think of this app?”

Cao Guowei shook his head and said:

"I haven't studied and analyzed it in detail yet, so it's hard to draw a conclusion."

"Then you have time to learn more about it. I think this form of microblogging is the future and it is very likely to replace blogs in the future."

If Cao Guowei couldn't see the potential of Weibo, then Liu Zhou was prepared to force the launch of this application.

But I think Cao Guowei should not be so short-sighted. In the original time and space, Sina Weibo was the first to launch it.

However, Twitter had already become popular in the United States at that time, and other major companies were not blind. They also launched Weibo, causing Sina to lose its first-mover advantage.

At present, domestic Internet companies have not yet discovered the value of Weibo, and Sina is the only one in the blog field. If Weibo is launched at this time, the situation will be much better.

Cao Guowei was a little surprised to see that Liu Zhou attached so much importance to this, but he then kept the Twitter website firmly in mind.

After talking to the two of them, Liu Zhou also left Sina and came to Zhoushan Literature.

This time Liu Zhou did not hold a high-level meeting, but went directly to Vice President Qu He.

Now all of Zhoushan's businesses are developing smoothly and Liu Zhou doesn't need to worry about them. He came here this time only because he has new plans for Zhoushan Literature.

Qu He was Liu Zhou's editor when he published his novel in "Mengya". The two have known each other for ten years and have a deep relationship.

But after all, we are in the company and discussing business, so it is more formal.

"Mr. Qu, do you remember what I told you before about the development of the full copyright of the online novel?"

"Of course I remember, but aren't we already doing this?"

"I know, but it's not enough."

Currently, Zhoushan Literature will contact relevant companies for publishing, game adaptation, and film and television adaptation of popular online novels.

However, film and television adaptations are mainly based on some works under the banyan tree, and there are relatively fewer singularities.

Now Liu Zhou feels that he can start developing animation and comics as well.

"Mr. Liu, do you want to make a comic adaptation of a popular work?"

"Yes."

"But comic book adaptations make almost no money now, can we implement this plan later?" "No, comics may not make money, but excellent animation can still make money."

The current domestic comics market can be said to be very sluggish. There may be many people who like comics, but not many people are willing to pay for them.

Therefore, comic platforms have almost no profit channels.

YouYaoQi, a famous comic platform in the original time and space, did not make a profit for three years until it could no longer sustain itself and was sold to Aofei.

It was not until later when copyright became increasingly important and people gradually developed the habit of paying that the comics market began to improve.

Although the comics market is not doing well at the moment, animation still has potential.

In fact, Liu Zhou has always had this idea, but he has been so busy that he forgot about it.

It was also during the Chinese New Year this year that Liu Zhou accidentally saw the animation "The Legend of Qin" on TV and remembered it.

Liu Zhou also felt it was a bit of a pity. If he had thought of it earlier, he would have directly acquired Xuan Ji Animation.

But there should be no such opportunity now. Xuan Ji Animation has passed the most difficult period and launched "The Legend of Qin".

This first 3D animation in mainland China was very popular as soon as it was broadcast and has now become a hit.

Most importantly, they made money, have escaped the crisis, and are already planning to produce a second season.

At the same time, this also proves that as long as the animation you produce is of good quality, you can make money.

"Mr. Liu, we have never been involved in this field. We need to take it slow."

“We can take our time when making animation, but there is no need to follow a routine when setting up an animation team.

We directly poach people from well-known companies in the industry such as Aofei, Meisheng and Xuanji Animation, and we can also poach a few people from Yiben.

When it comes to anime, we have to admit that Ippo is really good.

As for the funding issue, don’t worry. If Zhou Shanwenxue’s account doesn’t have enough money, I will invest more money.”

Aofei is a long-established animation company that was founded in 93. Last year, they produced a popular animation work "Fire Boy King".

It also started the animation + toy business model, and later acquired YouYaoQi, and entered the game, film and television industries, becoming a large entertainment group.

Meisheng is just the opposite. It started out as a toy manufacturer and acted as the sales agent for various Disney toys in mainland China.

Later, I moved from the toy industry to the animation industry, and it developed quite well.

Therefore, if Zhou Shan Wenxue wants to quickly build an animation production team, the fastest way is to poach people from these companies.

"I see. After the animation team is established, which work will we develop first?"

"Of course it's Zhu Xian!"

Zhu Xian is the only work among all online literatures that has gone viral. And just in time, the online game of Zhu Xian is about to be launched, which will further increase the popularity of this work.

Since it is the first work, it must be a good start, so Zhu Xian is undoubtedly the most suitable one.

"In addition to animation, although comics may not make money now, we can build the platform first," Liu Zhou continued.

The comic platform created by Zhou Shan Literature does not publish original comics, but mainly comics adapted from online novels.

Works that are qualified to be adapted into comics undoubtedly need to have very good results.

These works themselves have fans, and they are fans who are willing to pay.

Therefore, Liu Zhou thinks that although the comic platform may not make money, it should not lose too much money, or even no money at all.

Liu Zhou doesn't expect it to make money, but he believes that if it can become a brand in the next few years or even ten years, it will make money in the future.

“So will our comic platform publish a paper magazine?”

“No, just build an online platform.”

Comic magazines are destined to be eliminated. Even the once popular "Zhiyin Manke" was eventually discontinued.

"Ok."

After explaining these things, Liu Zhou breathed a sigh of relief.

Animation and comics have always been an important part of the cultural and entertainment industry. Zhoushan Literature has such a good foundation, it would be a waste if it didn't develop this area.

As long as these two areas are developed, the copyright development and operation channels surrounding online literature publishing, games, comics, animation, film and television will be completely opened up.

Finally, if we give Zhoushan Literature a small website, it would be perfect.

In the evening, Liu Zhou and Qu He had dinner together.

During this time, Liu Zhou also told him about some of his knowledge about anime and comics in his previous life.

Now that he has arranged the work of his three companies, Liu Zhou can concentrate on making movies.

The Lantern Festival was approaching, and after the festival, Liu Zhou prepared to start filming.

The box office of Golden Harvest's currently showing movie "Swords of Eternal Love 2" has officially exceeded million after half a month of screening.

Following this trend, there may not be much hope for the box office to break 300 million, but there should be no problem in exceeding the box office of "Hero".

Now that "Blade of the Immortal 2" has performed so well, the third part has been put on the agenda within Golden Harvest.

(End of this chapter)