Silicon Valley

v2 Chapter 352: Enter the comics

After Henry and Spielberg finished talking on the phone, after thinking about it, he sent the electronic file of "Da Vinci's Code" in the computer to the West German Publishing House. At the same time, he called specifically to inform Edward Joe of West German Publishing House.

"Edward, my new book "The Da Vinci's Code" has been sent to your e-mail address. You can arrange for publication as soon as possible."

"There's another new book!" Edward Joe exclaimed, "Okay, I'll arrange it right away! Well, that's it, I'm going to hang up!"

Edward turned on the computer eagerly, then logged in to the e-mail box, and downloaded the novel attachment sent by Henry to the computer. Open the file immediately and read it. This reading immediately plunged Edward into it, and he couldn't stop...

Edward watched all night, but there was not much fatigue on his face, but a strong expression of excitement on his face.

"Oh, God, it's so good!" Edward said uncontrollably. "The novel is a collection of detectives, horrors and conspiracy theories. The suspense and thrilling are so many different styles. After reading it, it makes people unable to stop! It's amazing. The amount of knowledge in it is too rich. It's really a rare classic novel!!!"

Edward quickly copied "The Da Vinci's Code" to the USB flash drive. Although the capacity of the U disk is small, it is enough to copy books that are less than m.

In the previous life, the USB flash drive was invented in 1999, and China Netac Technology obtained the basic invention patent for the USB flash drive. But in this life, Heng Yi first launched the usb universal converter, and naturally included the USB flash drive. With the increase in computers with USB interfaces, Williams Electronics naturally introduced USB flash drives. Each USB flash drive is only 2m in size, and the cost is less than 20 US dollars, but the price is 50 US dollars. Because the USB flash drive is easy to use and easy to carry, once it is launched, it is very popular. In 994, 3.5 million U disks were sold, bringing Williams Electronics a net income of over US$0.5 billion.

Edward took the USB flash drive, then drove to the company, and then mobilized people to prepare for the publication of the book "The Da Vinci's Code".

The publishing process is very complicated. There are many times of review, revision, paper processing, typesetting, proofing, quality inspection, etc. After passing, the final document is generated, printed, stored, and distributed. Generally speaking, it takes at least three months for publishers to officially publish.

However, for Henry's work, it is very special. In two to three weeks, it is estimated that it will pass, and then the time will be stepped up to print, and it will be published and distributed within a month!

Henry was already busy adapting the script at this time. Henry not only watched the movie "The Da Vinci's Code", but he also wrote the novel himself, and he had a lot of experience. When I wrote the script, the pen gave birth to flowers, and the spirit was like a fountain. It took a week to complete the script of "Da Vinci's Code", which is more perfect than the previous life.

Henry then came to the film company, gave the script to Bobby Robin, and then told him that he had agreed to let Spielberg be the director.

"Bobby, where did Helen go?" Henry asked after being here for a while, but still didn't see Helen.

"Oh, Miss Helen went to Japan."

"Went to Japan? What did she do in Japan?" Henry asked.

"Miss Helen herself offered to manage the Galaxy Toho and Ghibli animation studios."

"Oh, that's it..." Henry nodded, and then said, "Then you can tell me about the development of Galaxy Toho and Ghibli Animation Studio. It's been a while since I acquired them!"

"Yes, Chairman, the Ghibli Animation Studio and the Galaxy Toho Company were successively acquired at the end of 993. At present, the two companies are developing smoothly. At the beginning of this year, the Galaxy Toho Company launched the TV cartoon "Magic "Baby", this cartoon immediately caused a huge sensation in Japan. The TV ratings broke the record in history, so that the peripheral products of "Pokémon" sold very hotly, which made the group company a lot of money. Money!" Bobby Robbie said, "Miss Helen believes that cartoons will be a very huge cake in the future, so they need to be laid out in advance. She said that animations are generally adapted from cartoons, so she went to Japan. The purpose is actually to acquire comic publishing houses!"

Henry couldn't help but smile when he heard the words. He didn't expect Helen to be quite visionary.

"Which comic book publisher is she going to buy?" Henry asked.

"Shueisha and Shogakukan," Bobby Robin said in detail, "Shueisha and Shogakukan are both very well-known large publishing houses in Japan, and they are also two of Japan's three manga giants. Shueisha publishes "Weekly Shonen Jump." , Shogakukan publishes "Weekly Shonen Sunday", and the third manga giant is Kodansha. Due to its early publication, many well-known cartoonists have published works on "Shonen Magaine", such as Osamu Tezuka and Nagai Howe, Ishimori Akitaro, etc. However, the best seller at the moment is "Weekly Shonen Jump" published by Shueisha."

Henry laughed and said: "Shueisha seems to be a subsidiary of Xiaoxueguan. As far as I know, Shueisha was founded by Xiaoxueguan at the beginning, but it was later separated. However, Xiaoxueguan still holds more than 40% of the shares of Shueisha! "

"Chairman, you know these two publishing houses better too!" Bobby Robin said in surprise.

"Fortunately, understand a little!" Henry smiled. Not only did he understand a little bit, he even knew that the two publishing houses would regroup into the Hitotsubashi Publishing Group in the future.

"Bobby Robin, I support the acquisition of Shueisha and Shogakukan. The value derived from comics is indeed very huge. Since Helen acquired a comic company in Japan, then Galaxy Films acquired a comic company in the United States!"

"Chairman, do you mean we are going to buy Marvel?" Bobby Robbin paused and said, "There are two major comic companies in the United States, one is Marvel and the other is dc Comics. dc Comics It is a subsidiary of Time Warner, and Batman’s works have made a lot of money for them, and I must not sell dc comics to us. Then, the only thing we can buy is Marvel!"

"Yes, it's the acquisition of Marvel!" Henry nodded and said.

Hearing this, Bobby Robbie couldn’t help but recalled, and then said: “In 1999, American billionaire Ron Pereman bought Marvel for 85 million. Ron Pereman was just a A pure businessman, he had no intention of running Marvel. After he bought Marvel, he just wanted to list Marvel. Once Marvel went public, he could cash out large sums of money from the stock market. Ron Pei In order to increase Marvel’s share price, Lehman kept asking Marvel to buy other companies. However, the end result was that Marvel was heavily indebted and was about to go bankrupt..."

"Hmph, Marvel is indeed going bankrupt, but Ron Pereman himself is rich!" Henry sneered.

"Yes~lightnovelpub.net~Chairman, he has cashed out a lot of stocks and made at least 500 million US dollars! It doesn’t matter to him whether Marvel is bankrupt or not, anyway, he has already drained the man. The potential of the company!" Bobby Robbie said bitterly.

Henry looked at Bobby Robbie's expression and couldn't help but smiled and asked, "Why, are you a fan of Marvel?"

"Well, I've been watching Marvel comics since I was a kid!" Bobby Robbie nodded.

"I also prefer the heroes of Marvel. In this way, you will then make an offer to Marvel! Oh, yes, Bobby Robin," Henry ordered, "After acquiring Marvel, take it from the stock market. Delisting will only reserve some shares for the founders and managers of the company."

"Well, yes, chairman," Bobby Robin said, "then I will buy Marvel now!"

"Wait, you buy all the heroes that Marvel sold before. I hope to get a complete Marvel!"

"Yes!"

(To be continued.)