Chapter 362 - Chapter 362: Chapter 238 It was him who caused the trouble! (Subscribe please)_2 (2/2)
Hou: “Ah?”
Brother Hao explained, “Clearly, all our misfortune, the root of all these evils, comes from those books by Mr. Lin. If we hadn’t pirated his books, none of this would have happened!”
Hou, dumbfounded, mused, “Seems like it.”
If Fries Novel hadn’t pirated “Arms Tycoon,” hadn’t advertised using that book, Leo wouldn’t have seen it, Leo wouldn’t have come, Lucas wouldn’t have followed.
So, the root cause was Mr. Lin’s books!
“What are you waiting for, pull them all from the shelves now!” Brother Hao urged.
“But we just paid a huge royalty to Sailing Novel, wouldn’t pulling them now cause a big loss?”
“Just consider it losing money to avoid disaster!”
“This…”
“What’s more important, money or life?”
“Life!”
Immediately, Hou operated the backend management system of Fries Novel, swiftly removing all of Lin Chuan’s novels without hesitation!
When done, Hou asked, “Brother Hao, whose books are we going to pirate now?”
Brother Hao thought about the twists of the recent times and made a decision, “We’re not going to pirate anymore, we’re going legit with a genuine novel website!”
“A legit site can’t beat the earnings of pirating?” Hou queried.
In his understanding,
pirating novels involved just setting up a few programs, data scraping with bots, then uploading to scam user clicks and visits, once the traffic was high, advertisers would come knocking, and money would roll in.
“Pirating from two more authors like Mr. Lin, and sooner or later our lives will be ruined by piracy,” Brother Hao solemnly said.
Hou pursed his lips.
Every time he thought of Mr. Lin’s works as something filthy, the name ‘Mr. Lin’ involuntarily made him flinch, best not to mess with it.
“So, how do we go about legit novels?” Hou asked.
Brother Hao sat deep in thought for a long while.
Suddenly!
Brother Hao stood up, looking at Hou, “Your Chinese is pretty good, right?”
Hou frowned, “I only worked there for a few years.”
“Reading Chinese novels shouldn’t be a problem, right?”
Brother Hao asked.
Hou cautiously answered, “Shouldn’t be a problem.”
Brother Hao then said, “This time, we’re starting a major legit novel website, not just targeting Southeast Asia, but all of Asia!”
“Isn’t that a bit too ambitious?” Hou grimaced.
“Cough, just puffing ourselves up a bit, but the novel market in Southeast Asia really isn’t that big, not many authors writing either. We’ve got to include Chinese novels, targeting both Chinese readers and, through translation, Southeast Asia readers!”
Brother Hao began to dream of his grand plans!
“Brother Hao, genius!” Illumination dawned on Hou, seeing the idea as killing two birds with one stone, highly feasible!