Chapter 422

But Jia Hui's was a special newspaper made using optimized papermaking technology!

Its cost per sheet was only half a wen!

And the newspaper made using the special new hand-cranked printing press.

When sold at the level of one hundred thousand copies.

The labor cost could also be reduced to half a wen per sheet.

However, it had just started, with ten thousand copies.

The labor cost was inevitably at one and a half wen.

Currently, the actual cost of labor plus paper was at the price of two wen.

But anyone who does business should know.

The so-called cost would not just be material and basic labor costs.

For example, venue fees, etc., the workshop and large courtyard Jia Hui bought were actually a kind of early investment cost.

However, Jia Hui did not calculate them here.

In addition, the sales team, the newsboys, would get a share of the money. About every two newspapers sold, they could get one wen.

Finally, there were the tea houses and such.

The role they played in Jia Hui's eyes.

Was equivalent to modern newsstands and the like.

They naturally had to get a share of the money.

And the profit of magazines and newspapers, these "newsstands" generally get about 20%.

Whether you can sell them or not depends on yourself.

Therefore, at 5 wen, two wen is the total cost, tea houses etc. can earn one wen, newsboys earn half a wen per copy, totaling 3.5 wen.

Jia Hui's actual profit was currently at 1.5 wen.

This way, everyone had a profit.

However, for the first three days.

Jia Hui didn't earn a penny.

He also bore the cost of 2.5 wen per copy.

After that, it was basically profitable.

Of course.

The premise was that they could all be sold.

Otherwise, all costs would naturally have to be borne by Jia Hui.

But this amount of money was not worth mentioning to Jia Hui.

The accounts were easy to calculate.

Ten thousand copies meant 25,000 wen.

1 diao = 1 tael = 16 qian = 1000 wen.

Therefore.

The total cost was about 25 taels of silver.

For ordinary people.

It was the family's expenses for more than a year.

For Jia Hui, it was not worth mentioning at all.

Even if he burned 750 taels of silver a month.

9000 taels of silver a year.

Even if it was all lost, it was not a large amount for him.

This was a powerful weapon for controlling public opinion.

So even if it was a loss, Jia Hui would continue to operate it.

Of course, for Jia Hui.

Being able to be self-sufficient.

And even making money was naturally the best.

He wasn't a cheap person, with money to burn.

But this was currently limited to the current stage.

When the number of newspapers increased, the cost would be compressed, but if Jia Hui sold them to other provinces, the transportation cost through post stations would also increase, and the specific amount would depend on the specific situation at that time.

If Jia Hui sold them nationwide in the future.

Calculating one million copies a day.

That would be 75,000 taels a month!

For Jia Hui, it was a huge expenditure.

So profitability was still necessary.

Or at least, it had to be self-sufficient!

However, Jia Hui was still confident.

Actually, the profit and expenditure of the newspaper itself were not worth mentioning to Jia Hui.

Jia Hui knew.

The real big profit was advertising fees!

As long as the sales volume was higher, the advertising effect would be better.

Advertising fees would naturally rise with the tide.

Daily sales of ten thousand copies.

For a palm-sized advertising space.

Jia Hui would dare to charge at least five taels of silver a day, right?

This was still the initial preferential price for the first batch.

And there wasn't just one advertising space.

The size and charging standards would all be different.

As long as it was done, even with sales of ten thousand copies, the daily income of dozens of taels was estimated to be there.

When it reached the level of one hundred thousand or one million copies.

Then it would be countless.

However, Jia Hui could only guess how much it would be.

He hadn't operated it himself, so how would he know?

In short.

Once the sales volume was reached.

Naturally, there would be no worry about merchants not investing money to buy advertisements.

After hearing the newsboy's words, the shopkeeper, seeing that there was profit to be made, was immediately happy: "There's such a good thing?"

"How many copies of this so-called newspaper do you have? I want them all!!".

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For this shopkeeper.

For every copy sold, he made a net profit of 5 wen.

He would be a fool not to want it.

So he immediately wanted to take them all.

But the newsboy just shook his head.

"Sorry, distinguished guest."

"Our newspaper office has regulations, because it is a trial operation."

"The number of copies allocated to each family is limited, only 20 copies."

"Regardless of whether they are sold out or not, you have to wait until tomorrow." ===== CHAPTER 423 =====