After anchoring a foreign edition book, find out the relevant information of the book, including official website, publishing house, official website, author and illustrator, and contact the copyright owner through official channels. Remember to make sure that the copyright owner, author and illustrator may authorize the publishing house to sell copyright, so many times the publishing house is the right holder to sell copyright. If the copyright owner tells you that the copyright of simplified Chinese has not been sold, you can contact directly if you are willing to talk. But in many cases, in order to improve efficiency, copyright owners will ask buyers to contact their agents in China. On the one hand, it is based on language considerations. On the other hand, if there are a large number of buyers, the agent will give unified feedback, and the agent can also help the copyright owner verify the buyer's information. Big Apple and Boda are the two most important transnational book copyright agencies, and most of the top bestsellers in the industry are entrusted to them. In addition, there are edition customers in Beijing (there are many books in minority languages, and there are corresponding editors in minority languages, so it is convenient to contact and feedback quickly), Lin Kai American branch in Beijing, carrot agent in Korea (mainly Korean books) and Andrew agent (personally, the contact efficiency of children's books department is slow). There are advantages and disadvantages through agency, but overall, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. The disadvantage is that if the contract is finalized, the agent will symbolically charge the buyer a certain fee, such as dozens of yuan for Boda and three or four hundred yuan for the version. This part of the cost is basically negligible for the buyer, because their commission is mainly obtained from the copyright party, and the transaction amount ranges from 10 to 15%. The other, separated by a layer, can only be contacted through an agent. The agent will not raise the price from it. I don't know, after all, it is related to the vital interests. The advantage, of course, is language, and we get information directly from them.