MasterRabbink I must admit that I envy people who can write. I can't write at all. But lots of chinese webnovels are no better than free stories on fictionpress or somewhere else, there also don't seem to be any kind of editing going into some of these stories, sometimes it seems there is also no planning involved which is why I think the prices are too much. It seems like buying a first or maybe second draft of a book not the finished product. I'm not saying it's all of them but lots of them. Sometimes it feels like the authors are trying to make the book as long as possible since they get paid for that book and if they started a new one they would have to hope it would get put as premium again.
On the topic of no free chapters. Maybe if they implemented a method to donate money to the novel like they have on the chinese site (I think) instead of taking away free chapters they would probably get more money out of it since I think people are more likely to give money if they feel they have a choice especially if you can also choose how much you can donate. Or like you said the WW Patreon system. And then put some effort into putting the stories into ebook format, they could even sell them from the website and not use amazon - which would get them all the money.

    N0xiety Don't forget the shareholders. They surely want a piece of the cake as well.

    They really should have hired a proper manager & put them in charge of Webnovel. They most probably thought that since they pretty much rule the market in China, the international market would be a piece of cake. They should try charging 0.15$ per chapter on Qidian for the current "quality" content, the site would be full of curses.

        N0xiety I know of maybe 2 translators that made around that much a month through Patreon alone. It's possible, but not common.

            akuma06 I know what you mean, there are only a couple of novels i only read the daily freebies for because the spirit stone cost for each chapter is simply so high that it just isn't worth it. Now there are a couple of stories with daily updates that are ad funded, and then there are four stories which are premium. Now for the sake of those premium stories i buy the 400 spirit stone bundle once a month. Now the number of spirit stones i would have to buy for the formerly free stories in order to catch up is terrifying, which frankly really puts me off so those two stories are probably gonna be abandoned. Now what i don't get is why they can't just choose the middle ground and change the free daily chapters to ad blocked chapters, and keep them as ad chapters so that they get some revenue that way at least. I am happy to watch ads Qidian and a lot of people are too. Like if you are too.

              Disperson yeah, their going for the epub way of trying to make money, if you what to get a real heads up and how bed qi and even gt has acted, you should join www,novelupdates.com ( its good for all novel info and also for finding new non-qi books) and look at the huge forums posts and the lies and bs that's happened over the last 3 yrs,
              also, we did the 1-star google vote thing before and qi removed the app and as they are based in China used their own servers, they even had to change FB pages 3 times due to the comments left, as they never speak to us the reader, they just think they can control us
              also the reason they only own 90% of gt is this gt host non-qi novel's and if as they had planned in buying it all they'd have lost those, they almost did about 8mths ago until ma new deal was done ...
              as I said read up on novelupdates and you find a lot of things you never knew about

                  VexationPrince you seem to think qi care ..but they don't in anyway ..in the post above I linked a database site ie novelupdates , just read the p[osts in their and you understand this is the common standard way of qi's dealing with stuff

                      Pizz damn these bastards hiding their shit with their shitty service. I'll check out novel updates. Thx

                        Guys, just chill. Anyone here can read these premium novels on “mirror” (pirate) websites, which I won’t link here because I don’t support them and I don’t want to give them more clicks and ad revenue. But I’m not ashamed to say I’ve been reading Webnovel’s premium novels on Reddit (r/QidianUnderground). I still give my daily free stones to support the novels I like, but since I can’t pay for them all, I shamelessly read most of them on reddit.

                          Tride Writers don't cost anything, they only bring in money...

                              Yakumo You don't understand. You can't stop piracy, but you can sue people who uploaded and send them to jail or make their life in 'disaster' with the need to 'pay' for damage. A criminal record would prevent future employment. We know all the dark secret. Does he need to advertise in the official sites?

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