MasterRabbink I think they are introducing too many novels to translate tbh. If you think about it, the tens of thousands of novels they have in the Chinese Site isn't really costing them anything, much like the originals here, but the novels they bring here has a translator and editor cost that's piling up every month. So it might become a burden if they can't get enough people to pay for their novels and it may not be a good idea to dilute your finite number of readers into more novels. They may be depending on the future growth, but i wouldn't be too sure about that either.

Not everyone likes to read web novels. The biggest reason why people start reading web novels is because they are free. You can't lose anything but some of your time and that is why people tolerate the undesirable sides of web novels. You can't go screaming about free food as long as it's not totally spoiled with maggots crawling over. But when you make it so the price is at the same or even over the level of something like Amazon Kindle, then they also become a competitor. After all, people have a finite time and money to spend on reading. There is no arguing that the published books in Amazon are a step over in quality compared to the most novels here and there is much more to choose from. The only thing the Amazon may be losing in would be the eastern fantasy(wuxia/xianxia) type of novels, but Amazon has plenty of Western Fantasy and some that even incorporate the cultivation style...

Well, i sure hope they can keep going even if i don't agree with the way they do things, as if they pull out from the international scene, we get nothing. As long as they keep in business, where there is a will, there is a way to read...

    N0xiety it doesn't matter because they are already doing segregated pricing. Why do you think the series are separated into premium, adwall, and free? What criteria do you think they can use to determine which series is turned from free to adwall or premium?

    Remember:they can count bonus ss, bought ss and users reading series. They can most likely get geographic location as well.

        MaryFord Why do i think the novels have segragated pricing? It's for the frog in boiling water effect. As a novel is released, it starts free, then transitions into adwall and finally goes into full premium if it is popular enough. So it's just a way to warm the water slowly while hoping the frogs(readers) get used to it. Some will for sure get used to it or not care as they have heat shields(too much money to care), but most of the frogs who don't have heat shields atleast have a human brain to protect them, so i don't think it will be that effective and they will jump out before the water boils...

            They want you to read for free, it's not like they would made the free stones timed or somethin-......oh wait

            Serioisn't now they just took 3 more novels from gravity tales. I just hate it how the translators were like we want you to enjoy the novel with us. And now. MONEMONEYMONEY. I just realised that how much money reigns the world. Man even YouTube is for free. And the creators of those contents don't want money directly from the viewers. That just shows how grown up this website is. It just makes me sad.

              DeJeL yeah using the free ss I stick with true world martial and swallowed star

                It's silly that they have not said anything about it, bug or intended. They could make a lot more money from a lot of people if they just added a way to view a bunch of adds for ss, lots of people could just run it in the background. Plus twice I actually tried paying for SS didn't work cause this site produced an error so oh well for them.

                I just read a thing on the app: now daily won ss expired after 30 days instead of 120... QI is evil !!!! 😭

                  They already have regional prices on the app. In the UK if you buy in app you have to pay £9.99 for something that costs $9.99 on the website. £9.99 is $12.90

                    Same here, I've bought SS to read some novels because I knew that other novels will have free daily chapters. For example, I often start a new novel with a bunch of premium chapter (at least a hundred), I will pay SS to get to latest released chapter, then I will stop reading it (at the end of a mini arc) until a certain number of premium chapters has been released; in the meantime I'll read some other novels with free chapters or adwall or premium (but by using my free SS). Then when the previous novel has again enough released chapters, I buy them. However, if there is no free daily premium, it means that I would have to pay each chapter released since I stopped reading. Therefore, even if at some point I want to stop reading the novel for a year, no free chapters would have been released and I would have to pay a huge amount of money to get to the last chapter.
                    I'm sorry but I would never pay something like that, I would rather stop reading or finding an alternative :wink:

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