I have no problem with the way it works on the chinese site.
If they will lock everything after chapter 100, that is.
THOUGH PRICES NEEDS TO BE THE SAME AS ON CHINESE SITE, TOO
NOT MULTIPLE TIMES HIGHER
ITS RIDICULOUS TO PAY HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS TO READ A WEBNOVEL

    terminatermike1 Oh, no! Even the the past chapters gets locked?! What a mess. i guess the system gets changed from time to time to balance the interests of the parties in the webnovel world.
    Are there any other sites where we can read these great novels? sigh...

      Lyle_Walt I’m not talking about adwall on new chapters. That’s perfectly fine. I’m talking about them re adwalling old chapters I’ve already unlocked by watching ads or paying 4SS. Like 300 chapters of gourmet food supplier’s old chapters got ads again.

        Maximilian just calculated how many SS it would take to finish advent of the archmage. Starting from chapter 267 to the end is about 502 chapters of premiums. On average they are 10-12 SS a chapter. So 5020SS to 6024SS which translates to close to 150AUD or 110USD. I picked this book cause I might start using SS to read it.

          Misguided_Rooster It's insider info, deleted after an hour so the person involved won't be too implicated i think. I saw it and read it just before it got deleted actually, wish i saved it. It was right after i replied to Rabbink so 4 hours ago.

            Lyle_Walt Ads revenue couldn't compare to a paid SS. Try to find the rate of ads. For example, just a simple Google Search showed you get $2 per 1.000 views (Youtube ads value. Hank Green medium.com, Google is one of the company with better target ads. Some said $5~8/1.000 view.). Each view was $0.002. Some factor also involved about the rate.

            Just to pay $4 cost for a chapter (if Webnovel just purchase old chapter) = 2.000 readers.

            If it is a new translated chapter. You should check the cost for translating a chapter. +- 1.000-2.500 chinese words.
            Based on Fiverr: $5 for 250 words. (Translator here received less). That would be $20 to $50 per chapter (I don't know how much translator here received, perhaps $10/15? since each novel had many chapters and different words count.).

            If it was $20/chapter at $0.002/view. They need 100.000 readers watching ads to pay translation cost of a chapter. They had to pay staffs, developers, maintenance, and the Author. Ads would never be enough if they had to produce the product.

            If it was just hosting, ads would be more than enough. Google and Facebook could live with ads since they had a 'big' amount of users.

                Wow, just wow. O_O

                Either way, I'll take what I can get. The moment they stop giving free SS is the moment I bid goodbye to my fave novels. I'll live. XD

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