MasterRabbink so QI was dumb enough not to negotiate a proper international license for English consumption whereas the rest of the world does this for any IP?

Thank you. I had my laugh for the day. Nice to know this website is also a pirate site, not a legit site.

      MaryFord Webnovel is subsidiary of Qidian, what make you think it's pirate site? as subsidiary company, webovel must follow what its mother company (Qidian) want to do. in this case Qidian want webnovel to apply the policy that qidian use in their publised novel (100 free + paid chapter for the rest)

          Lord_HaarT And that policy won't work in the webnovel. That shit works in china, but it'll hardly works here, simple because years and years of free novels.

          I already said something like that before, but if they want to charge it should be like this...

          Every day ppl get a free chapter (basicaly the same we had fews days ago) and for those that can't wait there would be a subscription of said $5 to $10 for every damn novel.

          As i said QI lacks professionalism, if they knew ( and i bet you their ass that they did knew) that it would come to this premmium plataform, why did they made promisses that they won't do it?

          Trust is a hard to get when the company lie to their custumers...

              Cimmerian that was to the chapters that used to have adwalls which I then took down by watching ads and soametimes paying 4SS. And now they have reconstructed the adwalls.

                  terminatermike1 it's been a topic for countless times, there's no such thing as permanent SS. they'll just play it around like the bought SS were the first one to be consumed. Who cares about SS anyway.

                      scias85 Yep, they leave us with no choice...
                      But sometimes the quality in the pirate site is so awful
                      they remove "..." which make readers like read a walls of text

                        Mmwada wuxiaworld hàs all the novels that webnovel has for FREE. I switched a few days ago n I've already read through books that I've been waiting to be unlocked daily on webnovel. It's great. U should give it a try.

                            So I just read all the replies and basically we are screwed? Welp, I hope the pirate site has a good font ~.~’

                              Lord_HaarT I fled like my ass was on fire. I'm deleting after I finish this post. I'm on wuxiaworld now n I'm not looking back.

                                I thought webnovel was established to promote literature and reading. To make the world a better place. They say so time and again that they have changed and that they are not just greedy Chinese businessmen. But what do we see now my brothers they are all the same. This is why piracy of novels is a thing now. This is why 94% of the people who live near me don't read. Finally this is the reason I will have to remove multiple books from my library. I just can't stand seeing the notifications that a new chapter has been released but I can't get a free chapter. So what if we are poor, we are still readers. Now is the time for us to stand up brother. Now is the time for us to fight for our passion. Long live the resistance. AAAAHHHHH!!!!

                                Taku At worst you can make a userscript to edit the font and arrange the format :wink:

                                  Lord_HaarT

                                  The post was that the authors requested it. What does that mean? The authors don't have a complete understanding how their work is represented on this site? This is something supposed to have been discussed before publishing.

                                  It does not matter if you are a subsidiary. The parties involved with the IP must have an understanding so there are no nasty surprises.

                                  The reason why I called it piracy is because this happens in the music industry too - when licensors publish special editions/releases without prior approval, they get in trouble (happens in countries who think they can get away with it). If they do not work out an agreement, the licensor is fined and is told to destroy all copies as it is deemed pirated music.

                                  To me, the same principle applies. If the author's contract says only the 1st 100 chapters are free, and they didn't bother to change those terms for the English release, then this site IS pirating their work (well, WAS, because they changed up).

                                  What a fiasco.

                                      MaryFord The copyright belongs to China Literature, so the authors don't really have a say how the work is represented or monetized on the site. However, they do have clout with the company, i.e., they can just stop writing for the company, etc. So the company will still side the authors on such matters.

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