TheNobleLion The funny part is that @AuthorWiz did just that. He made his “3rd book” free then the next it was premium. Also I have gotten tired of people not realizing that we only read their books because we like to read not because we like to wipe our asses with money. In other words we don’t want to pay!

      AuthorWiz So it costs 5000 ss to read a million words? Who the fuck would want to do that? It was free! FREEEEEEEEE! If it’s free on a different website why charge for it on here. It’s like there is a couch for free on the street and along comes qidian who picks it up and decided to flip it. Sounds fine but the couch originally cost $100 but they try to sell it for $1000. Why would you buy it when you could find the same couch somewhere else for way less?

        Redzeth look at magus era 1901 chapters and all but 150 beinhd paywall and that happened about 3 weeks ago... i free added all the chapters and was about 900 in then that happened and i cant even read the chapters i adwatched for previosly cause there SS locked now.....

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          Lol yes, I gave my 3rd book away for free, and informed my readers that it would eventually be made Premium later.

          I made it free for quite a while, and was open about it being made Premium by giving more than a week's warning, so everyone at the time could read it.

          I know you don't want to pay, but I will spend hundreds to thousands of hours on my writing, working with editors, etc.

          Don't you think I deserve to be paid for that as well?

          You can already read everything I write free using daily SS. I think it's a bit entitled to demand that I not be able to make a living off my writing, no?

          I want to be able to write even faster, and give my readers more content! But I can't do that if I can't make a living off my writing.

          People that do fan translations, the "cheap couch," usually don't have the permission of the author, and are stealing the author's work and using it to profit without giving the author a dime.

                AuthorWiz Daily ss only can maybe support 1 book but now all the books are premium and I don’t understand why there is no max on the chapter limit for premium. Before all this it was the 5 most recent chapters. Now it can be 100s of chapters locked. It’s bs. You work hard but u translators lost sight of what made your work so popular. It was free and fun. Now you have fallen low.

                  AuthorWiz I don't mind paying but explain to me why some of the series I'm following have the free chapters relocked and some don't.

                  The fact that the site has bugs when it comes to locking, unlocking and relocking is annoying. Every time there's an update you get at least few posts noting a bug in the system and there's no way to prove that you unlocked it by yourself. You are dependent on QI's log which you can't even download as a text file for yourself as a receipt. If that becomes bugged you are SOL and QI will not care for you.

                      Premium is really expensive, since february i bought SS for a total of about 420$
                      In the beginning it was ok, but now im at around 50$ each month.
                      At the moment i support 7 novels and that is AFTER i reduced my premium novels, without reducing them, i would now be at around 20 novels, but i simply lack the money.
                      50$ is already a huge expenditure for me, but if i read the other novels which i paused, i would likely be at 150$ a month!!!

                      It would be nice if webnovel could change the system somehow!

                      Misguided_Rooster your message is truly appreciated. As an author my self, a chapter takes at least an hour to finish, thus I understand if some authors/translators allow previously free chapters to be paid as a reward for their earlier hardwork. Sadly, that also cost authors less readers but oh well, we can't please everyone.

                          denthoughts What u feel to note is that the chapters each cost way too much for anyone to read. You shld try writing other site and then using patreon. You will probably earn more after a certain time than being here.

                              19 days later

                              AuthorWiz each of the 9 books you buy would generally be of higher quality. Having been professionally edited, and having no incentive to "fluff" the novels through repetitive wordplay simply to inflate the length.

                                  kevmaro that is the sad true... When a novel was 4 SS or you could watch ad to get it having to read the filler after filler was passable, but when you have to pay 3 times more and can't get it otherwise it's pissing me off... and it's a rip of... that is why i am less interested in the novel here... Sad for the good author but i have no choice...

                                    4 months later

                                    I would just like to mention, before every chapter after the first book was locked, I would still buy some spiritstones from time to time to read like 10 chapters at a time. Now that sometime more then 800 chapters are locked I can't afford to pay for that, so what should I do? The only anwser is looking online for a pirated copy if I still want to read it.

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