Tumis If you read their contracts you'll understand that most of their authors are under slave contracts and the company can forcibly do what they want with the title ( and them ) since they technically own all rights to the Novel once the author signs the contract. even if the contract is terminated by the author due to the companies negligence they will still not have claim to their work. From what i understand if the author wants to end the novel it has to be approved by the company unless it will be deemed as a fanfic then the author can be terminated and will have to pay expenses such as notary fees, attorney fees, accreditation fees, litigation fees, and travel fees from all the time they were contracted. which is pretty f'ed up.

So my opinion on things is that the company is forcing the author to stop and to announce hes working on another novel for publicity sake. So them saying that to give support so they will "talk to him about it". In other words they know fewer and fewer ppl are reading the novel so hopefully this last ditch effort will bring some more curious readers hopefully to spend their Paid SS on before it ends.

      geneviesky THe novel is shit, if you like it then fine, but it's still poorly written shit.

          AzureWolf Stop the bullshit. Authors are very happy with these 'so-called' slave contracts they signed, since they are making millions a year just from it.

          The clause of being able to continue is just there to protect the company in cases when the author unfortunately passes away. The company has been in the business for 17 years, and I challenge you to find a case when a popular book was written by ghost writers, leaving the author helpless. There are so many good books out there that got dropped by the authors. Do you see them getting 'picked up' by the company?

          Heavy-class authors, especially Chang Yu, who was promoted to a Platinum Author before the book was banned, are given very good treatment by the company. Fully-paid vacations a year, etc. Just see some of the English original authors in 2018 and 2019. They have been invited to China (and in Philippines, giving the local authors more exposure) for various events all free. Why? Because they are the golden geese of the company. The company will be stupid to exploit ONE book and end up losing the numerous books the author can write under them in the future.

          The company won't just hire some ghost writer to finish up the book for a high-level author because they know how important they are. Their creativity and ability to write are not replaceable. And if it's some shitty novel, who cares about it? Readers don't care, the company obviously won't care to even continue it either since it's not profitable.

          Chang Yu is still fighting SARFT on the unbanning of the book and he has no intention to continue writing another book (when he could be making a lot more money).

          As you can see from his public WeChat, he often posts "Thank you for your support" or says "please continue waiting" when readers mention "I hope IRAS is unbanned" or "please start a new book".




          And finally me asking him in end-October 2018, if there's any news from SARFT: None.

              CKtalon Just because Few people are happy with their contracts does not mean all the others are not. Your just looking at the good and ignoring all the bad. there are tons of authors who are forced to follow their contract in which they are screwed for life. Mostly new authors who hit 18 and eager to make some money without reading the contract much that they present you. I have read one of their contracts and to me you become a slave plain and simple. They can take money out of your next pay check for your vacations and force you to go places. If you refuse they can take your next paycheck out for the month. The authors handlers can be as abusive as they want as long as its fine with the company. They are allowed to take your social media pictures or videos and use them as they see fit. Seeing as your an admin of course your going to be biased to what they actually do over there.

              let me point this out. just because you took some SS of some ignorant people who are happy with what they have does not make this crap any less wrong. They can make you seem like the happiest guy on earth just with a few words and pictures. Also don't forget that the company can alter powerstones count as well as likes. how do you think how all the shitty novels which gone premium are still all in the top 30.

              https://www.webnovel.com/book/10515487306054105/32771532845538925/The-Idle-System/Goodbye-Webnovel
              have fun trying to persuade me that everything about webnovel is full of rainbows.

                  AzureWolf Yes, and thousands if not millions of these authors have walked away without any problems. Why are there so many dropped books on the Chinese site?

                  How is it in business for 17 years?

                      CKtalon

                      I will not comment on, webnovel contracts, as I heard they been improved.

                      I will say a company does not have to be 'nice,' in order to profit. And considering recent politics China business practices are not what most of the world considers 'Nice.'

                        CKtalon That's a easy question to answer. Once you have a monopoly of a single desired item in an area It would not be hard to make money. You have to be ruthless and take out your competitors first before you start acting like assholes toward your authors. Why do you think Web novel was yelled at for trying to take Novels as their own from other people that pain painstakingly translated them for their whole life once they first opened their branch in the US. They were used to this method in china to take out competitors so now they have to take the nice guy approach and slowly build up. If they do win in the end people will act like its the norm after a while just like it was in china. It's sickening. It's a practice I hate most. It's business and that in the end will be our downfall.

                            AzureWolf Don't be fooled by rhetoric of others as it is in their interests to put Webnovel down.

                            Notice how only the licensed books were taken? Why aren't highly popular novels like Martial World, The Charm of Soul Pets, Rebirth of the Thief Who Roamed the World, etc not 'stolen'? By your logic, they can just wrestle their way through simply because of their copyright of the original source.

                            It's because it was totally in their right to do so.

                            Again, just because 'copyright' is important, doesn't mean that the copyright is commercially valuable. If it's not valuable, no one will spend money developing it (ie, continuing the story for the author, etc). And if it's valuable, the author is the golden goose; there's no reason to milk a story when a new story might do even better.

                            So to call it a slave contract when many people are happy to sign it, especially when none of them suffer any of the negative clauses is moot. It's there to protect a company; that's what the legal department is there for. Whether it is enforced (and it isn't) or whether the company bothers to enforce it is another issue.

                                a month later

                                Muspon Haven't gotten any updates, but unlikely there has been news.

                                    I havnt read it yet is the novel that good?
                                    Why was it banned?

                                      Reinesse Nothing to do with racism.

                                      Skaz It's due to nepotism as written in the story.

                                          8 months later

                                          whats the last chapter before it getting banned? Any new info about this story? Are this story still banned?

                                            Willy_Hartanto Around 1696. Nothing. It's still banned. Author can't do much and is preparing a new story at the moment.

                                                Too bad, there's no closure to the story of IRAS :(

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