I know webnovel is talking about drop in money going to the author but one thing they don't cover is we are technically "leasing" the chapter with subscription, if our subscription ends the chapter is gone(locked again), with ss we buy the chapters so even if I run out of all my ss, the old chapters that i bought for ss is visible to me. You can never get the same upfront money in leasing as buying. I think Webnovel is trying to get the same or better cash flow in leasing the chapters than buying, i don't know how that would work.
【Important Announcement】Monthly Elite subscriptions adjustment
Since you keep deleting my posts that mention that your "authors" are money grubbing translators not authors I'll say this for my 21 students. Good riddance to webnovel the money grubbing translator site that can't get over itself.
I'll say this for myself fuck you webnovel I hope you realize that you killed your only hopes at being anything other than a pathetic third rate app.
yunisao Thanks for the suggestion. Will check out moboreader.
I'm tired of Webnovel as well. Though I do not have an elite subscription, I bought many many secret stones and spent a huge amount of money to read up all the chapters in my favourite novel (Perfect Secret Love) and after I finally caught up, the novel stopped updating for about 2 months with no communication from Webnovel. It has resumed since, but the quality of translations has dropped a lot.
Dynra And the title of this forum post by @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL should read they are cancelling subscription, as they have not mentioned any plans to modify existing subscription model. Why use sugar coated words?
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Looked at the end, and it was more that every chapter in the book we was reading was unlocked, and it not only those we had previously read.
So it elite membership seems to have unlocked everything.
While with SS we actually buy access to every single chapter we unlock.
Some difference there in which I bet they figured they were loosing money on.
Given I spent about 2000 minutes a week on their site reading.
This past time.... I will miss it
Decadence1 On a side note, you would be surprised by what you can find by googling the novel of your choice. No seriously, try it. Webnovel is working very hard on encouraging piracy. They can't blame you or anyone else for taking the door they shoved in your face.
Ofron They charge full price for something they translate, often times poorly. Throwing garbage arguments at me is just stupid. The ignorant defending the debase and greedy. Shut your ignorant mouth if all you can do is pick at pieces of something while completely missing the point. It's idiots like you that allow garbage companies like this to continue operating.
WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL pls.pls pls pls work quickly on a replacement version that solves those issues.having the freedom to read as i pleased was fantastic, and I was pretty depressed to find out that i have to go back to the old ways of limiting how much I read because of SS.
@WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL It was pretty obvious that the elite subscription would make some authors and translators get more than others, because 100% of people who bought more than 25$ in SS went direct to the elite subscription, while few people who never bought SS or only bought less than 25$ decided to become elite (probably they really can't afford it).
I managed to finish a few books during my 2 months as elite and I would like to take part of the next "beta" and I have a suggestion.
It is something similar to Crunchyroll.
1) Free users: they stay with the current status, reading through winning bonus SS
2) elite: paid subscription with access to everything already published ( subscription between 10-20$)
3) Premium: they are elite, who uses SS to read in advance the chapters of the next week, this means they will be spending SS almost in the same way of the current premium.
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You’ve just lost at least one, if not many more, of your readers entirely. This was a service that I was more than happy to use, but not only did you take it away, but you did so with only the equivalent notice of a MySpace update. (Notifications is a tab to let us know when you are changing services, yet I had to troubleshoot my way to your forum to find this.) Yet I would have overlooked all that if not for your apparent disdain for the readers. You seem to think that we won’t catch on to your constant changes to the system. That, by changing things so that the translators get more money for less work time and time again, that we’ll just keep paying. You had an opportunity, to show that you actually gave a rats a$$ about the readers, by giving us a way to not have to do everything manually. NEWS FLASH, NOBODY LIKES TO BUILD DAMS WITH WOOD BOARDS AND THIS IS NOT CHINA. So as the Ausi say, “Sod off ya bloody wanka!” Maybe next time you’ll think a little more about your readers.
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This is B.S. I finally get cut a break on spending cash for spirit stones and yall pop up out of nowhere with this nonsense on top of that my Google play doesn't even have the subscription listed to cancel even though it's in my transaction history. So now I cant even tell if I'm gonna continue to get charged for a service yall sold me on. I'm seriously considering giving this website and app up and just saying f##k it n go try my luck with different novels on other sites or just go back to manga and video games. Get your sh#t together. If a author or translator is losing money cuz everyone is reading other people's work than theirs then oh well it's the nature of the business. And stop being a baby about it. If your writing a book or translating a novel that no one reads why are you messing with the publics subscriptions that we paid for?
Yep there are a lot of "free" sites out there ,it's a shame but I will need to be finding them . Because 1000 chapters at say 7 ss a chapter is a lot more than most people can afford, especially when you find out it was just a filler.
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The subscription itself was overpriced as is, but now you're stopping it because a small portion of the novels saw less income, so what? Surely the many novels with more income should counter that?
Stopping the subscription service is going to cause authors to lose money while the few top authors make more, is that what you want lol>
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"due to how income is split through monthly subscriptions, a small number of authors have suffered a drop in income. This impact on some of our authors' income runs counter to Webnovel's goal to increase every contracted author's income."
This is what i take issue with, you're fucking over a large number of authors whose income increased, for the minority who were already making more money, there is no way to increase everyones income without charging retard rates which will encourage piracy.