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I think it was discontinued because there are still many, many novels that doesn't get decent translations and have release schedule of barely 2-3 chapters per week while original novel is 3000+ chapters so they are never going to be translated in a human life and therefore because of lack of translated chapters people probably didn't support those novels and translators. If the subscription was split between novels based on translated chapters or translated chapters per week those novels did probably suffer terribly. As this is Chinese owned site so the solution was not to work on increasing number of translated chapters per week on those novels so they can get support from community but of course it was canceling subscription model. Because this is Chinese web site there isn't any replacement in place or compensation for affected parties but only another round of empty promises. Not to mention that making announcement couple of days before ending subscription program is unethical as usually these are being announced 30+ days before ending the program and on a place where it's visible for users and not as announcement on forum where 99% readers don't even go to...

Certain author reduce on their income but more author get benefit from this program. I prefer the price same as ur 50% promotion since that price affordable and reasonable for me. Btw, i think u should care about reader opinion also since end up reader that will provide the author income and if ur things cant be settle reader also have other on9 novel that they can read since now certain other novel apps also not bad.

yunisao i have seen about moboreader but not yet dload it since last month im a premium user.haha..the novel offer at moboreader ok?

Zatara i think the lowest price they can give is same as previous 50% promo. But for that price to unlock 3 premium novel is not worth it since most of the novel only updating 1-2 chapter per day only.

WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL man, that SUCKS! I was just really getting into reading for free

Spfere yeah I had 20 novels in my library, after reading this I have 9. I won't be reading as many novels,because having to buy stones to keep up isn't possible when many novels have increased their SS numbers to unlock all their chapters. Bye bye library. Bye bye novels.

monotone_gray well, I don't know about you but I personally dropped 10+ novels after reading this. I had 20 novels in library now i have 9 it will stay at 9 until one of my novels is completed then i may go pick up another one. The fact is authors will have alot less income because the gifts will stop coming,the extra novels will get dropped,and people will find a few core novels to read.

Zatara
Hi Zatara
I pay at the moment 26€ this is around 25$. I took the price as a direction for future prices.
I think they won't lower the price. This will Most likely the price for a middle option

Your comment is correct but they didn't give an option. They gave full premium.

LadyTass2001 If you think about it though, gifts were never a substantial source of income for authors. Do the math, and you'll see that a novel that received 30000 ss in gifts only received 600$ (that doesn't take any potential cut that webnovel grabs into account). It's really not a lot when you consider that most novels that have been going on for months or more have not reached that threshold. In fact, it seems I cannot find fifteen novels on the entire platform that have reached that level in gifts.

So in reality, gifts are more of a way for hardcore readers to deplete their ss than for authors to get a real increase in their income. A daily payment of ss spread across hundreds (if not thousands) of paying readers is the best way to increase author profits, and subsequently webnovel profits.

And after giving this some more thought, I also feel like another issue is they realized someone willing to pay 25$ for unlimited reading would spend a lot more without that option.

Take your own case for example. You say you now have 9 books in your library. I'm gonna assume they're all premium and that you pay an average of 6 ss per book. In a 30 days month, that's 1620 ss and 32$. Of course, we're not taking bonus ss into account, but you can see how easily you go beyond the 24.99$ option. Spread that across a large number of readers, and it adds up real fast.

WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL just asking cause i wanna be clear. will the chp that already release when we still subscribe the elite membership will be lock again?

Zatara instead of ss why not change it to number of chapters or books.

WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL you didn't mention it was on trial memberships...don't like.

I got massage from Google play today stating that they already deducted money from me. Can I have refund. Please include in your announcement the readers have to cancel their subscription to avoid the auto deduct.

AiHikari
They did, if you read their post, it is in bold text at the bottom
They also said they would refund members for it... I would rather pay and get another month myself tho.... sigh

If all the chp that i already read while i;m in my elite member subcriptions got lock, there at least 5 novels that had 100 or more that already release in my 3 month subsciption. If it got lock again, i feel cheated. -_-

funky_monkey
I am a bit curious, people seem a bit bummed about possible locked chapters, do you plan to reread what you already read? so it is an issue that way? personally I kinda never look twice at something i have already read

Webnovel/Qidian... It really isn't difficult to send out an email informing your subscribers of the changes. It's really disrespectful to your customers and really bad customer service. People have options. You aren't necessarily one of them if this kind of behavior continues. There are thousands upon thousands of novels out there to read. Think carefully on how you treat your customers.