Did it expire for me or did they stop it or what?

    They stopped it for indefinite time. Most likely Qidian couldn't gained profit from monthly subscription. It's a huge loss for them by just paying monthly subscription fee and you are able to read every single chapters for all novels in webnovel.

    Thanks for the answer!
    Dang it :/ subscription was so awesome... Presss F time 😢

    $25 a month is a huge sub but it was not enough for the greedy business so they are going back to SS. As a result people are pissed off. From what I have hear/read; people are going to sites that pirate the novels or just stopped buying SS outright in protest. They will feel a lose in income anyways.

    For reference my commercial free hulu and Netflix cost less than the sub for Webnovel.

      MrHugglez I will be the first to say webnovel's behavior was intolerable, that removing the subscription model without a replacement ready, without even going back to ad locked chapters and forcing readers into plain, overpriced ss buying is not just unprofessional, it is downright retarded. However, you gotta give the devil its due. Comparing Netflix with its millions of paying users to webnovel is just not accurate.

      Netflix can afford low subscription costs because its millions of paying users can make up for the balance in a heartbeat. Webnovel would go bankrupt in less than three months if it used the same prices. To say nothing of the authors who would lose all motivation and probably go back to focusing on/finding real-life jobs.

      Let's not even mention paying users. How many readers do you think webnovel got in total? A few hundred thousands? Among which maybe a couple thousands of paying readers at best?

      I also see people comparing Webnovel to Kindle. What they forget to mention is that kindle authors make no money. On average best selling authors over there make like 5k a year in sales. How is that viable?

      What you could compare for example is webnovel.com vs qidian.com. The ss cost per chapter is the same. A 2k word chapter is about 10 ss in both cases. However, on qidian, you get 1000 ss for 1.5$. On webnovel 1000 ss is 20$ which is outrageous and definitely not a good middle.

      It's still not perfect, but it's a much more reliable comparison.

          Yup, 1000 ss on qidian is 10 yuan which is 1.48 dollars.

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