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Many other top authors also use third party funds like ko-fi. And they are contracted authors too.

CKtalon
And I say it again and again. I was a paying customer and this business management got me to spend 0 purchased SS since the cancellation of the subscription and I won't buy any more SS as long as there isn't a fair system.

If enough people pay 25$/month the authors income doesn't drop and the company income will rise. But something like this needs time - it works with other companies. I don't know why webnovel want to kill the app with the almost monthly system change.

And I am not the only one. It is how to fuck off the paying readers from a working plattform because a company is greedy and needs a big piece of the cake.

Tomochinyan How do authors know when they’ve reached their end of the contract? I mean, that’s like a lot of words right?

Angko

Angko If enough people pay 25$/month the authors income doesn't drop

I don't think that's true for all authors, at least for values of "enough" that are less than millions of folks. My guess is the top 10 authors income did and would continue to drop under the pure subscription plan. I'm paying $20/month in SS to keep up-to-date on 4 webnovels. With the subscription plan I was paying $25/month for those 4 webnovels updates, plus also reading another 2000 or more chapters per month. So the income from me to those 4 authors dropped by some 95%. I would think that I'm typical of a large segment of webnovel's paying customers.

The majority of the 2000+ additional chapters I was reading are books I wouldn't read if they weren't free. The rest are books I would pay something for, but not webnovel's very high SS rate. That's going to be a problem for webnovel going forward - as books get completed, people are not going to start reading them knowing that it will cost hundreds of dollars to finish them. I'm not going to start anything new at webnovel under their current scheme; they need to offer some alternative to the subscription.

Elsewhere I suggested a subscription scheme of getting rights to read unlimited chapters in one book of your choice plus get 3000 SS for your $25/month. Another alternative (once more books get finished) is 3000 SS plus unlimited reading of completed books.

CrispyCritter
The bad thing is many customers stop reading new novels from new contracted authors.
You can't read many stories because of the costs as long as there isn't a subscription.

I started many original novels at my subscription time and many comics. I stopped them all because I won't buy SS.
The stories are ok but they are not good enough to make me addicted.

Angko I'm not saying people have to support such a system. I myself don't have money to spend on purchasing stones. I'm just informing readers who are actually willing to purchase stones and want to support original authors on Webnovel. :)

Mystiga I was told that contracted authors are NOT allowed to use third party platforms. O . O Maybe that author is doing it against contract protocols.

ThyUnknownSaint To be honest, I'm not sure. I've spoken to the author regarding how she earns money on Webnovel. This is a good question and now I'm curious as well

Angko I agree it's a problem for newly contracted authors. But if everybody thinks the same as you do, that the stories aren't worth paying for, then honestly, why should they get paid?

In some sense, it would be nice if there were tiers of books at different price levels so that new authors could get just a bit, but I can imagine all the complaints people would have about it! Webnovel needs to find some solution that keeps the income of the top books the same but allows some payment to the others. Their initial subscription approach didn't do that.

CrispyCritter
I'll pay for books on other plattforms but I don't support such a plattform like webnovel anymore. The price of the books is different. If I have to pay 5$ for a medicore complete book I can say ok I understand but 50$ in SS for a book only because of the chapters and I don't know if the author will end the book - hmm I say no. And most of the books have problems with grammatic. They aren't edited or they change all in a similar way because an other book makes good money with it.

The problem is with webnovel and the system.
I read books on MoboReader, Amazon. I used WattPad. I read fanfictions on fanfiction net.
I know many sites but I stay here and wait for a good solution of webnovel. The only thing I stopped for now is the payment of stories since it isn't fair for people who read much. Give me a fair solution you will get a paying customer back.

And the solution about a fair payment would be like the kindle unlimited payment. You get paid for every site the reader reads. Maybe the big authors get less at first but some people will start the stories where a chapter cost 10 or 15 SS. And the people can still send some gifts for the stories or authors.

It needs time and everytime something change there are people who are complaining.

Welp. Does giving gifts (balloons and such) to the novel help the authors?

Shaadhin only if they come from paid SS, not the free ones.

Shaadhin Not really, unless the 5ss is specifically paid SS.

ThyUnknownSaint There's technically no end to their contract, except for 2-3 years, or when you complete the novel. The contract regulation is actually very loose and the staffs won't hone you about it (if you don't complete the novel or decide to put it on hiatus). Even when you have finished the novel, if other people continues to unlock your novel, you can still earn the money from the paid ss.

Angko Subscriptions ended because it was providing little to zero income for the original authors and did not benefit them AT ALL.

Xincerely Not really, unless the 5ss is specifically paid SS.

I'm curious how webnovel handles accounts with both bonus and paid SS. I buy 1000-1500 SS a month and get up to 500 bonus SS from daily bonuses. Does this mean that the first actions I take after doing the daily bonuses do not reward the author/translator but later actions do? If so, I may have to change my reading order on daily updates in the future!