sunstrike gladly i know your answer and that's is no. Premium chapters is blackhole for your SS and its not worth it to unlock them cause you lose your rights to get free daily chapter

      WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL i have a system that do both good for QI and reader that is for someone unlocking premium chapters then everyday they still get their next chapter as daily update and you can reset they payment for premium chapter every 30 days since they unlock it. Of coure by that way to compensated your lose you can raise the price for premium chapters. And i hope you could figure it out for the detail and if you feel its too long for 30 days and the raise will be to big, you could shorten it to 15 days or a week to prevent a big price for unlocking premium chapters

          Hyper_pumpkin after you unlocking premium chapters eed unlock it again because this premium is just for you to read faster than daily update, not get more chapters

              Before I rant, let me make it clear that I believe there is no such thing as a free lunch. Webnovel has been offering free spirit stones, chapters, etc. to build a following so that they could later make money off us. Fair enough. Businesses exist to make money; if you thought Webnovel was altruistically giving you stories to read and expecting nothing in return then you have too much trust. My issue with this situation is that the premium model uses nonrefundable, virtual currency usable solely on one website. There are two problems to this:

              One, spirit stones are basically monopoly money that costs real money. You are less likely to think about how much you are actually spending when what you are spending doesn't actually look like money. It is the same reason casinos use chips instead of cash and video games with micro-transactions have their own virtual currency. And if you ever want to back out of spending money on the spirit stones, you can't get your money back. They could theoretically just connect a bank account or credit card to your Webnovel account, but that would make people watch real money go away with each transaction, which they would be less willing to do.

              The second issue ties to the first. Has anyone read the forums where people reveal personal information like age? A large portion of users are teens, who may not know how to be financially responsible yet. You can argue this however you want, but it is a fact that the human brain does not finish developing its prefrontal cortex (the decision making part of the brain) until the age of about 25. You can be addicted to anything: drugs, alcohol, food, video games, gambling, and yes even reading. This is why companies always gear advertising to younger audiences to try gain brand loyalty early on.

              You can say that the premium model is not that expensive, or that any reasonable person won't lose a ton of money on it, but it could prey on a specific group of people rather viciously. Mobile game marketers have called these people 'whales.' Rather than the model in place, I would be interested in seeing a subscription service at a flat rate where you get to read ahead for every book. That would be a less predatory means to monetize in my opinion.

                ImperfectInfinity im not against this premium chapters but QI current system is as good as killing people who want to support author, tl and ed with their spare money to be pure free reader, they didnt give a choice to "donate" as they just give them to be a "whale" or "leecher". If you chose to unlock 5 premium chapter then what you actually get? Only read 5 chapter ahead of time and you get nothing after that. You need wait till "leecher" catch you up and you labeled as "leecher" again and you lose your initial money

                    Face_Smacking_Dao That is another good point. If I want to give $5 a month to support my favorite translator I cannot do that because everything is tied to the word count the translator pumps out. I feel this to be a problem for the actual quality too. From what I understand this pay model is similar to the model they use in China. This does not encourage quality, edited content. It just pushes both the authors, translators, and editors to pump out as much as possible as quickly as possible without a lot of quality control. I used to wonder why some webnovels were so tedious to read, going on for thousands of chapters with constant repetition and very little development from chapter to chapter, but now I can clearly see why this happens. The more fluff you add to your novel the more it can be monetized under the pay per word model.

                        Face_Smacking_Dao yep that's also my problem with this system. Either you put loads of money into QI or none at all. After premium chapter purchase you would have to wait for free chapters to catch up again to continue reading. So if I only have a limited amount of money (no whale), I would have to wait either way, then I'd be dumb to waste money on premium chapters.
                        I wouldn't be against it if you'd get a permanent bonus chapter, ahead of the free chapters, so you still get a steady flow of chapters after a puchase.

                            I can check in everyday and read other novels, i won't spend my SS just in case if I need it in the premium chapters

                              Humanity_will_Rise Well, Since you're new here
                              WELCOME TO THE QIDIAN WORLD WHERE NOVELS ARE AWESOME!!!!
                              anyway SS or spirit stones are some kind of money that you can use to unlock chapters

                                  OpEn_MiNdEd Some of Novels here is free and others have premium chapters. Premium chapters can only be unlocked using SS or Spirit Stones

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