Reinesse ohh it's in that way!!!!
I gift to some of the translated works... take ex -TKA, I gifted with paid ss whenever I felt like the story was going in an interesting way... Then the money would go to the translater/ the author or just to the WN!!!!
Do you have any idea about this?????
LostInFictions I have been thinking that the contracted writers make millions
Hate to break it to you, but even most well-known professional authors who do very well in real-world publishing are lucky to make that much.
Clowniac Thank you for breaking my delusion. Sigh.
Sorry about that. It's not to say people dont make that much, only that those people are the most successful out there. Many writers who have been published irl dont even make enough to quit their day job to write full-time. And WN pays less by far than standard publishing, assuming you make any money at all.
Mochimoshu
My belief from the forums here, no personal knowledge, is the original author typically gets 30% of the gift. The translators typically don't get anything directly - they are paid flat fees by WN. Obviously, those fees could be higher for those novels that bring in a lot of money to WN. So WN gets 70%, but has to pay the translators their fees.
I gifted TKA a paid crown, so I'm expecting the original author got $12 or so. But perhaps not. TKA is big enough, and was big enough before moving to WN, that they probably had a custom contract.
CrispyCritter Translators get flat rate but they can choose to get 30% share rather than flat rate. Most translators choose flat rate. Although, translators also get 30% of gifts. The Chinese Original authors get 30% of the total income too, including premium chapter income, Privilege and Gifts.
As for non Chinese original authors, they get a cut of 50% for everything. For the top authors, usually they can get 50k to 70k usd a year, and it is still growing rapidly every month.
Mochimoshu author and webnovel.
WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL but still chinese authors make more, obviously. and of course, it will grow and grow because webnovel keeps on growing. the number of downloads last year compared to now has a terrifying difference. how do you guys advertise?
EDIT: nvm, i saw your ad in youtube. and i remember seeing trial marriage on messenger. then sometimes facebook along those werewolf or sold lady or slave lady reading apps. in wn, ofc it's ceo.
WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL are you guys talking about liquid net? Or 50k/year is the gross?
SrtaA The money put into authors pocket.
Wait so top writers on here make 50k-70k USD a year? How is that possible?
SrtaA I’m confused too since it says on front page 200/400$ a month, I just don’t see how it can add up to 50k or Maybe I’m missing something here?
ThyUnknownSaint No, that's the minimum you receive for the first four months, and if you don't earn anything, they wait until you accumulate $200 before paying you.
However, it's a commission-based salary, so you get $0.02 for every spirit stone spend to unlock your premium chapters by your readers (after fees, taxes, 50% going to Webnovel, etc.). So, if you have 1,000 readers paying 10 spirit stones for your chapters everyday (assuming you maintain a daily release schedule), you get 10,000 spirit stones a day for 30 days, which equates to about $6,000 a month, maybe about $3,000 after all the deductions. That's easily $36,000 a year. So if you have 2,000 readers paying 10 spirit stones for your chapters, or your chapters cost 20 spirit stones each, that's $72,000 a year. The most popular novels usually have several thousand readers, so...you can do the math.
$50-70k/year? Guess I'll stick with writing as a hobby then as I make more than for my day job.
kazesenken You have to actually succeed and be popular to earn that kind of money. One does not simply write and expect to earn that much. Only 1% of the writers on this site ever earn that amount or more.
Having read the terms of the contract, and having spoken to a decent segment of contracted writers over the past week, you're lucky to make anything at all after the initial guaranteed payout period. The ones who make 5-6 digit incomes from doing this could probably be counted on two hands, and of those, they probably only actually saw about 10% of what their story actually earned, if that. And that's before taxes.
I mean, if they're happy with that, great. I want people to be happy, and 50-70k isn't too bad for a 10% royalty. That's decent money for a legit contract advance irl. But that payout rate on physical books actually takes into account physical irl marketing, physical irl printing, graphic designers, print layout, focus grouping, and a bunch of other expenses WN doesn't have at all or has a significantly reduced cost of. When you factor that in, plus the obsene amount of writing that you have to do to not lose the contract, that kind of money is actually very stingy, by standard publishing levels.
That's just my two cents, for whatever it's worth. If it makes you happy to be contracted on here, and it makes you money, and you're not able to land a "real" publishing contract yet, then good for you! Some small success, even under very unideal terms, is better than no success!
Tomoyuki
I was being sarcastic, lol.
I wouldn't bother with a contract even if the terms were a lot more favorable. Perfectly happy with writing as a hobby and making a good novel than attracting any prestige.
But that may be cause I have a cushy job to keep me from being a starving artist.
kazesenken Oh, that makes sense. Yeah, most of the writers here have a main job, writing is just their hobby or side job. I don't think anyone intends to make money out of it.
