True but it's how they gather money, of course. Just to keep this place alive. One thing's for sure, it's not a good idea to have a lot of novels that is premium..
Premium System is a rip-off
Doubt anyone will read but heres a piece of my mind. First all was free.. thn the ads came.. this i do not mind basically just delaying the reading for about 15 seconds not much.. and now this premium thing came... honestly with the way this premium is.. or at least the way i see it.. this looks like a friendly scam... so ur telling me i can pay like 20$ and have 15+ chapters available to me on the spot.... well now i ask this... with 20$ i can just go to a library and purchase a physical FULL edited revised translated or not book.... i know the contents won't be the same has there's a major difference between oriental and western writting but to be honest it's something i can live with... now you may argue but chinese novels are bigger so you wouldnt pay just 20$ for a chinese book... well to that i say... ye id pay like 60$ for a book same size and itd be completed and not just tease me with like 1/40 of the book content....
Tldr i guess....I don't really like this new system and personally i feel like this is just a way for squeezing money from the qidian users.
Same here bro
yabbahx For me, I can wait a couple of days. Reading is just my hobby you see, and it's nothing for me to wait I'm patient. Yes you said that we can buy books with 20$ but for me it still different in webnovel ( at least for me) novels here keep me entertained lol and I just have to carry my phone instead of five books cause its pretty heavy lol hahaha Though I myself haven't purchased SS >_> I'm just a poor man T_T Well as a free reader I can't really complain cause I'm still reading for free hahaha Tho you have a point there mate :D
EliezerBorre Who are you talking to lmao jk
well for me i stop reading those premium its a waste of ss for a free reader like me and wait for a month and find some good novels that i did not read, there's too many good novels in novelupdates.com and royalroadl.com . i know most of you know this right?
hecharles has i said.. ' yes i know the contents of the books are different from oriental writting to western' but that is something i dont mind considering theres alot of good books in any type of category.. i dont see where paying close to 150$ or more for a book translation in which u will only have access to final product in like 1year.... with thosr 150$ i could just pay someone to fully translate a book for me and only have to wait like a week or 2 ...
Hope my point was understood
Nopenotmything some libraries have ebook lending. You should ask your local library if they participate!
Of course, you can always pirate books. All those $300+ college textbooks that we only used 7 pages of. Ah, the good old days. If you're going to be a college freshman, don't buy any of the "required" textbooks before your second class to find out if you really need to bring it to class. Ah, but now I've gone off topic.
Anywho, if you're willing to pay Qidian for more chapters, why don't you pay Amazon for their collection. Or just look around for the free books on Amazon. They exist.
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Kalrock i also read at wuxiaworld. My point is the author and translator have a family to feed.. as for wuxiaworld and qidian drama, both side are wrong in my perspective, qidian has the copyright in the first place but still wuxiaworld translate without permission, until the failed partnership contract between rwx and qidian.. so which side wrong in the first place?. About how qidian revenue system strategy, it's the same with iphone, why so many people still buying overprice iphone if there so many cheap android phone. Why don't apple lower their price? If you can't afford it don't buy it, find something else. For the pirate book, do you think the author and translator will keep write if the money they get not enough to feed their family?
hecharles Actually, piracy is a very good way for people to experience something while they don't have the financial means to do so. These people may later legitimately pay for them when they do have extra cash lying around. These people will also recommend these media to their friends, thus increasing the potential number of consumers who may follow the same path as their friends or outright purchase the media. In a way, piracy can actually increase the market share of the producer.
https://lifehacker.com/how-piracy-benefits-companies-even-if-they-dont-admit-1649353452
It is business bruh.
You want to read quality work you go to wuxiaworld, you want to read for quantity you go to quidan. They both have permission to translate the works. What wuxiaworld is known better for is actually completing novel because they have quite a few completed novels series and some can be up to 2000 chapters. How long do you think it will take for quidan to translate 2000 chapters of a series at lets say 7 chapters for free and 14 premium. I could probably go to wuxiaworld and read all the completed series on their site before quidan actually finishes one series and that's extreme.
I blame Im poor =(
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ARandomToucan Its okay
cause some people doesn't look in other's standard
like QI
Eh
QI just my past time so
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KoraL if there so many pirate version novel, why do i need to buy ss? . just wait, if pirate novel all over in internet, the user like me will stop buying ss. When so many user stop buying ss, the author and translator will get little money and they will stop write novel and change to another profession.. if you familiar with manga, before i know internet, i usually buy 4-5 manga/month or dvd/vcd anime (no pirate) . But look now, how many people still buy manga or anime? I forgot when the last time i bought those stuff And i guess the author get a lot of fortune now from pirate manga and pirate anime ...
. So if you realy appreciate their work, buy ss to support them, if you don't have money, stop wasting your time to read novel and get a job so you can buy ss.. i work as programmer and i know how expensive to hire employee, buy server, maintenance, bandwidth, marketing, etc... and i know from novelupdate forum, qidian pay a lot of money for translator and editor so they can have a decent life. Qidian got a lot of money from investor, but do you think it is free money, their investors want to make a ton of profit... If they don't got a lot of profit, why they want to invest and spend a lot of their money? And if i the founder of qidian why i want to build company if i don't get a a lot of money? I rather join Green Peace organization or make my own non profit organization... In my opinion maybe qidian china already make a lot of profit, but qidian international they still burning their money...