DarkRay 1 coin = 0.02 not 0.01
Check again, by paying 49.99, you get 2500 paiud coins and 2500 bonus coins (in all pucharses, you get half in paid and half in bonus coins)
so by paying 50.00$ you get 5.000 total coins. That means a single dolar can get you 100 coins, meaning that 0.01$ = 1ss/coin.
DarkRay A 1500 chapters novel, will not cost you $30 or $60, it will be a lot more
1500 chapter novel, means that you have from 1 500 000 words to 3 000 000 words. This alone is like almost 19 standard lenght novels (80k words, 18.75 times). Cost IN COINS ONLY would equal to 15000x0.01$ = 150$.
Then, just as you said, let's count that roughly 80% of the book will be in free chapters, then you take 150$ x0.8 = 120$, while ONLY using paid currencty (both bonus and paid coins, I count them together here).
Then yes, if you don't use ANY of the given free reading, you can pay exactly 6.4$ for 80k worth of words, while factoring the free part (Cuz you still get to read it).
DarkRay In other words, a casual reader (the E in your equation) wouldn't be able to do that. That is why this is complicated, and you can't calculate it very easily. It depends on the user. If they read slowly, they will be able to use those fast passes more.
Here is where your enitre logic is wrong. I just double checked and yes, no matter how much coins you buy, the ratio is the same. SO if free reader can't handle usiong up 2500 coins in a month, he can keep paying 1$ for 100 coins every time he runs out of it. So yes, it's that easy.
DarkRay If I were to calculate it using the rate of $0.02 per coin... that's $230, which is beyond anything reasonable. If we assume someone is less superhuman, and does it in double time. It's still $220. Do you know why? It's because 3 fast passes a day means 90 fast passes in 30 days. that's 90 chapters, in other words 900 coins on average. We can extend that time to two months. 60 days, you know the results? $204. Yep, it would cost that much if we looked at the rate alone (1 coin = 0.02). Obviously, that is incorrect as long as those bonuses exist. But, it will be halved only. Which means over $100 anyway. If the bonuses are gone... whohoho Merry Christmas :D
YOu still using 0.02$ per coin, I have no idea where are you coming from. Can't you just open the site to check it?
And you just used the numbers to your advantage. You said 60days for novel that is 1500 chapters long, and has 2k words per chapter? Thats 3milions words. Divide it by 60 days, and you still have 50k words per day, which trust me, is insane. And I can say this as someone who binge-reads not only paperbacks but some of the novels as well. I actually checked the numbers and you would need about 4h of FULLY FOCUSED AND UNDISTURBED reading time, during which your eyes wouldn't tire, you won't wonder with your thoughts etc to read it. Trust me,in reality it would take well overe 6h, and not everyone can spare so much time DAILY for TWO MONTHS STRAIGHT, without a break. Thats where problem of your logic is burried.
If we take an average reader who let's say reads an hour a day, with 3/4 of the time spent on actual focused reading, that gives 9k words, or rather - 4.5k chapters, let's count 5 chapters. This is how much time a working adult can spare on everyday reading without impending their daily routine. That means you get to read initial 300 chapters for free, and then you need to pay only 2/5 of the total cost of what you read! (so since we are at 3mil words, we deduct initiall 600k words for first 300 chapters, divide remaining 2.4kk by 5 and multiply by 2, giving us 960 000 words to be paid for. With single coin you can buy 200 words, meaning that you only need 4 800 coins, giving only 48$.
To sum things up - if you are an average reader, you need to pay only 48$ TOTAL, for 3kk words book. Le'ts use your numbers from amazon again then.
Let's say that EVERY book on amazon gfoes for 4$ and have 400 pages (for easier calculation, also to even better prove my point). That means you get 100.000 words for 4$. Let's bring that up to 48$, so multiply by 12. That gives 1 200 000 words of what you can read as an average reader for the same price that you need to spend on 1500 chapters 2k words in each book on web novel.
That means that amazon books are 2.5 times MORE EXPENSIVE than reading as an average reader on WN.
As for the problem of having to read a single story over multiple ones, it's up to individual to argue whether one is better or the other. I wouldn't exchange my RtW experience for ANYTHING, maybe except for Brandon Sanderson books or Gleen Cook's ones. Additionally, if you don't like a long book, you can drop it before paying a single penny, while on the amazon, once you pay 4$, the deal is set and you are stuck with what you bought, no matter whether the synopsis accurately described the content or if the book was good.
And the last part, yeah. You are righ. I know about this, but since I'm trying to simply things as much as I can, I simply ignored that fact, but that also proves the point that I brought up.
