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yaoyueyi i think you forgot something- wn get constants ad traffic that brings them a lot of traffic, point hunting system just leveled up it a lot. So you come to the shop, pay to enter it, pay for service and then pay for the phone you chosen, but then again they compare finished and edited well structured book with mtl translation. Does it sound nice now? I understand that civic and Porsche are both cars, but it doesn't mean their pricing should be the same.

Point about paying authors- wn doesn't have open statistics, if they pay 5% of income to authors - that's good already, but i doubt even that. They can talk all they like but they never keep their promises and are inclined to talk bs.

Just use wn for searching novels, then search them up on google. Ez.
Bcoz my fcking 200+ coins went to nothing. Bcoz where the f will u see a coin with a expiration date!!!??

DevilsMocktail
Looking at the financials of the parent company, I would assume the cost of revenues line is due to royalties, so the authors, editors, and translators should be getting at least 35% of the revenue, but I can't say for certain that it's a similar profit sharing arrangement between Qidian and Webnovel. A 20-25% AOI really isn't that terribly unreasonable or unexpected.
http://ir.yuewen.com/en/financial-releases/

yaoyueyi 122$ for 5000 coins (btw 500 coins is cheaper to buy in the ratio to cost\value, but wn thinks evryone here is mind challenged) so we get 333 chapters for 15 coins. On average that's about 3330 pages a4, something like 5 to 10 books. One fiction book costs 2,5-10$, one wn "book" costs 12,2 $. I think, you missed the point greatly. Everyone connotations that wn is getting more and more greedy, and it doesn't provide value it prices itself for.
I'm using wn since the alpha release days and i can assure you- this platform just gets more and more greedy from year to year, and I don't buy it that's authors gain all the shairs - they are just shield to be used, really available mortirs.

KoraL fun thing is Chinese version has most of the novels free, and with mtl you can read them with nearly the same quality wn translates them. So i bet wn gets more in the rest of the world them they do in China.

complaint about erasing all vouchers in the store without any announcement can someone explaint to me why?

Dear webnovels staff ;
I just purchased priviledge to advance reading 25 chapters,,but there's only 5 chapters that I have read..what is this??? Please kindly check it..please be considerate to us readers..

Dear webnovels staff ;
I just purchased priviledge to advance reading 25 chapters,,but there's only 5 chapters that I have read..what is this??? Please kindly check it..please be considerate to us readers..

DevilsMocktail I'm not bored enough to look 3 years back in financials (if they even exist that far back) to see whether this is true or not, but I believe the royalty structure for Chinese authors was 50/50. I suppose if you plot the revenue stream that most of the growth post 2016 should be due to the international segment. If you do look into it, let me know what you find. I know that they use(d) a similar SS/coin scheme on their Chinese platform, but the price after currency conversion is about 10-20x less. I'm absolutely certain you can find every novel in Chinese free quite easily, but are you sure they're not pirated versions? Also, the majority of novels on Webnovel are currently free as well; most aren't very popular (or readable in some cases).

KoraL i'm taking about official qidian, the Chinese version of this site, - most of the novels are free there

Cantiara for this reason, I do have a few translation groups that I notice. I think Atlas Studios is near the top of my list while EFT sits close to the bottom. For many, I won't even bother to remember who is responsible for butchering language. Although if they do produce excessive amounts of garbage, I may take care to remember to avoid them.

I purchase the membership that gives me 10coins a day but why is it I only received 5coins instead of 10coins???

yaoyueyi Question. The free coins for reading have been replaced by free points gor reading. These points are to be exchanged for passes in the store. The store has been out of stock of about everything at least days before the new update. So is it a bug or not that the new feature actually reduces the free coins yet gives nothing but pretty words in exchange.
When will the stock be renewed? Bug or not this is a real comlpain that needs to be adressed.

MotivatedSloth Because quality matters more than quantity. It always has and always will. The primary reason your average web novel chapter is so wordy is useless filler. I do not need a summary every other paragraph nor does adding status updates aidbrhe story. If you must add a status update, then only add what changed rather than a full status screen.

MotivatedSloth Because quality matters more than quantity. It always has and always will. The primary reason your average web novel chapter is so wordy is useless filler. I do not need a summary every other paragraph nor does adding status updates aidbrhe story. If you must add a status update, then only add what changed rather than a full status screen.

Cantiara Don't know MTL, but MOST translations on WN are horrid. It isn't an exaggeration and even those go premium.

If you din't want readers clamorimg for faster chapters, then publish by the book not the chapter.

Maekellen Don't know MTL, but MOST translations on WN are horrid. It isn't an exaggeration and even those go premium.

If you din't want readers clamorimg for faster chapters, then publish by the book not the chapter.

1. The OP I responded to claimed that all WN's translation works have the same level as MTL. Which is not true. You said yourself you don't know MTL. So, what's your point?

2. News flash, that's the very concept of web novels. Serialization. It is designed for authors to publish their stories per chapter. It's like a long-running soap opera on TV or a long-running anime/manga series. They're bound to have fillers. The point is, web novels are not the same as traditionally published books. If you don't like the idea of paying per chapter, then this is not the kind of entertainment for you. By all means, go buy a complete book. There are enough of those at your local book stores.

NightGale35 I can't answer your question. I am not a part of WN staff, so I have no knowledge or influence over their decisions. It's not a bug though. I am only a programmed robot moderator. :robot: beep bop