Is there a way to purchase the entire book, instead of just buying every chapter seperately which has 0 immersion?
Buy an entire book
Some books do go on to be sold as a complete product when finished, however most titles are serial releases, the end isn't even written yet (unless it's a translation). Sadly travelling to the future to get all releases and selling them now isn't a thing.
That'd be a cool option, but I can only see the most dedicated readers on the site straight up paying seven to ten dollars for a book, or a single volume in a longer series. Most people on this site are scrounging get extra fast passes to put things into perspective, so I feel that your proposed feature would likely only be implemented for the most popular stories, if at all.
Unfortunately most webnovels are Read as Written stories. We're reading in progress works. Once they're completed here, they just continue to be a pay per chapter.
Unless, as Clownic mentioned on, the story is a non contracted original that has been self published elsewhere as a full book. Most of my works outside WN are like this.
On some other places where I often read they have an option to allow you to purchase all currently released chapters. No matter if it's 2000 or 2. and you usually get a discount the more you buy. I really hope they could do this, it's such a god damn pain and it forces me to use other sites.
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Reading a book with 1176 chapters and everything after 77 costs. Really suckered in me in here but the price tag on buying all the chapters after this is outrageous! 50 chapters is gonna be 377 coins, if I extrapolate that outwards using the 5 dollar coin package I'm looking at 5 dollars per 50 chapters. I need to buy 1099 chapters. At that I need 8,294 coins to get the book. I'd have to buy the 5 dollar package 21 times to get that many coins Even the 99 USD package doesn't quite get me there (which is how I did the math and realized you don't get a better deal buying the bigger packages of coins) . The book is NOT worth over 100 USD. For anyone wondering the book in question is The Daily Life of the Immortal King. This monetization system isn't just lacking, it's straight up robbery. Do they expect people to actually pay 100 dollars for a SINGLE book??
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Zesty_6169 Not a single book, but entire damned series. Since big number seems to confuse you, let me put it in simple words:
0.02$ = 1 coin = 200 words => 0.01$ = 100 words. Since you seems to have problems with math, it means that 100 words cost about a single cent. Now, a normal novel would have about 80k words. That means, 80 000 words. /slash it by 100 and you have 800 cents, meaning 8$ with WN Pricing. Just by going to damned amazon or anywhere else, you can see that its slighy more than what you would have to pay for amazon ebook (kindle, usually its like 7$ for a novel) while way cheaper than paperbacks. But please, don't forget that traditionally published novels and webnovels are two different things. Here, you are not paying for the finished product, but supporting the author to help him actually finish the entire webnovel.
In short words, you are like someone complaining that a truck-full of food is more expensive than a meal at the restaurant. Aren't those both foodstuffs? So why price them differently?
Also, how convenient of you that you forgot about all the fast passes, promotions, limited free reading, seasonal events and all the other stuff that makes it even cheaper to read. But I guess you just wanted to prove the point, regardless of whether it does make any sense in reality.
MotivatedSloth Yeah, most people would compare because they think 1 title = 1 book. While actually, Im guessing 1 title here with 1000+ chapters till the end could be equal (in word count?) with the whole series of harry potter series + fantastic beast + lord of the rings series + hobbits + twilight series + divergence series + game of thrones + .........
Sorry if my math on the word count is not right. 
MotivatedSloth
The entire Harry Potter series, word count over a million, buying paper back, is 50 USD. I can't find a word count for The Daily Life of the Immortal King total but I can estimate given an average by chapter word count which I can pull myself by loading them into notepad++. Chapter 1 word count is 1,475 Chapter 10 word count is 1,344. Chapter 20 word count is 1,957. Chapter 30 word count is 1,541. Chapter 40 word count is 1,587. Chapter 50 word count is 1,561. This is probably enough to just say average chapter word count is 1500 and call it a day for ease of math, and get a close enough answer. So if we take that 1500 and multiply by the 1,099 chapters that would need to be purchased if you wanted to buy access to all of the currently available book (to support the author of course because otherwise we wouldn't be having this conversation, your point about free passes and seasonal events is completely irrelevant because a new user just coming to the website won't have those things and will still be seeing this massive price tag) you get a current word count of 1,648,500 which fair enough it is 50% bigger than Harry Potter. But it's double the price. And it's not even a physical copy. Good luck to you explaining why that should be worth over 100 USD when you're getting an incomplete product that in the end will be over 1700 chapters and then to read it all will be 150 USD. This pricing is nonsense. It's much higher than anything I've seen before. Again granting that at completion the novel will be over twice the size of Harry Potter, it will be 3x the cost when you're only getting a digital copy and not a physical copy. This is comparing a mainstream juggernaut 3rd highest selling book series of human history. To a The Disastrous Life of Saiki K clone. And it's valued at 3x for again, digital copy vs a paper back. Which blows your "while way cheaper than paperbacks" out of existence. Please angry respond at me again, like much of your post history of passive aggression and or outright aggression. Bro.
Zesty_6169 I do have to point out that when Harry Potter was first released (about 20 years ago), each volume was priced around $15. And that was the first three books. When the volumes got two times thicker (starting from Goblet of Fire), they cost from $30 (paperback) to $50 (hardback). That was back in the heyday of Harry Potter, when the hype was at its max. That was also how J. K. Rowling became a billionaire, in addition to getting royalties from the movies. It wasn't simply because of movie royalties, and it wasn't because Bloomsbury sold her books cheap. They sold them at the standard price.
The series is over 20 years old now, the hype has died down, and it's pretty much completed. That's why they are selling all 7 books for $50 or so.
Are webnovel books overpriced? I suppose. I can see where you're coming from, and I agree, there has to be a way to make them more affordable, a way for readers to purchase entire series at a discounted price. But comparing it to the Harry Potter franchise is simply not a fair comparison to make - especially since I was one of those kids who had to scrimp and save up $50 just to buy the volumes when they first came out. Similarly, you're not buying a series that's a couple of decades old here in Webnovel, you're buying them as they are being released, similar to how the latest Harry Potter volumes of their time sold out like hotcakes despite their exorbitant prices. Demand and supply.
Of course, I'm all for a method to gather all the chapters together and sell them for a discounted price, rather than unlocking them one by one like the current system. Perhaps they can try that for completed series such as Release that Witch or The King's Avatar.
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Tomoyuki there are actually certain translated series such as A will eternal and I shall seal the heavens that are sold on amazon by their licensed publishers. but even then they are sold by volume and each costs about 4$ which is like 10 volumes that comes to about 40$ roughly.
Again, this is for a series that has already been completed and has made its mark. so for new books it would be much harder to do the same.
Grand_Void_Daoist Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. A Will Eternal is amazing.
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Zesty_6169 It isn't like charging per chapter is a completely new model. Remember that WN is from Qidian and they already had a profitable model which they've been following for many years. Why would they change it to a cheaper one and reduce their profits. It simply doesn't make sense.
As for the thing about how they would lose reader base, it doesn't matter as the ones that truly like will simply keep on reading. And the ones that leave for it being paid wont matter anyway as they were never going to pay.
The people will simply adapt to their model, like they've done before in china.
Grand_Void_Daoist hey, I need some help, can we talk? I an agented author on Webnovel, my book is called Marry Me, it's got 1 million reads and I have earned like 41$ but how do I go premium and does your book become exclusive when you start earning 200$ a month, can you explain that process.
All comes with contracting with webnovel. Once you agree to their contract your book will go premium and so on and so forth.
Darth_Xiane Thank you so much. I had a talk with Webnovel guys! Will inform you in future.
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