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As they say that the winners will be chosen based on commercial value, I assume the author should sign the contract before the final announcements. Those, who will have higher ranking, readers' involvement and more profit from premium chapters will be the winners.

RABBITICOL Puppet_Meister https://activity.webnovel.com/noah/857910915/index?from=message

You can read it here.

Also..."I want the money but I don't want to sign a contract!" Bro/sis...that's just...wow.

Tomoyuki "I want money but I don't want to sign a contract!" I think your more of a sis for not being able to do math lol, as long your writing isn't trash and you are actually serious more than the typical "I say I'm serious" authors (as mot honestly aren't...), you could make more than what the contract offers by selling it on amazon and stuff in the long run once you get it together, yeah you most likely won't get $200 for when you start... but signing a contract just for that much a month is stupid. Of the tenish authors friends and my parents friends that I know in real life, a majority of them are able to make a living from it, while (I'm assuming) most WN authors are not able to make a living from just their books on WN, though yeah you can make money. If your books good enough and you want up front money you might as well just go to a actual publisher as they at least offer 1k+ advances. Last I know of you lose all copyright and even if you don't sign it you will still gain 50% of the coins.

But online novel topics/themes are also usually different from whats traditionally sold, so even if you decide to publish something that did great on WN it might make barely anything on Amazon, especially if you have no fanbase. For example in America average income of 100 fiction authors is 100k, split that its 1k. However, its heavily skewed as one prob makes like 75k another 20k, another 4k, while the rest is split up while some may not even make anything. However even that is skewed... as it counts any fiction author who has went in to sell it for money, realistically most authors even though they say are serious are honestly that much... Like for example only make one book. Idk if you read rookie/unknown works on Amazon before but most are really garbage, kinda similar to WN in a way with originals as any1 can make it. Idk data about WN incomes, but I remember reading some forum posts couple months back that they weren't that much, at least for the average somewhat well off in rankings.

Though its circumstantial. For example if it's your first ever book with no fan base, might be a good option as you get money while you build one, or like unless you want a faster path to more fans cause of features and faster money, it's dumb to sign the WN Slave contract (at least base on what all you people put and I'm not going to explain...). Though yeah, if you are just doing it for a hobby, not serious enough, english second language, ok/bad writing/story, blablabla, than yeah, contract is definitely a good option. Like for me, I'd be okay with selling the copyright while still gaining the passive income and signing that contract if it was one of the top 3 because that's what most publishers would offer you too, except the revoking of copyright part. But I started reading a lot cause of NovelUpdates, WuxiaWorld, and WN so... I wouldn't mind trading it for that because I like comments unlike ebooks and held books

Also ty for link, I'll check it out now.

JKaiya ...so what exactly are you complaining about? If you want to write, write. If not, then don't. From what I've read, you seem to be saying, "I don't want to sign a contract, but if I don't, I will not be eligible for the prize money. And if I can't get any prize money, it's a waste of time. If they want me to participate, they must give me the prize money unconditionally."

Also, if you sell your book on Amazon, you have to sign a contract with Amazon. You don't give up the rights to your work, and you make more because I think you have almost 100% comission from selling on Amazon (unlike Webnovel's 50%), but you still have to sign a contract with them. And I believe they still earn a percentage off your work and you are subject to their terms and conditions (such as if you plagiarize something, they reserve the right to remove your product off their site and blacklist you). It's a better contract, no doubt, but it still has restrictions.

The point is that, there is no such thing as a free lunch in this world. Why would Webnovel so generously give away $10,000 if they don't stand to benefit from it?

JKaiya
I'm not really understanding what your problems are with the contest.
Are you saying that it's unfair to ESL people? Or is it that the grand prize is not enough money? Or that the contract is unfair?
If you think of the grand prize as an advance... that's more than the 1k examples you used in your post. Plus with all the exposure... you'd be making more than $200 a month. So the final issue is that the contract is unfair? Maybe longer term? But from what I understand, its more like: if you don't uphold your end of the agreement (uploading however many words a day), WN just doesn't pay you.
I mean.. after six months of writing a story, one should have enough chapter's stockpiled to meet that goal?
Could you clarify the problems you're having? Why are you thinking it's unfair?