GreenZamrud search it up on forums, there's like hundreds of posts on that by now...
Spring Contest Contract Question
Is it really surprising though? Webnovel is a business after all.
Regardless, it is not too bad of a restriction (I guess we all kinda expected premium restriction when we read the title of competition)
Still, if there was no restriction, then authors of other writing platform (eg. Scribblehub, Royal Road) could simply post their work here temporarily and easily win since they have more chapters.
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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?
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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?
JKaiya Oh, what answer did you receive?
Tomoyuki Idk if you read everything... but again I'm okay with selling it for like the better prices. Also Amazon ebook is 35% for non exclusive and 70% for exclusive while having a download rate bill which is like 20 cents, and prints are little off but for black and white .85 + .012 for every page (if book is 118pages+), there's a much huger customer base and if not exclusive you have even huger customer base as barnes&nobles etc... so although you lose some, you make a lot more. Though again typical author WN is way better except copyright. ALSO note that some of the stuff might be wrong as I am just basing this on all the complaints authors put about the contract in forums like it feels like every week to two some1 makes a post about it? Like when I talked to the customer service guy he made the copyright sound a lot less worse than what people posted on forums, but its a business so might just be a tactic idk. But, basically I'm just iffy the normal one as based on what I know I could be making more if I went another route, but I'm greedy af so I'm lusting for the prizes as that stuff is what publishers would offer too like 1k-15k on average, though for publishers its advancements. I also got zero fans and even with shoutouts from those people I know it's still chance on only making like 100-1k for my first book because of zero followers.
RABBITICOL sry I'm a gamer so I was arguing, I posted it at the top of the forum though
JKaiya As far as I am aware, you don't need to be exclusive for the 70% contract. You just need to price the book at 2.99 or more. The 70% contract on Amazon has the space charges for every sale while the 35% doesn't have any. The exclusive contract is for their Kindle program. Again, I might be wrong, but that's what it appeared to me when I checked it around half a month ago.
Lilliny I made a post after you posted to the other guy, but anyways no i'm fine with prizes. I'm just basing the idea of I have of the slave contract based on like what people post on forums like every 1-2 weeks SO IT MIGHT BE WRONG but based on that stuff they make it seem really horrible. Like losing copyright. Also 200$ per month with all the conditions, again based on what people posted and I remember, is pretty bad compared to just going directly to self publishing. However, again there are good cases, you can read other post if you want to know, really dont want to type again... But I'd be fine with the contract for some novels if I didn't lose the copyright, but again just read the other post, I dont want to type everything again =-==========
RABBITICOL 70% is only available if your ebook is 20% cheaper than print book and ebook price is between 2.99-9.99 idk if tax is included, I think 35% is for the rest though. Also I think KDP Select is the 70% one where you also get benefits like how WN does it with features and ads. As for space charges, I honestly don't know what that means so can't comment on that, of course there's more advanced stuff like just how its charged net profit etc. I'm just a student though so never actually made a book yet, this is just what I know from research and what the 10ish author friends told me in real life
JKaiya Just on the side note - the 200$ you speak about, is not even a part of the contract. Is just a helping hand that WN extends for starting authors, so that they can make any money at the beginning, while learning the proper way of working around WN standards, that will be beneficial to them anyway. I just finished my MGS (400$ one) but I already reached the point when I will most likely earn more than that, despite my book being trash. With one more novel getting a contract right now and 3rd one I will be writing for spirity, I might earn way more than said 200$, as long as people read my novel. So it's not like WN contract allows you to earn 200$ tops, but that's just a starting point.
MotivatedSloth Road to the Crown is getting contracted as well? Congratulations!!! :confetti_ball: :confetti_ball: :confetti_ball:
RABBITICOL Thanks! And yes, it is. Just as I'm starting to write 3rd novel for spirity...
MotivatedSloth whats your new novel about? also u saying that it could be 300$ contract etc or you meant like + coin income?
May I ask how will you participate in the contest? I read the rules and it said you most be contracted and the main plot falls on the category. If you both meet these requirements, how will you apply? Or they (editors in WN) will randomly choose the authors ?