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Although it's a passion project, it still fks up with the way trial read novels are inserted into the voting pool, it should've been added into the voting pool along with the next trial read novel "Astral Pet Store" instead of replacing astral pet store in the voting pool.

I wrote reasons why this was bad as a review on the book, I'm fine with removing it but the problem is that it messes up the future trial novels. Suppose there's trial books that people want to read. There is 4 each month and trial novels don't stay for more than a month. So out of 16 possible trial novels, only 4 is chosen each month before they are all replaced with other books.

Not to mention some trial novel books are rotated out after only 15 days, of course you might say that they just aren't popular but how are they going to compare with the trial novels that were released for more than 15 days. After all the coins from trial novels that don't get picked take a month to come back, and membership users probably don't have enough coins to vote for more than 2 trial novels.

Not every book is popular, I get that. If you currently look at the trial novels, almost every trial novel has about 100 to 200 fans and like 3 with less than 50 fans. And then you look at "Astral Pet Store" with over 700 fans. This literally shows that everyone has spent most of their coins on Astral Pet Store and they don't have enough for other trial novels. So now out of the 15 books remaining, 8 might get replaced with new novels next week. And since they are all relatively equal with the number of fans supporting the novels, someone's highly anticipated novel is going to get dropped.

Therefore, if one of those slots is replaced by a passion project, the readers are obviously not going to passionate about it.

TrueGodOfExp Translators spend a lot of time translating novels and many have this as their part time or even full time
Job. A novel that earns next to zero isn’t plausible because there’s no way anyone is able to live that way

Mute novels on trial reading are paid for by Webnovel and a way for them to assess the popularity of each book. Novels that pass trial reading are also paid by webnovel. Novels that got dropped but picked up as a passion project by a translator are not paid by webnovel but more of webnovel sharing an equity of the total revenue with the translator

Rocketduh Astral Pet wasn’t put into Voting Pool was because of other reasons that I don’t know of

Tofu So basically a novel that makes no money is worthless, right? Does that mean that WN will allow a third party to translate it?

Tofu do you mind sharing which translation groups are working with Webnovel under this revenue share framework for passion projects?

Rocketduh Astral Pet Store is in the Voting Pool already. The time it takes to enter a pool also depends on the translations. All trial books stop at 60. We only wait for a signal to continue before we continue translating. You can't expect them to build up a stockpile at a snap of the finger. A group needs to say okay, we can continue the book (they have the manpower to do it, e.g. the previously engaged translator is still around, available to work on it). This can take a few working days.

KoraL The decision to pick up dropped novels are made by respective translation groups. Picking up discontinued novels generally means you are taking a huge gamble on whether you can potentially make any money whatsoever. Some people do it in hope to earn extra, others do it because it's what they want to do.

As of right now, Exodus Tales only has Almighty Video Game Designer and Phoenix Destiny as part of this "passion" project.

CKtalon

That might look the same but really isn't. Movies acquire much more work and effort than translation/editing and can cost in the millions while taking years to produce. I'm not saying translating or editing isn't hard, but there's a big difference between making a movie and translating a novel.

I understand the point you're making, but it isn't exactly a good reason. All this really does is make people go to third parties and have it illegally translated if Webnovel won't do it.

I guess it doesn't matter though, I doubt anything will change.

TrueGodOfExp If they want to illegally translate, they might as well try to work with Webnovel.

CKtalon the problem is when webnovel don't want to gives an willing author a right to translate. (in webnovel.com) like its happend with "Thriller paradise" where a guy wanted to translate for passion only. maybe his english wasn't perfect but it wasnt mtl quality (there are translations worse than what he did ehem the sage that transended samsara ehem) yes its being translated right now...after 2 years without notice and if I didnt write this I wouldnt even know like probably 99% of ppl that readed it (its not lord of mysteries but at least it had stable 30 comment and 3M views the same number as "mages are too op" with only 60ish less chapters)

Grish99 Views and comments without people paying for it doesn't mean much. Things have changed now. They can try to work with Webnovel.

CKtalon Hey, this isn't related to this topic but is "What it's like Being A Vampire" going to be picked up? Does the stats show promise? If it does, awesome, if it doesn't, then whatever. At least I won't be as disappointed if I were to wait normally and see if it was chosen.

TrueGodOfExp Doesn't look promising unfortunately.

CKtalon UGH!

Truly, the trial read is becoming more and more useless. Three times, three whole times I've read a novel it wasn't picked. Now, perhaps its because those kinds of books aren't that popular, but at that point why bother holding the license for translation if they don't even do well? Might as well let other people waste the money on it.

It's getting to a point where I won't even bother to read trial reads anymore as the chances that the book I'm reading will get picked is slim and who knows when it might get translated again by some miracle. This is all so frustrating. :(