TheSleepingTadpole No they don't.
Privilege Chapters with no Premium Chapters?
MintyMintyMilkTea Normally I would not say this, but do not listen to the Dan fellow. He is unable to do simple math and does not know how to properly read a contract. You are correct that you can earn percentage wise more with Patreon (95/5 split) versus WN (50/50 split) however, WN does offer free promotion for their contracted novels so you would only have to worry about writing versus searching for paid readers/supporters.
TheSleepingTadpole Top WN Authors take home more money than Top Patreon Authors. This is a fact. Please stop misleading this person with false information. We don't calculate our money as "Hey I made 1k this month I'm taking home 500 cause WN took 50%". It's more like "I made 500". And the "I made X" for top WN authors is higher than the "I made X" for top Patreon authors.
Dan, you do not understand this person's question. Seriously, calm down, and get off this thread because you are causing problems for no reason if you clearly read my response.
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MintyMintyMilkTea The reason I'm telling you that WN doesn't "take 50%" is because of how WN promo works.
More than 80% of my readers have come to my novel from WN's internal promotion. And the amount of organic readers I had were not small. This means my novel is 5 times larger than it would be without WN's promotion.
So let's do some math, let's say I started at 10 if I got 90% of that that would be 9.
Now let's see how I look being a contracted author.
With their promotion I'm at 60 now... 50% of that is 30.
30 > 9.
If they took 50% cut of my organic readers and I was still at 10 yeah that would look bad cause 9>5 but that's not how it works at all.
I think that makes it easier for you to understand.
TheSleepingTadpole is flat out wrong. He's not a contracted author so he doesn't understand how the system works.
Smh, it literally says point blank in the contract that WN takes 50% cut.
TheSleepingTadpole I spelled it out for you in math above. If you can't understand that I don't know what else to tell you.
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TheSleepingTadpole Thanks for the advice. The point about the grammar is good to know. Even though I'm a native English speaker I don't think I can survive the grammar nazis.
I think the discussion got a little derailed. The thing I really wanted to know was if I can use webnovel's "Privilege" system without there being a permanent paywall on my chapters. Like readers can pay to read ahead but eventually the chapters are free. Is this possible?
Edit: I'm using the word "Privilege" in this context to talk about the system where readers can pay to read ahead of the main release
MintyMintyMilkTea I answered that in my first response to you. No, it's connected to being a contracted author. Your chapters have to be premium for you to have privileged chapters.
Dan_Ryder I see sorry I missed that. So it's not even possible to turn off earnings on a certain chapter once it's published? I've seen some authors publish special unlocked chapters even after they go premium. Or is locked/unlocked status a one time decision when you publish a chapter?
Dan_Ryder You are right. 