Heva https://www.amazon.com/Books/b?ie=UTF8&node=549028 you can look all of the prices and yes Harry Potter is an old book series but what about books about inside this site most of them just a student like me trying to write some novel and you can look their rating and reviews about their edit.And ı don't want to talk about present ı ı want to talk about future, there will be more and more premium novels and they can't even
guarantee the release will be stable.

    Heva most paperbacks are ~8€ with ~100k word count. Don't mistake them for hard cover books, those are more expensive. Physical books have production and distribution costs which are added to the price, that's why ebooks are way cheaper. Their content is also qualitatively better, be it the editing or the story void of those huge fillers and repetitions.
    Even the japanese light novels which are professionally translated to english are in the same price range as normal books and ebooks, why doesn't it work for china?

      Oxy
      I m a student, got a part Time job
      And with rent bill etc... got 100 ~150$ per month
      And i dont count the food...
      So yeah, for me its expensive...

      Yakumo It's because there are some people who can't or won't pay and so the minority (I assume) has to make up the difference. It's not a bad system since there are a lot of free releases for those that can't pay. Again there are some disadvantages which I wish would be addressed (the free chapter release not affecting paid subscribers being the main one).

      Making it so more people can afford to help would also be helpful but there is a middle-ground somewhere which I personally think would be met by letting paid subscribers still receive the free releases (allowing small chapter purchases for those who can't buy all Premium chapters but still want to support the novel). While also rewarding the support with a chapter.

      Yakumo Japan takes part in the fixed book price agreement
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_book_price_agreement
      China is basically not going to introduce something like this under communist rule.
      Speaking about communism a chinese politician said this once:
      "The Marxist in China today is not a stubborn, dogmatic, and outdated 19th-century old man, but a dynamic, pro-change, young thinker. We have a flexible approach."
      Do you notice something. ;)

        Vudis As I understood it, this law/agreement is there to prevent dumping by big book stores, which is realized by a fixed price set by the publisher and every store has to accept that price. So this law/agreement has nothing to do with price by word count.

          Yakumo yupp 12 spirit stones for one chap is too big of a ripoff

            What would happen if I were to give you a chapter(x) and you give me another(x+1).
            Mutual Benefit?

              Woolose lol, your words and math don't add up! The words say that you exchanged chapters one for one, the math says you kept your original chapter and gained another.

              Not sure what you are trying to get across.

                APassingMe He might be saying that if you buy a chapter and other guy the chapter after that one, you can exchange(copypaste?). After all you can buy whatever chapter.

                13 stones for one chapter hahahahahahahahaha

                  #i also agree to this whahahahahahahahahah

                    Yakumo Yea exactly, word count doesnt matter. My comment was basically about why japanese light novels are in the same price range as normal books and why chinese novels arent.
                    As for wordcount, since these chinese webnovels are stupidly long they could be split into multiple volumes to sell them I suppose. But Im not too knowledgable about selling books, especially not in regards to webnovels.
                    Since there isnt a comparable system for webnovels in the west Qidian will have to come up with some way to sell their books here.

                      All these complaints about being poor. Can’t get a job? Then wait.

                        Cless Yet you found the time to reply to my comment. Was it because there was nothing wrong with my statement?

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