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.
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All these complaints about being poor. Can’t get a job? Then wait.
Vudis the price of a single book has nothing to do with this law... I could sell a 10 pages short book for 100$. As long as every store sells this book for 100$ and not less, it's according to law (Btw, the law differs from country to country, in Germany ebooks are also part of it). There are many books which are more expensive than others, especially scientific books, since they are based on alot of research.
So it's totally up to the publishers to set the price and most are still in the same price range of similar products (differs by category, supply & demand and so on), but seems like QI wants to establish an own price standard for chinese novels. But if you consider their length, they are not much different from japanese light novels with their dozens of volumes long stories. So it wouldn't be wrong to compare their prices and the japanese prices are in line with normal novals (by word count) whereas the chinese are still more expensive despite their lower story (repetitions) & translation quality.
I don't even ask for physical novels, but that their premium chapter price is cheaper or at least similar to normal ebook novels if you break the price down by word count
Leechers complain more than anyone. Go get a job and buy some stones. Reading is a habit, better spend some bucks on reading than alcohol and cigarettes.
Cless yeah, just ignore him. If you come with facts he will ignore them and answer with his same standard posts. In his opinion everything is solved by gettong a job. He also thinks this premium system is the same as patreon...poor soul
Don't wanna wait? get a job
Don't have a girlfriend? get a job
Don't like your job? get a job
incurably sick? get a job
shelwyn how can you compare those two? Patreon offers a fixed number of advanced chapters, but same release rate for everyone. Here you basically pay for a faster release rate than free readers. And if you take into account that this premium release rate is the same as before premium system how can it be cheaper...
Cless Yeah don't waste time with this retards.I am sure if he gets robbed he will just say whatever ı have a job.And the other retard will see some clothes with price is more than 15x normal price.But this retard will still buy it why because the producer has the right set the price for his/her wish.And ı forgot maybe he has a job too.
shelwyn I didn't rant about them. I know they started as fan translator. I'm ranting about QI, who wants us to pay more for it than professionally translated novels. Yes the authors also need to be rewarded, but they clearly write for word count and realize this with repetitions and fillers, so that also has to be accounted for in the price imho
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shelwyn I never read any western novel with as many repetitions or filler scenes like in these chinese webnovels. I only read ~14 of them so far, but in at least half of them I saw chapters which you could summarize with 1 sentence without losing plot. Yes, that's a subjective feeling but I think that I'm not the only one who thinks alot of chapters are stretched immensely without adding value to the story.