It might be more effective to toss a link to this forum thread over on NUF or reddit, but be prepared to be flamed to hell and back for supporting Webnovel in any way.

    KoraL It might be more effective to toss a link to this forum thread over on NUF or reddit, but be prepared to be flamed to hell and back for supporting Webnovel in any way.

    I was waiting for Webnovel to make an announcement and pinned/sticky the thread before I do that. Has been waiting for a long time now.

    I made the thread on NUF a few minutes ago. We will see how it goes.

        The problem is that the novel doesn't earn enough money so it doesn't pay enough to the parties involved. I think it would be better if they put these novel on ad based instead of a pay-wall and allowed gifts and donation to a patreon for both author and translator. the reason the novel failed in the first place was because of the pay-wall so only a number of people will read it because most people aren't willing to pay to read per chapter or they can add a one time purchase so ppl can buy the whole book.

        If the novel is still updating maybe they can package 200-300ch as a one time purchase for a reasonable price instead of paying per chapter. since light novels sell per volume they should split them every 200-300 chapters and sell them like a regular book instead of per chapter which makes people upset at how much money they have to spend to read thousands of chapters.

          WolfEmperormoon

          I'm pretty sure ad revenue is a lot less than pay-by-chapter revenue.

          The solution to dropped novels is to find "true fan" translators who do it for love and not money. The true fan translator translate mostly to support the author and the readers. The 30% revenue share is just an extra bonus.

            ssound5rs The reception on NUF is much better than I had expected.
            I do wish that Webnovel could have at least responded when I applied on inkstone several months ago. I guess I'm not good enough? QAQ
            orz
            Or maybe my application saying "I want to translate dropped novels" with the dropped title as my listed favorite wasn't convincing enough?

              a month later

              i have a question uhh do we have a common way of contacting each other? like a discord or sum?

                6 days later

                hzertgrey i think staffs have discord and whatsapp(?) idk if it's whatsapp because i always confuse it with something else

                    3 months later

                    @Wujigege where did you find or contacted webnovel for the whole fan translator thing? i couldn't seem to get through their emails as it seems out of use and inkstone's processing is also too slow for my liking.. so i'd like to find another way or two to speed things up. or anyone here if you know

                      17 days later

                      hzertgrey
                      The whole thing is a mess. I signed the contract and everything but now the email address doesn't work anymore

                      Address not found
                      Your message wasn't delivered to zhuying.a@yuewen.com because the address couldn't be found, or is unable to receive mail.

                        2 years later
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