Oxy GregLuck Premium is good, But you’re forgetting the fact that almost 50-80% Of this chapters are filled with filler, So paying 12-16 SS just to read filler chapters hardly makes sense. Either they should just keep 8-12 SS for every single chapter or take Monthly subscriptions.

      Axzile Novels cost is way over priced, the way this trend is going, any new popular book that has 500 - 1000 chapters will cost 17-35 plus dollars. Fair market value on these books realistically is sub $5. (Using a game of thrones book at 8 bucks as a top price for fictional novel)

          CJofNJ
          Legion of the damned cost 15€ and metro 2024 cost 20€, both around 300k words when i bought them in 2012, thats equivalent to almost 1.000 chapter, or none if you pace yourself with free ss and pff

          Asoiaf and hp benefitted from economic of scale, lower margin of profit with higher volume of sales

          My point is, FOR NOW, the price is still cheaper than their printed counterpart, i just hope that its not getting WORSE

              I mean come on. More than 100 chapters as premium. Thats more than 20 dollar/ euro. Thats more than i pay for 3 normal sized real books. Its just to expensive. And the release rate of free chapters droped quite a bit.

                Fuhrer 300 000 words is equivalent to 1500 ss (~25$). That give as 100-200 chapters.

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                    Anywy, dont you guys think that the price is a little bit expensive? Lets count, i read 4 premium novel and i need around 60 ss each day, i can get the free ss for 30 ss each day so i need 30 ss more each day which is will be 900 ss each month. And how much will it cost? 20 usd....
                    20 usd pee month, and tht price is as expensive as my netflix account..which allow me to watch any netflix series, that i believe have more production cost than this novel

                    So i hope qidian can give more thought about this, or at least increase the way to get free ss, increase the ads is okay, as long as we can read it for free

                    Tks

                    Ps : yea, this is my second account so i can got more free ss to read my beloved novel. Cheers!

                      Axzile gosh, I noticed that too. The more you read further, the higher spirit stones required. If they will do this to all novels then there will come a time when they get less and less readers. It's getting heavy for my pocket...😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

                          Kantisett Hear hear! I've been also debating as to why the premium chapters of some novels go far as 14 to 18ss each. I mean, even without the premium, we get 1 chap a day on some of the novels. And not to mention, if they do a mass release and you need to spend that much amount everytime, I'd be broke.

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                              bugmum True and could you just imagine how many readers they get. Say the novel gets 30 readers and they all used their spirit stones to buy the chapters, that's 30 Times $20 already. Too expensive.

                                  They would not release chapters willy nilly, they need you to keep coming back every day so.... novels will be dragged out as much as possible. That's why even if you pay premium you still have to wait for chapters to be released 2 or 3 at a time (if you're lucky) and have log in every day.

                                    Premium novels are fine, but the promise was that they would have premium but chapters would become free again once they were old (week or two) or at least tha was the original idea. Now they are just sniping the most popular novels and slapping premium on. Almost makes me want to send power stones to the books I hate just so that the good books don't get locked away.

                                    Honestly just really want a subscription service instead of this dumb stone garbage, let me pay $10-20 a month and then leave me alone to read the novels.

                                      LongSongGolden But isn't it more fun to use real moneys to buy magic moneys to buy individual chapters of releases that may or may not fluctuate both in the price in magic moneys and the frequency of actual chapters. So you can work out how much magic moneys you need, before the magic moneys magically evaporate into thin air. You can add all the free magic moneys you get with the magic moneys you pay with real moneys over a 70 day period and work out per chapter how much you pay in real moneys based on the cost of magic moneys.

                                      That doesn't sound needlessly convoluted and confusing at all... Real Buyer Friendly...

                                        One thing you can do is read the novel in batches. It will save you a lot of SS because only last to chapter are normally locked

                                          My biggest problem with premium is that once you start paying for chapters, you can't stop because you won't get one free chapter a day any longer until the free ones catch up to where you last paid for. If QI starts throwing more and more of these novels under that pay wall then a flat subscription would've been a better idea.

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