Every single novel that is brought back is always chosen but why do that as it just takes one new novel out of the game also why was Barton adventure chosen as it had barely any viewers and a low amount of supporters is it because it was already translated and they chose to be lazy because of it?
Why are the novels that are brought back into the trial reads always Picked
Just like WN, QI (where all the novels in this case comes from) offers contracts to authors. However, it is unclear (but assumed) if said authors similar to how WN will change contracts for those with an already established audience elsewhere, would receive different contracts with different percentages and such.
It is widely assumed that those chosen are the novels that QI owns the most/highest percentages of which is why some novels are picked up “no matter what” including all of the I Eat Tomatoes titles.
At the end of the day, WN started as a way for QI novels to get translated and in front of a western based audience. Only recently did they allow originals a place on the platform and even now, majority of the website’s traffic comes from translated works and not originals.
Therefore, sure some novels that actually show to be more popular will be given a chance, but again, widely assumed, that voting for said titles means nothing and it’s just a way for them to get some additional promotion for said titles they would choose regardless of feedback before the initial release.
Hope this helped,
-OmniFrog
There's also the instance where the novel in question has a LOT of already translated chapters, and they got that translator in the bargain when they started communicating. That's what happened with a few of the newer books. No clue why Barton's made it (couldn't get past the first chapter of that book) when the others were so much better!
Just wish they would 'recycle' the other books at least once a month. I have quite a few I regret not getting picked!
Roon_Toon1 I'm going to assume that the translator probably chose to get a quota share arrangement for those novels instead of the fixed cost model, so it means it's cheaper for Webnovel to push them instead of another novel. I'm guessing the novels only make it back into the trial read selection if the translator really insists on continuing. That way, Webnovel only has to risk opportunity cost instead of their actual cash on hand.