So for every 10 or so trial read novels, we get like 2-3 novels selected, so translators translate 600 chapters just for a quarter of those chapters to matter longterm, it's no wonder you guys are dropping so many ongoing novels, it seems you're obsessed with pumping out new novels to get that early novel hype and then stop caring.
Trial read wastes our time aswell as the translators.
As for the readers, it goes without saying, we get inveted in a novel after 60 chapters so the disappointment of our fave novels not being picked is a real slap to the face.
Dark_Scholars Yeah i think i'm done reading trial reads, not even going to read the synopsis, it's too disappointing when ones i like don't get selected and instead it's another vr or pokemon novel.
Mute Pokemon? 
You must be ready angry. What kind of books do you like then.
Haha seems they noticed they're wasting resources in trial read and they cut down the chapters from 60 total to 40, though the cheap fuckers still set 20 of them as premium, a bad sign though since it seems all new novels will only get 20 free chapters at that pace.
Haha seems they noticed they're wasting resources in trial read and they cut down the chapters from 60 total to 40, though the cheap fuckers still set 20 of them as premium, a bad sign though since it seems all new novels will only get 20 free chapters at that pace.
Dark_Scholars When i say pokemon it's not an insult of childishness just a weak mc hiding behind pets=pokemon.
Mute I mean there can pure gold in front of you then u go pick trash without giving a care or let's say you do pick something good then drop it later because you stop caring
Just read some of the current trial reads added today, why are they all new, barely read novels? I mean new even on the qidian site with less than 60 chapters each even in raw, seems Qidian is cheaping out and giving us unproven trash novels because it's cheaper for them.
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Trial Reads is actually more profitable for both Webnovel and translators.
The well-liked books are continued, and that benefits Webnovel, the author, and translators monetarily.
Continuing a book that doesn't make money is just bad for the ecosystem. Webnovel runs out of money translating non-profitable books, and ends up shutting down the translation business, leaving all the translators out of job. The books that are dropped have very pathetic (paying) readership. Compare that to the successful Trial Read books which can earn from 2x to 10x more. But they aren't necessarily dropped. They are just on hiatus. You will be seeing some of the books continued in a few weeks to months.
Those books you are talking about (with less than 60 chapters) cost more for Webnovel actually. They are tailored-made books for the international market. And they are actually doing pretty well on Trial Reads at the ~24 hour mark, compared to Cuttlefish's new book.
"Good" is subjective, no matter what you say.
CKtalon Seriously? Those books are doing well? I only read Your Talent Is Good; It's Now Mine, Forging The Path To Godliness and I Became A Mighty Lion, and the first 2 novels are rushed, i mean really rushed, with barely any meaningful dialogue, now you say they were tailor-made for international market i feel that the rushed crap writing style is actually done on purpose :S i worry about the future novels brought across if these are the ones that were "tailor made" for us.
The lion novel synopsis really interested me but 40 chapters of nothing really progressing in the way of spirit qi returning kinda killed my interest, i would still follow it if it got selected though as the premise is new, spirit qi returning to the world but from the perspective of an animal.
If Trial read makes money then i can't complain too much,, i was worried that translating 60 chapters of so many unselected novels were sapping too much time from translators.
Offtopic: currently holding out hope that Magic Returns: Evolving As A Willow Tree is selected for trial read, i love novels like this.
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Offtopic: I really wish webnovel would stop trying to break into the korean translation scene, literally every korean translation on this site is trash, which is a shame because Korean novels are a lot more reasonable in length and are quite different in style to CN novels, i think the translation that hurt me the most was My Range is One Million, the concept really interested me but it's by far the worst translation i've come across.
From my cursory look something like over half of the previous trial read novels (male lead) have been dropped... This system is utterly worthless, webnovel pumps new novels into the library, but there are barely any new readers.
So the current readers stop spending coins on other works (only the whales will buy more coins to read everything). There are barely any coin sales or flash deals to encourage current userbase to spend more... So the vicious cycle of barely any translation being finished continues.
Mute If Trial read makes money then i can't complain too much,, i was worried that translating 60 chapters of so many unselected novels were sapping too much time from translators.
I'm not sure if you meant it this way, but this statement is really enlightening as the previous trial read system was extremely profitable for Webnovel (regardless of whether or not the novel would become profitable in the future). I know many of these editor's choice trial read selections that were "so profitable" that they're on the ever growing list of dropped novels.
Hey @CKtalon, do you think you could suggest to Webnovel to have an event to pick up dropped novels again? Put 10 or so titles on the list, and let people gift coins to their favorite one(s) and translate the winner or those that hit the fixed cost necessary for full translation? They don't listen to us, but you seem to get your inquiries answered. If the event isn't profitable, then it's a one off loss, and people can at least have some false hope that the novels they're reading will eventually get their translations finished unlike now where trying a new novel means a relatively high chance of it getting permanently dropped in the future.
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KoraL The amount needed is on the order of 5 digit US dollars. It's unlikely any whale will be willing to pay that much to get it continued. Running the event without any book getting continued is pointless and only more disappointing.
Mute Korean novels actually aren't very profitable... Only the occasional few are doing well, just like how only a few Chinese novels do well.
WebNovel should finish the existing novels ASAP before picking new ones without caring about readers or reputation. After they dropped a novel for which I bought privilege this month, I will no longer pay them a cent. So they can go fuk themselves with their trial reads
Thing is you're missing cktalons point, books get dropped because alot of the fan base are freebie ing them. All these nimrods with multiple accounts to farm fast passes should be the ones to have your ire not the site.
Its due to them sucking the life blood of the site that those 'good' books suddenly get dropped.
As for a book with privledge getting dropped... thats rather odd as privledge gives direct unquestionable profit since fast passes can't be used. Thats not to say certain translators shouldn't be hung from a light post by their short n curlies for their privledge abuse stares at the translator for Only I am a Necromancer but in such cases where the translator is failing to produce chapters and privledge chapters you DO have the ability to request a refund.
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CKtalon Will it really cost on the order of 5 digits for each novel? If the novels are selected judiciously for those with less than 500 chapters remaining (are they actually paying more than $20 per chapter?) then even if it flops, all the novels get some publicity, and the total collected for the entire event can go to supporting that single winning novel, and the event would never need to be run again. The way things are going, Webnovel is losing customers for dropping translations.
I would also suggest adding to the list titles like Trafford's Trading Club which was unprofitable due to not having premium chapters until months after it was dropped despite being very popular.