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Hiffume I am started losing interest in LoHP since the second arc was pendulum story. Same thing, same face slap. Its enjoyable but not as much compared to the amzingly written first arc. So when I missed nearly a week of translations premium happened. Now I am just waiting out until I get free time to restart.

RtW looks huge now as I am waiting for free time. Heard its good and fantasy element(something I love) so I am going to wait on it since starting it will most likely get me addicted and I will mess up my sleep and work schedule.

As for Bringing the nations husband home, its well written. But its frustrating. I could not stop my urge to go on a hulk rampage after reading 200 chapters. The MC and FMC need serious whacking. I could not take it anymore.(In a good way lol).

So the premium novel I follow is The Strongest System haha. Not the best but its funnny.

Now I feel like premium is an amazing de-addiction program for many. I still got 1200 SS so I can read a couple of premium titles like LoHP and RtW (If I finish the non-premium chap that is) when I have free time.

KingBiBiK Well, 6500 points cost 10$ on the Chinese site (PayPal), while 600 stones (100 bonus included) cost 9.99$ on Webnovel (excluding PayPal's service charge). 1 point = 0.0016$ approximately, while 1 stone = 0.017$ approximately. The latest chapter of LoHP on Webnovel (chapter 635) costs 12 stones, while it costs 15 points on the Chinese site. It's 0.204$ on Webnovel as compared to 0.024$ on the Chinese site. We're being charged approximately 8 times more.

KingBiBiK Those numbers aren't accurate at all.

For instance, this is an official number:

Average monthly active users ("MAUs") for the year ended December 31, 2017 increased by 12.7% year-over-year to 191.5 million - 179.4 million on mobile and 12.1 million on PCs.

Yes, it means uniques.

CKtalon I am confused now. 191 mill is webnovel.com MAU or Qidian.com?
All of China Literature's chinese websites.

Threetimess Again. Sarcasm? God I love sarcasm.

KingBiBiK For all who are trying to ask for a subscription, I believe it is better suited for Wuxiaworld.com than Qidian.
Netflix has a huge customer base and they are burning money at this moment. They buy materials.
Likewise, WW is rumored to buy translation rights from the publishing company and translates them. They then divide the income based on page views (or that's what I have heard). Their income is also heavily dependent on patreon. As they are a group of translators like a group of friends, a subscription model is very appropriate for them and we can expect a future Crunchyroll or Netflix style model from them. Also, they control the number of novels translating and prefer to choose quality ones.
(Netflix is huge, while novel community is not so now)

I also recently got a hint that they want to install in site Patreon like system instead of using an external site. So there is a high chance that we can see patreon model release and locked chapters in WW (similar to premium but with more tiers.) Also a currency that has no monetary value but promoting novels.
So as a result of webnovel.com the competitive spirit has been ignited. Just they are really slow at it.

Looks like Wuxiaworld has introduced VIP ad-free system. $5 for a month for ad-free usage. They also built in-house patreon chapters which you buy.
In essence, they have the same system as Premium in webnovel.com but it seems to be worded nicely. They have a rule in which the advance chapter count cannot exceed 2x the free chapters that week or month. So the locked chapters will not accumulate. If you subscribe to a novel by paying $5 or $10 you get to stay 2-3 chapters ahead of others in that month. The same as patreon system. Their translation rate is lower that webnovel.com but atleast they implemented this as a progressive improvement.

The competition is pressuring them to improve haha.