I can't stand those whiners who doesn't pay and still keep posting complaints about the premium system. Qidian need to make money to pay for translators and authors and you know the ads ain't cutting it. Even if they want to be money grubbing like you like to say, what is wrong with that? This is a free market. Just be glad they are even offering free chapters and bonuses. This is not a non-profit. You are entitled to nothing!
Free readers acting entitled.
Your kidding yourself if you think it’s free readers acting entitled - the whole premium pay per chapter is the biggest scam in the world.
Honestly how much do you think a web novel should cost in total. If it were sitting in the local bookstore, amazon, etc how much should it really cost. Honestly a giant web book should be sub $5 the pay per chapter is going to push these into $15 -40$ depending on chapter length which is ridiculous.
You say author should be paid and translater yes they should, over the life of the novel. Some authors and editors get paid per novel and give up royalties others get paid little upfront and get a cut on each sold. Translators and editors expecting instant returns on a per page basis is a bit silly. They should be pressuring qidan to monetize earlier chapters to make continual money - something I assume is in the works.
CJofNJ bravo for ignoring what he said about the free market
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So you are saying you would pay QI for shit translation quality on some novel that they have here ?
goujing Your post will attract a lot of whiners.
goujing Well u should listen carefully to those 'whiners' and what they r 'whining' about, before u say something. And just to make it clear, i m one of those so called 'whiners'. And what we r 'whining' about is not about inroducing premium chapters but about the unreasonable amount of SS reqired to unlock them and the translation quality....
And if u really don't like our 'whining' u can just ignore us, everybody has their own opinions and mindsets, its not like we 'whiners' r doing any harm. If u don't like us just ignore us instead of WHINING about our(whiners in ur words) complaints and issues about QI
So not paying for novels means you have no right to have your own opinion? Talking about a 'free market' while denying people their right to freedom of speech just goes to show how immature your are.
You are just whining about how other people are whining. So you are just a pot calling a kettle black.
goujing remember before qidian come into this side of inyernet,the translation is free. Its for fan to fan. We can still pay the translator via patron and donation. While we can ignore 3rd party company that do nothing and earn money like qidian. And at the same time sell premium book so damn expensive. And its my freedom to whine here. Oh btw i did buy ss to read. My 1st and last time buying ss untill the price going down