Krazyguy75 Here's the thing Qidian collects all of this data. It's laid out right in front of them. If there was such an enormous loss for them you would see changes. Now are there better ways for them to do it, sure we can say a lower cost and more quantity could bring more. But it's why I keep pointing back to the 20 seats for $200 or 100 seats for $5.
They didn't have the money upfront when they began paying TL. Now that people have bought all the SS the money from that has to sit in an account. Once the bonus SS is gone and people start using real SS the payments can go out. What this means is Qidian was operating at a cash loss and technically still is. That money in the account for payment, they don't know what % of the split is theirs, the authors, the TL etc. There is no way for them to know until people start spending the real SS. Not making a ton of money but are able to see numbers rise while the money sits in accounts.
Every contract is going to be different. Now what they can do is take the average % of all contracts and that gives them an idea of their profits. They can have data that breaks it down by every week. So if a business has that kind of data and the model hasn't changed what does that say about what is possibly going on behind the scenes? That they will be making money and enough of it to meet their bottom line. Now if they change prices then you know they weren't able to meet that bottom line.
