Kimyang You say you have thousands but they will expire fast. So unless you use them all up right away you can’t stockpile and read because they will all disappear.
Thank you for making me say goodbye, Qidian
Xavier2430 this system match's the one on China page and Koran and Japan light novels. To problem is seeing how much money we all allow like the pay to win in video games
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CreamPuffDelights Thing is, Qidian doesn't cost as much as Webnovel does. We're being charged around 9 times (more or less) more than the Chinese readers. They can read a whole webnovel at less than half the price we're being charged. And the translation quality sucks even though they're charging us this much (except for a few). And they even have membership over there, the higher level your membership the less it costs you.
ManOrSuperman And most of the translators don't have good quality. And only God knows what the editors are actually editing. Even after being edited, many of the chapters have tons of typos & grammatical errors.
ManOrSuperman
I don't know which novels you are reading that there are so much crap in the novels, but i think a novelist who thinks heighly of himself and want the novel to be good dont't use this method to much and therefore my calculation still is somewhat true. Besides this whole niche-market is so new that these prices are somehow justified.
Everything that is new is at the start expensive and will decline over the time, happens with cars, pc, laptops, smartphones........
And as long as Qidian has no monopole on all novels and translations, which they don't, there will be competition and therefore the prices will be go down over time. But unfortunately we are first in this niche-market so we have to buy these things to higher price but we are also the guys who are the engine in this whole market, to bring these novel to the rest of the world.
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DixieNormous I didn’t say you are poor at all lol
If you want a good example of doing it wrong look at Release that witch. over 100 Chapters locked @ 9 ss each so almost 20$ just to catch up?
I would be totally fine if the last 2 or 3 chapters of each book was unlocked through SS.
Then if i bought 1000 SS (which i have before). i would at least be able to read all my library'd novels for a month or so.
20$ for a month of reading , its a bit steep but affordable.
Ending up spending that in 1 days catching up on a single novel isn't really affordable though and will just push people away.
Thus less readers = Less people buying SS = failure and can only result in SS being even more expensive than now.
Its like anything if it costs to much people just give it up. said business looses most of its customers and the only way to maintain its income would be to up the prices of everything they sell or get rid of employees.
I love how everyone here on the internet is both poor and business professionals.
So people actually spend that much money? The world has gone mad. No wonder the Chinese think westerners are idiotic with money.
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In all honesty it isn't a lot. Like the guy saying to read the last 100 chapters will cost him $20. Compared to independent translators with slow release schedules asking $40 or more for a single bonus chapter its nothing. Those guys who paid for those were paying ×400 or more.
And it should cost more than in china because this is a translation which requires work and is a reasonable price.