yaoyueyi sorry to say but you obviously miss the idea behind fair use as well as the legal implications. Editing images doesnt make it transformative either. Youre trying to apply logic to a situation where fair use paragraphs dont even apply in the first place. Youre not using it in a personal way when publishing a book on webnovel or any online platform really, as such fair use falls flat right then and there. Youre not sharing it with your friends at school or work colleagues , youre posting things on a publicly accessible webpage, thats not fair use. Seeing people defend themselves with fair use when they actually advertise their own work, which makes it commercial especially on webnovel , no matter if the authors themselves earns money with it is just hillariously sad.
Rynea
- May 10, 2019
- Joined Mar 12, 2018
Jack_N_Mikhail if you want to support the author or translator go send something via their patreons or paypals .. that goes a long way further than the tiny cut they get from webnovel
I find it pretty annoying that a thread that gives completely wrong info about copyright issues gets stickied. Please fix it in your guide. You CANNOT use images from google without permission from the owner or copyright holder for any covers no matter if it is for commercial purpose or not, you are not even allowed to modify it without permission to do so.
As soon as it gets uploaded in any way that will basically get you in legal troubles if you dont have the rights, it doesnt matter if you make money with it or just use it for a novel that is completely free.
There are many royalty free images out there that people can use without worries, but just taking something from google randomly wont work, no matter if its commercially used, no matter if you credit the creator or not. Make sure you are allowed to use any image for your cover before using it.While I don't exactly like all the books on your list, webnovel has always been extremely sexist with their whole ladies pick and female lead / male lead stuff.
Most of the romance books are utter trash and are obviously clickbait, totally unrelated to what female readers enjoy.It's nice to have a list here with some more reasonable picks, what I would really like to see is webnovel giving up on their sexist classification of books and rather improve on their search and filtering system.
geeiein pretty much exactly this. The prices for spirit stones compared with the spirit stone cost for chapters is insane. Some novels are nice but overall the quality is not in any way better than a book from kindle or from your local bookshop. I'm not paying 60+ USD for a single book, so why should I pay the same amount in spirit stones per chapter ending up with the same.
The subscription was a good compromise for value and cost for people who read a lot. If the prices for spirit stones don't change drastically or a reasonable subscription system comes out, I will likely just get novels elsewhere, like amazon and overall it will be cheaper. Paying for a good book is fine, but paying 3-5 times what I would pay for a hardcover copy is just a ripoff.
WorstNameEver
I can understand your point, there are tons and tons of them out there.I honestly like the idea myself to have some sort of entity that acts like a system just not how many authors approach it. I'd much rather have something more subtle then a blatant AI ruling ones actions and motivations with arbitrary quests that force some plot. A system if used well should enhance the story, it should not by itself become the only real plot there is.
SnoozySloth It's pretty much the same for many things here in regards to the low effort, or often it is also low awareness. Web presence, grammar for books, book covers, etc. It is not always lower effort overall though. Even more it is about a different focus. Things like availability, constant writing and a stable presence are a lot more important for a webnovel. No one cares if a regular author is 2 weeks gone on vacation as long as the finished book gets published on time, but for a webnovel it can make a drastic difference. On the other hand on places like webnovel author can get away a lot easier with bad grammar and spelling.
I will totally agree that a good part of even the top novels here would never make it with traditional publishing methods because the expectations and the audience are very different. It is quite the difference if your book/script gets read by a western professional editor or someone with a good understanding of english or by staff from webnovel who for a big part don't know proper english either. Just look at all the grammar and spelling issues of official announcements.
Many people who bought paperback books in the past would want a refund with bad grammar, spelling or formatting. With cheaper novels and easier access to digitally published books this has become less of an issue. With a broader audience of people who speak and are able to read a little bit of english who then get access to these books the quality standard shifts drastically.
If the author has bad grammar, the publishing staff have bad grammar and a majority of readers on webnovel have bad grammar, there really is barely anyone who would even notice or mind. It might be very different if it were a book in those readers native language, but english has become a catch all common language and native english speakers are a minority.
This together with a very different set of expectations for western regular fantasy novels from eastern webnovels and often very different approaches an author has to take to get successful with either, makes it very hard to compare the two.
The feature that is listing novels by tag is not working as intended. Female Protagonist for example, includes stories that are correctly tagged as male protagonist, while stories tagged correctly with female protagonist show up under the male protagonist section.
Not sure if other search categories are also affected, but my guess is that the search is not an exact tag search, as such it includes terms that are close or related, which causes a mess.
It definitely is an ongoing issue with android,
Webnovel App version 2.9.2 (and all earlier ones) here as well as Android 9.0
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The app currently suffers from severe caching issues. Avatar pictures do not properly update or don't show up on certain pages like the profile tab on the app, while the profile page itself where you can actually edit the profile shows it correctly.
Novel chapters don't properly update when the connection hangs and then sometimes display the wrong content and so on.
There is a 'Clear Cache' option in the settings of the App, but it doesn't properly work. I understand that sometimes cached features like avatars and the like, do not update properly and it might not always be easy to spend the resources to bugfix those things, but then please at least make the clear cache work and let it clear ALL of the cached data properly and then reload the correct images and the correct content again once that is done.
A little bit of text really has just a minimal size and cannot be the issue and some avatar pictures shouldn't be a problem either, especially as you have to manually hit that Clear Cache button anyways.
Thanks for your time and effort
