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How about an infinity stone for a monthly price? (Don't use the name "infinity stone" Disney/Marvel may come after you.) So for like 10$ a month you can read as you like or you can continue to buy stones. wouldn't this solve a lot of problems? I do think that Webnovel would over value the price of one of the stones by two to three times make it obscene but i think it would create a requested option. Then premium champters can cost either ss or the infinity stone.

Sailorman08 and I just looked at "release that witch" The oldest released premium chapter is 8ss and the newest is 6ss. this is madness and stupid. What the heck! And that chapters 749 and 822 respectively. Come on webnovel figure this out. Even the guy waiting for free may spend 2 or 3 ss stones to read some ahead. then you guys can at least get some from us over time...

And can anyone tell me why there are 31 Premium chapters still on Library and they are all 12 to 13ss each?? Wouldn't it make sense for the oldest premium chapters to slowly come down in ss's to maybe 4 or whatever.... then the market and customer could pay at the rate they feel is reasonable?

I think for me the ideal would be something like this.

First 50 Chapters of all novels are free with no ads...
Every Chapter after 50 would have an add with no unlock option. Watch the ad all the way through to read the chapter.
5-10 dollar a month Site subscription to remove all ads from chapters for easy reading.
5 allows a limited add skip
10 has no ads at all.
I think translators should probably be on a salary/chapter with a bonus structure being paid out to the authors based on reader popularity discussion and quality of chapters.

Part of my issue with the spirit stones i think is that its one more thing for me to look at and keep track of. So everyday i'm thinking about the cost of reading todays chapters. If i'm paying 5 to 10 a month then i'm not thinking about it. i pay 10 a month for kindle unlimited and i'm sure i don't use a 10 value each month. i don't know who is running this site but i'm pretty sure they aren't business or marketing people. A subscription would remove the cost from the front of my mind allowing me to enjoy the reading.

Again i have no problem trading a monetary amount for quality entertainment. but like most people i want a value and not a hassle. Translated novels is growing in popularity in the US and around the world and webnovel has some of the best. If they don't get this right they will lose out the most in the future.

good luck webnovel,

steve

I could not pay and wait but how does that help translators and Webnovel.com? Is there not a middle ground? Was the cost of stones over the course of an entire novel taken into consideration? If i'm not wrong its going to be too expensive to read more than one or two stories and they will lose readers to other sites and other novels. With kindles and Amazon and all the other types of entertainment, they are competing with i think they need to reconsider there price point.

has anyone run the number to see what the spirit stone cost would be to read an entire novel? I know that some of these novels can get over 1k and 2k long. I'm not sure how viable it would be to spend even 5 to 12 stone per chapter to read 1000s of chapters. Not to mention I believe most people are reading multiple novels and the premium books are going to generally be the most popular. i figure if i pay the 10 bucks today and get the 1500 stone thats 10/1500=.0066$ per stone. Then i multiply that by the 12 stones i just "spent" on the last released chapter .006612=.08 per new chapter. If this novel goes for another 1000 chapters (1000.08=80). And this is just for one story i won't be able to read more than one at this rate. I have no problem paying for a quality story. i like getting entertained. but i don't pay $80 dollars for any series. Harry Potter doesn't cost 80 bucks to read.

In cunclusion while i don't mind paying for quality and entertainment, I think the current system is a little excessive and needs to be adjusted down to make the novels more appropraitly cost effective. I think there are smart accountants and statisticians that can figure out i good spread of dollars and value to increase exposure , drive site traffic, provide income for translaters, and provide and solid value for customers. Thanks i welcome clearification for my ignorance and look forward to the respose.

Steve