Since this is major news, I hope it can have its own thread and not moved to the Qidian catch-all thread. From Wuxiaworld Discord, user heya...
There are many entities now that licensed novels and pay the authors. For instance, Yen Press, J Novel Club, Qidian International, Wuxiaworld,...
You don't need to list source for parody. If you write a fanfiction and profit from it, you could get sued by the original author.
Maybe Blizzard won't even care since The Great Thief isn't exactly catching the world on fire with its popularity. Blizzard hasn't gone after...
I read both novels. Blizzard has a case for that the Great Thief since the VRMMORPG does use World of Warcraft setting. So Blizzard could sue...
Link? IIRC, the discussion was about who own the copyrights. Foreign and domestic copyrights belong to Qidian after the author sign the...
All translated Qidian novels that don't have licensed will be asked to join. If translators don't want to join, Qidian probably will ask the...
Ads is just a start though. Whatever income generated from international rights, the authors will get a 10-20% cut. That's a lot better than...
The "community" is based on pirating novels from the authors though. Translators and sites owners gain money from ads and donations while the...
Wuxiaworld has 3 million unique monthly visitors. Anime/manga is way bigger of course. That's why I used 3% user base of Crunchyroll and not...
I love the fact that they are paying the authors for the license. So the author is earning money from international readers. I hate the fact...
Crunchyroll makes $100 million a year in revenue from the 1 million paid subscribers and 20 million free users. If QI is 3% as big as Crunchyroll...
Anime/manga is probably 30-50 times bigger than Chinese novels in the international English market. Crunchyroll is raking in $90 million from...
I hope they use something similar to Crunchyroll because I like free reading while also support the authors through ads....
webnovel.com has ads for several days now. So readers there are directly contributing to the authors. Authors get a cut of any revenue Qidian...
4 more novels that are now licensed so that the authors will get paid. I'm on the authors side since without them there are no novels for us to...
Qidian also bought the translations to Martial God old chapters.
I hope ads work because the paywall will turn many readers into pirates. I support the authors and translators and free reading.
So you suggest that readers should read on pirated sites to support the pirates instead of reading on legal sites that pay authors royalties and...
isn't kissasian an aggregator site? Dramafever or Viki has the license to this drama.
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