An interesting event I witnessed for the first time online, thought I'd share, since this sub seems to constantly warn people off of webnovel. I'd admit that I didn't believe them at first, but now I do.
People tend to hate webnovel because it can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars to read a web serial on their site, and they use weird MLM like pricing and payment schemes and overly exclusive licensing. I'm not sure if it's changed since I last tried it a few years ago though.
Webnovel’s contracts for authors are notoriously predatory.
If you’ve been following the SLP controversy over the past couple weeks, webnovel’s contracts afaik aren’t as predatory as SLP’s but they’re supposed to be incredibly bad.
There’s a bunch of posts on here, the short version is that someone leaked a SLP contract and that revealed that the contracts from that company are the most disgustingly predatory thing anyone in the industry has ever seen, to the point that it’s considered a scam that’s defrauded dozens of authors in the space.
Other indie publishers have posted their contracts in response, lawyers are getting involved, and one of the larger discords operating in this space, Immersive Ink, shut down because the owner of SLP was an admin there and preyed upon new authors there, including a bunch of the mods.
Their point isn’t about the discord mods being rude, it’s about the culture of fear, refusal to answer simple questions from authors trying to get contracted, and ostracizing anyone who doesn’t believe. It demonstrates how morally bankrupt they are and how willing authors who have been fucked by the system can be to push that pain onto other.
Just to clarify: if you wrote a popular book, walked into the biggest chain bookstore in the US, asked about selling your book through them, got insulted by other authors standing there in the bookstore, got insulted by the employees, and then got kicked out of the store by the manager, yes you would be very right to tell people to avoid that bookstore.
People tend to hate webnovel because it can cost hundreds or thousands of dollars to read a web serial on their site, and they use weird MLM like pricing and payment schemes and overly exclusive licensing. I'm not sure if it's changed since I last tried it a few years ago though.
Webnovel’s contracts for authors are notoriously predatory.
If you’ve been following the SLP controversy over the past couple weeks, webnovel’s contracts afaik aren’t as predatory as SLP’s but they’re supposed to be incredibly bad.
What's slp controversy, I haven't been active on this sub for a while
There’s a bunch of posts on here, the short version is that someone leaked a SLP contract and that revealed that the contracts from that company are the most disgustingly predatory thing anyone in the industry has ever seen, to the point that it’s considered a scam that’s defrauded dozens of authors in the space.
Other indie publishers have posted their contracts in response, lawyers are getting involved, and one of the larger discords operating in this space, Immersive Ink, shut down because the owner of SLP was an admin there and preyed upon new authors there, including a bunch of the mods.
It’s nasty.
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Their point isn’t about the discord mods being rude, it’s about the culture of fear, refusal to answer simple questions from authors trying to get contracted, and ostracizing anyone who doesn’t believe. It demonstrates how morally bankrupt they are and how willing authors who have been fucked by the system can be to push that pain onto other.
I hate bookstores for the same reason. Once I saw a clerk being rude to a customer, so now I avoid all brick and mortar booksellers.
Do you have screenshots?
I tried to screenshot the store, but no one would stop moving.
Found the webnovel fanatic 🙄🗣🗣🗣
Are you stupid
Just to clarify: if you wrote a popular book, walked into the biggest chain bookstore in the US, asked about selling your book through them, got insulted by other authors standing there in the bookstore, got insulted by the employees, and then got kicked out of the store by the manager, yes you would be very right to tell people to avoid that bookstore.