OMG! I remember why I felt insulted! There was this thing about, people taking authors work and uploading to webnovels (Which for some reason they were approved of because some made money from those books). Of which many were illegal, and they never got licensed from the real author! Authors had to send in proof to Webnovel or smt that it was their work, and it would take months before the story may or may not be taken down? But yea... I won't post any of my novels there anyways as i'm afraid that the support team on webnovel would be unresponsive if I had a problem, and also because I want to support the Authors having their work stolen from them.
Bruh dont buy into that stuff, my main readerbase is at Webnovel. Support team responded pretty fast when i used the discord. Cant remember what was wrong butbi remember using text emojis and the guy said, "yeah it gets fucky if you use that sometimes " and the problem was solved
Anyway there is no reason not to use it.
Contracts? I got offered one, turned it down and just posted to Amazon and Google Playbooks but im thinking maybe the contract would have paid more. On the other hand it comes with contraints.
Webovel contracts inclue the following:
the contract gives them the rights to sell wherever they want
suggest what you write
Canhire another guy to write fo you if you dont comply
delay your pay up to 3 months and make you pay back all you earned during the contract if it's terminated.
But well its a situation of where they CAN but prolly wont. I would talk to someone regading that. Its just that its a job, you know? So they expect certain thing. Long as there aint no hardcore pedo stuff you can prolly get away with a lot but again ask someone who has had a contract. Maybe go to the discord snd ask.
And if you dont want people posting your work there, post it yourself.
A cool feature of webnovel is people who read your story through the app can leave comments on PARAGRAPHS. Which is neat. I love that.
I use webnovel a lot. Find no real downside. MAYBE worry about possible contract stuff when it gets to that point. But for now i highly recommend it.
Listen pal, i hated qi too for its shady shit. And im a long time Nuffian. Been part of the community since near the beginning.
but don't let that stuff get in the way of posting where you want. Webnovel can gain you a lot of readers, a lot more than RRL, Wattpad and SH. Its just that big.
i aint gonna stop using it without good reason myself. And if people gonna steal your work, they will do it whether you post it there or not. Its happened to me, and honestly i dont even mind cuz my name as the author usually gets in there (or you can leave a watermark in the middle of chapters too, saying, "this was published by Cupcake Ninja at Scribblehub.com " or whatever too) and thats just doing work for me. I gain readers, maybe, from wherever these thieves post my work. Maybe they dont keep up to date very often, but still. Its free distribution.
so yeah. Using Webnovel is.fine dont pay attention to people who tell ya different cuz thats likely just bias unless we get proof they got fucked over. And even then it onlyatters if they were under contract.
which again you can just post to amazon or google with risk of not being paid very much. From what i can tell, i aint even earning much myself right now. Not that i need it..and really i should look up how to advertise my story better...but I'll decide later if i care that much about it. I never posted for the money anyway. I just figured "hey maybe it can fund my pastry and Aqua Fresca addiction or something " and it ses like it can. So for me thats fine