> the non-Chinese owned competitors to Webnovel all appear to be DOA (but you might want to ask yourself why that is, and why Webnovel works, and consider that Webnovel is wildly writer-hostile, using exclusive contracts and encouraging brutal publication schedules)
I feel like the brutal publishing schedules are part of why they work, unfortunately. I'm not a regular consumer of Webnovel, so I'm curious what your take on what makes them successful is?
I agree, and it makes it far harder to get it to work in places where you'd need to offer substantially more for that to be attractive. My son reads a lot there, and expect hundreds of chapters to bother starting a series, and gets annoyed if there isn't a new one every day.
Meanwhile most authors of fiction write 3 novels or less in a lifetime... Though I guess at least in part because most get disillusioned once they don't get readers.
I feel like the brutal publishing schedules are part of why they work, unfortunately. I'm not a regular consumer of Webnovel, so I'm curious what your take on what makes them successful is?