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@Chaos-master Ah I see. Unfortunately there is no Premium option for manga. I think, iirc, the issue is Premium's are DRM free and the Japanese manga publishers didn't agree to allow that. I'm not sure if this is being worked on for the future or if it's just how it is. I don't follow manga so it's all I know, someone else may be able to expand.

Yup, the Japanese Publishers aren't currently (as far as has been revealed to the forum, at any rate) willing to allow DRM-free manga, so there aren't going to be Premium Editions for manga unless that happens.

As @jpwong has said it is no longer part of the catch up meaning if you want to continue to read it you will need to buy it or wait to who knows when it becomes available on another catch up month.

@Rahul-Balaggan I can confirm that it's possible to read parts of a book I've preordered without active subscription.

Thank you for all the answer

@myskaros thanks for the quick follow up :)

More the likely need to logout/log back in. That's what happened in my case. It doesn't specifically tell you when your login times out, just stops working. Go to Account, then click the log out button.

@LegitPancake we'll look into it when the time comes for implementing notifications.

The maximum character limit is a technical limit on storage capacity.The minimum character limit is a social construct to encourage posting a post that actually has... content.

@Hihahiho
Pre-pubs are something like drafts. They already have some quick QC but may contain some spelling or grammar errors.

Pre-orders means you pre-order the published E-Book. The published E-Book is more complete then the pre-pubs. It will have the color inserts and the errors will be mostly gone. I say 'mostly' since although rare some mistakes do happen.

There are 2 ways to buy E-Books. Either directly from JNC or other retailers. Other store you get a normal E-Book. But directly buying from JNC will get you a Premium E-Book. A Premium E-Book is DRM-Free which means that you don't need a specific app to read it. It also has the highest resolution for the images compared to anywhere else. It also contains extras like bonus short stories, text-less illustrations, bonus illustration, and some other stuffs that can't be found anywhere. FYI, only a member can buy from JNC.

Regular Membership = $7 per book
Premium Membership = $6 per book
Other Retailers = $6.99 per book

Lastly, pre-pubs expire and are not permanent. The only available pre-pubs are volumes that has not been published yet or currently being translated. In every start of the month a "Catch-Up" happens wherein a select few series have their pre-pubs unlocked and it will be possible to read all the volumes for those series for that entire month as long as you are a member.

As for membership details:
Normal - you can read every pre-pubs that are available and can buy directly from JNC
Premium - same as above but when buying E-Books from JNC you get $1 discount and you also get a Premium Credit every month on the 15th. This credit can be used to buy any books directly from JNC.

Normal Membership = $4.95 per month
Premium Membership = $10.95 per month (This is basically $4.95 for the membership fee plus $6 for the monthly credit. So your actually just paying the membership fee while additionally buying a book every month.)

Advice:
If you just want to read then a Normal Membership is enough but if you want to own the E-Book and read it in one sitting and not every week then Premium is better since buying books in bulk is cheaper with the Premium Membership.

Premium Membership vs Other Retailers Cost Breakdown:
PM
$4.95 = membership fee
$6 = monthly credit
$6 * 4 = $24 = additional credits
Total = $34.95 = 5 books

OR
$6.99 * 5 = $34.95 = 5 books

As you can see if you buy more than 5 books per month or more than 60 books per year being a Premium Member is cheaper. Plus you get freebies that can't be found anywhere.

For relevant discussions on payment options see:

@radkison You may want to try out the beta website. https://beta.j-novel.club/
It has a lot of more quality of life upgrades that the original site lacks.

They're back up!

Volume 1
Volume 3

@Rahul-Balaggan Ok.

Are you logged in when you look for the link?

This issue has been fixed. Thanks for your patience!

@njuns

Sorry to hear about your troubles with VISA, I hope that gets cleared up!

Unfortunately I can not comment on any aspect of payments to the site, as I am not involved in any of those discussions.

Have you checked toc.ncx and toc.xhtml have the same order?
I've seen a few cases when they had a different order and it caused problems with some readers which use toc.ncx as a guide to order the epub pages.
You can check both using any text editor.

I think he meant the navigation bar at the bottom of the page when you read a part (the one with next/previous page, increase/decrease font buttons). Maybe it will be fixed after some cache clearing or even reinstalling firefox.