Yeah, I checked and it turned out unlike my physical debit card, the digital card does not allow overseas transactions. I had to upgrade my digital debit card account to premium to have this feature which is annoying because it involves lots of government verification stuff that needs to be approved.

Well now that it's approved and I have overseas transaction enabled, the card works and I now can happily read the prepubs. Thank you all for the help.

@myskaros said in Constant issues trying to read Bookworm manga:

@alicecheshire We tried pushing an update to the website for this issue. Can you try reading the chapters again?

It looks to be fix for me. Loaded several chapters and didn't get a single error when before I had like a 90% chance of getting one.

Kindle app does not read epub files; limitation imposed by Amazon.

There are various applications that will convert between ebook types. I use Calibre, which is free and quite capable. Just converted two epubs to Kindle mobi files a few minutes ago, and shipped them off to Amazon to display on my Kindles.

For the PC, you can also use any number of readers that will directly access epub files.

I got the "error" too, though I caught what had happened before I tried again.

Failed to purchase 10
: Unknown error (200). Try again later.

@funnyflame
The closest you'll get is a copyright page, which are added in the for sale releases. Part 4 title removed just in case.
bookworm copyright page

@kuuderes_shadow You can see the purchase dates on the beta app, at least. I don’t know of such a function on the website, however. You can see how it looks in my app below.
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Your best bet is to use their email contact as this involves a payment issue support@j-novel.club

But some steps you can take yourself is to contact your card issuer in case it's an issue on their end. Assuming that JNC attempted to charge the card, your card issuer should be able to see what went wrong on their end (if the transaction was flagged as suspicious for example)

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We've notified Comixology!

@qeeh i tried Hugendubel for now. They seem to have the series as well.

@farmerdad
@myskaros was talking about how members can pre-order the book while it's being translates and not about the release date.

From what I know all release dates are manually entered in the system so the book being release on December 2020 is definitely a typo and not on purpose.

that about sums up my questions, thanks

@qu1nch1a Partly Yes. If it is expired you could either buy it to read it or wait for a catchup month. Every months some series are made free to read for members. Like Black Summoner plus 5 other LN and one Manga this month. So as a member you can read all Volumes of it.

@myskaros TY

@bordmouth said in Cannot Subscribe:

Is it due to the changes of adding Stripe?

J-Novel Club has used Stripe as its payment processor since it first started almost 5 years ago. There have been no changes on that front whatsoever. It's more likely that there's something wrong with your card, which you will have to call your bank or card issuer to investigate.

@pcj Okay, thank you.

@ker2x year, finally...

@sea-sea If the first of the month falls on the weekend, the catch-ups don’t rotate until the first Monday. In this month’s case, the catch-ups rotated to the August titles yesterday.

The loss of the discount on credits is the main point. I'm out by $5 or $6 (if I ever intend to buy any more books) because of the consumer unfriendly buying process.

Edit: My math was off. Upgrading to premium should be $6, not $7, so I don't lose an extra dollar, just the initial $5.