Not sure if its an efficient way or not, but I pay one Month of Premium membership, buy a certain amount of credits (usually budget vs # of books I am interested in reading). Then wait for the Premium to expire and remain either non-member, or enter as a regular when new volumes come out.

Hello,

Unfortunately, there is no cyber Monday deal this year at J-Novel Club.

Please see the following comment for more information.

Just to confirm, no credit sale for cyber Monday this year for various reasons, some you might be able to guess?

We will have sales in the future though! Promise.

https://forums.j-novel.club/post/167175

Which browser are you using? Some of the recent updates have broken common things, and since they can come at random intervals, you can suddenly find yourself unable to do things you did the day before.

This week, Chrome had an update that broke logging in for a lot of popular sites, for example. It can happen with any of the major browsers, though, as security settings are changed behind the scenes.

@myskaros I’m on the latest version (iOS 15). Are you too?

@myskaros sorry this was my first time asking a question I wasn't sure where you would see it so i doubled posted Sorry

As far as I can tell there no minimum threshold, so even fixing a single typo would get the update tag.

Not sure how long it lasts, but I assumed until you downloaded it.

@cooper-cummings-gk5u8qq That’s clever. I didn’t know that. Thank you

@saffire said in J-Novel Recent lack of ecchi or harem series:

@mlindner said in J-Novel Recent lack of ecchi or harem series:

So again, don't use Amazon as a benchmark.

Amazon accounts for the majority of JNC's sales, factoring it into discussions of whether JNC will license something is a no-brainer. If it can't stay up on Amazon, they're almost certainly less likely to license it because it will directly translate into fewer sales. I could not say for certain that JNC is definitely avoiding lewder titles because of it but I wouldn't be surprised.

This.

Whatever anyone may want to believe, the reality is that an outlet making up the majority of sales is going to have a controlling interest in what gets sold. And what's licensed is controlled by what sells; a publisher can't afford to lose money on too many series, or it goes out of business.

Like it or not - and I don't - Amazon owns a controlling share of the book market. If JNC wants to survive as a publisher, it has to take 'Can it be sold on Amazon?' into account.

@terabyte said in Updated E-Books:

A changelog seems pointless honestly. You'd only get a "Fixed typos" 99% of the times most likely.

This is still useful info.

And when they update more importante things (like color illustrations, renaming things, missing premium content, etc.) they do usually post in the volume's discussion topic.

Like app updates, sure most of them just say “bug fixes”, some developers actually say what bugs are being fixed.

I've had this happen a couple of times.
Each time, when I clicked on 'User' it'd show me as logged in...but wouldn't display my library as an automatic thing.
If I flushed my cache it would then show that, no, really, I wasn't logged in after all.

@exedore brilliant, thank you. I like the fictional name.

@destruxio I completely agree I'm still vary much enjoying all the books to read and have been loving having some series on catch-up as I've been able to get into more books that I didn't want to buy the first book just to figure out if I would like it or not.

@lokison Hey there! I don't believe there is a dedicated discussion about titles members would like to see in print, so you're free to start one if you wish! J-Novel Club doesn't comment on whether a given series is under consideration for print, though. Sam has said publicly that the ebook sales necessary to justify print is 2000 per volume, though.

@korppi Interestingly, the Yen Press website still links to both Kobo and Amazon to purchase digital versions of No Game No Life. I got interested in checking it because the Carbon Sequestering Edition of V9 has been on back order at RightStuf for months.

Heck I'm in America right now in a part that doesn't follow daylight savings so who the heck knows what's going on when some people decide to change a clock and others don't. Then again since I follow more of the "sun's up time to work; sun's down time to play" schedule the actual "time" isn't as critical.

@rahul-balaggan I suspected that was because of something idiotic, didn't know the idiocy came from Amazon. Well, I allways edit all my epubs anyway, just bringing the illustration forward is easy on Sigil.

@myskaros Just went to the topic and you are already handling the issues I'm having with the new website so this topic is redundant. Please feel free to lock or delete this topic and thanks for pointing me towards the correct topic venue.

@zwabbit ok, yeah, that's a good point. The description I gave applies to Michigan. Indeed, every state does it differently.