I personally don't mind the price increase itself (too much). After all, licensing costs increase and probably the salaries of translators increase as well.

That being said, the Readers Club is a completely different issue. First of all, because membership uses to give you two services, both access to prepubs and catchups, and now you effectively have to pay separately for each one. Also, catchups meant you always had something to read - you could catch up with a couple of new novels every month and then continue reading prepubs, and next month you had new catchups waiting for you.
I do like that the Readers Club means you don't need to rush, because everything there will stay there. That said, all novels that are fully available are completed series and seems that most of them are very short ones (avg 4-5 volumes total). Right now there are 51 fully available titles, and assuming you like about half of them enough to read all the way, you'd exhaust the catalog pretty quickly unless new titles are added frequently (yet to be seen).

And another issue is that the price increase was the coin value of books instead of the real money value of coins - effectively this means that existing coins that you've purchased or got through premium membership lose value and not just future purchases. The lack of proper advance notice means we did not even have time to use all the coins.we already had at their full value.

Personally I'm not too sure how to proceed. $40 annual increase for what I had until last month is pretty steep.

@Jon-Mitchell well now they have sales matching up with other platforms you’ll just need to spend your coins then. I can’t pretend all the changes are bad when the last time I used coins apart from a current series I’m following was the Kodansha Sale where I spent 499 instead of 699 for a few books.

Only thing I don't like with the Kindle App, at least their PC version, is once you have a large library it takes an age for the thing to launch. I have over two thousand Kindle books, and it takes about 10 minutes for my Kindle App to open and be usable. It's pretty ridiculous.

@pcj Thank you! I'll repost it there. I appreciate your help.

Hi,

for the time being until this is fully corrected. The volumes can be downloaded by selecting the "Show only purchased volumes" in the filters in your library.Screenshot 2025-03-18 at 14.50.10.png

@Rahul-Balaggan I’ll keep that in mind. Thanks!

@GeorgeMTO
Awesome thank you

@The_Ascended_Fox-lej5qfs The monthly coin distribution is handled manually by one of the staff so your account gets credited once they run the process to do the distribution. Likely with the problems the recent site upgrade has had, they're probably a bit behind schedule on that.

@GeorgeMTO I looked for something like that didn't find ^^
Thanks you very much appreciated :)
Also i put the post it in the wrong forum i guess, so sorry.

A little late—but goodbye! Well, if you are reading this then that means you are back—so welcome back!

In any case, keep doing what brings you happiness!

I'm not sure why an old thread was revived for this but the question posed here is misleading to begin with.

Why don't you include dollars in the translations?

Any translator/editor worth their pay will include dollars when it makes sense. However, 99% of the novels feature a Japanese person in a fantasy world so it simply won't make sense to use any currency other than the local currency and whatever the protagonist is familiar with.

In a hypothetical situation where there's a British protagonist I'm sure that expressing currency in pounds will be considered, even if the source mentions yen.

@holatuwol said in BF/CM coming or a thing of the past?:

@Geezer-Weasalopes said in BF/CM coming or a thing of the past?:

They last did that before I became a premium member, and I did that a couple of years back.
It's a rather long time since they last did.

We had one in 2020, so we've really only skipped 2021 and 2022.

https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/3923/credit-sale-for-cyber-monday

2021 is when Kadokawa acquired J-Novel.
Then there was the transition from credits to coins.

It may be a nonmeaningful coincidence that there haven't been any sales for the last two years.
Doesn't change that there haven't.

@Rahul-Balaggan Thanks for the reply!

@Lily-Garden said in Any advice on breaking into Proofreading?:

This is just a thought off the top of my head, but given the JNC writing contest is going on you may be able to offer free proofreading services to those of us working on our stories for submission. Obviously I don't know if that breaks any of the rules or something, but it would be a good way to get experience proofreading and would help those of us who don't have a lot of experience writing become better writers.

That is a good idea. However, I just enrolled in a few classes using a New York State Department of Labor program. So I'm going to be too busy until after the contest. Also, it feels like something that should be against the rules if it isn't already...

@Shiny I'm definitely going to be asking my writer friends to help me by letting me proofread their work as practice. Thank you for your advice.

@jpwong Hmm. I’ve not looked at the back of the previous versions so far, I didn’t realize that they were only higher res and not textless.

Oh well. It’s not like higher res can be easily noticed on an iPad screen.

@Rahul-Balaggan Thank you 💕 for answering my question so quickly. I am so frustrated not being able to find information about a book I am really into. I know that the language barrier has a lot to do with not being able to find the information I want.

@Ren-Jace-t6s6dv7 nvm I had to log out and restart and I received them

@Cooper-Cummings-gk5u8qq I hadn’t heard of that E-reader range. Thank you, I’ll look into that.