Premium Credit Membership
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I'm not interested either in the prepub system, as I stated in a previous post.
I finally opted to the bulk purchase method: 11$ premium membership + 10 credits at 6$ = 71$ (6.45$/credit). But ideal would be a way to regulate this. -
OK, so these are currently the subscription plans:
- Regular membership ($4.95/month)
- Prepub access
- 0 credits per month
- Additional credits ($7)
- Premium membership ($4.95 + $6 = $10.95/month)
- Prepub access
- 1 credit per month (basically you pay for regular plus "forced" to buy one credit)
- Additional credits ($6)
How about this option for discussion? I just kind of threw this idea together on the fly.
- The I hate prepubs (name not finalized) membership ($8.95)
- Available in 3-, 6-, and 12-month plans, no monthly
- Switching to a different plan still requires you to ride out the remainder of your paid e-book membership first
- Not sure if these stipulations are necessary, either the no monthly plan or the early cancel lock
- No prepub access
- Which means no access to catchup months
- 1 credit per month
- Additional credits ($7)
- Available in 3-, 6-, and 12-month plans, no monthly
In other words, prepub access is "worth" $3/mo. This new option would earn JNC a little bit each month, and readers have the option to skip prepubs but still "must" buy a credit each month.
Benefits for this type of subscription plan:
- Support JNC with a subscription
- Don't pay for a product you don't want (i.e. prepubs)
- Priced in a way that still encourages Premium membership as a better package deal
Thoughts? I think JNC has already stated that they're fine with people bulk purchasing credits via one-month Premium, so I left that alone as the "best" option and just brainstormed a viable "credit-only subscription" instead.
Whoever said nothing's impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
- Regular membership ($4.95/month)
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@myskaros
This is what I'm talking about. The likely price would be something like you said and it will be cheaper to buy 1 or 2 books a month with the I hate prepubs (name not finalized) Subscription. But if your buying 3 or more books the current Premium Member Subscription is still the best and the cheapest.Currently members would only buy 1 or 2 books a month since there are still a few titles here but when the time come when 5 or more volumes are released a month the I hate prepubs (name not finalized) Subscription would be more expensive.
To simplify my point it would be like this:
- Premium Membership Subscription = Bulk Buying
- I hate prepubs (name not finalized) Subscription = Single Buying.
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I love that you just copied the entirety of my temporary title into your post :)
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@myskaros
Cuz I just loved how straight forward the name that you gave it.Edit: Plus calling it Semi-Premium is the normal thing to call it which sounds boring. I call it Semi- because a true Premium should have all the capabilities of the others and has more benefits.
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@coneone i think I'll just have to apply this method too then.
It just feels like I'm missing out on something great without those premium contents. -
Prepubs membership (basic membership as it is)
eBook membership (new category)
Premium membership (both lower levels combined, current premium)
Dunno how it'd work financially to split them like that or what the price points should be, but I think that's a pretty clear naming scheme rather than semi-premium. As an Easter egg have 'I hate Prepubs' hidden somewhere, lol
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@myskaros
Yeah, the I hate prepubs (name not finalized) membership sounds like a reasonable plan, just two suggestions:- the "more months" plans (6 and 12) should be slightly cheaper than the $8.95 (like the yearly current memberships), otherwise they'd be pretty pointless
- It should be possible to upgrade to premium membership by paying a prorated amount similar to upgrading from the current membership to premium membership, in case you get hungry for prepubs later like @LegitPancake and @paulnamida and then find yourself locked on I hate prepubs (name not finalized) membership for many more month.
@BartzBB
You make a good point mentioning the current monthly releases of premium ebooks. I think the amount of available premium ebooks and the monthly releases will have an impact on the I hate prepubs (name not finalized) membership. If there are only "a few" available, premium credits hold less value. With the hopefully increasing numbers in the future it will look more attractive to users.
And yes, I mostly like the premium ebooks because they come without DRM too and additional bonus material is always welcome of course. ;-) -
@pegasolo Sure. Mostly was just to have a concrete idea to discuss instead of talking in theoreticals and people getting confused about what was actually desired. Numbers and details would obviously be adjusted if this were going to be a real thing.
BTW, the yearly Premium cost is $10/mo, so even if the I hate prepubs (笑) doesn't get a discount, it would still be cheaper. Of course, if you want to give it a discount, by all means, but, again, these aren't real numbers, it's just for clarity of discussion.
Personally, I have the opposite preference, I don't really want e-books but give me all the prepubs, so I'll just be content with my regular membership over here :popcorn:
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@Pegasolo
With the current amount of series right now I just buy Rokujouma every month and occasionally buy books from Grimgar, Arifureta, and Realist Hero which I finally caught up to the latest release of both Arifureta and Realist Hero. Next time I buy in bulk it would only be Rokujouma and Grimgar unless there's an update for the other 2. I'm also thinking on buying Paladin but I'll have to wait until JNC starts updating again on January.Even if the only bonus contents are just textless illustrations it's still okay with me because they're DRM-Free. I just don't like using the e-Readers that are required by DRMed e-Books and also the format of how the text and images looked like in the e-Book itself so I prefer just extracting the text and images and creating one myself and using my own preferred reader to read them. It's something I bought with my own money so I should have the freedom to use it however I want rather than being restricted to read them only on certain apps with their not so good format.
