@Perplexed said in Could J-Novel run Kickstarters for series over 5 years old?:

The advantage with something like a Kickstarter is they can make sure they don't lose money, as long as they budget for the cost of translating with the license cost as part of the goal. Then if it reaches it's goal they will have already covered the cost of doing it (with presumably some profit margin that would also included in the goal) and any books it sells after the Kickstarter will just be profit as because J-Novel club does digital first there will be no additional cost of printing more books (that said they could do a stretch goal for a physical edition but then they could just make that for the kickstarter backers only if they didn't want to print more after).

yea - as Geezer pointed out it won't work (you need permission/ the license to launch a campaign on kisckatarter or whatever--but it might work in reverse. If an author wanted to have one of their older works translated - they could use kickstarter to raise the funds and HIRE JNC (or some other group) to translate and then subsequently market the end product ...(the author still risks losing face if the funds aren't raised to hire a pro like Warnis )
Guerilla marketing (assuming the author OWNS the license) he/she could just 'look the other way' if a prominent fan translation site just so happens to post a chapter by chapter translation of a work ...see what interest there is, then go from there (that would be the cover story anyway. In reality, the author and translator would be collaborating. when (IF) enough hype gets generated - the author makes a statement that although they are flattered that so many fans are interested, licensing must go through proper outlets, "please support the kickstarter instead"

or

an author could enter a writing contest incognito, pen a work in English (or translated to English) in a setting that is famous from a series that is old (or a side story or something - close enough that the lampshade hanging is obvious) to gauge interest and if it's a 'hit' approach JNC to translate/market something from the back catalog

@Christian-Bartlett-7mpfcnb I feel like the monthly catch-ups are always announced on the first of the month unless it is a holiday or weekend. Then it will fall on the next regular business day. It also is normally announced late in the day (depending on your timezone), which can provide some people with an extra couple hours to finish catching up.

As for what books are on catch-up, they usually play that close to the vest, likely in part to licensing agreements. But the selected series, when not entirely "random", seem to be associated with the start of a new volume being translated, especially if it has been on hiatus, or to take advantage of a new anime season.

This would be an absolutely great feature to add.

@private_meta said in Wrong ebook title on Ascendance of a Bookworm: Hannelore's Fifth Year at the Royal Academy:

The title of the ebook should be
Ascendance of a Bookworm: Hannelore's Fifth Year at the Royal Academy Volume 1

but it is

Ascendance of a Bookworm: Short Story Collection Volume 2

Yeah, that’s what I’m seeing when I open the download in the iOS Books app on my iPad Pro. The downloaded file has the right name, but Books sees it otherwise.

Fortunately, I didn’t have any overwrite issues.

I second that. I would love a RSS feed for published, ready to buy ebooks of series I follow.
If possible I would also like a feed of all purshasable ebooks.

Another potential way to fix it would be to make the tag search be exact match instead of substring (when you click on a tag anyway)

@Elizabeth-Chapman-817w3b1 there are indeed 9 volumes on that page. 3 volumes of Crest of the Stars, and then the numbering resets for 6 volumes of Banner of the Stars.

@Yosh1209 for errors in already published volumes, send your reports to support@j-novel.club .

Assuming the arrangements haven't changed, the thread at https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/3593/voting-with-your-wallet-how-to-support-series-you-love from 2020 should provide you with relevant insights into how a portion of your subscription fee goes towards pre-pub royalties.

Hello,

Everything should now be correct. Thank you for pointing it out.

I'd like to see it generally easier to access covers, although only in such a way as to minimise accidental spoilers for series on later volumes.

@Rahul-Balaggan said in What does the right-arrow symbol mean?:

It means that the topic was originally posted in a different forum category and then moved to the current forum category.

Thanks! Mystery solved, I can finally rest easy :)