Make-up for no catch-up in December and January?
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I'm hoping they update catch-up soon, but I appreciated it staying up so I could run through Daimao.
Maybe they could do an "every series is on catch-up" month soon to placate any perturbed customers?
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How long has this place existed? When's the next yearly anniversary?
I remember I joined right around the 1yr anniversary to binge Grimgar & I think all the other launch titles were unlocked too (wasn't that the first catch up month?)
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@smashman42 I believe the anniversary is in the fall.
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Another idea, one that wouldn't cost JNC anything directly:
Have a double catch up month in February with say 6 titles instead of 3.
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@harmlessdave I'm not against the idea, but that can mess things up too. Sam usually picks series that haven't had a catchup recently. If there are too many series on catchup in a single month, some people can miss a series they wanted to read and now it won't be eligible for a long time.
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I’ll admit the longer the catch-up titles lag draws out the more of a pain it becomes because there’s really no easy way to recompense the missing months as @myskaros said.
It’s not the end of the world or anything but I do think this recent move to the States emphasizes how JNovel Club has grown big enough that it’s hard for one person to handle it all, even if they’re near superhuman in their work ethic ala Sam.
I was happy to see a project coordinator check in here and Aimee also seems to do a great job handling additional work too and I suspect does more behind the scenes than we realize. I’m excited to JNC grow even more so as it goes along as I want them to be awesome and successful for decades to come.
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I think catch-up is only a way to shake things up during quiet months without new series or big updates, if he thinks that everyone will be busy with all the new series, he will save those catch-ups for later. And catch-up is not really a perk of having membership anw.
So it may come back next month, if there is nothing going to happen. -
@tgquan67 Well, that, and also moving back to the US, looking for a house to call his own, and finding an official office for JNC. Sam's pretty busy these days.
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@tgquan67 said in Make-up for no catch-up in December and January?:
I think catch-up is only a way to shake things up during quiet months without new series or big updates, if he thinks that everyone will be busy with all the new series, he will save those catch-ups for later. And catch-up is not really a perk of having membership anw.
So it may come back next month, if there is nothing going to happen.I'd consider catch-up really the biggest perk of membership with the release schedule of some titles. It just isn't really that big of a perk for premium members who might end up purchasing most of the books as premium titles.
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@sinnoaria From what i have seen on the website, I don't see it listed as any perk in regards to the membership when looking at what you get. It just seems to be a bonus that is there. (unless I've missed where it is mentioned)
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@timmaaah said in Make-up for no catch-up in December and January?:
@sinnoaria From what i have seen on the website, I don't see it listed as any perk in regards to the membership when looking at what you get. It just seems to be a bonus that is there. (unless I've missed where it is mentioned)
It technically is a bonus, but...
- Become a J-Novel Club Member and read the latest volumes as they are translated!
- Membership is $4.95 a month or $4.50 a month for an annual Membership.
- Discuss the latest chapters on a special Members Only forum!
- Weekly releases of ~40 pages a week per series, tons of series to be announced (link here)
- Read on the web or on our apps (link to iOS store, Android store)!
- Prepub releases available only until final ebook published, so become a member today!
Read the latest volumes (sort of a perk I guess, but if you are going to buy the premium ebook anyways...). Membership price, not really a perk. Discuss latest chapters, technically a perk, but not really something I'd normally pay money for (I mean, there is always other places to talk). Weekly releases, that is basically just part of 'Read the latest volumes'. Read on the web or on our apps is basically again part of 'read the latest volumes' and the app and web don't cover premium ebooks so not really much of a perk there. Prepub releases available only until final ebook published is not really a perk.
Basically, "Read the Latest Volumes" is really the only special perk. The extra forum is just a perk for people that like to discuss or proofread. Premium gets you an extra forum and a credit each month on top of membership plus a discount on credits?
So to me, the catch-up titles are really the biggest perk.
I think it benefits older users as well as newer users since it can give you a chance to brush up on anything that is forgotten. (Not everyone will remember the details of something they read months ago).
For people that are getting the premium ebooks anyways though, the real benefit of the membership is being able to help with fixing up typos and maybe interview bonuses.
Winning isn't really that fun if you want a challenge... Making others win, on the other hand...
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@timmaaah you didn’t miss anything, it’s isnt a part of the membership, it was a bonus that was offered for new users to catch up on old volumes.
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@sinnoaria said in Make-up for no catch-up in December and January?:
Basically, "Read the Latest Volumes" is really the only perk. Premium gets you an extra forum and a credit each month on top of membership plus a discount on credits?
Being able to read the latest volume is pretty much the entirety of the membership, regardless of a user being premium or just a normal member.
The only “perk” premium members get is the premium forum section, and they receive a $1 discount on all premium credit purchases.
Sorry but J-Novel Club does not publicly comment on any potential licensing decision or acquisitions.
J-Novel Club, Future Volume Release Schedule
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@rahul-balaggan said in Make-up for no catch-up in December and January?:
@sinnoaria said in Make-up for no catch-up in December and January?:
Basically, "Read the Latest Volumes" is really the only perk. Premium gets you an extra forum and a credit each month on top of membership plus a discount on credits?
Being able to read the latest volume is pretty much the entirety of the membership, regardless of a user being premium or just a normal member.
The only “perk” premium members get is the premium forum section, and they receive a $1 discount on all premium credit purchases.
I'll be honest... I'd rather just buy premium for a month, buy like 200 credits, and then buy all the books (I have 40 credits left here, but waiting on a few titles). I have to say that the newer potion novel is kind of a plus right now since I actually find the quality to be higher than I'm used to (on par with the premium ebooks I've bought so far), but most of the other titles just frustrate me to the point where I kind of gave up on trying to throw out proofreading type comments a while ago.
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I imagine that catch-up is designed as a perk but one that isn’t listed in the perks list because the list was written when the site was created and is way out of date. Rather like the faq list is out of date (it says “JNC won’t do physical but may in the future license books to other publishers but not yet”, however 7 Seas have licensed JNC books for over a year)
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There's little point to the usual membership without catch-ups so I'd say it's one of the biggest perks, actually. Even if it's not excessively listed as a membership perk on the site.
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@novurdim said in Make-up for no catch-up in December and January?:
There's little point to the usual membership without catch-ups so I'd say it's one of the biggest perks, actually. Even if it's not excessively listed as a membership perk on the site.
Yeah, I got the membership more because of the catchups, otherwise I would have stuck with single months.
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@novurdim said in Make-up for no catch-up in December and January?:
There's little point to the usual membership without catch-ups so I'd say it's one of the biggest perks, actually. Even if it's not excessively listed as a membership perk on the site.
It was a major part of my decision to get a membership. I only joined in September 2018 so there are a lot of series where I'm too late to be able to read the prepub for volume 1 to see if I want to buy the series. I can't stand to start reading a series with some later volume.
I'd be just as happy with a "permanent catch-up" where premium members can read the full volume one of every series every month, instead of the rotating every volume catch-up. For ones I like enough to keep reading, I'll still buy volume 1 for the bonus stories.
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@harmlessdave said in Make-up for no catch-up in December and January?:
I'd be just as happy with a "permanent catch-up" where premium members can read the full volume one of every series every month, instead of the rotating every volume catch-up. For ones I like enough to keep reading, I'll still buy volume 1 for the bonus stories.
2 words: Disney Vault.
Having content be only available for a certain amount of time has shown to work. Catch up is an incentive to become and stay a member.
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I always felt that the value of my membership WAS the pre-pubs. Yea, sometimes they are rough, but the serial nature of the releases kept me interested and I feel I get a ton of content for my $5. (for example: many titles come out with a 'part' per week and 8-10 'parts' per volume. So if I only 'follow' 2 series, I get the equivalent of a volume a month for $5.00, that's the 'break even point'. I follow many more than 2 and use my premium credits only for titles that seem to have lots of bonus content)
I thought of "catch up" as exactly that, an opportunity to read a title that maybe I hadn't started, or took a break from so that the next month I could have that title as one I followed again in the pre-pubs, I would've caught up with the pre-pub releases. It seems logical to me that catch-ups might be titles where sales are lagging in the back catalog and as a way to spur interest in soon to be released new volumes, it's marketing not a perk.
