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Rahul Balaggan

@phalanx

Textless Color Illustrations

Phalanx

@RahulBalaggan Thanks.

Urtag

Does v18 of smartphone have no bonus content?

Rahul Balaggan

@urtag

Hello the bonus content is pending and will be updated at a later date.

@myskaros said in Smartphone Vol. 18:

Hi folks, just a forewarning that the premium EPUB for Smartphone currently does not have any bonuses. We will be checking for short stories, but due to staggered holiday schedules both at JNC and in Japan, it may be some time before we get them. I will update this topic as soon as there are updates to the EPUB. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Keep an eye on the V18 discussion thread for news.

Urtag

@rahul-balaggan thanks must have missed out usually stop reading the discussion thread when the vol is finished

hiroto

Ascendance of a Bookworm

Part 1 Volumes 1-3: Textless Color Insert Pinups
Part 2 Volume 1: Textless Color Insert Pinups

I'm kindle e-book buyer and do not buy premium e-books. So I never payed attention to this, but do not recollect anybody commenting on those.

What are they? In the kindle e-book, there are 3 color pictures included:

cover
textless color pinup
textless cover picture

It is not one of those? Where kind of picture are they? (Of course, you shouldn't post it here. Please just describe.)

Rahul Balaggan

@hiroto

It is just higher resolution version of the Cover (no text) and the color insert.

hiroto

@rahul-balaggan said in Premium E-Book Bonus Contents List!:

@hiroto

It is just higher resolution version of the Cover (no text) and the color insert.

If you didn't tell me, I didn't notice that those pictures are so blurry.

alt text

P1V1 pinup.

Rahul Balaggan

@hiroto It really is, as someone who owns both Kindle & Premium editions, let me tell you it is such a shocking difference when you compare them side by side on separate iPads.

It is a major disappointment how much amazon compresses those images.

saskir

So I assume after reading @Rahul-Balaggan comment that there will also be a later release with bonus content for Der Werwolf? Or am I assuming wrong?

EDIT
Ok I should have read earlier the thread about this volume. So the letter is the Bonus content.

Don't tell me it got also included in the Nook/Amazon Version?

Rahul Balaggan

@saskir

No, there was a bit of a mix up, the premium short story for Jinrou V6 accidentally wound up in the prepub, so to be fair they made that story available for the English e-book on all platforms.

@myskaros said in Der Werwolf Vol. 6 Discussion:

Hi folks!

Just a heads up, the "final letter from Airia" was actually technically bonus material that we missed in the prepub materials. Thus, it will be present in all versions, and there won't be any premium content for this volume. Sorry! :(

saskir

@rahul-balaggan Yeah read it while you answered. Should have checked beforehand. Just assumed that it is the same as with Smartphone.

Serah

For reasons the edited line "The Underdog of the Eight Greater Tribes" in the first topic does not appear formatted correctly. Anyone else seeing the issue?

Rahul Balaggan

@serah

Yes, I out a space after the “ ** ”, it needs to be connected to make it Bold.

It has been corrected.

Serah

@rahul-balaggan ah. I was already afraid the forums engine is failing on my side for no reasons. I did not see any typo either - so must be have been something very easy to miss.

Silver Sugar Duchess

I really would like to know, what the extra content(s) for the first volume of Tearmoon Empire would be?
A silly wish of mine would be outfit sketches for Mia.xD Her main dress is just so incredible cute and pretty!!! Character sketches or extra illustrations would be awesome too! But I would be already happy, if there would be bonus stories included.^^

Rahul Balaggan

@clarabelle
Typically we don’t find out bonus content info till after the premium edition becomes available.

Within 24 hours of the premium edition becoming available the list here on the first page will be updated and I will post within the tearmoon discussion thread.

(I say 24 hours but it usually when I wake up as they release premium editions when I am asleep)

Silver Sugar Duchess

@rahul-balaggan Wasn‘t there a case, where we could vote for what extras we could get in some novel?

Rahul Balaggan

@clarabelle

There has never been an official J-Novel Club voting system for what specific premium content a specific series (or any series for that matter) will or will not receive.

In the past users have made polls where other users could indicate what premium content they enjoy seeing in premium editions, perhaps you are thinking of those?

At the end of it the premium content in the premium editions will depend on a few factors:

were there any Bonus Short Stories written for the series? (In Japan)
were there any bonus illustrations for this series? (In Japan)
Would this book require a glossary due to all the unique key terms?
should we have our translation team do a Q&A?

Also for the Bonus material made for the series in Japan, it also becomes will we be able to license that bonus content to distribute here.

And so on.

Serah

The conversation between you two - namely @Clarabelle and @Rahul-Balaggan - is quite interesting. I would be inclined to make a new topic if it was not just for today.

While on the one hand, that JNC might include the community and ask them beforehand what they would like is unlikely to happen, yet some super interesting incentive for being a premium member as stated in my opinion thread.

On the other hand the prospect of bonus contents - it sounds weird that JNC rather say nothing instead of telling us more, about what the Japanese version have and do not have. Like @Rahul-Balaggan said - it depends on factors like whether the original publications have those kind of stuff, or the stuff is commissioned afterwards as an extra. Yet that is already a good point - if JNC already knows there is such stuff - why not sharing the knowledge and prospects beforehand without making promises?

The insight of how the community perceive and share their interest for possible bonus content gives an extra free leverage for future negotiations with the mentioned original publisher party~

The other topic, which is soon inaccessible for me, also mentions somewhat about little knowledge of the staff created by JNC. Making my feedback for previews and such more important - that put aside - I checked said content and I was honestly unsatisfied by JNC produced content like Q&A, Editor's Column and Glossaries - especially if you compare them to bonus short stories. The JNC produced content feels so... bland and uninteresting, with little to no passion (sorry dear editors, I know you tried your best - but the columns I read so far sound all like "I have been asked to do this, but I truly do not know what the readers would enjoy to get out of this little text of mine").

Yeah, I guess you have there plenty to keep interesting talks with the forums going. 😉

@Clarabelle I already have been looking for fanart - yet unlike anime and manga stuff there is always little to none fanart to be found - at least with Western sources. And it is harder to commission such art - hence finding first an artist who know the story and would paint an artwork for fair price...