Do you want to try read an Chinese Novels
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@lotteliese said in Do you want to try read an Chinese Novels:
@davidd0065 Wuxiaworld sells ebooks of their works. They are currently releasing Korean novels (like Second Coming of Gluttony) as well.
so I took a look a Wuxiaworld, seems straightforward to buy ebooks - I looked at 2nd Coming it's $35 US dollars! so, yea... I don't know how long these are compared to a JNC LN but at more than triple the cost, is that an Omnibus or just crazy long? I don't usually pay $35 for a hardcover - unless it's a special edition or bound in leather or something.
I'm all in favor of good stories available on JNC regardless of country of origin (Sinclair and a few other recent titles are German in origin, no?) my expectation is that EPub's should cost no more than $10-12 US and ideally in the $7-10 US range - but that is based on a typical LN/USA paperback length of 50,000-100,000 words (once translated to English which is usually in the 120-200 page range of a mass-market paperback "pocketbook' or bunko) I'd expect a 'massive tome' of 250K words to cost more
- an outlier example - the 'cover' price of a mass market paperback of a Game of Thrones, is $14.95, but it's about 300,000 words - or almost 1000 pages long!
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@jon-mitchell That $35 price is for the cost of the entire series I think. I read SCOG back when it was still translating, so such an option didn't exist. Amazon is asking $5 per volume, with 3 currently listed. According to another post on wuxiaworld, there will be at least 5 volumes.
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@georgemto said in Do you want to try read an Chinese Novels:
@jon-mitchell That $35 price is for the cost of the entire series I think. I read SCOG back when it was still translating, so such an option didn't exist. Amazon is asking $5 per volume, with 3 currently listed. According to another post on wuxiaworld, there will be at least 5 volumes.
Which then would make more sense to buy them individually. 5 books for 5 each makes 25. So 35 would be a markup.
