Do you want to try read an Chinese Novels
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@LegitPancake This isn't entirely correct. Take for example the novels Legend of the Sun Knight, 1/2 Prince and Lord of the Mysteries -The Most High-. All three novels are sold in volumes. So there are some chinese (in this case taiwanese) novels that would be available for making money out of them.
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How can we read them ? I mean are they available in English too?
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@davidd0065 Wuxiaworld sells ebooks of their works. They are currently releasing Korean novels (like Second Coming of Gluttony) as well.
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@saskir said in Do you want to try read an Chinese Novels
"Release that Witch"
Guy gets reincarnated into the body of a prince in the middle of the fight for the throne. Problem is he is in the sticks as the previous owner of his body was just nothing more as a frivolous idiot. There he mets a witch in particular which he saves from execution and furthermore he develops his land together with her and a even further increasing number of witches. Trying to chatter the prejudice about them and using their abilities to further his goal. Oh and the biggest enemy is the church (and his brothers).Release That Witch is truly great, one of my all time favourites. The translation is a bit rough but still readable, though getting hold of it legally is a costly pain which I ... Uh... Totally did really honest...
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@lotteliese said in Do you want to try read an Chinese Novels:
Wuxiaworld
I am not familiar with the business side of Chinese LN, is Wuxiaworld a publisher? fan translations? (is it 'Legit"? or a sailor on the high seas?)
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@jon-mitchell wuxiaworlds kinda like Crunchyroll. They were translating illicitly, but now most if not all of their content is licenced I believe
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@shipteaser This is correct. They have legitimate licensing agreements with Chinese and Korean publishers. Now if only they would sell their ebooks directly instead of on Amazon...
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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.
