Sol Press Discussion Thread
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@lighthawk96 You’re responding to a two month old comment.
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@LegitPancake
Lol! Yup! Guess I did. But give me a break. I had just woken up when I did that.😁😋But it got people commenting again so it's not all bad I guess.
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@LegitPancake - it's Sol Press, a two month wait is nothing ;)
They've stopped even mentioning 80,000 Gold in blog posts, so maybe we'll get volume 2 in 2021?
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Chivalry is finally on volume 4...yeh....but no printed editions yet of any volumes...booo
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@stardf29 said in I'll Never Set Foot in That House Again! Vol. 1 Discussion!:
The license announcements on Friday are going to be for new series; JNC doesn't really "announce" individual volume licenses for continuing series.
Sol Press really lowered the bar for what can be considered a “Light Novel Announcement”...
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:: shock ::
80,000 Gold volume 2 has an ebook release date! December 14, 2020. That's 2020 not 2021 or 20,200!
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@HarmlessDave wha-what?! I mean it's just hardly under the wire for this calendar year, but still! Between this and the reemergence of My Little Sister Can Read Kanji, we've had some serious Light Novel October surprises!
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What's that, 20 months later? Well done Sol...
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So glad they finally announced vol 5 of Chivalry of a Failed Knight is underway. I was beginning to think we weren’t going to get anything else from them in 2020.
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How is Sol Press still in business? There releases are so slow and community trust in them is so low I can't see them making much of a profit.
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@Eternal-Wanderer I'm guessing that much of their operation is somehow outsourced, or based on infrastructure that isn't theirs, which on one hand means they'll either have lacking quality control, or frequent delays, but on the other hand it means they can also operate at a much lower cost.
Probably not making a profit tho.
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One disappointing feature is the lack of clarity. Asked about a scheduled/bookmarked date for physical Radukai only got a vague answer of possibly November.... Maybe on Amazon to.
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@Eternal-Wanderer
Maybe they are staying afloat with just the the VNs that they are also releasing since I doubt they are releasing enough LNs yet to actually make a profit. -
@BartzBB said in Sol Press Discussion Thread:
@Eternal-Wanderer
Maybe they are staying afloat with just the the VNs that they are also releasing since I doubt they are releasing enough LNs yet to actually make a profit.They already killed the VN business. They're only releasing the ones they already had in development, and even some of those got canned cause the JP developers pulled them back.
The LNs and manga are what made money I think.
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@Terrence
Didn't know that.But if that's the case then I'm very impress that they are still alive. Still not impress with them as a publisher but still impress that they can still go afloat when so many people are losing or had already lost their trust on them.
Edit: I'm still not buying anything from them because I still feel that sooner or later they're gonna go bust and all their licenses would be in limbo.
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@BartzBB reminds of a comment I heard somewhere on the internet, "the reason they're called Sol Press is that the body withered away leaving only their soul"
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@Lily-Garden said in Sol Press Discussion Thread:
the reason they're called Sol Press is that
they leave their customers SOL
come on everyone - let's have a contest to come up with the funniest punchline!
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and I am aware that it is sad that Sol Press is now a joke.
a bunch of what they license are actually things I want to read... but they aren't getting any $$ from me until they get their act together...I am literally giving a net startup a chance (TenTai) first -
Biggest question for me since apart from J Novel, I tend to only buy e-novels on Amazon etc, what format does Sol Press do from their online store?
Is it PDF, Epub with DRM, any specific only readers etc?Author of Praetor's Blood.
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@custodes
Epub and no DRM, and no specific reader. But you are limited to a max of 10 downloads iirc. At least that has been the case for Detestable Demon Lord.
