I'm also wondering about chapter costs. I noticed that My Vampire System costs 8 coins per chapter to unlock and on Tapas the lowest I've seen was around 40 ink for a very short chapter while many are 100+ per chapter. Not sure how they translate into real money. How are the costs decided?
Can't say as I don't know the coin conversion. I believe 1350 ink is about $1 on Tapas though give or take, which then is divided 50-50 if it's through desktop, or if it's through the app then the app store takes it's cut and the rest is divided 50-50. Novels here are really cheap actually, but it's the sheer numbers that rack up the dough.
Yup it does. Which is why it's always nice to pay on desktop but it doesn't really matter either way.
Proofreader rates are lower than editorial ones in my experience, although that may not hold true for everyone but the reality is 160 - 200 dollars to proofread is waaay too little for the amount of words you claim to be putting out per month
Proofreading isn't just clicking on the red in your work, it's actually correcting your grammar, spelling and ensuring your words flow after the corrections are done
You can say this but at the end of the day someone of your size offering such a low amount will cause other people smaller than you to think they can get away with offering even less. Proofreaders deserve to be paid appropriately, don't offer exploitative rates especially now in the middle of a pandemic while people are worried about where their next paycheck might be coming from.
Like you're right you probably won't get caught for stealing Kawacy's art but it is still a shit thing to do and ethically wrong if nothing else. Atlus owns the joker design and probably won't care about some 2 bit writer on an obscure chinese website, but Kawacy who has ownership rights over the art piece itself might care and it's their right to do something about it, especially since you've exposed you knew it wasn't yours and took it because you thought you could get away with it on this very public and cached forum. Not the best legal move ngl.
This isn't really going to change you or anything, I only expect you to respond with "You misunderstand" if you even respond at all but it's for everyone else who reads this to know that you kinda suck for doing things this way. That's all, peace out
[EDIT for his later response]
Kawacy not doing anything doesn't mean jack, he has legal right over the piece itself although not the character.
The job you described is a proofreader and you can't really have one and not the others
Your rate for professionals is irrlevant. Standard rates are for all individuals doing a job be they pro's or not. You're hiring them and should pay them standard rate, your weird designation of professional and non-professional is just you trying to find a way to skirt around the issue of paying them too little. I did read the thread you arrogant individual
So it seems you didn;t read this thread at all.
1 i orginally put proofreader but i don;t even want them to do that. Hence why its less. I odn;t want them to do grammer i don't want them to make sure the words flow. i just want corrections.
2: I pay the standard rates for professinals, in a way i was just asking if thier was any people who would liek to voluinteir and i could give them something a little on the side. Im not expecting anyone to go out of the way.
3: Kawacy did reply, but said if it was up to him he was fine with it, but it would be down to Atlus anyway.
This place ahs now become so toxix. seriously i dont understand what any of you are trying to achieve. I have been in the webcomic and webnvoel industry for so long and have paid litreally i think about 100,000 pounds to auhtors through patreons, through ink donations and through commsions and such.
Im sure some of you have even seen me post sevreal times on here, but its not the readers who use the platform that make it toxic, its the auhtors. No one wonder so many people have left this platform. and i shall be doing the same.
You didn't like being critiqued for your own exploitative practices and for the fact that you're breaking the law by using copyrighted images. Literally, that's not toxic. That's defending our community from people using it to exploit young or inexperienced members who don't know better.
You may have originally put proofreader. I can give you the benefit of the doubt for that but
Your original post used the word edited. Some forum regulars can edit titles so they may have seen that and changed it to editor because it seems like that's what you wanted.
Regardless, the rate you're offering is still extremely low for a proofreader.
Im not plying the vitim its true how toxic this comunity has become, when I litreally just was asking for a service. Everything is there in balck and white. Im not lying, i have been open about everything im requesting form the get to go.
Many of my friends have less this paltform because of this and its why Tapas has seen a decline year after year.
I didn;t even go into the fact that the companny you all hate so much. Is one of the major shareholders in Tapas, Wattpad and nearly everyother litreally platform.
There is a reaosn why you are seeing Qidan, orginal webnovel comics start to appear on Tapas. Such as Release that wicth. Legend of the four beasts and so on.
