The app stores take abut 30 to 35 percent i believe
Yup it does. Which is why it's always nice to pay on desktop but it doesn't really matter either way.
1. What you seem to be looking for is a proofreader
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
2. You're harming the industry when you offer low amounts
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.
3. Even if you don't get punished, stealing art is a shitty thing to do
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.
You're asking for a lot and offering to pay very little when you can apparently afford to pay much more. And you are paying much more, to people who don't really seem like they're worth the money.
We're not calling you out for lying. We're calling you out for breaking Tapas rules for a start - and for being predatory in what you're expecting in return for the renumeration offered.
False. Tapas' userbase is growing year on year.
Tencent is an investor but from what I can see, has no impact on those company's editorial policies, nor their pay or contracts. Being an investor is not the same as steering a site culture.
Yes there is a reason we're seeing them. They've been ethically licensed and translated by Tapas.
"This company is a major stakeholder to X site; therefore, you cannot criticize it!"
Everything is shielded from criticism in Jack Sherwin's world.
Im not saying that, everything has its plus and downs but you seem to be only looking at the downs. I have never said webnovel is the saint of webcomics, Are thier caluses worse then everyone esles. yes i woudl agree they are and this is mainly because they are chinese focused. and thier reply to that is it works in china.
the problem is for Webnovels. (other then Wattpad) Has the biggist audience. And it terms of paying audience Webnovel is far greater then any other Novel site.
WHat i said is the contract is not as bad as it seems because they take single clasues out of context. Like the fact that you have to write or meet a minum word count wich is not true.
There are around i would say 250 authors who are able to make a living off webnovel. So some people can make it work for them. But just cause it wasn;t a sucess for you, dosnet mean it ownt be for eeveryone.
If i had met you before sighning a contract with webnvoel and you had convinced me to not sighn i woudln;t be in the succfeull postion i am today.
I hope you understand that Blaire hawthorne