Thread: 297 million Chinese read web novels in 2015 (think Wattpad but much bigger)
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Old 08-06-2016, 05:36 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by Ravensknight View Post
No. If they didn't read it without paying, they wouldn't read it all. So the earnings would still be ZERO. You'd just have even more wannabe writers that no one had ever heard of.
If China government crack down on piracy websites, some readers will stop reading because they don't want to pay. But some readers will now pay $0.01-$0.02 per chapter because they will still want to read online novels. And it is very cheap. About 1/10 of the price of a book in the USA.

Cracking down on websites is a Chinese government specialty. If they want to that is.

The top web author in China making $16.7 million a year in royalties means that there are a lot of readers who are willing to pay.

Though the paying readers are just a small fraction of that 297 millions.
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