In fact, there are many factors that affect the subscription ratio.
The most important thing is of course the quality of the book. If the quality is not good, it will naturally not have many subscribers when it is put on the shelves. After all, subscriptions cost money.
As for the poor quality, why does it have a good number of collectors?
This problem can probably be divided into several situations.
One situation is that the type of this book is just on the edge of the wind. An Internet tycoon once said this: When the wind blows, even a pig can take off if it sits on the wind.
This phenomenon has always existed in the online writing industry.
There are always some lucky people every year. The writing may be poor, the plot may be crappy, or there may be various other problems, but the data of their new books rise much faster than other types of works.
This is one of the great benefits of being on the trend and hitting hot topics.
However, the collection ratio of this type of work when it is put on the shelves is generally not optimistic. After all, in the free new book issue, there may be many readers who like the story of this theme and take a look to pass the time.
, but when it comes time to pay to read, many of them turn around and leave.
The reason?
It’s just that I feel that works of this quality are not worth spending money to see.
another situation……
It is also quite common. This situation is that the title, introduction, and even the cover of the book may be quite pleasing, and the beginning of the work may even be good, but before it is put on the shelves, a certain poisonous plot is written. This kind of plot
Most readers will be addicted to it as soon as they read it, so don’t expect them to spend money to subscribe to your book when it is on the shelves.
The third situation...is similar to the second one.
But it's a little different.
The second is that a certain poisonous point in the plot kills off a large number of readers, but there may not be a big problem with the overall plot.
For example, in the early stages of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", the little dragon girl was ridden by the dragon knight Yin Zhiping.
In terms of the plot, can you say that this situation is unreasonable?
The plot makes sense, but this kind of plot is undoubtedly a poisonous point for most readers. Its lethality is comparable to that of Broken Heart Powder and He Ding Hong, and it will definitely have a critical impact on the innocent hearts of countless book fans.
When Master Jin wrote such a plot, it aroused strong backlash from countless book fans. It is said that the windows in his house were smashed by angry book fans, let alone ordinary Internet writers?
The third situation, similar to the second point, is that it killed a lot of fans before it was put on the shelves, but the way it killed the fans was not the poison, but the collapse of the plot, the collapse of the characters, or the collapse of the power system.
of collapse, etc.
Anyway, in short, the free new book issue is actually a great test for an online writer who is interested in living off manuscript fees.
Under normal circumstances, ten ordinary authors may be wiped out after the new book issue is over, but they will all fail the test of the new book issue.
The sale on the shelves is just a result after the free new book period ends. It is like a long-distance runner who goes on the track. After the starting gun sounds, he and other athletes run three thousand meters or even ten thousand meters.
During the race, no matter how much sweat the athlete sweated, how much hardship he suffered, how many mistakes he made, the limitations of his own strength, etc., he will get a result when he reaches the finish line.
The achievement itself seems to belong only to the moment when you cross the finish line.
In reality?
The athlete's performance depends on everything he does during the race.
Maybe this athlete performed very well in all aspects in this competition and made only one mistake, and then he may be ranked last in this competition.
The new book issue of an online article is so cruel. No matter how many shining points your book has when the new issue is free, or how many readers you attract to collect your book, as long as you make a mistake before putting it on the shelf, you will not be able to put it on the shelf.
Then your subscription ratio will change a little.
The more mistakes you make, the worse your subscription ratio will be when you put it on the shelves.
If you make a well-known mistake before it is put on the shelves, then sorry, no matter how cool you write in the plot before it is put on the shelves, your subscription ratio when it is put on the shelves will be too ugly to be seen.
The worst author Sun Quan had ever seen was a level 5 author he knew. When a new book was put on the shelves, the number of first-order subscribers was exactly 5.
You read that right!
Level 5 author, first order 5.
There are no omissions in the numbers here.
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As for Sun Quan's understanding of the impact of the update speed of new book issues on the collection ratio... this aspect actually came to him suddenly after more than ten years of writing before his rebirth.
It can be said that before that, he had suffered many losses in this regard without realizing it.
And what he realized...
It is the impact of update speed on the survival of readers who have collected it.
This sounds hard to understand. If you take it literally, it seems to be unfriendly to "readers". In fact, in jargon, it is the impact of the update speed on the number of people who follow it 24 hours a day.
This concept has not been mentioned by anyone for many years after the birth of online literature.
It was not until the technological advancement of websites that some websites began to use emerging big data technology to observe the number of views of a book in each time period, or even in each chapter, that this concept gradually became known to some online authors.
It is said that many websites later began to assign recommendation slots to each new book based on this data. Works with a large number of readers within 24 hours will be assigned recommended slots, and works with a small number of readers within 24 hours will be assigned recommended slots.
The results of being assigned are mediocre, or the results are very poor, or the recommended positions are not assigned at all.
The concept of 24-hour readership, as the name suggests, is the number of people who read the latest chapter of a new book within 24 hours every day.
This is very difficult to fake.
Authors can spend money to increase clicks, recommendation votes, collections, and even other data for their works, but to increase the number of readers in 24 hours? This is a very difficult job. Anyway, before Sun Quan was reborn, he had not
I have heard of someone who has the ability to read a book 24 hours a day.
Especially the free new book issue.
Reading this thing 24 hours a day is also affected by many factors.
A new book... any small flaw in the new book issue will be quickly and intuitively reflected in the number of people reading it within 24 hours.
Maybe there was a small flaw in your last chapter, and when the next chapter is updated, the number of readers will drop directly.
Sun Quan believes that the update speed of new book issues has a great impact on the number of people who follow it 24 hours a day.
It’s hard to imagine how many readers of a new book with a small number of words would be willing to follow your book every day if you only update one chapter every day or even discontinue it during the new book period.
We will not talk about the impact of other aspects on the subscription ratio here, but only talk about the impact of the update speed of new book issues on the subscription ratio.
Give me an example!
For example, if you open a new book, the quality is good, and you update one or two chapters every day, some readers will put your book on the bookshelf, which will increase the number of collectors of your book.
But because your new book issue updates are unstable, and even occasionally interrupted, the update speed is not fast even when you are constantly updating.
Of the readers who have collected your book, 20%, 30%, or even more may stop pursuing your book every day.
But because I am still somewhat interested in your book, I still put your book on the bookshelf.
This will give you an illusion.
——The number of collectors you see on the author's backend is still growing every day, and you can't see the number of collectors declining at all.
But when your new book finally finishes the free new book issue and is put on the shelves, those book fans who still have your book on their bookshelf but have stopped reading it may not give it to you at all.
Contribute a subscription.
Sun Quan defined this kind of number of collectors as "dead collection".
Just like the zombie fan on the scarf, it looks like there is such a person, but in fact this person has stopped paying attention to you. No matter how you jump around, people will never glance at you again.
But what if you think about it the other way around?
If your new book issue is updated very quickly, with three, four, or even more chapters updated every day, then there will be very few readers who follow your book every day.
If this situation continues until your new book is on the shelves, the number of people who will pay you to subscribe will naturally be much higher.
Because the number of people who have collected your book is mostly "living collections" and very few are "dead collections".
And this is the impact of update speed on subscription ratio.
The reason for this is not difficult to understand.
Sun Quan realized it before he was reborn, but he didn't do this in the new book issue for the first three books he wrote after his rebirth. Why?
Was it because he had not been single long enough at that time and his hand speed was not fast enough?
The answer is naturally no.
Most current readers of Qidian know that Xianyu's Lao Sun has long been a typical master of explosives, and he is very fast.
The reason why he didn't do that in the first three books was just...to weigh the pros and cons.
Although the rapid update of new book issues has great benefits for the collection ratio when they are put on the shelves, the disadvantages of doing so are also obvious.
——It will greatly shorten the free time before a new book is put on the shelves.
If the new book issue is updated quickly, your word count may be much higher than that of the works released in the same period before it is put on the shelves, but your free days are much shorter than those of the works put on the shelves in the same period.
The direct consequence is that the new issue of this book does not have enough exposure and does not attract enough readers. Then when it is put on the shelves, the collection ratio of this book may be quite high, but because the total number of collectors when you put it on the shelves is very high.
It is limited, so no matter how high your subscription ratio is, the number of final subscribers will be very limited.
Therefore, there have never been many authors who dare to update quickly in new book issues.
Most authors are unable to do so, but the few authors who can update new book issues quickly are aware of the serious side effects of updating new book issues too quickly, and deliberately control the amount of updates they make.
Sun Quan plans to speed up the update of the new book "Dead Man's Last Wish" because he is confident that even if the number of free days for this book is greatly shortened, it will not have a great impact on the first order number of his book on the shelves.
Speeding up updates and increasing the subscription ratio is what he wants.