The author has to pay for revising his own article to cause controversy. Jinjiang Literature City is now canceling the fee.
Previously paid for revision: "We hope that through certain restrictions, the author can reduce or merge some unnecessary revision times to ensure the smooth review."
Now cancel the charge: "Every modification will be re-audited, and the newly submitted audit request will be automatically ranked at the last side of the audit queue, which may affect the normal display."
Recently, in order to improve the audit efficiency, Jinjiang Literature City introduced the measures that authors need to pay for modifying their own articles, which caused a large number of authors’ dissatisfaction, and even some contracted authors complained to the industrial and commercial departments. Last night, the reporter of Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star learned from the signing author of Jinjiang Literature City that Jinjiang Literature City has taken off the previously controversial function of "the author needs Lunatone to modify his own article".
You have to pay to modify your own article author.
On the evening of July 29th, Yan Chaomu, the signing author of Jinjiang Literature City, said that in the new measures of Jinjiang Literature City, in order to reduce the repeated revision and preservation of articles and improve the efficiency of review, the author revised the chapters, and deducted 100 Lunatone for the first time, 200 Lunatone for the second time and 10 Jinjiang coins for the third time and later.
According to official website, a literary city in Jinjiang, Lunatone is a token of the platform, which can be used to purchase storage space (PC), download works, mark comments, extend the validity of gold cards and senior VIP cards, etc. You can also sign in through the App or share articles with other users to get the Lunatone. Jinjiang Coin is a virtual currency used in Jinjiang Literature City, which can be used to subscribe to VIP works chapters, monthly novels, and physical books of Jiong Mall, and the 1 yuan is 100 Jinjiang Coin. This also means that when the author of Jinjiang Literature City revises his chapters for the third time and later, the author needs to spend 0.1 yuan to revise his articles.
After the launch of this initiative, it caused a lot of questions in the author forum in Jinjiang.
Jinjiang Literature City: In order to ensure the smooth audit
On July 30th, Bing Xin @ Jinjiang iceheart, the stationmaster of Jinjiang Literature City, published "Notes on Temporary Restriction of the Number of Writing Revisions" in Weibo.
Bing Xin said that in the face of repeated tightening audits, more than 4 million articles accumulated by Jinjiang Literature City have become a huge and heavy burden on its way forward. In order to reduce the repeated revision and preservation of articles and improve the efficiency of review, "we hope that through certain restrictive measures, the author can reduce or merge some unnecessary revision times to ensure the smooth review."
In May this year, in the joint action of the "anti-pornography and illegal publications" departments in Beijing, Jinjiang Literature City was asked to shut down relevant columns and channels for allegedly spreading obscene and pornographic content in online works published. After the incident, Jinjiang Literature City issued a rectification statement through the official Weibo, saying that "with the joint help of relevant departments and readers, it will seriously carry out self-examination and self-correction, further improve the internal control system, check the content and ensure legal and compliant operation".
From 20: 00 on July 15th, Jinjiang Literature City stopped updating and business operations for 15 days. According to Bing Xin, in the 15 days after the station was closed, the whole company, including administrative and financial personnel, joined the audit team, and at the same time, a large number of part-time auditors were recruited.
Regarding the authors’ complaints, Bing Xin said, "We will gradually develop some ways to earn Lunatone, so that those who really need to practice writing can have Lunatone available. We will also develop some small functions to modify individual typos, regardless of the update and not re-audit, to reduce the small troubles when you edit the text. "
Infringe on the right to modify? Some authors complained to the industry and commerce.
Xiao Wei (pseudonym), the signing author of Jinjiang Literature City, told Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star journalist that some signing authors have complained to the Beijing Industrial and Commercial Department that Jinjiang Literature City’s move is suspected of infringing the author’s legitimate rights and interests and violating the provisions on the right to modify in the copyright law.
Xiao Wei also told the Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star journalist that the income obtained by the signing author through Jinjiang Literature City is generally divided into 50-50 with Jinjiang Literature City. Therefore, many signing authors think that 50% of the income of Jinjiang Literature City should include the expenses such as auditing, and now the author should not be charged for writing.
On July 30th, a reporter from Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star called "Beijing Jinjiang Original Network Technology Co., Ltd.", the operator of Jinjiang Literature City, and the other party said that the relevant issues needed to be explained by professional customer service. Subsequently, the reporter called the customer service number provided by him many times, but all of them were prompted as "the call was unsuccessful".
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According to public information, Jinjiang Literature City was founded in 2003, with more than 3.19 million online novels, more than 7,576 published novels, more than 250,000 copyrighted works and more than 1.76 million registered authors. As of June 2019, the number of registered users in Jinjiang Literature City has exceeded 34.08 million, and the average daily online time is 94.19 minutes.
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The offline author can modify the article at will with the paid modification function.
On the afternoon of July 31st, the reporter of Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star learned from the signing author of Jinjiang Literature City that Jinjiang Literature City had taken off the line the function that the controversial author needed Lunatone or Jinjiang currency to modify his article.
According to a signing author of Jinjiang Literature City, she received the news from the station of Jinjiang Literature City at 11: 46 on July 31. Yesterday afternoon, she showed the news to the Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star journalist. Jinjiang Literature City said in the news: "According to your opinions, we have taken the function of Lunatone off the line on July 30, 2019, and the restriction on modifying articles has been lifted. You can modify articles at will. However, since every modification needs to be re-audited, the newly submitted audit request will be automatically ranked at the last side of the audit queue, which may affect the normal display. Due to the huge number of texts to be reviewed, the review may be slow, please wait patiently. "
(Chengdu Business Daily-Red Star Journalist Yang Peiwen)