thanks for that scene's translation, one sadistic way of appearing that
Lol it is fun in a twisted way.
garakuta wrote: volume 1 - 3 sells at 100.000 copies. I don't know if this is good or bad. as for light novel we know the popular one sells at millions, the average ones still sells more at 2 millions. well maybe 100.000 is not bad? the price is 3 times of LN after all.
Since the price of the hard-covered novels of gates is around 3x of paperback light novels, I think it is pretty good to have around 33k sales per book. Convert it into light novel standard, it is equivalent to 100k sales per volume.
When you talk about certain light novels selling 2 million, you are talking about the whole series, not sales per book.
The few top dogs of the industry (Oreimo, DRRR, etc) may get around 150k sales per volume, but the majority can hardly reach even half of that.
Reaching 100k sales per volume (adjusted to LN standard) as a totally new author freshly from the web novel scene - I would say it is quite an achievement.
And here is an estimate of the royalty the author got for the first three books. Do note that royalty is calculated by the total number of books printed, not actual sales. Therefore the actual figure is likely to be higher.
JPY1700 x 100k x 10% = JPY 17,000,000 = USD 212,959
Btw JSDF has just developed another new toy for its soldiers. Awesome speed (max 60km/h), stability and manoeuvring for such a design. I still can't figure out how stability is achieved or how can it self-rotate without a tail propeller.
Imagine seeing them chasing around elves in the fantasy land
. They also mentioned that only 110k yen was spent to build the pilot model in the video, using parts available in
Akihabara...
Otaku soldiers are certainly no fantasy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... h7dPgzMgf0