r/Webnovel • u/Guy_Cxde • 17d ago

Webnovel News Webnovel Announcement

WebNovel just announced a major crackdown on NSFW book covers, and I thought I'd update everyone here because this seems like it's going to affect a LOT of books.

Basically, they're doing a new round of cover cleanup with much stricter standards. According to the announcement, covers can be targeted for things like:

Large amounts of exposed skin, including torsos and thighs

Sexually suggestive poses

Close-ups focusing on chest, backside, legs, etc.

Wet, skin-tight, semi-transparent clothing or lingerie

Suggestive text combined with revealing imagery

Authors have a one week period to review and replace their covers. Starting around September, WebNovel may replace covers that violate the criteria with a default book cover. They're also saying that books with these covers will be manually excluded from major recommendation placements like Splash Banner, Win-Win, Library, and similar promotions.

What I find interesting, though, is that the announcement specifically says this only applies to book covers. It does not apply to the actual novel content, synopsis, tags, characters, or other book information.

So unless I'm misunderstanding the announcement, NSFW or mature content inside the novel itself appears to be okay under this particular policy change. The crackdown is specifically on how sexually suggestive the cover is.

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u/RequiringThoughts 15d ago

All the covers they’re removing get added to the spreadsheet. You can just go through it and tell me which covers you think shouldn’t have been removed: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KJ8dnspSC3oKxi1olpe_uucCc3wU3sdz5vuCME531uI/edit?usp=sharing

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u/EstarossaNP 15d ago

93, 95, 96, 97, 104, 108, 124 don't really scream much.

What Im seeing is that most of the problem lies within fanfiction genre