The price of reading a novel varied according to the region and sales channels. On some free novel websites, you could read the novel without paying a fee. On other paid platforms, you had to pay a certain amount of a fee to read the entire novel. In addition, some novels were adapted into movies, TV series, comics, and other forms. These works usually had different copyright fees on different platforms, and the price would also vary according to the type of work and platform. Therefore, the specific price of reading a novel had to be calculated according to different sales channels, types of works, regions, and other factors.