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Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by DannyWalker: 10:42am On Jul 21, 2022
kayo80:


Okay. Thanks for the response.
speak to the lady, she had stated she made over 300k there, she should know better.

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Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by kayo80(m): 10:48am On Jul 21, 2022
DannyWalker:
speak to the lady, she had stated she made over 300k there, she should know better.

Honestly, I really don't believe that. It looked more like she wanted people to click her link.
Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by Unseen(m): 9:24pm On Jul 21, 2022
DannyWalker:
so You Expect Me To Write A Book for Two, three Years And Put It For Free Online. Do You Know What It Means To Write An 80k words Novel?

Instead Of You To Think Of How To Help Nigerian writers Make Money, you Want To Make Them Post Books For Free. Abeg Keep Your Idea

Even the ones you didn't put up for free, someone will buy and still circulate it for free.

It's usually advisable to start free, then charge later. The reason most people don't sell in Okada books is because nobody knows them.

People hardly buy unknown books from unknown authors
Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by Mirriamvic(f): 2:52am On Jul 23, 2022
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Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by Mirriamvic(f): 2:56am On Jul 23, 2022
kayo80:


Honestly, I really don't believe that. It looked more like she wanted people to click her link.

Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by Mirriamvic(f): 3:06am On Jul 23, 2022
kayo80:


Honestly, I really don't believe that. It looked more like she wanted people to click her link.
Goodnovel AI promotes our books.
Why do I need your click? The chapters are locked too and people unlock the chapters with $$. We make money when they unlock chapters. Do you think ordinary link click will fetch me $$?

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Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by Mirriamvic(f): 3:32am On Jul 23, 2022
DannyWalker:
I also publish on good novel. Can we chat on whatsapp
Wow
I have not been active on WhatsApp lately. Share your book link let me check it out.
Is your book exclusively signed?
Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by kayo80(m): 7:20am On Jul 23, 2022
Mirriamvic:

Goodnovel AI promotes our books.
Why do I need your click? The chapters are locked too and people unlock the chapters with $$. We make money when they unlock chapters. Do you think ordinary link click will fetch me $$?

My bad. It just sounded to good to be true. I'm sorry I doubted you.
Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by DannyWalker: 8:24am On Jul 23, 2022
Mirriamvic:
Wow
I have not been active on WhatsApp lately. Share your book link let me check it out.
Is your book exclusively signed?
I have been unable to get the exclusive contract. How do I get exclusive contract?
Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by DannyWalker: 8:25am On Jul 23, 2022
Mirriamvic:
Wow
I have not been active on WhatsApp lately. Share your book link let me check it out.
Is your book exclusively signed?
I just dropped the link in my signature
Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by DannyWalker: 8:27am On Jul 23, 2022
Mirriamvic:
Wow
I have not been active on WhatsApp lately. Share your book link let me check it out.
Is your book exclusively signed?
my aim is to get exclusive contract, how do I get it?
Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by Mirriamvic(f): 9:31am On Jul 23, 2022
DannyWalker:
my aim is to get exclusive contract, how do I get it?
I just read your book your use of English is powerful. You got what they need.
To sign exclusive contract with them, you need four things.
Click on my profile, send me an email.
I'm going to share two tools with you, one Idea and how to construct story outline. You just need to study the tools carefully, don't be in a hurry.
It is not a guarantee, but I have signed two exclusive contracts with iReader, one with Goodnovel. The four things I want to share with you helped me, so I believe it will help you too.

You need WPS to download one of the tools.
Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by DannyWalker: 10:02am On Jul 23, 2022
Mirriamvic:

I just read your book your use of English is powerful. You got what they need.
To sign exclusive contract with them, you need four things.
Click on my profile, send me an email.
I'm going to share two tools with you, one Idea and how to construct story outline. You just need to study the tools carefully, don't be in a hurry.
It is not a guarantee, but I have signed two exclusive contracts with iReader, one with Goodnovel. The four things I want to share with you helped me, so I believe it will help you too.

You need WPS to download one of the tools.
thanks A Lot For This. I Lost The Pass of The Email To This Account. Please Kindly Send Me An Email Here browndaniel210@gmail.com
Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by DannyWalker: 10:04am On Jul 23, 2022
Mirriamvic:

I just read your book your use of English is powerful. You got what they need.
To sign exclusive contract with them, you need four things.
Click on my profile, send me an email.
I'm going to share two tools with you, one Idea and how to construct story outline. You just need to study the tools carefully, don't be in a hurry.
It is not a guarantee, but I have signed two exclusive contracts with iReader, one with Goodnovel. The four things I want to share with you helped me, so I believe it will help you too.

You need WPS to download one of the tools.
or you can drop your email for me instead
Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by Mirriamvic(f): 5:56pm On Jul 23, 2022
DannyWalker:
or you can drop your email for me instead
I got your email a while ago and I replied. I'm going to resend it again.
Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by Alabo7978(m): 7:42pm On Jul 25, 2022
Mirriamvic:
Okada books is pure SCAM
I published a book with them, I did not make A dime.
I took the book to Goodnovel and made about 360,000 within 3months
I made about 300k with iReader within two months.

Click on my signature to check out one of books
Hello there.
I want to enquire something off you. please drop your mail address or number (if you're comfortable with it)
Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by Mirriamvic(f): 6:33am On Jul 26, 2022
Alabo7978:

Hello there.
I want to enquire something off you. please drop your mail address or number (if you're comfortable with it)
My email is on my profile.
Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by DannyWalker: 2:57pm On Oct 13, 2022
Mirriamvic:

I got your email a while ago and I replied. I'm going to resend it again.
hello mirria... You still earning from Goodnovel?

I am suppose to get a pay this month but I haven't received any thing till now even though their payment date is 10th of every month
Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by Mirriamvic(f): 4:13pm On Oct 27, 2022
DannyWalker:
hello mirria... You still earning from Goodnovel?

I am suppose to get a pay this month but I haven't received any thing till now even though their payment date is 10th of every month
Oh dear, I saw this now.
Have you been paid?
It doesn't exceed 25th of the month.
Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by DannyWalker: 4:55pm On Nov 07, 2022
Mirriamvic:

Oh dear, I saw this now.
Have you been paid?
It doesn't exceed 25th of the month.
yes I have thanks
Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by mirousmart: 7:53pm On Nov 07, 2022
You people should nt be surprise na even the founder of okadabooks was once an author at other bookselling site and he hardly get paid so that is the same thing he is doing to todays author.

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Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by complex6000: 12:44pm On Aug 22, 2023
Hello everyone I have seen all the comments on this okadabooks. I want to use this avenue to introduce my website called beecaps( a website where comics, novels, ebooks will be available for offline download and reading) soon so okadabooks will soon get a competitor. Also on the 10th of September will be opening a group chat on this website before it will be launched so chat me up via my WhatsApp no:09133567639 so that you can get to know more about this upcoming website beecap .
Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by AKANDAK: 4:04pm On Dec 03, 2023
*AFTER SLAUGHTERING OKADABOOKS, WILL OKECHUKWU OFILI SLAUGHTER WRITERS' CREATIVITY TOO?*

A brief introduction of Okadabooks which was just brutally slaughtered by *Okechukwu Ofili*: Okadabooks was a brainchild of Okechukwu Ofili. She came into existence in the year 2013.

Okadabooks allowed authors to self-publish & self-promote their books online without having to go through the challenges of traditional publishing platforms that had sent many writers to the depth and expiration of their creativity. The advent of Okadabook and other self-publishing platforms revived the purity of literary art by ensuring writers' independence.

When writers publish on Okadabooks, the deal is 70/30. Okadabooks take 30% of our earnings while they remit the 70% balance in our account. But here is the twist, Okadabooks won’t be paying us the 70% until we reach the #5,000 threshold (It used to be #10,000). I won’t be going deep into how hard it was for authors to reach this threshold before they get paid but you can read this Nairaland thread (https://www.nairaland.com/6037550/dont-fall-into-trap-okadabooks) written by one of the riders on Okadabooks who sustained an emotional injury while riding their bike with his helmet on.

For a business to thrive, promotion is pertinent. It is the responsibility of writers to promote their books on OkadaBooks while it is the sole responsibility of *_Okechukwu Ofili and his team_* to promote OkadaBooks. Unfortunately, we observed that Ofili and his team were doing poorly in performing their end of the bargain for our dear OkadaBooks. Maybe they did the best they could but evidently, their best was not enough.

For an organization whose operation is based online, getting your social media page verified for more visibility is the least any responsible management would do for an online publishing platform they care about. I dare you to check OkadaBooks X and Instagram page, go through their posts, and you will find yourself asking OkadaBooks, “Poor kid, how did you survive this long?”

She survived with the promotion made by individual authors whose books and funds are trapped in her account. Maybe the 30%(s) Ofili and his team deduct through Okadabooks is insufficient to sustain the business, maybe the withheld 70%(s) that did not meet the threshold is also insufficient to give Okadabooks a #6,000 verified badge on Twitter. Ofili and his team designed Okadabooks with policies that discourage authors from withdrawing their funds yet Okadabooks was starved and looked malnourished till the managing team decided to brutally murder her on November 30.

Maybe someday we will be able to prosecute parents for starving and slaughtering their brainchild, but not today. *Today, we seek to save the future of literary art by saving the freedom of the blazing writer’s spirit from the claws of Ofili and his team.*

Before the death of Okadabooks (May her soul rest in peace), they called on authors to request a payout for their funds on the platform. After the request was made, they replied to some of the authors that their payment would be made after Okadabooks compiled the payout requests on their desks. This is where we suspected foul play. Okadabooks gave a deadline for withdrawal requests, why aren’t they telling us the exact date that writers should expect their pay? “When we are done compiling the payout request list” is indefinite. It could be next week, next year, or the next ten years. So we asked how the payment will be made. We wanted to hear them give an exact date that writers should look forward to.

Two days before the company closure, we expressed our concerns on a WhatsApp group created by Okadabook to resolve writers' complaints. Even though the Okadabook admin saw our messages, they chose to ignore them until *November 30 when they started removing writers from the group chat.*

Despite all the calls and cries, Ofili and his team did not bat an eye like they heard the writers. *Ofili was busy posting about the Squid Game show he watched on his Facebook account.*

This is no longer about the money. The greatest tool of a writer is his mind, the moment he feels small, limited, and powerless within – the art he expresses will no longer be true. Ofili and his team already murdered their brainchild, Okadabook, in cold blood, we appeal that you lend your voice to stop them from murdering the purity of our literary arts.

Our request from Ofili and his team is simple, make the payment or write us the exact date when the payment will be made.

At this juncture, I must state clearly that OkadaBooks does not owe me a dime. But if I choose to ignore the owed writers who are currently receiving silent treatment, nothing I and other writers earn on other online platforms will be secured because we may receive the same treatment someday. This is also why we are calling on other online publishing platforms in Nigeria to reassure their users by responding to the question:

_@Bambooks- Can you give your writers a silent treatment like Ofili and his team are doing right now?_

_@Libribooks: Can you treat your users with such levity that Ofili and his team are doing right now?_

Adieu Okadabooks, we wish you peace in a faraway land – far away from all the traumas that your handlers put you through. As for Okechukwu Ofili and his team, *_I care not if they rot in the hottest part of hell for all they did to Okadabooks and are doing to writers right now._* #Okadabooks #Make-D-pay #Write-D-date

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Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by blessedjohn: 7:45pm On Jun 06
Can you assist me with the tools as well? Getrealistic2023@gmail.com
Mirriamvic:

I just read your book your use of English is powerful. You got what they need.
To sign exclusive contract with them, you need four things.
Click on my profile, send me an email.
I'm going to share two tools with you, one Idea and how to construct story outline. You just need to study the tools carefully, don't be in a hurry.
It is not a guarantee, but I have signed two exclusive contracts with iReader, one with Goodnovel. The four things I want to share with you helped me, so I believe it will help you too.

You need WPS to download one of the tools.
Re: Don't Fall Into The Trap Of Okadabooks! by wealthyprince(m): 8:18pm On Jul 25
Crayfish09:
Dear authors, I know that majority of us want to have our works read while making a few bucks in the process. That is a fair deal but on Okadabooks, there is no such thing as making money. Before I go on to explain, let me tell you how other book publishing platforms like KDP, Smashwords and Draft2digital work.

On these platforms, they have millions of readers surfing their sites and hunting for books. You can literally make a lot of money without spending a dime on ads as long as your cover, description and keywords are good enough. In exchange for giving you the opportunity for using their platforms, they take 30% of your sales as their share (on average). Ladies and gentlemen, if you make #100,000 on a site without adverts and they take #30,000 out if it, I believe it is fair. Also, if you make just ten naira on these websites, they will give you your 7 naira at the end of the month.

Now let's look at Okadabooks. Go and hire the best graphics designer for your book cover, use the catchiest title and buy an editor for your book, you will make a whopping one thousand Naira if you are very very lucky. And that one thousand Naira usually doesn't come from their so-called 300,000 readers. You have to go to facebook, IG, twitter, etc to get your customers, take them to Okadabooks (thereby bringing new customers to Okadabooks) and then dash them 30% of your earnings (the same cut mega sites like Amazon charge) while their so-called 300,000 customers look almost exclusively for free books.

Now, you may think this is still somehow fair but here is the issue: Okadabooks will say that you must make up to 10,000 Naira before you can withdraw (in contrast to other sites that pay you no matter what you earn). Now, 10k is not a very big amount of money but on Okadabooks, it is extremely a herculean task. Everything that you make before you reach that #10,000 goes into Okadabooks bank account (in addition to their 30% cut). They only pay you If you reach their 10k limit.

Now let me tell you what the trick is. When you consistently publish books for months and months without even reaching five thousand naira, you will get tired and give up. Once you give up, Okadabooks gets to keep everything that you have earned while you go home with nothing.

Why am I writing this? It's because I have been a victim and I know so many other victims too even here on nairaland.

I have been regularly publishing since November and even under pricing books (#50-100) just to attract readers but the truth is, there are very few readers on Okadabooks. I had to get my own readers. From November to July, I have not made up to 4k. I never had issues with this but this is what broke my patience;

Fidelity bank kept my 20k after a failed transaction two days before Sallah. Broke and hopeless, I decided to appeal to Okadabooks to give me even if it is just 2k so that I will not go penniless on Sallah day. These people simply ignored my messages. Till date, fidelity bank is yet to give me back my money and Okadabooks is still ignoring my pleas.

I have decided to give up on the site (Of course, they will buy suya with the 3.5k I made from their 300,000 ghost readers) but please, if you are not willing to advertise or write free books then stay away from these leeches . You won't make much from them and the little you make will go into their bank account while you go home with nothing. I have a friend that has 50 books (including novels) with them but he still hasn't crossed 8k on the site.



Thanks for these write up is a eye opener. What is the solution? As a nigerian which sites do you recommend both for beginners and experts that can attract both local and international audience.

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