Chinese Novels

a lot of the pushback was because the English summaries were not in Rosmei's website OR its preorder page OR anywhere official, which they have since amended (mostly) (after fifteen months).

For sure. From where I stand, it's deeply frustrating as a prospective consumer because the amount of time and effort required to put some simple copy together and update their website is low any way you slice it. The effort to impact ratio is so disproportionate that the fact they are still not caught up (as I mentioned in the post, The Defectives is still listed as "TBA" and without cover art on their site months after its release) suggests they're either really disorganized or have strange priorities. I understand that they're a young, small company, but they've acquired a lot of licenses and I'd prefer they took the time to get their processes in order and complete the publication of some of their novels in progress before continuing to expand.

It really speaks to the dire state of the English-language cnovel publishing landscape that even with all this in mind, Rosmei are unquestionably one of the more reputable and professional extant publishers simply by virtue of the fact they a) actually publish books and b) maintain a reasonable standard of quality of said books...

I also agree with douqi that regardless of standards and conventions within Rosmei's regional publishing sphere, the international English readership is clearly a pillar of their business model and it behooves them to do some basic market research about what said audience will expect.