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Re:Good Riddance to Long Books by yamtaddle on Friday October 07, 2022 @05:06PM (#33126859)
You usual target a wordcount for a market, as I understand it. You can't sell (to a publisher, I mean) a YA book that's 600 pages in a mass market paperback. You can't sell a 220 page hardcover to a publisher that wants big fat doorstop fantasy novels.
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Re:Good Riddance to Long Books by nottorp on Friday October 07, 2022 @05:43PM (#33127226)
That only means publishers are accomplices.
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Re:Good Riddance to Long Books by yamtaddle on Friday October 07, 2022 @05:51PM (#33127318)
They do that because they think it's what will sell. They might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure they have better insight into the market than I do.
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