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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
The top-20 highest word count Harry Potter stories at AO3 fall just short of four million words. I am underwhelmed by an announcement of a quantity of new content that would fit in a single LiveJournal post.
It's nice that she'll be giving out outline info and bits of character background that never made it into the stories. But it's not a quantity of info that should impress anyone who understands word counts. |
It's 18,000 words
at launch, and I'd be surprised if she didn't write a fair amount more than that over the years as they roll out the later storylines.
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"Oh god, I don’t know. Lots. There’s lots. 18,000 words at launch but I’m adding to it. I’m still digging up boxes and I will write more as well as we hit subsequent books.
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However, I don't expect it to end up anywhere near
Order of the Phoenix in terms of size and I definitely see your point on touting the word count as if it's huge when it's currently not. It is currently less than even NaNoWriMo requires.
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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
How solid is the claim (i.e. who said) that they'll be epubs rather than watermarked PDFs? All the major ereaders can handle PDFs; that's what I assumed when they said "compatible with any device."
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Oh gods, I hope it's nothing like that. I already have PDFs that are perfect facsimiles of the US editions, and they're a pain to read on a 6" screen. I want a format that lets me have the illustrations and the various fonts AND good text-reflow.