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it seems we have a much different way of measuring a books worth, I'm much more concerned over quality than quantity. but I think I'm in the minority here.
I really dislike it when authors add a lot of fluff just to increase the page numbers in order to increase the book value.
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Of course
quality is the overall determining factor when it comes to purchasing... that's a given. Nobody purposely goes on a mission to locate gigantic, yet really awful—nay, horrendous—books:
"Umm... that huge one on the top shelf—you're absolutely sure it's thoroughly shoddy? In that case I'll take it!" 
But word count is surely a secondary factor in determining value... especially when previous works by the same author have already (some long before ebooks were even a factor at all) dismissed the question of quality entirely. Would you be willing to pay more for an enormous book written by an author who's already repeatedly "Wowed" you in the past, than you would for a normal sized book by an author you're relatively unsure of? I know my answer.
And while I'm sure that there may be authors out there somewhere who pad their word-counts just so they can conceivably charge more for the book, I like to think they're few and far between. I'd like to think that some just tend to get a bit carried away with their own big selves. Or simply lack talent and try to make up for it with volume... hoping something will stick.
Some authors use way too many words to tell a story, and some may use way too few. But the ones who use "just the right amount" of words for the scope and complexity of their particular story are the ones who never have to worry about their books selling regardless of cost—or word-count—(quality already being a given of course
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GRRM uses lots and lots of words in his books, but there's very few that are expendable.
