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Originally Posted by fjtorres
More relevant? Why?
Quantity over quantity?
You buy books by the word? Padding and excess verbiage doesn't bother you?
Oh-kay...
(shrug)
I can see labeling an ebook as a short story or novelette, but for novels, I can also see a 70K shorty being a better buy than a 200K epic.
The only meaningful break I see is between short-form (story/novelette) and long-form and as long as the author is honest about it I don't care which it is. The number? Just a number...
I just think that stories should be allowed to reach their natural length. If it only needs 50K, well, that's what it took.
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I obviously can't speak for JD Gumby, but for me at least the length of a novel does indeed influence how much I'm willing to pay for it.
If for example there where two novels priced 8€, both in the same genre, both written (roughly) equally well, with about the same customer ratings, and so on...
Then yes, I'll most likely buy the 200k words one over the 80k one, simply because I'll get more time out of the longer one.