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Originally Posted by Yapyap
Having word counts displayed on the ebook page is no different than having page counts displayed on the paper book page.
I mean, no one seems to be up in arms about how some book's page says 256 pages and another's says 512 pages and yet another one is 768 pages - and plenty of people seem to buy and read the shorter ones. Not everyone loves to read the massive ones.
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And, as was pointed out, it allows the consumer to see when they're charging the same price for those different book sizes (even though they're likely to be around $8.99, $10.99, and $11.99-$12.99 on the shelf for those three sizes, at least here in Canada; less for the 256-pager if its a Harlequin Romance or some other grocery store shelf genre).
As an example, Kobo is selling Stephen King's "The Mist" for $7.99 and his "'Salem's Lot" for $6.59. For the editions using the covers shown on Kobo's site, we get 240 pages for the latest edition of "The Mist" (though though that's with a fairly large font and spacing - in ''Skeleton Crew'' it was 130 pages) and 672 pages for "'Salem's Lot" (also a larger font - the '91 New American Library edition is 496 pages and the Gallery Books edition from 2000 is 480 pages). Bit of a difference with no indication on the site (and few people are going to go look up at Amazon like I just did) - anyone familiar with King's work finding ''The Mist'' for the first time this way is going to be VERY disappointed from an experience length standpoint.