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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
The total number of new words doesn't make the book count jump from 7 to 20. They're just reorganizing the vast majority of the original series into smaller chunks. Agency or not, it's going to cost someone a hell of lot more money to purchase 20 books instead of the 10-12 they could (and should) easily fit the series into. That's the money-grab I'm referring to... and don't care for.
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I understood what you were saying, but I'm not 100% sure we're operating on the same understanding. It's not a simple matter of adding a bunch of words at the beginning and end, apparently a lot of content has been added to the middle too. An average novel is about 75K-100K words, so perhaps about half of those 500K new words is in the three new books (the two prequel novels, and the new final novel). That means the other half of the new content is spread through the over 7 books.
Beyond that, I'm philosophical. The original books were absolutely huge, much larger than the average novel that agency publishers charge $8.99 for. These will be larger than that, and cheaper than that, and all of them with new content.