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A lot of people have commented how three 300 page serialized novels makes more economic sense than a 1000 page novel, which is why we haven't seen many 1000 page novels. I think the case can also be made that the market for 1000 page novels is also much smaller than the market for 300 page novels, as another reason 1000 page novels will always be a niche market at best.
Like many other Indie writers, I started on the fanfiction side. And I have written a 350,000 word fanfiction. My personal estimate from counting words in several paperbacks is that 350 words is the typical page length, so I think my story meets your 1000 page criteria. My experience is that while writing and posting chapters of the story, it got quite a few hits, in the same range as I things I have done. But after it was finished, so a reader go sit down and read it straight through, it gets a lot less hits than other things I have written that are more in the 50,000 to 70,000 word range. Plus my 350,000 word story consists of 24 chapters averaging 15,000 words or about 40 pages and I got lots of people sending me comments that my chapters were too long! I don't know if this is unique to fanfiction or part of the steadily shorting attention span you always hear people talkng about.
However, at least to me, a 1000 page fanfiction story is a very different beast than a regular 1000 page novel. It took me three-and-a-half years to write it, posting it a chapter at a time, so I posted a new chapter typically every six weeks to two months. If you were only getting new parts that infrequently, it seemed like each part had to be effectively its own short story with a beginning, a middle, and an end. The completed story ended up being more like a season of some TV show where there was an overall arc to the story, but each chapter or episode had to be able to stand somewhat on its own. This is very different from what a normal thousand page novel has to do since the reader is getting the whole story at once.
Anyway, that's my two cents on the topic,
Duane
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