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Apparently many customers can't be bothered to scroll down to find the page count. (And sometimes, Amazon only lists the filesize, which is meaningless. If there are any pictures inside--like the cover--that makes it impossible to estimate length.)
Amazon doesn't want to mention the length of ebooks; people would likely stop buying the $1 short stories... or stop paying $14.99 for 60k-word mainstream publisher books when they realize how much longer many of the indie books are.
While I think that 1500 words for a salable story is a bit silly, I can certainly understand it for a technical help guide, and I can't see that 1700 words is a reasonable length but 1400 is not.
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