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Originally Posted by jersysman
I reached the point where I either must have a page or word count before I purchase a book. I very very rarely would purchase a book that is a short short even for $.99.
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Terry Brooks released two short stories for $0.99 recently; they are 35 and 42 pages, when counting 2400 characters as a page. I think that's a nice length for a short story. I seem to remember that a word had an average of 6 letters, so that would be 400 words a page, or about 14-16.500 words for such a story.
A story of 2500 words or even shorter is silly, IMHO. That would come down to around 6.5 paperback pages. That's the length of a high school writing assignment. At least, it would be in the Netherlands.