Thread: How many of you are more willing to buy a book the longer it is?
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Old 10-19-2008, 09:29 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan View Post
To answer the original question: I do not equate length with quality (insert sexist comment here), and I have seen enough books that were simply longer than they needed to be. There is such a thing as "too much detail." So I won't be more likely to buy a book just because it's long... in fact, I would probably be less likely to buy a book that I thought was long.

Unfortunately, it can be hard to tell whether you are getting "a lot of story" from a long book, or just "a lot of extraneous detail," without extensive preview. With e-books, your preview options are usually more limited than with paper books (that you can scan through and through). So, when buying e-books, I don't give length much thought.
Yepp, your namesake Robert Jordan springs too mind. Wheel of Time is WAY too wordy IMHO. But I've read stories that are "short" that was simply amazing. So I don't think it's about the length of the book as much as the way it is written.

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