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Originally Posted by DrNefario
I welcome the return of shorter books, myself.
I kind of feel that the trend over the last 30 years or so has been for ever longer books, partly because the technology of managing those books has become more workable and partly to justify price rises, and it's kind of nice that books no longer have to look thick on the shelf, however genuine that actually is.
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There is also the decline in editing in the wake of the mergers and downsizing.
A lot of books, especially from established authors with nary a question on structure and padding. In the olden days many a publisher paid by the word and by Wotan those books got *edited*.