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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
In the 70s and early 80s, books over 200 pages were quite rare. Then the publishers figured out they could print 500 page books for not much more than the cost of 200 page books but charge a lot more for them, so they started looking for longer books to publish.
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What is your factual basis for this claim?
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It's probably not a coincidence that readership started to decline around the same time. Books became bloated and boring, so people turned to other forms of entertainment that wouldn't need so much of a time commitment.
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And for this one?