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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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Really, that is not how I remember the early 80s. What books do you have in mind?
And I also seem to remember that the paperback price was the same and did not depend on the length of the book.
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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.
Now writers can bypass publishers and their silly rules and write whichever length fits their story. And guess what? Sub-200 "page" ebooks are very popular.
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How do you know they are very popular? Are they read or are they just bought.
And are the books really under 200 pages or is it more that a continuous story is published in small parts?