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Old 09-30-2014, 07:32 PM   #36
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy View Post
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.
It's not just the fiction in that era. Many computer books became extremely bloated about then. They grew to five times the number of pages while the useful content per page shrank by about five averaged over the book.

Now it is even worse with all the screenshots. A saying from the days before JPEG and super large displays was: "A picture is worth a thousand words, but it costs a million bytes".
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