Thread: Books are Getting Significantly Longer Every Year
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Old 12-13-2015, 12:31 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by Apache View Post
Sorry,
I should have added that I was talking about US publishers mostly in the 1950's through the 1970's.
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For the most part, novels appeared first in magazines from the 50's through the 70's, thus shorter books were preferred. That's how most authors got paid back then. The actual book sales were fairly small for anyone other than a major author.
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