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Personally, if I was supreme dictator and could tell all the various parties what they had to do, I would like to see a scheme based on rendered text instead of file size or marked up text, compressed or otherwise. That way bad coding doesn't come into play (unless it is REALLY bad and things are rendered incorrectly), format doesn't matter (Kindle/ePub/etc. would all be the same), and the average person could understand what it was based on.
If it was based on 250-350 rendered words* it would approximate a standard paperback book page**. I would lean towards 250 since it makes the math easier.
I don't expect to see this happen, but it would be nice to have consistency.
*Yes, "words" are calculated many different ways. Choose one and stick with it. I don't really care which as long as it is consistent.
**It seems outdated to use "paperback book pages" as a reference but it is what everyone here grew up with to one extent or another and we all know about how fast we read in that context which makes it useful enough. Even my 8yo knows how long a "page" is. It will take generations before we get out of that mode, even if we made a change like this now.
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