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Originally Posted by crich70
And when the book is very short say at 12 pages I'm thinking it's over priced at $2.99 myself.
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I don't normally complain about overpricing, for $2.99 for 12 pages of fiction certainly is!
These discussions rarely mention word count. But I will now.
It's pretty common for a major publisher biography to be
in the range of 300,000 words.
If you look here, you'll see that the great majority of fantasy books, even including the thicker Harry Potter books, are shorter:
http://bitlather.com/blog/article/16...-fantasy-novel
Right now I'm reading
The Queen Mother by William Shawcross. I can't find a word count for it, but it has to be at least four times longer than the average, or even above average, mystery. If such biographies were padded, that would be something else, but I don't believe this kind of book often is.
And if indie books were, on average, as tightly edited as those from Random House, the price per word might not be as different as is implied by these threads.