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Originally Posted by gmw
I have to disagree about length being unimportant in ebooks. The first part of the disagreement comes because I also publish in paper so have to consider that (and would prefer not to maintain separate editions). But the biggest factor is that people can be quite reluctant to buy a 300k word novel, even if price wasn't an issue, but most especially when pricing might be around 3 x 100k novels - if we were going to price it close to fairly. (Of course, book pricing doesn't really work like that.) Size really does affect your marketing and pricing options, even in ebooks.
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Warning, OT, kinda (
tangentially related):
We're doing a print layout on a 335K-word novel. I'm breath-holding, trying to make sure that the bloody thing meets the 2.25" wide maximum for a spine size (~828 pages/400-ish sheets at KDP); that's a physical limitation of perfect-bound books, and yet is still readable. It will be a d@mned relief when we get to the eBook stage! This is the client's 3rd book of 4, none of them short, but this is the monster of the group. Talk about prolific...
Hitch