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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader
The main problem with ebooks is Amazon. They insist on listing a meaningless page count.
I've started putting the approximate main text word count in the extended 'blurbs' and I put it on the copyright page.
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Oh, c'mon. That's how books were sold for ages--you never walked into a DT bookstore and saw some sign saying "get Dan Brown's latest bestseller, 120K words!" No, you just picked up a book and eyeballed it or flipped to the end
and saw the page count.
What Amazon's doing is no real difference. Hell, their "page counts" for eBooks are probably
more accurate than print, as they use characters to calculate locations and thence pages.
Hitch