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Originally Posted by phillipgessert
Ah, thank you, I wasn’t sure about that! I suppose it makes sense as a part of the paperback/ebook “pagecount” linkup.
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it does, if you think about it. I mean..."pages" is this amorphous thing anyway. I deal with this same sort of nonsensical measurement all day long--we get would-be customers that completely ignore the stuff on the site, saying "we will need to see your file to quote you," and instead, tell me "my file is 208 pages long." Well, what the hell does that mean? Is it typed in manuscript mode? In 12pt TNR or Garamond? Is it in 14pt Calibri? I mean, it's meaningless. Did they use the 250/word/page industry standard, or do they even know about it?
It constantly surprises me that of
all people, authors, who presumably have word-count targets,
CANNOT tell me the word-count of their file.
Really?
So, let's say that Jane does a book, and creates faux page numbers, because she prefers them, over locations. A year later, she does a print version--and now, the faux page numbers no longer have any relevance to the new print version. Does she redo the entire eBook? What about all the people that bought it before she created her paperback?
You can see how Amazon might have actually thought this through (c'mon, there's a first time for everything), and decided, only when there's a matching print version.
Offered solely FWIW, which ain't much.
Hitch