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Originally Posted by crutnacker
Consider one of my favorite authors, Robert B. Parker. He now writes comic book length books that you can read in the time it takes for your average poo. I would NEVER pay $25.00 for one of his triple spaced, 18 point font novels. But I certainly might pay $9.99 to read it the week it came out.
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They're 55,000 words, they conform to the standard detective/mystery novel length from when he first started publishing. Not that I'm defending prices here, I'm not, just that I like that length and work towards that length in my own work. Most novels out there, the 80-120k novels are IMHO filled with padding and are even less value.
Also, you must spend a lot of time in the bathroom if you can read a whole Parker in that time
