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Originally Posted by deltop

The original hardback was actually released as one book titled "To Green Angel Tower". I've got it sitting on the shelf in front of me. However yes it was split into two for release as a paper back.

I'd have preferred the ebook to be released as one book, as after all there's no real reason to split the ebook, unlike the reason for splitting the paperback, which from what I remember was due to binding problems, it is a very large book.

One reason I can think of for splitting an ebook into multiple parts is if it is extremely large. On my reader I found that it is a bit sluggish when dealing with very large PDFs (more than 500 pages).

When I formatted the Project Gutenberg version of "A Tale Of Two Cities" as a PDF for my reader, it worked out to 1,310 pages (I format my ebooks with a base font size of 14 points and 0.2 inch margins), and was approximately 2MB in size. To make it easier for my reader to deal with, I split it into three parts (which correspond to the three parts of the original novel).

However, even if the ebook is split into parts it doesn't mean that the publisher can't sell it as a single unit. Selling each part of a multi-part ebook (that wasn't originally released separately in printed form) would be similar to a selling each CD in an audiobook separately.