Interesting and informative post, as always. It sounds like a slightly worrying trend -- I can't imagine that books cut from 300k to 150k aren't going to be 50% lower price point, so the purchaser's perceived value is going to drop nastily. I hope that doesn't further erode sales -- I seem to remember quite a lot of negativity towards Steven King's "Buy a chapter a time" experiment a while ago.
Did you get any sense of whether it's just genre fiction that's seeing this pressure to shrink page count, or are other traditionally chunky areas -- thrillers, for example -- being crunched too?
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Date: 2004-09-10 01:06 am (UTC)Did you get any sense of whether it's just genre fiction that's seeing this pressure to shrink page count, or are other traditionally chunky areas -- thrillers, for example -- being crunched too?