If it's because of lots of dialogue or many chapter breaks, they production takes that into account when estimating the typeset length. The page-count probably more accurately reflects how large it is, in that case. But even so, there's lots of typesetting tricks to make it look longer or shorter.
ObDisclaimer: It's been close to a decade since I worked in a publisher's production department.
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Re: Hmm.
Date: 2004-09-10 10:41 am (UTC)ObDisclaimer: It's been close to a decade since I worked in a publisher's production department.
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