I do think there is an upper limit for Doorstop Fatigue, but I don't know where it is, and I don't know if it varies between adults and YA readers.
I would say it definitely varies between YA and adult readers, or at least YA and adult -marketing-; the body type in the Rowling's very thick book is quite large, and I would guess that it's a much shorter book, in printer page count or word for word, than any of the George Martin novels.
One of my favourite books in the year it was published was CRYPTONOMICON, by Stephenson, which was an 1100+ book-page (!) mass market when it was finally published in that format.
The doorstop fatigue in that case -- because there wasn't reader fatigue for my part -- was simply what can be bound into a single mass market volume. That's close, without doing drastic things with paper quality, to upper limit for mass market.
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Date: 2004-09-10 03:30 pm (UTC)I would say it definitely varies between YA and adult readers, or at least YA and adult -marketing-; the body type in the Rowling's very thick book is quite large, and I would guess that it's a much shorter book, in printer page count or word for word, than any of the George Martin novels.
One of my favourite books in the year it was published was CRYPTONOMICON, by Stephenson, which was an 1100+ book-page (!) mass market when it was finally published in that format.
The doorstop fatigue in that case -- because there wasn't reader fatigue for my part -- was simply what can be bound into a single mass market volume. That's close, without doing drastic things with paper quality, to upper limit for mass market.