Yes, it makes sense for them not to care -- but it doesn't make sense for them to proclaim that no one else does either, because that's still not true.
Oh, indeed. I didn't mean to insinuate that it was right for them to say they don't matter anymore, because that's simply not the case. If they were to say that they didn't matter for online publications, that would be one thing, but to say that for the whole industry is another matter entirely.
My actual word-count is on average about 225 per page as well, in the same format. But short dialogue lines take up a line, and end of chapters take up a page and a bit regardless, so I think the general printer count is probably more reliable for printing/typesetting than Word word counts.
*nods* And not totally bad, at least for me, since I have a tendency to run a bit short on my wordcounts ... I intended Stronger to be 100k with Word's wordcount, and it came to 92k. :P
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Re: Hmm.
Date: 2004-09-10 05:53 pm (UTC)Oh, indeed. I didn't mean to insinuate that it was right for them to say they don't matter anymore, because that's simply not the case. If they were to say that they didn't matter for online publications, that would be one thing, but to say that for the whole industry is another matter entirely.
My actual word-count is on average about 225 per page as well, in the same format. But short dialogue lines take up a line, and end of chapters take up a page and a bit regardless, so I think the general printer count is probably more reliable for printing/typesetting than Word word counts.
*nods* And not totally bad, at least for me, since I have a tendency to run a bit short on my wordcounts ... I intended Stronger to be 100k with Word's wordcount, and it came to 92k. :P