I was generalizing, of course. Your experience may be the exception or (hopefully) the vanguard. Self-published books with non-traditional page counts, at wild

I was generalizing, of course. Your experience may be the exception or (hopefully) the vanguard. Self-published books with non-traditional page counts, at wildly different price points, discovered via recomendation engines is exactly the kind of thing I was hoping to see. From what I can tell though, this is still a marginal phenomynon, less impactful to the median author than twitter or blogging or somesuch. I don't think this is a coincidence. Amazon has allowed for it, but not really pushed on it, or gambled on it. When kindles came out, I read a Seth Godin (blogger/writer) comment that eachone should have shipped with 1,000 books, including his. He'd have agreed, in order to get to readers (with his back-catalogue). Maybe (hopefully) you're right on the timing. Maybe we're just discovering the medium. But, (a) I think things move faster these days, and 10 years should have been sufficient. (b) amazon controls most of the levers, and I think it won't happen unless they decide that it happens.