In all likelihood the author was asked to write 1200 words to promote her book. Maryanne Wolf is the author of Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digita

In all likelihood the author was asked to write 1200 words to promote her book. Maryanne Wolf is the author of Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World So I guess the article is supposed to pique your interest sufficiently to then go buy the book. I'm going to side with you here though, the majority of the book could probably be condensed to <2000 words. And anyway, the contract to publish the book probably came with a word count requirement: give me 50,000 words and we'll publish it.