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There are I think two important factors at play here: 1) A lot of the 'filler' isn't filler at all, but the process of communicating ideas in ways that work fo
by ska 7y ago
There are I think two important factors at play here:
1) A lot of the 'filler' isn't filler at all, but the process of communicating ideas in ways that work for many different people (since we don't all process information the same way).
2) More validly, the publishing industry doesn't really have a workable model for a 100 page book. The effort to put this out is not 1/3 of a 300 page book.
Would you buy the 87 page version for, say a 20% discount?
- Psyladine 7y agoI'd pay full price if the information was valuable. This is what's missing here, having to scour 300 pages for what amounts to a handful of insights. You could make the argument that a 'top 10' bulleted list misses the scaffolding or structure to adequately argue/justify those points, but at least the ideation of self-help is the 'secret' which is non-intuitive, that we are paying for being distilled to truths and actionables.
- dredmorbius 7y agoThe American publishing industry perhaps. Other traditions (notably the French and German) are far more comfortable with shorter monographs of 100 or fewer pages.