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I want books written like this. I've had too many books where I die of boredom over and over again in the first 150 pages and then I never read them again. It
by clarry 7y ago
I want books written like this. I've had too many books where I die of boredom over and over again in the first 150 pages and then I never read them again. It's like there's some rule saying books must be super wordy.
- TheRealPomax 7y agoThat rule is usually called the publication contract, and it usually literally says how big the work needs to be, even if you can say it better in fewer words/pages/chapters/etc.
- kanakka 7y agoTIL. This seems to be waste of paper/time for consumers. What is the incentive for publishers by preferring wordy version than terse one? Is it because they afraid of being perceived as not worthy enough to be a book?
- dilap 7y agoHoldover from another era. Pre-internet, we had more time to spend w/ books, and it was harder to gain context to make things make sense -- a little hand-holding and digression was more appropriate then.