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TIL. 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 af
by kanakka 7y ago
TIL. 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.