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Actually, since I'm sorta on the producer end of that market: Word count is much more often what people in the biz focus on. It eliminates all the talk about m
by AlbertCory 4y ago
Actually, since I'm sorta on the producer end of that market:
Word count is much more often what people in the biz focus on. It eliminates all the talk about margins, leading, font, paper thickness, etc.
- dredmorbius 4y agoWord-count is what authors are concerned with. Spine-width is what (physical bookstore) sales are based on, amongst other non-content factors. Publishers who focused on quality and salient content (say, back in the day, O'Reilly, Wiley (technical), and No Start Press, over, say, SAMS and whoever put out the "in 24 hours" series of books (notoriously overpadded) got a significant reputation boost in my eyes. (ORA lost quite a few points rushing some shoddy junk to market, but their classic work was and remains excellent.)