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Pricing an ebook based on number of pages is silly. Would you pay 20% more if he added an equivalent number of pages? I think the author should charge more for

• jawns 12y ago
  It's true that number of pages doesn't say anything directly about a book's breadth or value ... although for technical books, and particularly user-manual type books, it's generally a decent proxy, because these types of books, by and large, have similar information densities. That's not to say that there isn't any variation at all. This book may, in fact, be more information-dense than similar books in its category. But I was observing that publishers' prices and book length do tend to be correlated, warranted or not, and so to be competitive, it may be beneficial to price accordingly. Edit: I just read through the sample chapter, and I didn't find it much more information-dense than other similar books. Which doesn't really surprise me, because you can only write so tersely when you're doing things like feature set walkthroughs. So I think I'm going to stand by my statement that for books of this particular type (a user guide for a piece of software), the length of the book is probably a pretty good proxy for breadth and a not-bad proxy for value.