http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-millions-publishes-its-first-e-book-epic-fail-with-more-to-come/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Mon, 20 May 2013 16:05:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/the-millions-publishes-its-first-e-book-epic-fail-with-more-to-come/comment-page-1/#comment-1231695 Frank Lowney Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:42:17 +0000 http://www.teleread.com/?p=77234#comment-1231695 Given that the typical page count of paper books (3-400 pages) was largely a function of the economics of paper and that ePublishing has hewed closely to that convention for no defensible reason, I see this as releasing writers from the chains of the last few centuries. That's a good thing. There is no reason why one cannot write an eBook that is much shorter or much longer than the pBook standard used to dictate. Given that the typical page count of paper books (3-400 pages) was largely a function of the economics of paper and that ePublishing has hewed closely to that convention for no defensible reason, I see this as releasing writers from the chains of the last few centuries. That’s a good thing. There is no reason why one cannot write an eBook that is much shorter or much longer than the pBook standard used to dictate.

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