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I wonder how it does.

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There’s a huge number of words today. Consider this quote on the “unread bestseller”:

The “unread bestseller” has been remarked upon at least as far back as the Renaissance. In recent times, publishing watchers cite Stephen Hawking’s “A Brief History of Time,” Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History” and Allan Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind” as examples of the genre. But if book sales and length continue their trends, the incidence of the phenomenon can only grow.

Of course, what gets read is a hard thing to measure. Back in 1985, The New Republic sent members of its staff to visit Washington bookstores, where they placed coupons redeemable for cash within the pages of books including Strobe Talbott’s long “Deadly Gambits: The Reagan Administration and the Stalemate in Nuclear Arms Control,” then popular with the city’s power elite. Not one coupon came back.

So how do you get people to read your book? Do you even want them to?

I saw an eBook recently which was all about shortness. Compressing the most useful and interesting info into the fewest number of words possible. Is this the way we should be heading? I think people may not yet be realizing the value in brevity.

I don’t understand how it works or how they determine these prices, but Amazon.com seems to have the best price many times, so I’m impressed.

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That’s what it said above my Cart today when I added an item, and this happens quite often. Sometimes I get even longer lists of items with price changes. Some changes are so small that they seem insignificant to me, until I realize that when this is multiplied by a scale of 1,000,000 or more, that’s one heck of a lot of money.