Schooley
>
> > Maybe fat books simply sell more copies of each
title. Maybe readers
want to
> extend the experience, or maybe there isn't a
popular market that really
likes
> to read, but buyers are rewarded with intellectual
bragging rights when
the one
> book a year they purchase has 600 pages while their
friends only book came
in at
> a mere 450. Quality hardly matters when you're
comparing size, does it?
>
Don't forget those fat paoerbacks are going for $8.00 + sales
tax and the price is even higher in Canada. Maybe when buying
a 400 page book people may feel they are getting their
money's worth, but feel gypped if they spent that on a 154
page book (The original pb length of Parker's God Save the
Child) Mark
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