Karavansara

East of Constantinople, West of Shanghai


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Word-count as quality?

very-thick-book

And I like big things
the size of them impresses me
[Styx]

I’ve been told that – when it comes to ebook pricing – selling anything shorter than 100 pages for 99 cents is, basically, shortchanging the readers.

I find the idea somewhat silly, especially when, to support it, I am told that generally speaking short fiction can’t be as good as long fiction.
Quite simply, I’ve been told, there’s not room enough, in a short story, to tell a good, satisfying tale.

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