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Originally Posted by TheEndIsNigh 
However I think the publishers are pushing for more output from the downtrodden just to get their pound of flesh. (skin and fingernails in this case). |
This is a common misconception. But publishers would actually make
more money selling lots and lots of shorter books (if enough readers would buy them). A book that is twice as long doesn't sell for anything like twice as much, and readers would have to pay quite a bit more to gain the same number of hours of reading pleasure.
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Nowadays publishers get the same output in terms bookshelves stocked with much less of the swill coming to the likes of us.
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It always distresses me when people talk that way. On the surface they seem to be castigating the publishers (always the easy target), but they're really disparaging the tastes of their fellow readers who buy those books.
(And lest anyone think I have a vested interest in this: my own books, with only one exception, have always been of moderate length. As a reader and a writer, shorter books would be fine with me.)
P.S. Thank you, Hilarious Joke. I'm afraid not everyone views my input in quite such a flattering light as you do.