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Because bedtime stories are about getting children to fall asleep and no parent wants to be reading until 3am. Publishers impose word restrictions for two basic reasons. A new author represent...
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2020-01-03T20:41:53Z (over 4 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T06:25:19Z (over 4 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision
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2019-12-08T06:25:19Z (over 4 years ago)
Because bedtime stories are about getting children to fall asleep and no parent wants to be reading until 3am. Publishers impose word restrictions for two basic reasons. 1. A new author represents are risk. Bigger books cost more to produce, so the risk is higher. Restricting word count reduces the risk of taking on a new author. 2. There is a limit to how long (or short) of a book a reader is willing to buy on particular subjects. Publishers know this. (It is their business to know.) They won't publish things that are too short or too long to sell. They will publish things are in the sweet spot of length for a particular genre. (And if you go through a bookstore you will see that there is considerable uniformity in the length of most books in each section.)
#1: Imported from external source
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2017-05-02T11:26:13Z (almost 7 years ago)
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