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 Posted: Tue 8:58, 06 Aug 2013 Post subject: from several dozen to over 200 pages |
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| total ripoff of—the Melville House editions. The series' cover layout, streamlined design, and single-color covers are an obvious nod to its antecedent. Surely, interest in mid-length stories from a major publisher is a sign of good things for the form. And, increasingly, the prohibition against short books seems to make no economic sense. Thanks to e-readers and digital editions, we're seeing a renaissance in the mid-length non-fiction. The journalistic equivalent of the novella is thriving—whether it's through Kindle Singles or Byliner one-offs like Jon Krakauer's blockbuster expose, "Three Cups of Deceit." These novella-length #longreads have proven to be profitable for authors and publishers as well as pleasurable to readers. Why shouldn't the increased formal latitude extended to journalists be granted to fiction writers, too? I think novellas have intimidated publishers, who cannot easily parse the form. Novellas range so widely in length, from several dozen to over 200 pages, that it's impossible |
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