Quote of the Day | 1011
The length of the average book reflects the economics of the print trade and educated guesses as to what book-buyers will actually pay for, much more than it does the actual intellectual content of the book itself. Length may also, of course, reflect some practical judgments concerning the book as a display object (I seem to remember Tyler Cowen somewhere suggesting that only a relatively small percentage of books bought are actually read).
Ezra Klein, ‘Towards A World of Smaller Books’
[x]#7893 fan maandag 11 oktober 2010 @ 20:39:33
