Interesting coincidence... I just went to a talk by MIT professor Sherry Turkle where she mentioned that publishers were questioning if the 'longform' of her book (~17,000 words I think) could actually sell. Her answer was that the only way to adequately deal with the complex issues she addressed was in this format.
17,000 words is not a long book? was that supposed to be 170,000? Or just in the sense that she wrote a long article and is trying to pass it off as a book?
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Interesting coincidence... I just went to a talk by MIT professor Sherry Turkle where she mentioned that publishers were questioning if the 'longform' of her book (~17,000 words I think) could actually sell. Her answer was that the only way to adequately deal with the complex issues she addressed was in this format.
17,000 words is not a long book? was that supposed to be 170,000? Or just in the sense that she wrote a long article and is trying to pass it off as a book?
http://www.brandonsanderson.com/article/56/Splitting-AMOL has a description of what happens when a book gets too long (400,000 words)