It only takes a quick scan of a handful of ebooks, say in the Kindle Store, to notice that the number of pages that constitutes an ebook is almost as wide as the Pacific. Today, however, while the physical size of a book may still matter in a bookstore, ebooks have no dimensions. How many pages is 5000 words in an ebook? ![]() The Salmon of Doubt looks like a tome next to HHGTTG. Clearly, Adams’ agent must have told him to pad it out. It is incredibly short, and a very thin book.īut it is noticeable that all the subsequent books by Adams became thicker and thicker. Starting with Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It is a very short novel and a thin book.įurther on are my Douglas Adams books. ![]() Yet in the middle of them is King Rat, which must have escaped Clavell’s literary agent’s attention. When I look at some of the books on my bookshelf, my collection of James Clavell novels are all very thick, either in hardback or paperback.
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