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# Why the book might be getting shorter
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2013/10/ebooks-word-length/
- Published: 2013-10-22T15:33:01.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T16:04:43.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: amazon, attention, ebooks, Kindle, Publishing

Interesting analysis of how Kindle Singles, and other [short ebooks might be the future](http://jwikert.typepad.com/the%5Faverage%5Fjoe/2013/10/what-kindle-singles-can-tell-us-about-the-future-of-ebooks.html?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> The greatest aspect of Kindle Singles is, of course, their short length. The first one I read was a Single about media and I remember thinking how a typical business book editor would have asked the author to turn this 30-page gem into a bloated 300-page mess. It happens all the time and it’s a function of both physical shelf presence and perceived value. In the ebook world there’s suddenly no physical bookshelf an individual title has to have a spine presence on. Now we just need to stop equating “shorter” with “cheaper”…more on that in a moment.

And, indeed there is. I’d actually be prepared to pay as much for a short book as a long one, as long as the density of information was right. Attention is at a premium, and books that respect that are valuable to me.