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by Candy • Tuesday, December 20, 2005 at 09:32 AM

Susan Gable broke this story on Booksquare yesterday: Harlequin is trimming down the word counts for the longer series romance lines by about 10,000 words. For example, SuperRomances used to run about 80,000-85,000 words, but now they’re looking for books that contain about 70,000-75,000.

Their explanation? The fonts and margins are too small, which makes the books too hard to read. So OF COURSE the story has to be trimmed down! Forget increasing the number of pages by utilizing a comfortable font size and adequate margins while maintaining the same word count.

Obviously, the consumer’s needs were priority number 1 here. Because shorter stories for an already notoriously short format is the way to go.

But, as always, I welcome any and all scuttlebutt on this issue, especially if I’m mis-reading things or have mis-represented the case. Anyone got anything? Bang away in the comments.

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