{"id":11260,"date":"2014-07-27T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T13:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11260"},"modified":"2014-07-26T18:26:07","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T22:26:07","slug":"why-books-are-getting-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/why-books-are-getting-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Books Are Getting Longer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-11269\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Books-Longer-1024x734.png\" alt=\"Books Longer\" width=\"640\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Books-Longer-1024x734.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Books-Longer-300x215.png 300w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Books-Longer-222x160.png 222w, http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Books-Longer.png 1326w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Anderberg looked at the most popular books going back to 1904, and the number of pages in each one. He found that books have been getting longer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 1904 the average bestseller had 219 pages. In 2013, the last full year for which data is available, the average was 468.<\/li>\n<li>This might be because with the rise of tablets, people no longer have to lug around heavy books if they want a long read.<\/li>\n<li>It may also be a result of the Netflix binge culture where people like to lose themselves in an alternate reality for several hours.<\/li>\n<li>And perhaps customers believe that they are getting more value for their money when they buy longer books.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Find out the granular data about the length of books over the years, why there was a dip between 1954 and 1964, the books that have driven up the average, and some short books that you can enjoy in a day over <a href=\"http:\/\/bookriot.com\/2014\/07\/22\/why-books-getting-longer\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookriot.com\/2014\/07\/22\/why-books-getting-longer\/\">Book Riot<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2014\/07\/assorted-links-1197.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Anderberg looked at the most popular books going back to 1904, and the number of pages in each one. He found that books have been getting longer: In 1904 the average bestseller had 219 pages. In 2013, the last full year for which data is available, the average was 468. This might be because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Books-Longer.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11271,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11260\/revisions\/11271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}