{"id":14019,"date":"2009-03-04T20:10:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=14019"},"modified":"2009-03-04T20:10:08","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T03:10:08","slug":"size-does-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/04\/size-does-matter.html","title":{"rendered":"Size does matter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got the newest Jim Butcher Dresden Files <\/em>book out in paperback — Small Favor<\/em><\/a> — today in the mail from Amazon, and …<\/p>\n

Rrg.<\/p>\n

For the past few years, the publishing industry has been screwing around with what I call “tall paperbacks” (I’m sure there’s an official term for them). They’s the same width as a normal mass market paperback, but a half-inch taller or so (7-1\/2 vs 6-7\/8 inches).<\/p>\n

Just all enough to not really fit in our custom paperback shelves up in the loft.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, to date, the only books I’ve been at all interested in that have come out in that format have been Robert Parker Spenser <\/em>(et al.) mysteries, and, honestly, if I wait a few months, the hardcovers show up on the B&N remainders racks for less than the new paperbacks. So I made it a “principled decision” to not buy the new format.<\/p>\n

Until, of course, it turns out that’s what this book is in (regardless of the dimensions Amazon lists).<\/p>\n

Rrg.<\/p>\n

So for that one book (and, I suppose, for future volumes), I’ll have to either shelve it with the hardcovers (a waste of space), shelve it horizontally, or redo a section of bookshelves.<\/p>\n

(Yes, I know, if I had it on Kindle then it would still fit in the same Kindle space. That’s beside the point.)<\/small> <\/p>\n

I’m sure that this is being done for some amazing marketing reason — some great PR wonk has statistics and PowerPoint slides to prove that customers are 7.35% more likely to buy a tall paperback than a normal-sized one, because they stand out on the shelves better or something. Me? I just find it really, seriously, annoying.<\/p>\n

Don’t mess with standards. <\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Got the newest Jim Butcher Dresden Files book out in paperback — Small Favor — today in the mail from Amazon, and … Rrg. For the past few years, the publishing industry has been screwing around with what I call “tall paperbacks” (I’m sure there’s an official term for them). 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