Do you know if the stories are the full novellas, or if they're just excerpts? It seems like a relatively short book to contain five full novellas, and though there's no indication on the Tor page or at the beginning of the ebook, at the very end it says "These are works of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in these novella excerpts are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously."
The Tor page says it's 120 pages; the Amazon Kindle page says it's 79 pages.
okay, so math: - a 214-page novel I'm reading is 2967 locations, so 13.86 locs per page. - a 167K fic has 7478 location, which means 539 pages, or about 309 words per page. - if we take the Kindle 79 pages, that's about 25,000 words - if we take the Tor number, that's 37,080 words.
I thus conjecture that is novella excerpts; it is presented as a sampler rather than an anthology, after all.
Grrr.... "Apple Books couldn't connect to the Book Store."
Barstiches! Farkin' barstiches!
Okay. I was able to download an epub from the ebooks.com site. I didn't care who I got it from, I have a program that breaks Apple's DRM and turns their books into straight epubs, so the end result is the same.
I have three computers, my main is an iMac, plus a MacBook Pro and an Asus gaming laptop. My main reading devices are two iPads, so most of my purchases are via the Apple book store and occasionally the Nook store. By sheer volume, most of my ebooks came from Humble Bundle and Storybundle, and buying supporting memberships to WorldCon for the Hugo nominee downloads. I also get a couple of ebook sale newsletters that get a few bucks from me occasionally.
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Do you know if the stories are the full novellas, or if they're just excerpts? It seems like a relatively short book to contain five full novellas, and though there's no indication on the Tor page or at the beginning of the ebook, at the very end it says "These are works of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in these novella excerpts are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously."
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okay, so math:
- a 214-page novel I'm reading is 2967 locations, so 13.86 locs per page.
- a 167K fic has 7478 location, which means 539 pages, or about 309 words per page.
- if we take the Kindle 79 pages, that's about 25,000 words
- if we take the Tor number, that's 37,080 words.
I thus conjecture that is novella excerpts; it is presented as a sampler rather than an anthology, after all.
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Since it's free, I'll probably download it anyhow and see if any of the excerpts leave me hungry for more.
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Barstiches! Farkin' barstiches!
Okay. I was able to download an epub from the ebooks.com site. I didn't care who I got it from, I have a program that breaks Apple's DRM and turns their books into straight epubs, so the end result is the same.
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While the download may be DRM-free, getting it through the Apple Store doesn't make it particularly accessible as an individual file.
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I have three computers, my main is an iMac, plus a MacBook Pro and an Asus gaming laptop. My main reading devices are two iPads, so most of my purchases are via the Apple book store and occasionally the Nook store. By sheer volume, most of my ebooks came from Humble Bundle and Storybundle, and buying supporting memberships to WorldCon for the Hugo nominee downloads. I also get a couple of ebook sale newsletters that get a few bucks from me occasionally.