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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9187929" data-attributes="member: 18">They haven't taken off for precisely the reason I'm describing.You've got your 1 Audible credit per month.What do you want to spend it on, this good space opera novella that will is 4 hours long, or this good epic space opera that is 29 hours long.HMMM DIFFICULT CHOICE. If it all the longer books sucked or something maybe it would make sense, but that's just not the case. You buy one of Adrian Tchaikovsky's recent space opera series, and you're getting as much excitement and as good writing as Martha Wells' Murderbot series, you're just getting almost 10x as much for your buck.And with Kindle or other ebooks, it's even more obvious - I could spend £7.99 on Murderbot #4 (163 pages) or I could spend £4.99 (LESS!!!!) on the Children of Time (608 pages). Again HMMM DIFFICULT CHOICE. There's no delta in quality, really. Murderbot isn't like, super-premium ultra-amazing - it's good but it's not like it's some cut above. But the price is exactly the same as full length or even very long novels, often higher than those, in fact. There's no relationship whatsoever between length and cost - you can see this with Murderbot #5, which is £6.99, but a much more respectable 342 pages, nearly twice the length of the £7.99 book by the same author with the same character and setting.And a lot of novella pricing is like this.Not all of it - you do see some novellas priced very low, and I've certainly bought those before. But an awful lot are priced higher than well-written full-length novels.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9187929, member: 18"] They haven't taken off for precisely the reason I'm describing. You've got your 1 Audible credit per month. What do you want to spend it on, this good space opera novella that will is 4 hours long, or this good epic space opera that is 29 hours long. HMMM DIFFICULT CHOICE. If it all the longer books sucked or something maybe it would make sense, but that's just not the case. You buy one of Adrian Tchaikovsky's recent space opera series, and you're getting as much excitement and as good writing as Martha Wells' Murderbot series, you're just getting almost 10x as much for your buck. And with Kindle or other ebooks, it's even more obvious - I could spend £7.99 on Murderbot #4 (163 pages) or I could spend £4.99 (LESS!!!!) on the Children of Time (608 pages). Again HMMM DIFFICULT CHOICE. There's no delta in quality, really. Murderbot isn't like, super-premium ultra-amazing - it's good but it's not like it's some cut above. But the price is exactly the same as full length or even very long novels, often higher than those, in fact. There's no relationship whatsoever between length and cost - you can see this with Murderbot #5, which is £6.99, but a much more respectable 342 pages, nearly twice the length of the £7.99 book by the same author with the same character and setting. And a lot of novella pricing is like this. Not all of it - you do see some novellas priced very low, and I've certainly bought those before. But an awful lot are priced higher than well-written full-length novels. [/QUOTE]

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