: Re: Is being paid by the word/page making American books longer? I buy quite a lot of literature, mostly of academic nature. One thing I have noticed is that books by American authors always tend

I honeslty don't know if this has any one answer, because I'm sure different publishing houses and different authors with different contracts get paid differently. From what I recall back in the day authors were probably paid by the page (or whatever quantity) because there was a push for quantity, not quality. Now-a-days I believe authors get paid depending on how well the book sells.

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