Which is better?

[RiceballWasTaken]

Assuming you knew nothing about the story itself, which of these would you be more likely to pick up and take a look at: a series with a small number of long books, or a large number of short books?

people don't think much about these factors but other factors like book quality

 

[ThisAdamGuy]

people don't think much about these factors

The fact that 19 people have voted so far says otherwise.

 

[RiceballWasTaken]

The fact that 19 people have voted so far says otherwise.

they voted because you set up a binary setting of these outcomes.

 

[ThisAdamGuy]

they voted because you set up a binary setting of these outcomes.

They still answered. That means that some part of them, even if it's a small part, thinks about that when they're looking for something to read. Otherwise they wouldn't have answered at all--or in your case, not answer but try to derail the thread anyway.

 

[Deleted member 120990]

They still answered. That means that some part of them, even if it's a small part, thinks about that when they're looking for something to read. Otherwise they wouldn't have answered at all--or in your case, not answer but try to derail the thread anyway.

You can report people that you believe to be derailing your thread.

 

[unlaumy]

I would say small number of large books. I like stability, and more volumes mean more contents where the risk of getting weird plot increases. A bad large book can still exist though.

A story can be long with small books. CN Webnovels are long, but they usually have small chapters.

One volume in CN webnovels usually has like +100 chapters, so it's kinda a large book. But CN webnovels are weird like that. Everything is true for them, even if it's contradictory.

 

[Fox-Trot-9]

Small number of large books for me, but I'm not too picky on word counts. I am picky on genres, though, so there's that.