Tuesday, March 21, 2017

RANT: Why does a book about a one minute workout need to be 270 pages?

On one of my favorite science podcasts,   Quirks & Quarks  the author of the book
One-Minute Workout was interviewed. I'm a heavy library user and promptly went online to see if the local branch had the book. As expected, on checking the table of contents, the book was in the mid 200 pages in length.

I'll find a magazine article or two  that summarize the gist of the book. I suspect publishers push authors to fatten books to justify the price of the book. At least one Amazon reviewer has described the book as repetitive, a common characteristic of fattened books.

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