Question. During the Christmas holidays, I saw "Legend of the Guardians" for the second time, the first time being around the time it came out. I like this animated film, even though you can find some hilarious parallels with "300" with all the slo-mo fight scenes and whatnot.
At any rate, I vaguely remembered the film being based on a book; and a bit of googling after it ended, I found out it's actually based not on one, but on the first three books in a series with at least 16(!!!) entries by an author named Kathryn Lasky (whom I'd personally never heard of before). A bit more research appears to show that these first three books are around 200 pages each.
So that got me thinking.
If one has - hypothetically speaking - written a book that's 600 or so pages long and is actually loosely divisible into three "acts", should one try publishing the book as a nice 600-page volume, as originally intended, or should one try to publish it as three separate volumes, each around 200 pages. Will that maximise profits, and is it fair that others are doing it?
(Of course, we assume that there's a publisher ready to accept the aforementioned 600-page book in any shape or form its author decides fit.)
At any rate, I vaguely remembered the film being based on a book; and a bit of googling after it ended, I found out it's actually based not on one, but on the first three books in a series with at least 16(!!!) entries by an author named Kathryn Lasky (whom I'd personally never heard of before). A bit more research appears to show that these first three books are around 200 pages each.
So that got me thinking.
If one has - hypothetically speaking - written a book that's 600 or so pages long and is actually loosely divisible into three "acts", should one try publishing the book as a nice 600-page volume, as originally intended, or should one try to publish it as three separate volumes, each around 200 pages. Will that maximise profits, and is it fair that others are doing it?
(Of course, we assume that there's a publisher ready to accept the aforementioned 600-page book in any shape or form its author decides fit.)