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Jul 20, 2013 08:55PM
"Sea of Sorrows" ISBN 9781416589624 has only 2 English editions, a Kindle ebook and a mass market paperback. Goodreads lists the mass market paperback at 352 pages. I have the book in my hands, and it goes up to page 478. Amazon has it at 496 pages, as does the publisher. The Amazon link: http://amzn.to/1bSxTZE . Simon & Schuster's link: http://bit.ly/15W7tmS
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What is in the pages going from 478 to 496?
Publishers and Amazon frequently have standardized page numbers. If a person says they have the book in their hand and the # is XX, then unless there is a very good reason to doubt them, we change the page numbers.Done ;)
Sandra wrote: "Publishers and Amazon frequently have standardized page numbers. If a person says they have the book in their hand and the # is XX, then unless there is a very good reason to doubt them, we change ..."well I was going with the user word until it happened(not just once) that in the page difference to be notes or other info belonging to the actual book, info we include in the pages count according to the manual. So I now prefer to ask before changing the page count; just to be sure :)
It's true that some books, Penguin Classics comes to mind, have additional pages outside the normal numbering, such as publisher's introductions and translator's comments before or after the normal text, and sometimes there is an appendix, set of footnotes, index, etc., at the end. These additional pages are often given Roman numerals, and when added to the text proper give a higher total page count. This particular book (Sea of Sorrows) has none of that. It's a normal mass market paperback format with nothing before the novel other than the copyright page, and nothing after the novel except one page with a brief author biography. I should have mentioned that in my original post. So Catalina, you are correct to ask, and Sandra, you are correct that publishers often release page counts that are estimated before the final typesetting and printing are completed. :)
