How long should an ebook be?

Question

I am writing an ebook online that has many items that have never been written in the majority of ebooks, but what i want to know is how long should it be. I havent added much filler at all, but want to know how many pages would make it look nice

Answer 1

I have never been able to finish an ebook without having at one point printed it out and then read through it.
I would say that if the reading experience goes beyond 1 hour, I tend to kind of lose focus (and yet, I have stuck with paper books for like days)
And yet, I agree with the previous poster that you should not try to decrease the size if you think thats the right size.
My only suggestion is that, maybe, if you are writing an ebook, split it into multiple parts/episodes/articles and at each page, keep links to the index page from where you can let me move to any page in random.
Also do let out a pdf version of the whole thing so that people like me can take print outs and read at leisure...

all the best!

Answer 2

Long enough to tell the story. Now what that is, who knows?

Some stories are short and some stories are long. But make no mistake, it is the story that dictates the length, and not the length that dictates the story.

In other words, You decide how long you want or need the story to go. The medium you use to convey the story is irrelevant (TV and film screenplays excluded, of course).