Why are self help books usually shorter than novels and cost significantly more money?

[jennifer_bloom]

I don't usually buy short self help books cause if I am going to pay a premium price for a book I want to know all the important details and I don't believe 200 pages is enough to summarize the most important points of the topic in a detail high enough to give you functional capacity in the topic you are reading about.

[aoihewgf]

Self help while can be based on opinions, must in general be well researched and requires a thorough understanfing of the particular field. But in the end tber really isn't much new ideas from book to book, most is the same from on book to another. So the ones that are rated the best, can command a higher price and those will be the ones you'll find in bookstore or library as there probably isn't enough room on the bookshelf to Include all the other books that say pretty much the same thing.

For the novels, there's an infinite set of stories that can be written about and the authors novel isn't going to be the same as others

[aoihewgf]

I imagine the self help books that are popular are going to be from the people that are already well known tok and can command a high selling price on the work. Ex. Dave R, Robert k in the personal finance area

[Leapfrog00]

I've been doing research on publishing novels and I've noticed the printing costs are different depending on what the author is looking for.

If I had to guess, I'd say the reason self-help books may cost more might have something to do with the publisher and the type of book. Some publishing companies only publish certain types of books and certain genres,

It may have something to do with the printing cost as well. Sometimes, self-help books have pictures and diagrams, and books containing images usually cost more to publish because there's more ink being used for the color. It's not all texts like novels.