Books nowadays have titles like:
Two Words: a really obnoxiously long sentence that explains nothing and only exists to keyword stuff product titles for Amazon searches
It’s the light novel marketing strategy. Since everything’s online, people can’t skim the book to see if it’s their cuppa, so you have you make your pitch in the subtitle.
Welcome Home: My Brooding Wolfpire Enemies-to-Lovers Flatmate is Secretly a Millionaire and Stalking Me (but in a Sexy Way)
Sure, but have you heard of anime?
No
Odd. Neither have I.
Skill issue
A Book of Characters and Plots
A Thing of Things. An Adjective Noun. The Thing and the Thing. All of which are softcore dubcon fantasies for straight women. (I’m not judging; mostly just jealous.)
Do a film adaptation. Refuse to change the subtitle.
Well knowing if it’s a short story, novella, novel, novelette, or other form of narrative is always helpful.
Edit spelling
I appreciate it for authors who usually publish short stories so that I can realize I’m not picking up a collection.
The only difference between those is the length, and you generally tell the size of a book by looking at the size of the book
A lot of stories can be in compilations, or originally in magazines or other form of combined methods.
Also, large print? Too many factors to just pick a book up and know its length.
Digital books, whether ebook or audio, make up about a quarter of the market. Can’t tell the length on those.
Games too:
Scania Truck Driving Simulator: The Game
Like wow thanks I thought it might be the movie
I mean, sometimes novels have framing devices that muddy the water around origin, authorship, veracity, etc. Usually it’s obvious enough, but it can be nice to have clarification.
