Subject: Re: Stats From: Roberto Quezada Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 02:04:21 -0400
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Subject: Re: Stats From: Roberto Quezada Date: Sat, 07 Sep 1996 02:04:21 -0400
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Hi Chris,

I can only answer for what my readers said to me in an informal poll I 
took (about a hundred responses).  About 70 would not read over 500 
words.  They actually preferred 350.  Most of my readers were under 30 
and made movies for a living.  Perhaps writers (screenwriters in my neck 
of the internet) will read longer articles, mainly because they're 
online longer and more often (procrastinating, if you ask me ).

What about you?  Which do you prefer?  Articles over 500 words or 
shorter bursts of information accessible with hyper links?

What I would suggest is a document in three sections:

Section One:  Headlines (with hyperlinks to both a summary of the 
article and an in depth version of the article)

Section Two: Summary of the article (Under a hundred words) with a hyper 
link to the in depth version.

Section Three: In depth version of all the articles (over 500 words)

I think you maximize your audience and you're doing something the print 
versions of the News don't do.

Roberto Quezada
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