Fooled again! eBooks and truth in labelling

I recently bought an 'eBook' from a commercial site and discovered -- 
AFTER paying for it -- that it was only about 20000 words long. Had it 
been in a bookstore, of course, that would have been obvious. Nowhere on 
the site did it indicate the length of the book (or the file size) so I 
came away feeling that I had been cheated: I set out to buy a book and 
ended up with a pamphlet. After DRM, this would have to be the most 
annoying feature to me of current eBook distribution. PG is notably 
cavalier in this respect -- calling things 'books' when they are short 
stories, for instance -- but some other distributors seem to have 
adopted the same approach. Fictionwise, I note, is an exception. Baen 
Books gives a table of contents and an extract via which one can 
estimate the length, but they don't seem to explicitly state the length 
in words or kB.

What information should a distributor have to supply about an eBook -- 
at the risk, say, of legal action? Here's my list:

Title -- and alternate titles
Author
First publication date
Length
Genre
Price
Format
DRM restrictions

Any others?

Jon.


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