Is there any special reason why B&N does not list the number of pages in the Nook book descriptions?

[HunEBunny]

Why is ther not a listing of the number of pages for a Nook book?  This to me would be very helpful in the certain instances where you purchase what you thought was a great deal on a book, and then it ends up being less than 100 pages.  I know that everyone has their "pet peaves" but I really would like that feature.  It may be due to a formating issue but I just wanted to know if someone knew the reason that info is not listed?

[keriflur · Accepted solution]

The publisher provides the page count.  If the publisher has not provided the information, B&N cannot include it.  The page count is included for many ebooks, as in the example below:

Note that pages in ebooks are rarely comparable to each other.  Wordcount would be more accurate, as a 50,000 word book could be 1 ebook page or 100,000 ebook pages, depending on how the .epub file is created.

[555aaa]

The publisher does not provide the page count for ebooks as this has no meaning and they don't ask for it. Amazon, for example, calculates a predicted page count from the file contents that get uploaded.  B&N could easily do the same thing.  The page count depends on which reading device is being used. I think this is a handy feature that B&N should add.