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Amazon is always doing cool things with their data. One thing that they've added recently are some text stats. They have the usual readability indices (Fog, Flesch, Flesch-Kincaid), complexity measures  and such.  For instance, here's some data for the classic book Pattern Classification. One 'fun stat' that they have is  words per dollar and words per ounce.

Here's some words per dollar for some of my favorite books:

• Cryptonomicon: 50,053  words/dollar
  
• Quincunx: 33,391 words/dollar
• Good Omens:  15,149 words/dollar
• Goodnight Moon: 16 words/dollar
• Good Dog, Carl:  4 words/dollar

Clearly there's a wide range of words per dollar here, if we somehow  could get Neal Stephenson to write a book in the Good Dog Carl series, I think we'd be able to sell it for about $100,000 a copy , (or maybe it would be 3 for a penny) .... woah!