Long-form journalism on the web

Nineteen thousand words about the Mumbai terrorism attack — is that too many words for a blog entry?

This week, Virginia Quarterly Review begins a multi-part series on the Mumbai attack, running it on the VQR blog.  Ted Genoways, VQR’s editor, wants to know if people will read such long pieces online.  Certainly more people will at least take a look on the web than will buy or order a copy of VQR.   (You can’t even buy VQR at our Borders or local bookstore up here in NH.)