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Flight of Fantasy 　　China’s “online novelists” are adept at spinning out long， tall tales. But then again， since their works sell online for roughly three yuan cents （0.5 US cents） per 1，000 characters （roughly equivalent to 650 English words） ? or 30 yuan（US$4.9） for one million characters ? they have an incentive to keep their stories running for as many chapters as possible. 　　Updated chapter-by-chapter on a daily basis， a piece of online fiction usually clocks in at two or three million characters （around 1.3 to 2 million English words）. 5-millioncharacter epics are not rare， and the rec