I'd not heard that about The Stand before. Interesting to see it being re-published with such a huge increase in pages. I did read Neil Gaiman's 'preferred' version of American Gods which is a fair few pages longer, but not 350. I enjoyed it but not having reading the 'standard' version I can't compare it. There has been a growing move to releasing new versions of books but not normally with a substantial page increase. I guess it points to a collector focused approach from the publishers.