Before our book page count calculator, you had to dig around through multiple sources to figure out how many words per page for your exact font size and then do the math. It depends on the font you are using, of course, but in general, 250300 words per page. When you embark on the journey of getting a book published theres a lot to consider and one of the things that should be on your priority list is how much youll be pricing your book for, which is a key piece of your book metadata. How to pick the size of your book as soon as you get serious about self publishing a book, you are confronted with the choice of what size your book ought to be. Easy reader books for ages 5 to 9 generally have up to 2,000 words. What follows is a rough guide to book length expectations in certain genres. So that your editor can estimate the word count and the final page count of your book. Roughly how many pages would 50,000 words produce in a. For instance, if you want to have the final book trimmed at 5. This screen will allow you to configure a self publishing cost. At a writers conference i recently attended, publishing veteran jane friedman said 80,000 words is good for most fiction, below 60,000 isnt novel length territory, and above 120,000 is likely too much. This would mean a book with 30,000 words would be roughly 120 pages. Academic books might put 600 words on a page with works of reference squeezing in. Book printing costs for printondemand mill city press.
There are all kinds of ways to figure out the book pages, but these are the simplest. We start with your raw manuscript and images and end with a quality book, ready for the marketplace. During the introductory month of the new system, the conversion of kenpc into the actual number of words in the book actual word count showed significant differences from one book to the other. Simply divide the total word count from your word document by the number of words per page.
A minimum count for a nonfiction ebook is about 10,000 words, as long as the content is solid. We limit title submissions to 1,000 per week per account. The typical books words per page count tends to range between 225 and 275an average of 250. When the final work is printed for sale and published, the number of words per page will differ. Jan 08, 2018 now that you know the average number of words per page in your book, you can calculate the page count with a little arithmetic. Take a typical 250word per page, 15 pages of good content contains around 3,750 words. Fantasy, scifi, and epic novel writers should be forewarned. Literary agent paula munier says a 90,000 word count is the sweet spot for debut fiction. Using this exercise, you should end up with a good idea of book length expectations for a novel like yours. Its no longer necessary to estimate according to the 250wordsperpage formula. If youre concerned about the final page count for your book, you should know that the average 6. Word count to book pages resources for independent authors.
If you have front or back matter dedications, forewords, bibliography, indexes, etc. To get an idea of what your book will look like you need to match the number of words per page on your word processing page to the finished printed page. This number was significantly different from the average we had seen for the estimated print length that had been given in the product details of each books amazon sales page. For paperbacks you get 2550 lines per page, with 35 being a good average. Scribes book publishing service you write, we publish. One thing we teach here at selfpublishing school is that. Once you have a vision for your book small, standard, or wide formatyou can move on to the second step in deciding how many words you should write. The average fiction book is about 80,000 to 100,000 words, which is about. So, a rough estimate is that 2 paperback printed pages will.
Book page count calculator how many pages is my novel. Randall publisher was founded in 1970 to provide a high quality publishing service for municipalities, groups and individuals. For help formatting your paperback manuscript, see our guides for microsoft word for windows, microsoft word for mac and pages for mac. Its too much hassle and timeconsuming time you couldve spent refining and perfecting your book content. So that comes out to about 400 a page and then factor in the double spacing and you get to 250 or so. All book publishers and book designers have a standard they go by to estimate page length. Aug 05, 2019 for most publishers, a book is novellength when its between 50,000 and 110,000 words.
Even fox cutters estimate is 250 words per page isnt useful. Amazon ebook page length by genre kindle page length. The total page count excluding appendices and index is 204 pages, thus about 93,000 words. First of all, find your word count in word by opening your document and looking at.
I am a firsttime author and am just about ready to self publish on amazon kindle. When i sign a contract for a book, the publisher specifies the word count they expect for me, generally 100k to 120k in most genres i write. All we have to do is use the wp tool that shows word count. Estimate your page count book designer linda parke. Many category editors find it easier to judge the length of a book in the way theyve always done. While chapter books often display one line drawing per chapter, they primarily use text to tell a story. On average, there are about 300 words per page in a book. Guidelines for writing childrens books pen and the pad.
In microsoft word, one page in the standard size and 12point font will be about 500550 words per page. When i write technical articles, theyre usually 600 words and about a page and a half. This format generally averages about 300 words per page, thus about 30,000 words per 100 pages. Therefore, a 55,000 word book should be about 200 manuscript pages. Its easy to extrapolate from this what your total expected editing cost could be. Personally, i recommend at least 10,000 words for nonfiction, unless you can do it justice in less. Many concept books display illustrations or other art and contain only a few words per page.
The average nonfiction book is about 50,000 to 75,000 words, which is about 153 to 230 ebook pages. The kindle unlimited problem it cant count words or pages. Once you have a vision for your booksmall, standard, or wide formatyou can move on to the second step in deciding how many words you should write. A cup of comfort devotional series publishing devotional books on various topics such as women, women of the bible, mothers and daughters guidelines. The cost to publish a book depends on a the length of the book and b the level of quality you want. It contains 38 lines per page, with an average of 12 words per line, thus 456 words per book page. This perpage charge makes your books page count instrumental in the cost per book, which is why its the first item youll fill out in the printing calculator. Sixty characters per line at an average of six characters per word a publishing industry rule of thumb works out to an average of ten words per line. An approximate word count round numbers based on what your wp tells you enables them to estimate costs and other factors involved in printing a. So if you write a 35,000 word manuscript, your formatted book will likely be around 140 pages. You will get a fair but honest evaluation of your work and how it can improve so that you can have the best possible book.
Amazon cannot count the kindle words per page readers read, the number of pages readers flip, or the time readers spend on reading an ebook. Now that you know the average number of words per page in your book, you can calculate the page count with a little arithmetic. Assuming you use the standard conventions for manuscript format 1 margins, 25 doublespaced lines per page, and a 12 point nonproportional font like courier, then a good rule of thumb is one page equals 250 words. Oct 25, 2018 keep in mind that the average compensation per book matters less the more books you sell, which depends on your business model. Words to pages book size each publisher usually has a formula for determining the number of words per manuscript page and how that translates into words per printed page for that particular publishers templates, but a given formula wont necessarily be accurate in relation to books published by a different publisher. For all of our editing, we say that we will hurt your feelings before we let you publish a bad book. To fill a page in word, you would need around 500 words, 1. The 5 x 8 trim size means about 250 words per page. Neither too long nor too short, this book length signals a novelists competency and knowledge of the publishing market to prospective agents and editors. This is an art rather than a science but here are a few tips. The typical books wordsperpage count tends to range between 225 and 275an average of 250. Young adult books are appropriate for ages 12 and up. At the time you place your actual order, you will be given a cost based on the options you have. For instance, if you want to get a price on how much a book will cost to print, the first thing you need to know is the size.
Generally title, scripture, anecdote, and thought for the. Calculate book page count using word count for book design. Most ebooks i see are double spaced, which makes their pages clearer but also reduces the number of words per page. Nov 18, 2016 kindle publishing keyword research course. You may decide that compensation isnt your end goal and your publication is more about creating a. Using a standard font size, you can estimate about 250300 words per page.
When you query a publisher, its customary to include your novels estimated word count. As a publisher who has laid out dozens of books for printinga 50,000 word manuscript should end up somewhere between 180 and 220 pages. For a 120,000word book, your editing costs could be. Because dialogue requires paragraph breaks, there will be fewer words than if you have a few pages of full paragraphs instead of dialogue. For manuscripts, the answer is about 250300 words per page if it is doublespaced. Most adult books are about 90,000 words, and no longer than 100,000 words unless youre jk rowling. These guidelines are intended for designers of paperbacks with black and white or color interiors, with fullcolor covers.
Think about which you prefer, since youll choose for yourself if youre self publishing. Another general guideline is to assume that your book will average 300 words per page. Readers of individual genres anticipate certain book lengths, and so do publishers. Using amazons number of words as a guide, 5,000 words would equal 26. How many pages would my manuscript be in paperback.
Pod book printing costs are usually determined by a percover charge plus a perpage charge. For most publishers, a book is novellength when its between 50,000 and 110,000 words. Thus, divide your word count by 300 and you again get an approximate number of pages. Ultimately, you can expect there to be roughly 300 words per page in a book you write as a whole.
Divide your word count by 390 to arrive at the approximate number of pages ex. How many words per page are there in a typical novel. A 25 line page, then, will have an average of 250 wordsa nice big round number. Better to have solid, clear information than rambling to make a page count. Of course, if you just want to get your book out there, you can always format it for free and selfpublish. Assuming you use the standard conventions for manuscript format 1 margins, 25 doublespaced lines per page, and a 12 point nonproportional font like courier, then a good rule of thumb is one page equals 250 words for the mathimpaired, that means you multiply the number of. A manuscript for a novel is typically 500 words per page if singlespaced. Another recommendation by tom corsonknowles from tck publishing. The average across a sample of 50 books in august 2015 showed 172 words per kindle edition normalized page. Some editors charge a minimum fee for their services to cover the cost of their time and energy spent on a particular project in lieu of other work.
The cost of your book is computed based on several factors, including. Book publishing services boutique for new and existing authors to want to essentially selfpublish their work, acquire proper marketingpublicity, and stay abreast of whats new in the publishing industry. If the book has full bleed inside pages, please select onesize up as your book size, then enter final trim size here. Cost of publishing a book book selfpublishing services. Generally, a paperback novel in the standard print size can contain about 250300 words per page.
Paperback books typically contain how many words per page. Different books and publishers have different layouts for their pages. A picture book for preschool children that attempts to teach a basic concept. Publishers want to know the overall length of your book. These are some examples of page count from books we publish. How does your book measure compare to whats succeeding in todays marketplace. As you can see, a smaller trim size will produce more pages for the same word count, and a larger trim size will produce less. Frequently asked questions getting published meg cabot.
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