A manuscript for a novel is typically 500 words per page if singlespaced. Amazon will estimate a page count for ebooks at about the industry average estimate of 250 words per page. Perkins agency in new york says its much easier to market a firsttime novelists book if the word count falls between 80,000 and 100,000 words, or roughly 300 doublespaced, typed pagesthe average novel length. Estimate your page count book designer linda parke. For example, atonement has a word count of 123,378 and my utility comes up with 110,765 words. On average, one doublespaced page has 250300 words. Can be publisher specific, ranging from 3,000 to absolute max 5,000. 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.
Excluding endnotes and index, the book has about 200 pages of text, which means its total word count is about 74,000 words. My nook for instance may say that the book im reading is 250 pages but ill have to change the page on the screen 500 to 750 times because one page of text. Jan 08, 2018 calculate book page count using your word count. Once you know your word count, follow one of our two methods below to estimate your page count. Word count to book pages resources for independent authors. Our book page count calculator will help you figure out how many pages your final book will contain based off of our your current word count. In the apply to list, select whole document and click ok. Second, count five sample lines from the normal pages. Fourth, multiply the words per line by the number of lines per page, and you will have the number of words for a typical page. Do the number of pages in an ebook differ from the number of. Then count all the words in the lines and divide by five to find the average number of words per line. Why you need to know your word or page count my next traditionally published book, the author training manual writers digest books, february 2014, was supposed to be around 50,000 words thats what i agreed to in my contract and what my publisher planned on when determining page count, design, expenses, profitandloss statement, etc. Amount every kdp selectenrolled title earned monthly through kindle unlimited ku and the kindle owners lending library koll. These books are generally heftier in general, so for a 150 page book you can target 45,000 words and 60,000 words for a 200 page book.
The average fiction book is about 80,000 to 100,000 words, which is about. Better to have solid, clear information than rambling to make a page count. And they will use this number for both your physical book and your ebook. Word count, with a little help from amazon alexis grant. This way it is much more difficult for the writer to.
Use the word count feature of the word processing program to track the word count. Each page contains about 34 lines, with an average word count of 11 words per line, thus 375 words per page. Youre better off going with the answers given by shawn and marion i guess. Build your book format a paperback manuscript word for. Word processing programs have a function that calculates the number automatically, but the results are not reliable in the publishing world. My question is that if, as you recommend, working to standard 11 x 8 normal size, what size should i now type in. When i started writing three years ago, the mg word count i kept hearing was no more than 30,000 words. When the final work is printed for sale and published, the number of words per page will differ. Book page count calculator how many pages is my novel. Heres how pavita singh of pavedita in palo alto, california, breaks down costs for editing services based on word count and type of editing copy editing or.
Personally, i recommend at least 10,000 words for nonfiction, unless you can do it justice in less. There are several methods for determining the word count of a given book. There are plenty of books that purposefully play with the word counts of their chapters. For manuscripts, the answer is about 250300 words per page if it is doublespaced. These books are generally heftier in general, so for a 150page book you can target 45,000 words and 60,000 words for a 200page book. Aug 05, 2019 for most publishers, a book is novellength when its between 50,000 and 110,000 words. Calculate book page count using word count for book design. A minimum count for a nonfiction ebook is about 10,000 words, as long as the content is solid. A 100 page book would be, then, about 25,000 words. In the opposite direction, it can give a more accurate estimate of how many pages you have created if you only know the word count. In my opinion dont just go for filling your ebook with words. So 15,000 words would run to 288 pages, and 30,000 words would run to 576 pages. Search for word count totals in books word counters.
Experiment with different prices, a month at a time, to see what gives you a better result. I tend to write 500 word articles on a page roughly and that is using 12 point arial. But are the total number of pages different in an ebook than a physical book. This is because i calculate all my jobs based on word count, not number of pages.
The average nonfiction book is about 50,000 to 75,000 words, which is about 153 to 230 ebook pages. This resizes your pages and changes your page count, which you need to know for setting your margins. Why you need to know your word or page count my next traditionally published book, the author training manual writers digest books, february 2014, was supposed to be around 50,000 wordsthats what i agreed to in my contract and what my publisher planned on when determining page count, design, expenses, profitandloss statement, etc. Enter your books trim size into the width and height fields. The average fiction book is about 80,000 to 100,000 words, which is about 246 to 307 ebook pages. The reason is that ebook reading devices have different dimensions. Using your current word count and the appropriate formula below, calculate the number of pages you can expect in your finished book. On my studie the also want to have a list of pages with word count per page and a. The actual word count for the hunger games is 99,750 and my utility calculates 94,743 words. Amount a title earned under the 70% royalty option.
How to find out the number of words in a book pen and. Mar 20, 2020 why you need to know your word or page count my next traditionally published book, the author training manual writers digest books, february 2014, was supposed to be around 50,000 wordsthats what i agreed to in my contract and what my publisher planned on when determining page count, design, expenses, profitandloss statement, etc. If you want to calculate any other word count for a 4. I tend to write 500 word articles on a page roughly and that is using.
This means that a 75,000 word novel would be around 300 pages. Many, yes, but there are exceptions due to the layout and font size of a particular book. On the layout tab, in the page setup group, click size, and then select more paper sizes. How to calculate a word count per page pen and the pad. Royalties in kindle unlimited and kindle owners lending. Fill your ebook with real knowledge you have and words will automatically come out.
Not to be contrary but i prefer word count to page count for the simple fact page count will vary depending on where im reading the file be it my nook, tablet, or on my computer. Publishers can now include it in the look inside, but a good rule of thumb is 10 words per line x 33 lines per page times number of pages. 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. Its no longer necessary to estimate according to the 250wordsperpage formula. Since there can be a large variation on the number of words needed to fill a page, most papers are no longer assigned by page count. May 14, 2018 managing word count before submitting your work will speed up the lengthy publication process. If a page is 500 words on an ipad, and 250 words on a kindle, it might be only 120 words on a phone. Barnum may have been vulgar and flashy but he was also a brilliant reader of pop culture. Word count for the book the english patient word counters. Thus, divide your word count by 300 and you again get an approximate number of pages. Is there a way to show word count per page in the footer or else where on the page.
Nov 18, 2016 kindle publishing keyword research course. But depending on the ereading device and the font size setting, it varies significantly between a phone, a tablet, or a kindle. Here is what 187 words looks like in microsoft word. Take a typical 250 word per page, 15 pages of good content contains around 3,750 words. For paperbacks you get 2550 lines per page, with 35 being a good average. That being said you can usually assume about 250 words per a printed page. Hey, im writing a book and im a bit worried about the word count. This is because these programs only count actual words, but publishers. The average across a sample of 50 books in august 2015 showed 172 words per kindle edition normalized page. The graph shows the average length of the top 100 bestsellers in each of the 30. With that in mind, paulas suggested 90,000 word count goal proves itself worthy again. You must provide an accurate word count per page or by document when you are submitting a literary project. The average book on the planet is 65,000 words at 200 pages, which is pretty close to this method. Publishers want to know the overall length of your book.
Ive looked at articles that say literary agents wont consider a book with a word count of over 100 000, so you can see why im a little concerned. For most publishers, a book is novellength when its between 50,000 and 110,000 words. Different books and publishers have different layouts for their pages. Even with the wiggle room allowed by ebooks, authors follow commonlyaccepted book word count. Estimate a small reduction for the linesperpage and the numberofpages values. Since you can view the amazon page counts of the books that are currently ranking. We looked at 5 different genres, recording the pricing and length of books in each genre.
Royalties in kindle unlimited and kindle owners lending library. The answer is one page single spaced or two pages double spaced. Managing word count before submitting your work will speed up the lengthy publication process. Academic books might put 600 words on a page with works of reference squeezing in words. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the perfect weapon star wars short story. 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. Now, depending on how youve setup your document your page count may vary slightly, but with arial or times new roman 12 point font and conventional margins you should see similar results. Show word count per page in the footer microsoft community. So an 80,000 word manuscript would translate to approximately 350 pages. Divide your word count by 390 to arrive at the approximate number of pages ex.
This line count includes blank lines between paragraphs as well as lines with just a single word. Minimum realistic word count of nonfiction book writing. Kindle pages display more content than your iphone. The force awakens kindle edition by dawson, delilah s download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Though the average word count of a chapter is around 2,000 5,000 words, it all depends on your story. Amazon estimates a page count in an ebook to be around 187 words. In standard real paper book publishing it is usually advised not to use san serif fonts like ariel but to stick to serif ones like times new roman or garamond as they are much easier to read. How many words per page are there in a typical novel. Another general guideline is to assume that your book will average 300 words per page.
Another recommendation by tom corsonknowles from tck publishing. Amazon ebook page length by genre kindle page length. Enter width and height fields for your trim size with bleed added. The book will be part of a trilogy, and although ive only written little over half of the entire thing, the estimated word count is looking to be nearly 300 000 words. These include using published information about the book to determine an exact word count, estimating the number of words based on industry standards and. Thats really hard to say, books are usually measured by word count and not page count.
Its too much hassle and timeconsuming time you couldve spent refining and perfecting your book content. First of all, find your word count in word by opening your document and looking at the bottom left of your screen. Youll use the word count in your word document to calculate book page count. I believe they know what theyre talking about and i clearly didnt. If a customer reads pages in your book for the first time through ku or koll, you will see a separate line item indicating the accumulated. On my studie the also want to have a list of pages with word count per page and a sum. That is, an assignment, essay or paper will likely be assigned as 1500 2000 words rather than 3 4 pages.
I know that for an ebook there are 23 ebook pages per page number. By using these three options to more accurately define your writing, the words per page calculator should provide a better estimate on how many words you need to write to fill a page. Do the number of pages in an ebook differ from the number. The kindle unlimited problem it cant count words or pages.
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. Jan 18, 2010 publishers can now include it in the look inside, but a good rule of thumb is 10 words per line x 33 lines per page times number of pages. Working to an average of 300 words per page i therefore type in 12 point. Amazon ebook page length by genre kindle page length klytics. Have you ever wondered how the average ebook page length or word count.
Use our handy table to discover how many pages a given word count yields, single or double spaced, in times new roman or arial 12 point font. Ebook word count should also be accounted for when setting the price of an ebook. Jul 09, 2012 working to an average of 300 words per page i therefore type in 12 point. At times the readers of books may be interested in discovering how many words they read. So you may not want to tempt fate on the shortshortshort end of the scale.
The overview below provides an indication of the number of pages required based on font. This reduction will be very small, like maybe 12 lines less per page, and 510 pages less for the book. People buy ebooks for knowledge and if you are giving them what you want then no matter if it is 500 words or 5000 words. The same question applies to pages such as dedications, contents, etc.
The length can vary greatly between genres, though. A pdf ebook should have page numbers unless it is super short and a proper table of contents or index. Reading an ebook using ibooks on my ipod touch will give me a different page count from reading the ebook on my ipad. What is the average number of words per page on amazon. Estimate a small reduction for the lines per page and the numberofpages values. Onethird of the novels that come into the agency are rejected because theyre too long or short, perkins says. Sadly, few ereaders and software will do a page count based on page turns which would be determined by your current font settings and the formatting inside the epub itself, and will instead just display the current adobe page youre on, even if it takes 34 page turns to get through the page.