Published book printed word count

Many, yes, but there are exceptions due to the layout and font size of a particular book. Thats really hard to say, books are usually measured by word count and not page count. Most standalone novels run between 80,000 and 95,000 words. These are the most common book sizes for most fiction and nonfiction books. If i were to ask you how long your book is, and you answer that it is 225 manuscript pages, i am still not clear. Recently an author proposed a 30,000 word book to a publisher. Should you go with the average book size for your genre, or should you base your decision on your books word count and go with the size that will cost the least to print. Everything you need to know about word count and book length for books and. I am a first time author and am just about ready to self publish on amazon kindle. This is a list of the novels over 500,000 words published through a mainstream publisher. Printing costs vary depending on page count and ink type black ink or color ink. Length of a book is typically associated with its sizespecifically page countleading many to assume the largest and thickest book equates to its length. Transparent objects and layers should be flattened in the native file before publishing. Oct 26, 2018 discover what size your book should be and if thats comparable to the standard book sizes in publishing.

As you can see, you need to know your word count, not the number of pages your word processor produces. There are some easy ways to find the word count for a published bookonline bookstores. We all know of outliers within each genre that have been published well under, or well over, these word counts. Kdp prints your book on demand and subtracts your printing costs from your royalties. Traditionally published novels can go from 80,000 words to even as high as 110,000. Apr 05, 2015 generally a 50,000word novel would be the minimum word count. Frequently asked questions on getting published how can i get the book ive written published. Step 4 is measure your manuscript in word count, not pages. Most people expect a certain price for a certain pageword count.

Cover creator accepts jpg, png, and gif file formats. That being said you can usually assume about 250 words per a printed page. This would mean a book with 30,000 words would be roughly 120 pages. In these cases, the overall design of the book determines the publishing costs more than word count.

When it gets closer to 1,000, editors and agents may shy away. Frequently asked questions getting published meg cabot. As a reader i love the huge word count novels steven king has written and the very short gems tom robbins has penned. I put in anne of green gables and clicked on the first entry, and it listed the word count as 17,129. Set your list price and receive industryleading royalties. If your book is divided into parts or sections, youll probably add a part or section divider page followed by a blank between each part or section. There is a 24page count minimum for our hard case bindings. If you want to experiment with book sizes and the way they might impact your typesetting choices, the reedsy book editor allows you to do so for free. The writing market has changed a lot since i first got published. Youll use the word count in your word document to calculate book page count. For example, if your book has 14 chapters, add 7 pages to your page count. If you want to get a target for your nonfiction book, the best thing may be to look at a dozen or so bestselling books in the genreniche youre aiming at and see what their word counts are. I clicked on the unabridged version, and it lists the word count as 97,364. As a result, a 100k manuscript can size up very differently on a shelf.

See my later post for a detailed explanation and instructions on how to calculate book length. First and foremost, word count matters because it matters to publishers. The longest is the order of the phoenix with a word count of 257,000 words. If you ve published a book successfully before, you may have more. Use your word processor to figure out your average word count per manuscript page and your total word count. We dont know if it is single spaced, double spaced, in a teensy sized font, or. Word count and book length getting published was indeed a good blog post. Both our hardcover and softcover books come in all standard book sizes. 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. I am a firsttime author and am just about ready to self publish on amazon kindle.

But while page count is integral to your perbook cost, its not something youll. As a reader i love the huge word count novels steven king has written and the very. Pencilthin books on narrow topics that are under 50,000 words are quite common. Printing a book is no small feat, and bookbaby is here to make your dream come true. However, there is a wide range of acceptable word counts for nonfiction books. Mar 18, 2016 thats not to say that books as long or longer havent been successfully printed, but agents would regard something that ambitious as an epic or a saga, and unless youre already well known, an overly lengthy book could hurt your chances of finding an agent and getting published. Apostolate of the printed word, sacred heart league open library donate. I was a middle school english teacher, so know i know mg pretty well, and i am going to say i think casey is pretty spot on. Generally a 50,000word novel would be the minimum word count. Use free tools to build and publish your book or take advantage of professional publishing services. How to find out the number of words in a book pen and.

Cover you can create your book cover using kdps cover creator tool or submit your book cover in a pdf. How many pages of a standardsized published book would. If you havent designed your interior or will have gorham printing design it for you, the best way to estimate a rough page count is from a word count. The minimum page count is 24 pages, and the maximum page count depends on ink and paper and trim size options see the table below. And a 28,000 word manuscript is more like a booklet or novella of 90 pages. Print your own book single book printing one off book. Printing a single copy of your book to proof in person before you buy, isnt just a possibility, its an incredibly easy reality. Trim size, bleed settings, and cover finish dont affect printing cost. For example, atonement has a word count of 123,378 and my utility comes up with 110,765 words. In this post, were going to explain word count and how it affects your chances of publishing success. There are several methods for determining the word count of a given book.

It is, i think, the easiest to use to quickly find the word count of a book. This tool is helpful for all authors everywhere who want to figure out how many pages their final book will contain based on their current word count. Jan 08, 2018 calculate book page count using your word count. I wrote a book actually, many books, then found a guide called jeff hermans guide to agents, editors, and publishers. Almost all real publishers do a print edition of every book, so that matters. Use the word count feature in your word processing software to find out how many words your manuscript holds. Standard book sizes custom book binding book trim sizes. As for nonfiction books, the standard bestsellers have word counts similar to adult novels. These are some examples of page count from books we publish. So, you have a finished book, and youre wanting to publish a paperback or hardback option for your readers.

This is useful only as a writers alternate way of assessing the length of a manuscript, nothing more. Kdp will automatically convert these file types to pdf prior to publishing printing. Or at least one in which publishers might be interested. With that in mind, ive tried to put together the definitive post on word count for fiction novels, young adult, middle grade, childrens. Having some reallife examples at your side, you should get a better sense of.

That means you dont have to pay any costs upfront or carry any inventory. Different books and publishers have different layouts for their pages. For example, if an author has to write a minimum or maximum amount of words for an article, essay, report, story, book, paper, you name it. What follows is a rough guide to book length expectations in certain genres. To be picked up by a traditional publisher, my manuscript needs to fall in a similar wordcount window. For the publisher, it is an economic size 18 printed sheets books tend to be printed on 16page sheets give a nice balance between the costs of cover and inside pages. Failing to mention the word count, or committing the faux pas of stating the page count instead, will also see a quick rejection. Youll be published by the merit of your novel, not your age. Some authors believe the word count is irrelevantwhether it takes 20,000 words or 200,000 words, the book will be done when youve finished telling your story. Using a standard font size, you can estimate about 250300 words per page. Thats not to say that books as long or longer havent been successfully printed, but agents would regard something that ambitious as an epic or a saga, and unless youre already well known, an overly lengthy book could hurt your chances of finding an agent and getting published. Calculate book page count using the word count from your word document. It is an industry standard that books are measured in word count rather than the.

Wordcounter will help to make sure its word count reaches a specific requirement or stays within a certain limit. Do i still need to follow the arbitrary word count limits. Word count matters more than it should in my opinion. 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. If your book isnt exactly to your liking, well make it right. The cost of printing increases exponentially with file sizepage count and this can. This graph charts editions from this publisher over time. Personally, i also count the number of chapters, divide by 2 and subtract this no.

Custom hardcover books can also be covered with a dust jacket, a removable paper cover used to protect a book from dirt or damage. Divide your final word count or the word count youre aiming for by 250 or 300 to arrive at your page count estimate. Volume 1 of mein kampf was published in 1925 and volume 2 in 1926. Sep 12, 2012 put a title the exact title in the search engine, then click on the title, or one of the titles if more than one comes up. Most young adult novels fall between 55,000 and 70,000 words. In itself, no measure is perfect but personally i find word count the most useful.

I wrote a book actually, many books, then found read more. There are many different different paths to getting published. Step 5 is to target your writing so you will be on track for your books vision. If you dont see the word count in the status bar, rightclick the status bar, then and click word count. All of these are average book word count ranges and should not be taken as the definitive word count you must reach in your book. Whatever the reason, thanks to this special single book offer, you can print a book extremely affordably. Bookbaby offers both hardcover and softcover book options. Sharp objects has a word count of 80,565 and my utility calculates it at 80,7. To do this, you need to first customize the quick access toolbar qat to include the edit story in microsoft word button. The best way to guesstimate your page count is to assume 250 to 300 words to a page. Publishing history this is a chart to show the when this publisher published books. Create, publish and distribute your book in print worldwide. My struggle or my fight is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by nazi party leader adolf hitler.

Like a general fiction novel, a good target word count for a memoir is 80,000 words. Word count assuming your manuscript is in courier 12 with 1inch margins in a manuscript will come out to about 250 words per page. Assuming for a moment that your word count is wrong and the book really is longer than your agent wants it to be, you have to weigh her advice in relation to your own instincts as a. For traditional publishing or selfpublishing, youll have the best odds of success. Word count for novels and books is something i dont think about too often until i travel to a writers conference, and then someone asks a simple, innocent question. The answer will be the approximate page count of a printed book. And now were seeing some publishers produce book that run from 100,000 to 120,000 words. Jan 18, 2010 this is awesome enough for me to get excited over. Page count well calculate your page count based on your manuscript file, rounding up to an even number if necessary. Go to that books page and scroll down to inside this book. For the record, any editor worth his or her salt, especially at a major house, is going to understand that word count is whats important to the size of the published book, not the page count of your manuscript. Its not just more expensive to print the extra pages.

But if marketability matters to you, its not that simple. Select your word print size select the book genre enter your book s word count. Along the x axis is time, and on the y axis is the count of editions published. When it comes to selfpublished booksdoes size matter. Readers of individual genres anticipate certain book lengths, and so do publishers. In contrast, word count is finite and usually i can calculate book length with about 99% accuracy in part because also included in any calculation is a count of figures, tables, etc. Or maybe you just want to know how good it feels to hold your very own printed book in your hands. At times the readers of books may be interested in discovering how many words they read. How many pages would my manuscript be in paperback. Kdp doesnt print hardcover books, but ingram spark offers a wide range of hardcover print book options, running from 5 by 8 to 8. A single novel can be longer, but once the length is above 110,000 words publishers may look at cutting it back, unless it is a particular kind of book books over the 110k word count are usually considered epics. Why word count matters when you submit your book the artful.

Search for word count totals in books word counters. The work describes the process by which hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for germany. First of all, find your word count in word by opening your document and looking at the bottom left of your screen. These include using published information about the book to determine an exact word count, estimating the number of words based on industry standards and. 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. For the publisher, it is an economic size 18 printed sheets books tend to be printed on 16page sheets give a nice balance between the costs. Once you know your word count, follow one of our two methods below to estimate your page count. I was quickly flooded with emails from many an angry author for daring to put a word count on a level of book. The binding, font and paper size establish how many pages a published book will be.

How to use our book page count calculator select your word print size select the book genre. A way to check word count of published books anita nolans blog. In word, click the file tab and then click close to return to your publication. Estimate your page count book designer fiona raven.

Mar 16, 2010 personally, i also count the number of chapters, divide by 2 and subtract this no. In word, the word count will appear on the status bar at the bottom of the workspace. If they typed 300 double spaced pages, is that enough to match their. Tips from raven book design for writers estimating word counts. That means all printing cost calculations you do before you know your final page count determined after your book s been laid out are estimations rather than exact quotes. Page count is determined by the publisher, not the writer. The best word count for your selfpublished novel self. Embed all fonts and images in your native file prior to submission. Jul 24, 2009 i think you are confusing yourself needlessly. Compiling a list of longest novels yields different results depending on whether pages, words or characters are counted.

Therefore, a 280,000 word manuscript becomes a 900 page doorstop. Word count, with a little help from amazon alexis grant. For paperbacks you get 2550 lines per page, with 35 being a good. Pod book printing costs are usually determined by a percover charge plus a perpage charge.

Deconstructing five spooky picture books with spoilers and word counts. So for each part or section in your book, add 2 pages to your book page count. If you want to get published, you need to be aware that major new york publishers are looking for a specific word count, depending on your genre. The editor also provides four popular trim sizes for formatting 4. Mar 15, 2009 she very well might be right to ask you to cut the book, but you have to make that decision yourself. However, longer than that may be considered too long by publishers, so you may need to cut down some of your content a little.

Book page count calculator how many pages is my novel. I wrote to the agents in the guide whats called a query. This means that a 75,000 word novel would be around 300 pages. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. This is an art rather than a science but here are a few tips. Because it allows me to check out length for published books in my genre. A way to check word count of published books anita nolan. Estimate your page count fiona raven book designer. Put a title the exact title in the search engine, then click on the title, or one of the titles if more than one comes up. The longest novel is artamene ou le grand cyrus, originally published 164954 in ten parts, each part in three volumes.

If you can decide on the right vision for your book, and you therefore know your. Line count varies depending on page size, font size, etc. The lower word count limit is based on reader preferences. At one extreme you get large print books with 250 words on the page. Calculate book page count using word count for book design.