This tool is useful when writing essays at university to determine how many pages you are required to write. Generally i consider any novel that is less than 300 pages to be a short one, 500 page a medium sized novel and anything more than 750 a lengthy novel. Jan 23, 2017 if you can t organize your work into paragraphs consisting of related thoughts, you may be jumping around too much. You can use this tool when you write and also when you order from an academic writing website. In two minutes, i found ebooks ranging from 10 to 950 pages. As ebooks became a viable business model, the rise in popularity of books in the 20,000word range opened the door for authors to publish books about topics that didnt require a full 60,000 word treatment. Youre better off going with the answers given by shawn and marion i guess. My book, according to your helpful calculations, 20,000 words will be about 73 pages, 1. If a book was 30,000 words long, how many pages would that be. Use the calculator below to convert your words to minutes.
A 20page doublespaced paper is about 5000 words, so a 20,000 word paper would be about 80 pages. Written in his beloved epigrammatic and aphoristic style, equals extends adam phillipss probings into the psychological and the political, bringing his trenchant wit to such subjects as the usefulness of inhibitions and the paradox of permissive authority. He explores why citizens in a democracy are so eager to establish levels of hierarchy when the system is. If you are using word to create your manuscript, then you can use word count to find its length and work from there. On the upper end, a novel over 110,000 words is considered an epic.
You can easily calculate book page count using the word count from your word document. 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. How many paragraphs is the following list is an approximation for those who are writing essays with the standard 100 200 words per paragraph and 50 to 100 words for blog or article easy reading. That being said you can usually assume about 250 words per a printed page. The price to book ratio or market to book ratio can easily be calculated in excel if the following criteria are known. Estimate your page count book designer linda parke. Thats the level where publishers may suggest dividing a story into multiple volumes.
By most peoples standards, 40,000 words would be pretty short for a novel. See all formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Im sorry to be the one to tell you this, but 20000 words is not a novel. You could fit 200,000 words on half a page if you do a size 1 font. But say if it is roughly around a size 16 font about 165 pages long. A typical novel will normally be 60,000 to 100,000 words, with some of the larger thrillers and genre novels being much longer. Jan 01, 2011 there are too many factors that affect the number of words on a page for a meaningful answer. What is noticeable, however, it that short read ebooks are very popular. Quickly flip open the 20,000 words book, however, and the quick division of words into syllables syllable has you scanning quickly within sections of the book. Fifty thousand words isnt that much divided into five days a week for a year.
Fantasy can push up to 110,000 but for a debut, its going to be tough if the word count is higher. First of all, find your word count in word by opening your document and looking at the bottom left of your screen. Aug 25, 2008 standard word length is usually between 70,000 to 100,000 words for a novel. This website converts the number of words to the number of pages, online and for free. Thats really hard to say, books are usually measured by word count and not page count. Meanwhile picking the book next to it on the shelf, clash of the sky galleons has roughly 250 words a page, which would bring your total up to around 160 pages. This translates into just 20,000 to 25,000 words for a 100 page book. Using your current word count and the appropriate formula below, calculate the number of pages you can expect in your finished book. Im already at a little over 65, 000 so i was wondering how many pages i could expect to have. My point is that your genre will likely dictate your word count. Publishers like certain genres to be within certain word counts, so any author who hopes to be published has to create their works within these. Word count for novels and books is something i dont think about too. Whether you want to create a booklet for an event or print out an ambitious book project, consider using the prebuilt page settings for booklets that comes with word.
Depending on your word processor and preferences the page count may vary slightly, but with typical margins and 12 point arial or times new roman font you should expect a similar number of pages. 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. Not true i am in the middle of writing a 20 page paper and as of now i have 5,412 words i am not. Then see if there are any complaints about a kindle book being too short. Average speed speaker 125 wpm slow speaker 90 wpm fast speaker 150 wpm the following table below provides an indication of the minutes for a. The page count and the word count, should you choose to include it in the blurb, can be swayed by one chief factor what you include in that word count. The original book did not center on a female lead, instead it was a man that began to doubt, and ultimately reject the oppressive. Not true i am in the middle of writing a 20 page paper and as of now i have 5,412 words.
That means if you count the pages in the front the half title, the title page, the page, the acknowledgements page, etc, add the numbered pages of the book, then include any blank pages in the back, they will add up to a multiple of 16. May 01, 2011 im writing a novel and my goal is 80, 000 words. Likely fixed in this edition, the only word i routinely not included in the 1965 edition was penicillin. I think that a typical paperback novel usually has somewhere between 300500 words per page. Frequently asked questions getting published meg cabot. Poke around in various categories, and you can see how long various kinds of books tend to be. Historical romances at harlequin will run to 75,000 words, but everywhere else theyre longer. Find a book thats formatted in the way you imagine your book as being, and count the number of words on a typical page. However, this rule can be bent for the following reasons. On the upper end, a novel over 110, 000 words is considered an epic.
Your debut novel is 20000 words long how not to selfpublish. Book page count calculator how many pages is my novel. Middle grade is from 20,000 55,000, depending on the subject. This translates into just 20,000 to 25,000 words for a 100 page book, 30,000 to 42,500 words for a 150page book, perhaps just 40,000 words for a 200page book. Jan 19, 2014 kristen stewart and equals, the film based on orwells 1984. Ya young adult novels are much shorter, depending, again, on the genre. Equals is the story of the young russ who meets stephen at work. Generally, 50,000 would be considered the minimum word count, and ideally a novel should be over 70,000 words. He explores why citizens in a democracy are so eager to establish levels of hierarchy when the. But, about ten or a dozen words is common per line, and about thirty lines per page of a4 paper. Calculate book page count using word count for book design. Here is a partial list of wellknown novels that contain roughly 50,000 words, which in turn is roughly 175 pages, and are thus comparable to the average size of a nanowrimo winners novel see also list of published authors who write quickly for published authors who consistently write at the nanowrimo pace or faster the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy by douglas adams 46,333 words. It depends on the font you are using, of course, but in general, 250300 words per page.
All we have to do is use the wp tool that shows word count. The overview below provides an indication of the number of pages required based on font. There are too many factors that affect the number of words on a page for a meaningful answer. Scott fitzgerald 50,061 words the apostle pauls epistles from the bible 43,293 words. Look sometime at the different number of pages if you switch a piece between verdana and arial of the same font size. This translates into just 20, 000 to 25, 000 words for a 100 page book, 30, 000 to 42,500 words for a 150page book, perhaps just 40, 000 words for a 200page book. They are very similar fonts in appearance, but you get as much as a 20 % difference in the word count per page.
Aug 11, 2014 the page count and the word count, should you choose to include it in the blurb, can be swayed by one chief factor what you include in that word count. Even a 5000 words essay, at a little over 20 pages, is only slightly longer than an online article or blog post. So a 400 page manuscript would be about 240,000 words. Your debut novel is 20,000 words long how not to self. No matter how much you adjust the other variables, if the ms is only 50,000 words in length instead of 95,000, then you have a problem if the book was announced as being 288 pages in length but the most it can be stretched to is 160 pages. I would expect typical text whatever that is set in 12 point times new roman to contain approximately 600 words 4000 characters per page. 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.
Therefore, a 55,000 word book should be about 200 manuscript pages. Well explain two easy methods to calculate book page count. You can see these by looking at the top of any book a group of pages that are folded together. That said, youll probably get a number somewhere between 250 and 350, so your story would come out at between 85 and 120 pages. An ebook with 15 pages amounts to only around 3000 words.
A 40,000 to 80,000word memoir is around 150265 pages, a standard booklength for the genre. The book fold layout sets you up for printing your masterpiece automatically in the correct order, ready for folding and binding. Not only is stephen the cfo of the company but also 20 years older and besides their attraction both men are not sure if a relatonship could work. By most peoples standards, 40, 000 words would be pretty short for a novel. Word count to page count free calculator for students and writers this is a tool to estimate how many pages long your paper will be, depending on word count and font name. Sep 20, 2009 obviously, a prime determinant of book size is the word count. Most editors wouldnt recommend going over 80,000, as it will inspire bad taste among readers. A book of the names and address of people living in a city. The number of pages changes depending on the number of words, the font and the font size. This of course will depend on your word processor settings and how you format your work, however, with standard margins and arial or times new roman 12 point font your results should be about the same. So your target of 15 000 words would fill about 50 pages.
This clearly depends on the size of the letters and of the line spacing. Most adult books are about 90,000 words, and no longer than 100,000 words unless youre jk rowling. Now, a 10,000 to 30,000 word book, if you were to write that out in microsoft word, youre probably looking at somewhere around 30 to 40 pages if you do it with just the default settings, an 8. There are no hardandfast rules for the number of pages in a book. Word count is what publishers will specify, not page count. If youre trying to figure out how many pages your book will end up being, a page in a six by nine book which is a pretty standard size for a nonfiction book is about 250 words equals. These page counts may vary depending on how youve formatted your writing, but with a typical setup using default page margins and times new roman or arial 12 point fonts the result should be comparable. Leslie and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. A young adult novel will run between 20,000 and 40,000 words. Amazon ebook page length by genre kindle page length. The graph shows the average length of the top 100 bestsellers in each of the 30 main amazon kindle categories, measured in terms of the number of pages. A 20 page doublespaced paper is about 5000 words, so a 20, 000 word paper would be about 80 pages. Youll use the word count in your word document to calculate book page count. As e books became a viable business model, the rise in popularity of books in the 20,000 word range opened the door for authors to publish books about topics that didnt require a full 60,000 word treatment.
Kristen stewart and equals, the film based on orwells 1984. There were rumors in 20 that amazon had set a minimum word. Single spaced, 3000 words yields about 6 pages, while double spacing produces around 12 pages. When you query a publisher, its customary to include your novels estimated word count. One rule of thumb is you can get 60 percent of a manuscript page into one typeset page said manuscript being in 12point type, doublespaced, preferably times new roman, with oneinch margins on an 8. Generally any novel around 200 pages250300 words per page and has 55,000 words can be considered a short novel. I think the fewest words i have in a book is about 15,000. Aug 05, 2019 for most publishers, a book is novellength when its between 50,000 and 110,000 words. Price new from used from hardcover, january 1, 1965. A check of some of the bestseller lists on kindle reveals. A published author in 10,000 words or less writeraccess. If youre single spacing your work, 6000 words is close to 12 pages. Market to book ratio price to book formula, examples. Equals by adam phillips meet your next favorite book.
A 20 page doublespaced paper is about 5000 words, so a 20,000 word paper would be about 80 pages. If a book was 30,000 words long, how many pages would that. Currently, im on page 194 on the word processor, but how many pages would that translate into in a book. From there, market capitalization and net book value can be calculated. Jul 10, 2014 equals is the story of the young russ who meets stephen at work. Once you know your word count, follow one of our two methods below to estimate your page count. Sep 18, 2010 it really depends on the type of font you use. Simply divide the total word count from your word document by the number of words per page. Generally, 50, 000 would be considered the minimum word count, and ideally a novel should be over 70, 000 words. And now were seeing some publishers produce book that run from 100,000 to 120,000 words. The most common rule for a memoir is that it should not go more than 80,000 words. A good example is the wonderful little personalspiritual guide, the four agreements, by don miguel ruiz, which averages about 10 words per line x 20 lines per page 200 words per page. All book publishers and book designers have a standard they go by to estimate page length.
Its too much hassle and timeconsuming time you couldve spent refining and perfecting your book content. The idea is the thinner the book, the more copies will fit on a rack70 000 words means theres room for seven books. Its like all those catbreeders who are selectively breeding the persians nose right out of existence, just because a pushedin face is desirable for the breed. The original book did not center on a female lead, instead it was a man that. Most standalone novels run between 80,000 and 95,000 words. Different books and publishers have different layouts for their pages. Depending on the genre of book you are writing, word count can be critical in whether or not your writing can actually be published. Even if the words were pretty packed, at least 20 pages. The notebook by nicholas sparks 52, 000 words the red badge of courage by stephen crane 50,776 words the great gatsby by f. For most publishers, a book is novellength when its between 50,000 and 110,000 words. Of course, your page count in the final book can vary greatly. First, while it could generally be said that most books run between 240 and 300 pages, most novels tend to run toward the longer side. Many authors will, of course, scout out the books they consider their.
Obviously, a prime determinant of book size is the word count. 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. Except that most publishers wouldnt even look at a manuscript that long, so it wouldnt be a book in the first place. Since the paperback is going away, lets look at more realistic lengths for books. 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. 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. Ill let you do the maths, because mine is terrible. Some of my successful kindle ebooks are only 6000 words or so and i havent seen or heard a single complaint. So, what is the average length of a nonfiction book. A word count guide for 18 book genres, including fiction and nonfiction. The shortest that routinely gets contracted is the category romance, which runs about 55,000 words.
The other thing that will make you an exception is if your writing is absolutely brilliant. 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. Equals extends adam phillipss probings into the psychological and the political, bringing his trenchant wit to such subjects as the usefulness of inhibitions and the paradox of permissive authority. 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. Alternatively, a short, say 20,000 word, hardback or paperback will have to strike a fine. Using amazons number of words as a guide, 5,000 words would equal 26. If they typed 300 double spaced pages, is that enough to match their competition. I believe they know what theyre talking about and i clearly didnt. This means that a 75,000 word novel would be around 300 pages. If this short description sounds boring to you, probably equals will not be your book. I have 15 books selling in the amazon kindle store of varying lengths. You could fit 200, 000 words on half a page if you do a size 1 font. Market cap is equal to share price times shares outstanding. In any event, i struggle to accept that 2500 words can be called a book in any form.