But depending on the ereading device and the font size setting, it varies significantly between a phone, a tablet, or a kindle. Apr 23, 2014 click the page layout tab on the menu bar, then click and open margins. All of these margin changes are going to affect the final page count of your book. On the layout tab, in the page setup group, click margins, and then select custom margins. Single spaced, 3000 words yields about 6 pages, while double spacing produces around 12 pages. By adjusting the margins, it is possible to set the aspect ratio height to width to a print page format you want.
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. Tight margins make pages look cramped and intimidating. Click the page layout tab on the menu bar, then click and open margins. Sharp objects has a word count of 80,565 and my utility calculates it at 80,7. The actual word count for harry potter and the sorcerers stone is 78,792 and my utility calculates 77,876. If your lines have substantially more than 70 characters, consider using two columns. Traditionally, a novels word count was estimated by multiplying the number of pages by 250 words per page assuming standardized margins, font, double space, etc. Choose the margin settings in the relevant fields see below. The precise meaning of page is set by amazon via the kindle edition normalised page count kenpc to ensure that inflated fonts, wide linespacing and big margins wont fool the system. For paperbacks you get 2550 lines per page, with 35 being a good average. On the layout tab, in the page setup group, click size, and then select more paper sizes. Tech support scams are an industrywide issue where scammers trick you into paying for unnecessary technical support services. While a general guideline is one page is 500 words single spaced or 250 words double spaced, this is a ballpark figure. First steps in formatting for print the editors blog.
Search for word count totals in books word counters. Each page contains about 34 lines, with an average word count of 11 words per line, thus 375 words per page. The size of the book creation and production effort depends on many factors. Multiply up by the number of pages and get to a rough word count.
Jun 25, 2015 the precise meaning of page is set by amazon via the kindle edition normalised page count kenpc to ensure that inflated fonts, wide linespacing and big margins wont fool the system. Use the word count feature of the word processing program to track the word count. Working to an average of 300 words per page i therefore type in 12 point. Smashwords gives a precise word count for each and every b. 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. I would either have to shrink the margins and font quite a bit or have it be so thick as to be unrealistically expensive. Build your book format a paperback manuscript word for.
Word count to book pages resources for independent authors. On my studie the also want to have a list of pages with word count per page and a sum. Click the page layout tab, then choose page setup and then margins. First of all, find your word count in word by opening your document and looking at the bottom left of your screen. Is there a way to show word count per page in the footer or else where on the page. Even worse, some of your text can get lost in the gutter, or inside edge, meaning the reader has. How to figure out how many pages there will be in an ebook. The font size makes a huge difference in the page count. Just take the text from the opening scenesetting direction through to the final curtain and count all the words 2. Adjusting page count for your print edition bb ebooks. When agents ask for a novels word count, do they want the traditional word count or the word processor word count.
This is because i calculate all my jobs based on word count, not number of pages. How many words per page are there in a typical novel. Diffferent margins for different pages, word doc, word. In such a case, type a number in gutter that will allow enough room for the binding and use the dropdown to indicate whether the binding will. Its too much hassle and timeconsuming time you couldve spent refining and perfecting your book content. 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. I tend to write 500 word articles on a page roughly and that is using 12 point arial.
Basic book designmargins wikibooks, open books for an. The trouble is that the given dimension for the inside margin changes at 400 pages. Once you know your word count, follow one of our two methods below to estimate your page count. Sep 18, 2015 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.
Jan 08, 2018 calculate book page count using your word count. That is, an assignment, essay or paper will likely be assigned as 1500 2000 words rather than 3 4 pages. Many diy book formatters make the mistake of making their margins too narrow in order to decrease page count thereby lowering the cost per book. A publisher with a production department that knows what theyre doing can estimate book length from a manuscript formatted in courier 12point, 1 margins, 25 lines per page. In the apply to list, select whole document and click ok. Then i need the next 57 pages to have side margins of 1 and.
Youre better off going with the answers given by shawn and marion i guess. Then we add 10 pages for inside title pages, page, etc. If you are designing your book for double sided printing essential for hard. Show word count per page in the footer microsoft community. Basic book designmargins wikibooks, open books for an open.
Use these specifications for your cover image when formatting your file for amazons kdp. All that being said, if youre writing your book in word, we recommend just leaving the page size set to standard 8. When the final work is printed for sale and published, the number of words per page will differ. What is a good way to get the word count of a kindle book. Look up topics such as formatting, lines per page, characters per line, recommended fonts and font sizes, and so forth for print books recommendations will be different for ebooks, magazines, and websites. When one of our clients needs a page count, we simply apply the anticipated format for the final book e.
I know what the top, bottom, and outside margins should be, but i have come upon a problem with the inside margin. May 02, 2016 look up topics such as formatting, lines per page, characters per line, recommended fonts and font sizes, and so forth for print books recommendations will be different for ebooks, magazines, and websites. Your best bet is to figure out what books yours is comparable to, then sit down and count the words on 23 typical pages. The hunger games has a word count of 99,750 and my utility calculates it at 98,916. I publish my books first on smashwords and then, after they pass vetting for the smashwords premium catalog, i publish them on amazon as well. Calculate book page count using the word count from your word document. A manuscript for a novel is typically 500 words per page if singlespaced. This way it is much more difficult for the writer to. Amazon estimates a page count in an ebook to be around 187 words. Published books vary in words per page, depending on the publisher, the size of the book, what font they choose, etc. For help formatting your paperback manuscript, see our guides for microsoft word for windows, microsoft word for mac and pages for mac. My total word count is approximately 4500 words divided by 250 18 pages.
If your manuscript is properly formatted it should be about 250 words per page. Clarification of answer by pinkfreudga on 22 dec 2005. Aug 07, 2010 use the word count feature of the word processing program to track the word count. Thus, divide your word count by 300 and you again get an approximate number of pages. To reduce file size, word is set to compress images. This stepbystep guide shows you how to turn a manuscript written in. On the dropdown menu, click custom margins at the bottom of the menu. If you were to send us a document that youd formatted to mimic. Ebook word count should also be accounted for when setting the price of an ebook. Printondemand charges per page, not per square inch of paper, so a 200 page book at 5 x 8 is about twice as expensive as a 100 page book at 8 x 10, even though they have the same amount of actual paper. You can help protect yourself from scammers by verifying that the contact is a microsoft agent or microsoft employee and that the phone number is an official microsoft global customer service number. For a book design with running heads and folios that are centered at the bottom of the page on a 6. Enter your books trim size into the width and height fields.
Academic books might put 600 words on a page with works of reference squeezing in words. It all depends on the font type, font size, spacing, and formatting of the text. Aug 14, 20 understanding book layouts and page margins joel, thanks a ton for all of your info. The inside margin is based on page count, and i dont know how to be sure of my page count.
Page count well calculate your page count based on your manuscript file, rounding up to an even number if necessary. Use singlepage format 1up per page do not include crop, registration, or printer marks. If a page is 500 words on an ipad, and 250 words on a kindle, it might be only 120 words on a phone. Amazons payperpage plan could alter writing as well as. To sum things up, you can use it to set a margin for each pagewindowscreen while top and bottom margins set for body are just applied to the. Page margins are the third of the major areas youll need to consider when you begin to format.
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 is 18 pages and will take you less than 30 minutes to read. Oct 06, 2017 dont know the exact word count but id guess its about 30,000 words. Jul 09, 2012 all that being said, if youre writing your book in word, we recommend just leaving the page size set to standard 8. Type numbers indicating the width of your margins in the top, bottom, left, and right fields only adjust the gutter margin if you intend to use the document in a bound format, like a book or report, and you need space for the binding. 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. If you want them to finish reading your book, make the reading experience as enjoyable as you possibly can. I dont know whether it counts per page, but if you controlclick the trackpad rightclick the mouse 23 button, 2button wth scroll wheel, you can add the word count in the status bar at bottom of screen. Estimate your page count book designer linda parke. Jun 01, 2017 in microsoft word, select a line and use toolsword count to count the number of characters. The same question applies to pages such as dedications, contents, etc.
In order to turn your book into a functional ebook, your manuscript document. Calculate book page count using word count for book design. 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. Have you had lots of questions over the years about words mirrored margins. For manuscripts, the answer is about 250300 words per page if it is doublespaced. So an 80,000 word manuscript would translate to approximately 350 pages. Text heavy ebooks, as usually found on amazon, or ibooks for that matter, do not have a page size, or inherent font size. Personally, i recommend at least 10,000 words for nonfiction, unless you can do it justice in less. Kindle short read write your kindle short read today. I think, from what ive read, is that my book would be about 400 pages. 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. What should be the page size and font for a kindle ebook. So an 80,000word manuscript would translate to approximately 350 pages.
Now, word processors can give exact word counts instantly. Estimate your page count fiona raven book designer. When a book is bound, the pages are pinched together just a little, taking up space in the margin. If you dont allow for this, the bindingside margin can look smaller than the outside margin. When i write technical articles, theyre usually 600 words and about a page and a half. As you can see, a smaller trim size will produce more pages for the same word count, and. If you decide to place the page numbers at the top as well, you may have a narrower margin at the bottom of the page.
The cover image size should be a minimum of 625 pixels at shortest side and pixels on the longest side. I tend to write 500 word articles on a page roughly and that is using. The answer is one page single spaced or two pages double spaced. How to format a novel 8 design fundamentals blurb blog. Word count does away with the first five factors affecting page count and most of the sixth. Have you ever wondered how the average ebook page length or word count. Another recommendation by tom corsonknowles from tck publishing. Book page count calculator how many pages is my novel.
Divide your word count by 390 to arrive at the approximate number of pages ex. My question is that if, as you recommend, working to standard 11 x 8 normal size, what size should i now type in. Amazons payperpage plan could alter writing as well. We limit title submissions to 1,000 per week per account. At one extreme you get large print books with 250 words on the page.
This includes page numbers and nonbleeding text and art. But think about your reader when setting your book margins. One of the questions we frequently get from cover designers is what the page count is for the print interior for an unformatted manuscript. However, thats not to say that some of your customers might not appreciate knowing the number of printed pages. Using your current word count and the appropriate formula below, calculate the number of pages you can expect in your finished book. Diffferent margins for different pages, word doc, word 2007 dear community, i need to create a longer word doc with the the first 56 pages having sides margins of 1. If you want to calculate any other word count for a 4. A pdf ebook should have page numbers unless it is super short and a proper table of contents or index.
Understanding book layouts and page margins joel, thanks a ton for all of your info. The truth is the number of words per page depends on a variety of factors such as the type of font, the font size, spacing elements, margin spacing, and paragraph length to name a few. For the book hatchet, the actual word count is 41,672 and i give you. Take a typical 250word per page, 15 pages of good content contains around 3,750 words. The actual word count for the hunger games is 99,750 and my utility calculates 94,743 words. In microsoft word, select a line and use toolsword count to count the number of characters. Mar 05, 2020 in addition to formatting your word file, which includes the text contents of your book, you will also need to create a separate cover image. Do you want to publish a wide format bookwith inspiring quotes down the side margins. Take a typical 250 word per page, 15 pages of good content contains around 3,750 words. Generous margins around the book block allow the eye to move comfortably from one line to the next while reading. How to set the margins in word for your book printing project. In the dialog box that allows you to choose the dimensions of your margins right, left, top, bottom, youll also be able to check mirrored margins.
These guidelines are intended for designers of paperbacks with black and white or color interiors, with fullcolor covers. Youll need a wider margin near the spine to account for your desired margin plus the fold of the book as the page count increases. For a manuscript, the answer is two pages if the word count per page is 250 and it is double spaced. Most ebooks i see are double spaced, which makes their pages clearer but also reduces the number of words per page. List of standard books sizes to make the right size selection. Excluding endnotes and index, the book has about 200 pages of text, which means its total word count is about 74,000 words.
It can be tempting to cram as much text as possible on a page to reduce a books page count, but dont do it. Amazon ebook page length by genre kindle page length klytics. Sep 28, 2015 typically a page of shaw, with ten words per line, will take much longer to read than a page of mamet with three. Either way, keep in mind that any changes to the flow of the document margins, font size, character formatting, paragraph formatting, paper. A book designer will make manual adjustments, page by page, to solve the problems while keeping the line spacing consistent throughout the book. Youll use the word count in your word document to calculate book page count. All that compares to the 4hour chef from tim ferriss which comes in at about 675 pages and substantially larger. I hope this helps, and thanks for your great question. Another general guideline is to assume that your book will average 300 words per page. The average nonfiction book is about 50,000 to 75,000 words, which is about 153 to 230 ebook pages. 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.
Page margins are a common problem in books by firsttime selfpublishers. Im either with margins that are small but have 400 words per page or margins to big giving the feel of to much negative space. Things like headers, titles, margins, and blank lines are why ms word count is not exactly accurate. This resizes your pages and changes your page count, which you need to know for setting your margins. This line count includes blank lines between paragraphs as well as lines with just a single word.