That’s why very, very, very popular books spend two years in hardcover and only then come out in paperback. This can be true! But a publisher’s highest margins are on hardcovers. Well, a publisher can just make my short novel a paperback then you might think. This is why we buy the dumb box of crackers that says 20% MORE even though that means like 15 more crackers. But I’m talking about value perception, not actual value. (Please please PLEASE go ahead and point out all novels that are slim and worth it. Even in hardcover, it will feel thin and the consumer will perceive that as having less value than a longer novel. Also, those books are not $35 except in special, fancy editions.) On the other side of the equation, if your 30k novel is like 116 pages in book form and still would cost the publisher close to the same amount to produce, the consumer is not going to pay and the publisher is not going to charge $19 for it. If your book sells that many copies, then you’ve made enough money for everyone to have the publisher fudge the production costs. (Don’t you even point out Game of Thrones. If your 500,000 word epic would cost $35 to really make, then it’s not going to get made. No one wants to buy a $35 hardcover adult novel. What’s more, the consumer is very price sensitive. But the number of pages in a book, within a range, don’t make a book significantly more or less expensive to make. The more materials it takes to make a book, including and espeically illustrations, color printing, special effects and elements on the cover, the more the price goes up. Do 200 pages of paper cost another $2? No, of course not. You can have one adult hardcover that’s 265 pages that’s $24.95 and one adult hardcover that’s 465 pages and it’s maybe $26.95. Other formats of kids books have similar pricing ranges. Illustrated books vary widely, but you see a lot in the $15-20 range. For an adult paperback, it’s about $16-17. For an adult hardcover novel, it’s about $25, give or take a nickel. You’ll notice that book prices are pretty similar across the board. To figure out how we even got to 50k words, we need to look at the economics of books.
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Your 50k word novel will probably not be ready for primetime, if it’s intended to be a full length novel for adults, but I think how close or far away you get to 50k in the writing tells you a lot about the story and what you have or need. That feels sooooooo short to me, for a novel, but YMMV.
A 50,000 word manuscript is about 165 pages. what you type, before it’s a book page), with 12pt font and one inch margins is about 300 words. How big is the book? The font? The margins? Are there a lot of charts or pictures? You can make a page anything you want, as we all discovered when we started typing papers in school.Ī standard typed manuscript page (i.e. People ask me how many pages should it be and I have no idea. Today, we’re going to talk about why (probably) NaNoWriMo’s goal is 50,000 words.Ī lesson you learn early on when talking to publishing people is that we always talk in word count, not page number. Today: word counts! We talked a long time ago about basic word count ranges for different genres. BUT, just because I’m not doing it doesn’t mean I can’t give y’all some information that might help you do it, or help those of you who might want to write a longer thing, fiction or non-fiction, down the line. I don’t have time to write a novel this month, which should come to the great relief of my clients, to whom I own many things. It’s day, 5 of NaNoWriMo and I have written exactly ZERO WORDS.
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