The publishing industry has guidelines for genre book length. But how do you know the best length for your book? And how do you calculate book length? Knowing the ideal length for your genre helps to plan the sequence and the story arc of your book. Editors at publishing houses are aware of the book-length guidelines and will dismiss your book out of hand if it doesn’t meet those expectations. Creating a book outside genre guidelines minimizes your chance of selling to your target readers. Word Count Ranges by Genre is a good place to start.Readers have expectations about book length according to genre. Just access my Audiobook Conversion Utility and follow the steps.Īnd if you're only looking for a few examples from a particular genre, the word counts for other books listed on this site have also been verified.
But if you?re willing to help, I can still do the calculation for you. Unfortunately, Amazon removed that value from their data feeds. Would you prefer a more accurate word count? I previously used the running time of the associated audiobook to do the calculation, and it was quite accurate. So it'll be off on occasion, but it should get you relatively close for the average book. For example, Atonement has a word count of 123,378 and my utility comes up with 110,765 words. Pretty impressive! Are they all that accurate? Many, yes, but there are exceptions due to the layout and font size of a particular book. Sharp Objects has a word count of 80,565 and my utility calculates it at 80,137. The actual word count for The Hunger Games is 99,750 and my utility calculates 94,743 words. Is it accurate? Let's take a look at a few examples. Unfortunately, they don't offer word count so I've created an algorithm based on the number of pages, genre, and the dimensions of the book. I use Amazon's data feeds to come up with the calculation.
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