How Long Should Your eBook Be? (2024)

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How Long Should Your eBook Be? ›

According to our research, the average length of a best-selling eBook can be anywhere between 20-50 pages (and, sometimes, even 100). But, depending on several factors, it can also be less than 20.

Ebook length is measured in word count, not page count

Kindle Singles (short-format eBooks): 5,000–30,000 words. Short stories: 5,000+ words. Nonfiction: 10,000+ words. Novels: 50,000+ words.

As mentioned, general fiction for adults should come in at 100,000 words. But genre books (fantasy, sci-fi, or historical fiction) are often longer; around the 125,000 word mark.

The mid-sized ebook range falls between 5,000 and 20,000 words — although you'll find a lot of resources out there that vary from this. For instance, children's books fall in the 500–600 word space , according to one source. According to another, children's books range anywhere between 300 and 40,000 words .

Sometimes even 20,000 words are too many. As a writer, I've seen a surge in requests from my clients to write books that are in the 2,000 to 10,000 word range—books I've dubbed micro-ebooks.

Best use 6 by 9 inch. ebooks and print books have different requirements. Trim sizes aren't used for ebooks, not relevant. However, if you have a Word document you used to upload your ebook, and you set the page size to 6x9, you can use that to format a 6x9 print trim-size.

Non-fiction Picture Book: 2,000 words maximum. Early Reader: Depends on age level, but 3,500 words maximum. Chapter Book: 10,000 words average. Middle Grade: 35,000 words average for contemporary, mystery, humor; 45,000 words average for fantasy, sci-fi, adventure, historical.

The average price of an ebook ranges from $9 to $19. But many ebooks sell for $5, and others have a price tag of $100 or more. How can that be? With other products, especially physical products, the cost of production is usually the culprit.

There are no official guidelines for the number of pages when it comes to publishing ebooks. However, consider the average ebook length of 50-100 pages and Amazon's eBook list price if you're planning to sell on Amazon Kindle. Ultimately, your ebook length will depend on the niche that you're writing about.

Ebooks are profitable, but simply publishing one is not enough. eBooks are profitable when they are marketed and sold properly with intent. Some authors who use Amazon to publish their ebooks can potentially make $1000+ a month.

What is the average size of an eBook on Amazon? ›

The average Kindle book size is about 300 pages, or 75,000 words of text, and the average Kindle e-book file size is 2.6 MB. But that's not exactly a one-size-fits-all answer. The size of your Kindle book will depend on the genre you write in and how many words (or images!) you need to achieve your vision.

Paper books have a physical number of pages. e-books come is all sorts of display sizes and the user has the ability to alter the font and font size so each display area can hold a different number of characters. So e-books do not have a fixed number of pages.

1,000 words double-spaced would be around 4 pages, assuming that one double-spaced page can hold around 250 words.

In short, when a book is good, it can't ever be too long. And a badly written book can never be too short! This holds true for eBooks as well. There is really no 'perfect' length for a great eBook that sells.

If that sounds like you, then you might be wondering about things like minimum pages for an eBook on Amazon, or how long an eBook should be for Kindle. To put it simply, there is no minimum number of pages required for self-publishing on Amazon Kindle—you can write a 10-page eBook or a 20-page eBook.

For most nonfiction books, 50,000 to 80,000 words is your best bet.

A 300-page book will have approximately 82,500 words. With consistency, it's possible to reach that word count by writing 500 words per day, seven days a week, for about five and a half months.

40 pages is 20000 words single-spaced or 10000 words double-spaced. Typical documents that are 40 pages include include novels, novellas, and other published books. A typical single-spaced page is 500 words long.

Here are the brass tacks: Non-fiction books are best between 100 to 250 pages (20,000-60,000 words). They should rarely be more than 250 or 300 pages (of course there are always exceptions depending on your target audience) Memoirs can be longer, between 240-520 pages (60,000-130,000 words)

Usually 1 or 1.15 is good enough; any more, and the lines will be difficult to read.