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A couple of Kindle publishing links
Aug. 15th, 2020 09:59 pm.... that I'm stashing here so I don't lose them.
How many words in a novel? (Breakdown of average lengths for bestsellers in various genres on Amazon.)
https://kindlepreneur.com/how-many-words-in-a-novel/
The averages are longer than I realized - 91K for romance is definitely longer. But this is packing together typically-long subgenres like historical romance with typically-shorter ones like PNR. Also, the graphs at the link show the wide range covered by the books they looked at, some of which are extremely short - the mystery/thriller/suspense range, for example, is 14K-196K, with the midpoint landing around 91K. Romance is very similar.
How many words per Kindle page?
https://kindlepreneur.com/words-per-page/
Methodology for the above post; useful for me in roughly estimating word count based on Amazon's page count stats. Their calculation of average words per page (for fiction) is slightly less than the metric I'd been using based on my own books - after polling authors, they ended up with an average of 280, where I had been using 310. Still the same general ballpark, but it makes me realize I may be overestimating book lengths (which is actually good news for me; fewer words to write to hit "target" for certain genres!).
How many words in a novel? (Breakdown of average lengths for bestsellers in various genres on Amazon.)
https://kindlepreneur.com/how-many-words-in-a-novel/
The averages are longer than I realized - 91K for romance is definitely longer. But this is packing together typically-long subgenres like historical romance with typically-shorter ones like PNR. Also, the graphs at the link show the wide range covered by the books they looked at, some of which are extremely short - the mystery/thriller/suspense range, for example, is 14K-196K, with the midpoint landing around 91K. Romance is very similar.
How many words per Kindle page?
https://kindlepreneur.com/words-per-page/
Methodology for the above post; useful for me in roughly estimating word count based on Amazon's page count stats. Their calculation of average words per page (for fiction) is slightly less than the metric I'd been using based on my own books - after polling authors, they ended up with an average of 280, where I had been using 310. Still the same general ballpark, but it makes me realize I may be overestimating book lengths (which is actually good news for me; fewer words to write to hit "target" for certain genres!).