The average fiction book is about 80,000 to 100,000 words, which is about 246 to 307 ebook pages. A good approach to ebook pricing is to note the prices of popular competitive books in your genre or category. I got a lot of questions about how long ebooks should be. Moira allen is the editor of, and has written nearly 400 articles, serving as a columnist and regular contributor for such publications as the writer, entrepreneur, writers digest, and byline.
Now, amazon has very specific ideas about ebook pricing. Over the past year, ive moved my book prices as a series and as individual books up and down, sustaining each price point for three to eight weeks each to make sure the run rates were not affected by holidays, elections, smurfs, ad campaigns, etc. Inr list price requirements for india kindle store for minimum list price. The brooklynbased publisher the thought catalog is especially skillful at bringing these types of ebook singles to market written by and aimed at knowing 20somethings. Once the ebook is written, the marketing plan in place, and the work ready to release to the public, selfpublished authors find themselves with an unexpected challenge.
I guess 50,000 is a short novel and some early novels before goes as low as 40,000 which can be considered to be a novella. How can a new author calculate how many self published ebooks they will. The graph shows the average length of the top 100 bestsellers in each of the 30 main amazon kindle categories, measured in terms of the number of pages. Sometimes the real world is all the adventure you need, and with free nonfiction ebooks from booksends, thats exactly what youll get every day. How to price an ebook and which factors affect price mill city press. Pricing support service bases its analysis on your ebooks length and category. Nonfiction ebooks are generally priced higher than fiction. In the traditional publishing world, its a length that publishers would avoid due to increased printing costs. The key to good and efficient writing lies in the intelligent organisation of ideas and notes. What is the best length to make an ebook and what price should it. The price will vary a lot between short stories, novellas, and.
Length for print books mattered a lot, but what about ebooks. In my free cheat sheet, i tell people not to worry about the length of their ebook when they are just starting. One of the questions that a new writer often asks is how long should my book be. Im guessing youve spent a lot of time considering price point tactics. How to set the retail price of your book mill city press. I have answered similar questions in the past, and i will post the text and link to them below. Learn everything you need to know about ebook pricing in different markets. The answers should help shed some light upon your question, but i would like to add that there is no right answer. But, for those of you who are already started, im going to answer two questions about ebook length and pricing. Available for your computer and your mobile device. Then consider writing a manuscript of similar length. Lastly, and probably most importantly, nonfiction books tend to be much shorter than fiction in the range of 2035,000 words.
We explore all those considerations in how to price your ebook. How to determine the best price for your ebook how to. For a novel, i would recommend at least 50,000 words in length. I dont know if the question is meant as a mentalstatistical exorcise. There are no hard and fast rules for an ebook pricing strategy, except that doing nothing at all about it will probably result in the same.
How you price a product can have a radical impact on the revenue you make from it. Ive got an ebook in the works but i fear it may be too. For a compilation of short stories, i would shoot for at. But if youre funny, theres some serious money in the ebook single market. How to write a highquality ebook in 30 days copyblogger. He claims that 121,000 is the average successful ebook length. Nonfiction ebook pricing in the kindle store by joel friedlander on april 25, 2011 61 comments pricing of ebooks is a constant source of discussion online, and weve seen the rebellions in the kindle store when publishers were allowed to start setting their own prices last year. It makes logical sense, readers expect this, and it makes the ebook look like a great deal if you have a higherpriced print product next to it. Within those 1015 pages, you must convince an agent, editor and publishing team that you and your book deserve a place on the shelf based on several key factors. Prompted by a deadend retail job and a vague desire to increase the amount of justice in his hometown, jason hardy became a parole officer in new orleans at the worst possible moment. How to write an ebook single nonfiction bestseller. Once your costs, distribution fees and expected profits are determined, its time to apply intuition to your pricing recipe. What is the ideal length for a nonfiction book proposal.
Its insanely popular among avid readers and has all of the bestselling titles. So 50,000 words is the minimum for a nonfiction book. Greater than or equal to 3 megabytes and less than 10 megabytes. So much goes into the pricing of your book from your experience to your subject matter to genre and length, you have to take into account every single element that youve invested into your book. Better to have solid, clear information than rambling to make a page count. A minimum count for a nonfiction ebook is about 10,000 words, as long as the. I heard 10,000 words can be accepted as an e book at a short length at least for nonfiction. Louisianas incarceration rates were the highest in. Book writing and publishing faq how long should my nonfiction book be. How to set the retail price for your nonfiction book. Long book length at the other end of the spectrum a book of 80,000 to 100,000 words has significant heft, 320400 pages.
How to write a nonfiction ebook single bestseller huffpost. An ebook could be 3,000 words or as long as a fulllength book. A minimum count for a nonfiction ebook is about 10,000 words, as long as the content is solid. Thats not short story length, but it is a lot shorter than a fiction novel. Several factors go into the price of an ebook, such as author popularity, series number, and demand for the information for nonfiction. Ebook pricing guide for different markets how to do it right. This book helps students, academics and nonfiction writers to get more done, write intelligent texts and learn for the long run. Use print book pricing to make your ebook look like a better deal. An awardwinning writer, allen is the author of eight books, including starting your career as a freelance writer, the writers guide to queries, pitches and proposals, and writing to. Nonfiction ebook pricing in the kindle store and how the prices of fiction and nonfiction. Although you say price in independant of length, i would think that is more the case for well known authors. On the other hand, in other genres for example, literary fiction, nonfiction, etc. I dont know what i can say to add to what has already been said.
The price is always too high for a book that is not needed. Every category will have an average length, including childrens books, young adult, business books, etc. You can use comparable, successful books as models to determine the length you book should be. Dont know why that is, but ive learned that the hard way. If you choose this royalty option for your digital book, it will apply to sales of your digital book to customers in any territory. Get the free kindle app for the best ebook reading experience. Ebook word count should also be accounted for when setting the price of an ebook. Free nonfiction ebooks free kindle nonfiction booksends. Personally, i would never write a nonfiction book unless i was going to selfpublish first and sell it as an. That said, each manuscript should be long enough to adequately tell its story or. Writing an ebook is hard and figuring out the pricing for it should not be harder.
Non fiction archives download free ebooks, legally. Learn how to price an ebook by understanding what affects ebook prices like. It teaches you how to take smart notes and ensure they bring you and your projects forward. For nonfiction, especially selfhelp and business books, the length of the book. Truth about dalits, caste system and untouchability. Finalist for the 1991 national book award and a new york times notable book, praying for sheetrock is the story of mcintosh county, a small, isolated, and lovely place on the flowery coast of georgiaand a county where, in the 1970s, the white sheriff still wielded.
What is the best length to make an ebook and what price. His most recent company, convertkit, makes email marketing suck less. Book writing and publishing faq how long should my. Centsless books highly recommends signing up for a free trial of audible. Pricing selfpublished ebooks can seem especially perplexing when. Check out the going rate for other indie ebooks in your genre and of the same length.
Im in the middle of writing a nonfiction ebook, that is not only a selfhelp but will also. Personally, i recommend at least 10,000 words for nonfiction, unless you can do it justice in less. You can choose between two royalty options for each of your digital books, the 35% royalty option and the 70% royalty option, described below. Amazon has worked very hard to drive down the pricing on kindle books, which has wreaked havoc for all ebook publishers. Self published author ten tips for pricing your book. A list of free ebooks for the most popular nonfiction titles of all time. Is nonfiction more profitable than fiction for authors. Thin reads has been tracking the kindle single nonfiction and fiction bestseller lists since the beginning of 20 and every sunday, i publish the thin reads bestseller list. But us nonfiction authors dont have to play by those lowprice rules because our readers care about content over price. For fiction, i recommend 5,000 words or more for short stories. Many factors affect ebook pricing, including royalty percentages, your ebooks length and perceived quality, and other books in your genre. Nathan is the author of designing web applications, the app design handbook, and authority. Not counting your two to three sample chapters, your nonfiction book proposal should be no longer than 1015 pages.
Pricing books and the use of free the creative penn. Although readers seem to buy longer ebooks, theres a trend toward. Most fulllength, standalone novels are between 70k to 100k words a long length. Happy browsing, reading or sharing, however you want to utilize this list, we shall leave it up to you.
At the same time, though, its important to realize that pricing your ebook higher means you could make more money selling fewer books. In fact, the majority of printed books are turned into ebooks. Id rather buy a 15 page ebook that gives me something of real value than an 80 page one thats full of waffle and couldve been half, or even a third of, the length. In the ebook world, the skys the limit or the readers attention span is. This pricing page changed on the date listed above.
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