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Position:Home>Books & Authors> Please can any body tell me how many words make up a average size paper back booQuestion: Please can any body tell me how many words make up a average size paper back book!? Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Most publishers ask for a minimum of 60,000 words to call it a novel, but some accept less if they are trying to keep production costs low!. I would say 80,000 to 100,000 is about average!. Anything less would normally be classed as a novella!.Www@QuestionHome@Com You can figure it this way!. A novel is somewhere between 45 and 120 thousand words according to Writers Market - with the average being between 50 and 80 thousand!. Industry standard is 250 words on average per page!. So just take the number of pages in the book and do the math!. Pax-CWww@QuestionHome@Com Average is a pretty broad term there!. I'd say anywhere from 60,000 to 100,000 for an 'average' paperback!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |