How many pages for an average book?

Many writers pretend that it is the quantity not the quality that count's but nobody wants to write a book and it works out to be a 50 page book!

How could you defend your £4.99 sales price for a book of that size?


No matter how fantastic the book is, the quantity still needs to be there.


Researching this topic, for my own curiosity, I found that many agents judge by how many words your manuscript has and not the amount of pages.


The approximate calculation to working out how many pages your final published book would be is:

Word Count / 250 (words per page) = The amount of pages in your published book

The calculation above is working on the assumption that:

• You have not double spaced your document yet, 

• Your text size is no larger than 12 and;

• You have a maximum of 1" margins all around.

Remember the average novel is between a 90 - 140k word count and ALL agents (even if you are not using an agent, as this site is about self publishing writers, it is still good to know how theses things are done in the industry) do not look at how many pages your book is, they work on the WORD COUNT.