Short stories and novellas under 50,000
words as paperbacks are not a good choice for mass distribution, unless you have a huge fan base and a lot of interested readers willing to fork over the cash.
Not exact matches
Not Adequacy but Sainthood Louder than
Words: The Art of Living
as a Catholic by Matthew Leonard, Our Sunday Visitor, 159 pp, # 9.99
paperback, # 9.49 Kindle edition
A powerful essay of 1926, Jesus and the
Word (Scribners, 1934), has more recently won large sales
as a
paperback.
Since the dawn of education, scribes have been creating educational resources by means of the written
word, which have transformed into the creation of printed
paperback and hardback books
as time has progressed.
Most
paperbacks found in bookstores and Walmart (which have about the same quality
as you can expect with a CreateSpace - printed book) are $ 8.99 or even less, and those are for full novels — 80,000
words or more.
It's ironic, I think, that the company most responsible for preserving the written
word with both Kindle ebooks and Createspace print - on - demand
paperbacks is seen
as a threat to reading and writing.
Funny, Derek,
as I am sitting here holding my
paperback copy of Vandalism Of
Words, on the first page you say «this book is only available in electronic formats...» ~ Anne
As such, the recommended
word counts are largely the result of industrial standards and therefore have more to do with the production requirements of
paperback books than they do anything related to storytelling technique, artistic aspirations, or the preferences of readers.
However, for digital printing, such
as those used in POD (print - on - demand) services like Lightning Source, you can actually format your
paperback book in
Word and convert it to high - resolution PDF.
In other
words, assuming Amazon's book business reflects the overall industry, Amazon is still probably selling twice
as many
paperback books
as Kindle books.
I picked up a well - regarded book from a major publisher in
paperback from my local Waterstones recently — it has the
word «stood» spelled
as «sttod» in the very first line of the novel.
To read more stories on the theme of the senses, and wonder at the amazing inventiveness of other writers featured in the anthology, you'll find Eating My
Words available
as ebook and
paperback available to buy on Amazon.
Kiffe Kiffe Demain was published in France in 2004, when she was 19; it was published in English this summer (
as a
paperback original) having been translated from French into English by Sarah Adams, who provides a useful glossary of Arabic and French slang for those
words that defy direct translation.
I took a screen shot of the header
as it appears in the MS
Word document that forms the interior of my
paperback book.
In most cases, we can convert any book format, such
as Word, Html, PDF, scanned document,
paperback to Kindle, etc..