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Originally Posted by Dr. Drib
Amazon's page count indicates that 'The White Tree' is only 430 pages in length.
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Give us a target word count; a lot of indie books are sold in formats that don't measure length in pages.
Wikipedia's
list of longest novels has
Atlas Shrugged at 1088 pages and 645,000 words;
Les Misérables is listed at 1488 pages and 531k words.
Gone with the Wind, not on that list, is 1037 pages in paperback and ~418,000 words.
However,
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is 759 pages long and not quite 200,000 words. If it were extended to 1000 pages, that'd be less than 275,000 words.
From a few lists online, it seems that books known to be "1000 pages long" are about half a million words, with some variation for font size. And there aren't many mainstream novels of that length--several dozen, to be sure, but not hundreds, so it's unsurprising that there are few indie novels of that size.