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Old 10-01-2014, 08:14 PM   #49
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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks View Post
That's huge and in mass market would be at least 450 (I'm ball parking. There is an actual formula somewhere.) But in trade paperback, you could get it shorter, easily.
I counted the words on what I felt was a "standard" paperback page and got 400. So I figured a 300 page book would be 120,000 words.
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