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Originally Posted by jbcohen
How long must a manuscript be before it is called a book? I am looking for an authoritative group or company to with the answer. Here is a few examples of authoritative companies or groups on this subject: Readers Digest, Ziff Davis, Penguin books, Barns and Nobels or American Book Publishing Association.  The best I have been able to come up with at this point is a magazine called Writer's Digest (WD) says 60K words. While WD is an authoritative source on the issue, I am looking for some one a bit more visiable then WD is. |
What??? Defining a "book" by the number of words is ludicrous. What about Art books? Children's picture books? Are you saying that those aren't defined as books??
Are you maybe trying to define a novel? Novels can be defined by the number of words, as can novellas, and short stories. I'm not sure how non-fiction is defined--maybe it starts with article and moves up from there?
Shari
Edit to add: Harry said it first, and as always, he said it better
