12-06-2019, 07:53 AM | #46 | |
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I have been here on and off for a while. I just had not posted in years. I took some time a few years back to really dig into the craft and the business and cut back my time in forums as a result (only so many hours in a day). Then I spent a year targeting my business and launched a new series with all I knew at the time. Rocked it up the charts/etc, but it was exhausting in its own way so took some time off from marketing/etc to just write. In 2020 I plan to slowly work back to a more sustainable level of balance between business and writing. |
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12-06-2019, 08:00 AM | #47 |
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I just corrected my post to refer to Kobo page count not ADE/Kobo ... I don't know what algorithm Kobo use. It's not ADE - or not for my books, which come out significantly lower in ADE than my print editions. (eg: 384 print & Amazon, 485 Kobo, 324 ADE).
Which is probably getting off track for the thread, except that it shows how little control we as authors have over what the retails display. |
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12-06-2019, 08:06 AM | #49 | |
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Balance, yes, that would be good. I've written so little in the last few years it's almost embarrassing to keep participating here in Writer's Corner. But for now at least I have to work while the work is there. Previously, I had gotten so caught up in writing that I'd almost forgotten that I only had time for it because I had so little work happening. |
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I have found that it is very common for amazon's page numbers to start correct but eventually some error creeps in and throws the numbers off for the rest of the book. Sometimes the numbers are completely screwed up. If an ebook from the author or publisher is in EPUB format with a proper pagelist or page-map, kindlegen will generate correct amazon page number. |
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12-06-2019, 11:57 AM | #51 | |
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12-06-2019, 04:09 PM | #52 | |
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Nobody gives two s**ts about the word count of the front- or back-matter, snookums. It's not going to significantly affect the reader's enjoyment, or lack thereof, of the story, nor how long it will take to read. It's JUST frontmatter. Only in rare circumstances does the FM add anything worth reading. Hitch |
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12-07-2019, 05:43 AM | #53 |
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Word count is supposed to be just the story text, not any copyright, series listings, other books, blurb, about the author, reviews, publishing history, contents list, headers or footer.
It may include the words "The End" if the book has them. Chapter titles, chapter preambles etc would be included, if they exist. I'm not sure about notes, preface and an appendix. A prologue is really chapter 1 by another name and epilogue the last chapter, so they are counted. We recommend against using those terms for the story before the main story and the story after the main story as it seems some people confuse preface and prologue and many think both can be skipped. I do think a preface can be skipped and if added by the publisher to a later edition should always be read after the book as it's likely to have 3rd party opinion and spoilers. LOTR is an example of a book where the notes / appendix maybe should be counted? |
12-08-2019, 03:38 AM | #54 |
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All of the ones I gave were of text and table of contents only. Nothing else.
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12-08-2019, 05:25 AM | #55 | |
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Which only leaves argument over whether to count forewords, author notes and appendices (I would). There should be no argument about excluding previews of other books because the description "other books" seems pretty self-explanatory. But my guess is that the above is mostly irrelevant to word-counts given by retailers like Kobo. I don't know for 100% certain, but it only make sense these are automatically generated, so in that case they will be counting what they find inside the file - previews, blurbs, ads, whatever. |
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