 We have outtakes. I do hope you're keeping all the bullshit, but it's that we just get my check my check one two three suck What's up guys and welcome to today's video? This is about to be a fire video correct. We're sitting here right now podcast style Yes, and we're about to answer the question does size matter and more specifically. What is the perfect size? And we're talking about books What is the perfect course length for your book as in pages and words and then what is the perfect size? For like the paperback version of your book and also we also got a real paperback version that we're gonna show you guys later To show you exactly what it looks like what a book of this size looks like it comes from KDP print We'll be examining it. Do you guys see what that looks like? So you've never looked at it before yeah, so answering the first question What is the perfect length for your book in terms of words? How many words should your book be now? Let's just cut straight to it and answer it in our opinion the answer is 30,000 words This is what we recommend for everyone now. There's a few published. There's a few different reasons why for one With regards to the audiobook you want your audiobook to be at least three hours long Yes, right and if you go by ACX's formula We have other videos explaining why you want a three-hour-long audiobook, but it has to do with the price point Yeah, I think it's about 35,000 comes out to three hours long if you have like a narrator that speaks like the normal speed That's like the estimated but some will speak slow some will speak faster So just in case we have a narrator that reads a little faster We like 30,000 words just to be sure that we can hit that three hour length every time So that's one that's one reason and the other is that for quality sake right now I know a lot of other people I don't know how much anymore because people are kind of starting to realize that like these short 10,000 15 20,000 Some people were even publishing five thousand five thousand. No, that was the big thing in the beginning of publishing It's been a couple of years since I think people are starting to realize that that's not right anymore Yeah, that that sucks. Yeah, five thousand word books sucks. Yeah, so basically what everyone else teaches is 5,000 10,000 15,000 the most I've seen someone else say is 20,000 word books And so we say 30,000 and the reason being like you were saying is just for quality sake because when someone buys a book They give you money for your book if they're expecting something in return if someone is buying like a 10 15 or $20 Paperback book like paperback is probably where you can make the most money along with your audiobooks So I'm pays like 20 bucks for a book They don't want like a five or 10,000 word book like a little pamphlet They could just flip through in 30 minutes. That's like 50 pages. But like that's gonna piss people off like We're trying to run a publishing business the right way and provide value to our customers So we need to give them what they're paying for the goal is not to trick them into buying your book Especially how you got my book and then once they get it like what the fuck I spent 20 bucks on this shit Seriously fuck this leave a bad review like you can do that and have success in the beginning But it's not sustainable a lot of people have bullshit a lot of people have done that and made a lot of money Doing it that way, but like you said, it's not sustainable Want to build a publishing business with books that are gonna make money for like years and years And the only way to do that is to create good books that are gonna promote people to leave good reviews instead of bad reviews Like bad reviews will kill your book. No one buys a book with bad reviews like So that's why now with that said let's take a look at a 30,000 word paperback book And see what it looks like so I have one I'm gonna grab it from underneath my chair right here And now after that we also answer the in terms of size what's the best size, but first let's look at this book This is what a paperback book Published with KDP print or printed by KDP print looks like this is 30. It's like 31,000 words is 30,000 words Now this is a book written by my girlfriend Laura It is called my mindfulness movement journey practicing yoga and mindfulness for beginners in plain English It's got some keywords in there If you are into yoga and mindfulness go check out this book link in the description if you're curious to buy it's a very good book tells about her life and Yoga and mindfulness and all that stuff, but let's move back on topic, right? So let's take a look what the book looks like. Okay, so here we have the cover now It's 30 about 31,000 words long. Okay, let's let's look at this So if this is I think font times in Roman font size 12. You want to see what it looks like But boom so some professional formatting when went into this as well We can make a video showing you how to format your book Yeah, and this was actually format on my blow if you want that it's actually formatted by the urban writers now It does have some mileage on it. That's why I like the corners low bent, but let's see how many pages it is So yeah 30,000 words will come out to about 150 pages. This is 156 pages a 150 page book is like the perfect size Thank you to the Mickelson twins. Okay, so this it says that have you not read her book? No, I've not read her book the middle filming Thank you. Okay. Oh nice, right. So this is 156 pages long. It's about I don't know what what would you call this I Don't know that is inches one and a half two centimeters Don't do it like that. That's how I measure inches so but this is like a very high quality book If I got this I'm like fuck. Yeah, I'm happy about this goddamn book Yeah, right as long as it's good, but right off the bat like this looks like what you fucking pays for Mm-hmm 150 pages looks great like a professional book Like you don't want to be publishing books that aren't professional that are spammy like there are a lot of people you'd be surprised How many people teach five thousand ten thousand fifteen thousand word books like let me just say fifteen well five thousand is Is like this or something it's literally a fucking pamphlet look 5,000 words like the biggest publishing course teaches five thousand word books Okay, 15,000 is gonna be half like 80 pages. That's better, but it's still an 80 page book is still not a Proper book 150 pages boom like it's gonna be loud when you slam it I do want to cover some of the settings that were chosen when printing this book So it is cream paper not white. I much prefer cream cream looks a lot better. Yes And Yeah, look at that cover super high quality cover. We'll get into that in another video But even the detail on the back cover those little accents right up super nice cause but Yeah looking good, so the cover is Matt. Yes, it is Matt. So there's two options when you print with KDP print There's glossy and matte. This is matte. It's just not glossy And it's just it's just super fucking professional. Yeah glossy kind of looks like a textbook a textbook is Yeah, so let's also answer the question. What is the perfect size for your book and like your book cover the dimensions? Yes, so this is five by eight five inches by day inches. This is five inches. This is eight inches See it guys eight inches is a lot girls don't understand how much eight inches. This is Eight eight inches is a lot. You don't need eight inches for the book You do need eight fine. You are eight. Sorry. No, but to answer the question. What is the perfect size? There isn't a perfect size like that is perfect for every single book I like five by eight let by my favorite size. It's not too big. It's not too small to me It's just perfect size, right and also I think five by eight and six by nine are the two most Commonly used sizes for self publishers if you use a six by nine that also means that the book cover Well, the pages are gonna be bigger. So it's gonna be more worse than each page I mean there's gonna be less total pages. Yeah, this is 156. If it was six by nine it might be like 130 So just like a hundred pages. Yeah, so just not it would be more maybe 120 So just keep that in mind that you do also want a paperback book with more pages with some girth to it You want some solid girth? Let's have some good girth. So let's just say a great recommended size is five inches by eight inches So when you're publishing your paperback books, we would definitely recommend going with that option So that basically answers the question right how long should your books be we told you why it's 30,000 words because One that makes the best length for an audio book and two this actually creates like a sizable book That has a lot of information and a lot of value to provide to readers and then next What should the size be for like the cover for the paperback version five by eight? Yeah, that's just the question There you go. 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