Re: Ghostwriters anonymous pricing question (long)

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dick Margulis" <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net>

> I quoted for a shorter work, with a base rate for 25,000 words and pro 
> rata for anything beyond that. This isn't a business book. And my quote 
> was probably commensurate with your suggested rate of $100 per page, 
> although I don't know how many words per page you're assuming with that 
> figure.

The "standard" for book pages will vary from publisher to publisher, 
but is usually based on text size, margin and line spacing, not words.  
It typically works out to about 200-250 words per page.  This is 
different from a manuscript, which typically runs 350-450 words per 
page.  Something to keep in mind when doing page and word counts 
on a project that is starting out on 8.5x11 manuscript pages but will 
end up on 5.5x8.5 book pages.  So 25,000 words works out to a roughly
100 page book, $10k for business/nonfiction, $15k for a novel (or at this
page count, actually a novella).  That's the *middle* of the typical price
range if your client is a non-famous person.

Gene Kim-Eng



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