Question for our Kindle Experts (meaning, money, words)

[FiveLoaves]

I'm doing the last edits on a short story with baseball as a backdrop. I want to publish it on Kindle as the baseball season is now up and running. My story is about 19,000 words long. I'm thinking I want to put out a Paperback first, and then convert into Kindle eBook Reader.

I recall one of our contributors said that it is easier to publish a PDF into Paperback version first, and then convert it to eBook as a second step.....am I correct in my recollection ?

[Arkay66]

19000 words is too small for a paperback. Amazon's preferred paperback book publishing size is 6"x9". With its preferred font, that's about 375 words per page. That would make your book about 50 pages, and frankly, no one is going to buy a book that tiny, for the amount of money that would have to be charged.

Either make your story much, much bigger, to the tune of at least 50,000 words (around 100,000 is better), or publish as an e-book only and charge according to Kindle's recommendation for that size short story, for that's what it is at 19,000 words.

Good luck.

[FiveLoaves]

Thanks Arkay. That's good input. I think I'll stick with the eBook format.

[Arkay66]

Let us know when it's published, so we can buy it.

[Deserterer]

This doesn't help answer your question but as a stickler for meaning 19,000 words is a very short novella or an overweight novelette, but not a short story.