[TWGallier]

I posted my short stories' wordcounts and approx page counts in the blurb.  Smashwords just came back on my first story awaiting approval for Premium Catologue (yeah, I know it's misspelled).  They said to REMOVE the page count.  Odd.  I'll do it, but how odd.

 

[Erica Sloane]

Smashwords lists the word count for you. Maybe there's something in their agreement with vendors about not having page counts. Just a guess.

 

[thejosh86]

Smashwords rejected a revision of my 1st novel for the same reason, but they accepted my 2nd with a wordcount a few weeks ago. Go figure!

 

[RobertY]

There is a big difference between page counts and word counts.

There is no way to do an accurate page count. Different devices have different screen sizes and Smashwords has many formats. Also what can impact page counts is people make the text that they view different sizes. What can be a 100 page count for some can be a 150 page count for another.

 

[Terrence OBrien]

Just say, "Appx 400 paperback pages."

 

[TWGallier]

Normally I would say approx * paperback pages, but for some reason I didn't do it on that one.  I just removed  reference to number of pages per their request.

 

[jessicamorse]

Normally I would say approx * paperback pages

Yeah, they won't accept that either. No page count at all for premium distribution, so you did it right.

 

[39179]

Thanks for this thread! I just went back and removed the page count from a book I uploaded there last night.