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Per page rate for ebooks?

by MsConnie
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I know people charge per word count, for example $XXX for 3,000 words, but if charging per page, what is a fair rate for an ebook? (This is for a potential client.)

Thanks to all who reply.
#ebooks #page #rate
  • Profile picture of the author MsConnie
    Originally Posted by Ken_Caudill View Post

    If you consider a page as 250 words, a nickel a word is $12.50.
    $12.50 per page?
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  • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
    My rate for content is twelve cents per word. The average Word doc is around 400 words so that's approximately $48 per page.

    I'd start there and might come down a bit, but not much. Not these days anyway.
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  • Profile picture of the author peejaydee
    You could consider not pricing per page or per word. Why not take an objective look at how much work the ebook will actually take to write? Include your investigation/study time and possibly a premium if it's a specialist subject. Look at what you believe your own household hourly rate needs to be and apply it. You can then take a call on whether your customer might be willing to pay the true cost.

    What to charge as a freelance writer remains one of the hardest considerations for many writers. It's a balancing act between what you believe is fair and what your customer is willing to pay. They're inevitably different.

    I write occasionally for online content and for 1,000 words I normally sell full rights for about $80. That's not usually a specialist subject though and these articles are written as and when, not to commission, and take me no more than 1 hour when the feeling takes me - hence my pricing is on the low side.
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  • Profile picture of the author Raydal
    Most of the books I wrote were within my field so the research
    was practically done. The last ebook I wrote was a 10,000
    word book for $2,000. Now I stick to writing sales copy!

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    • Profile picture of the author arfasaira
      It depends on where your at right now in terms of how comfortable you feel with your writing and how much you feel happy charging your client. My first EVER job on Elance was for an ebook which was around 40 pages long on brain power and I charged $700 for it. That was pretty good going for me.

      Now it depends on the project. I don't really do that many ebooks nowadays - although one of my clients pays me per hour and I'm currently writing some brochures and white papers for him.

      Thing is, the research takes a long time, and so I bill him for the time taken to research stuff as well - its all billable time and the same will apply to your ebook project. If it's something really straight forward, estimate the number of hours it may take to write and multiply by your hourly rate to get a rough estimate. Then add on 25% for drafting and revision.

      This approach has served me well with my offline clients and I use this method when doing brochures. However, if it's something that's going to take a lot of research, you might choose to bill by the hour instead.
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