Box set in print, or large print? See every edition before you format anything
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R. S. Breed Founder
A print box set sounds simple until you work it out. Three novels in one book is three books' worth of printing, so it needs a much higher price to earn anything. And KDP stops at a few hundred pages more than most single novels. Large print is the same story, with far more pages for the same words.
Enter your series' word counts here: https://bervet.com/tools/omnibus-and-large-print-planner
For every edition at once (each book, a box-set omnibus, and large print of both) you get:
- about how many pages, with the likely range
- the KDP spine width
- whether KDP and IngramSpark print a book that long at your size and paper
- what it costs to print, and the list price that earns the royalty you want, on KDP and IngramSpark
When an omnibus is too long for one book, it shows how to split it into volumes, keeping the books in order. Each line has a "details" link that opens it in the print royalty calculator with every platform.
A trilogy of 85,000, 92,000 and 98,000 words comes to about 812 pages as one 6 x 9 paperback on cream paper. That's over KDP's 776-page limit, so it's two volumes or a bigger trim size.
The page counts are estimates from the word count tool, usually within 6% of the finished book. No account needed.