Well, it makes sense for online venues not to care. They aren't affected by it at all. What they use would be word processor counts.
Yes, it makes sense for them not to care -- but it doesn't make sense for them to proclaim that no one else does either, because that's still not true.
When I did word counts for Courier New 12pt on standard letter size margins, I _never_ got 250 words a page. Maybe that's because I tend to have a lot of dialogue in those books, and it might be different now. 220 was the highest I'd ever go.
My actual word-count is on average about 225 per page as well, in the same format. But short dialogue lines take up a line, and end of chapters take up a page and a bit regardless, so I think the general printer count is probably more reliable for printing/typesetting than Word word counts.
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Re: Hmm.
Date: 2004-09-10 03:08 pm (UTC)Yes, it makes sense for them not to care -- but it doesn't make sense for them to proclaim that no one else does either, because that's still not true.
When I did word counts for Courier New 12pt on standard letter size margins, I _never_ got 250 words a page. Maybe that's because I tend to have a lot of dialogue in those books, and it might be different now. 220 was the highest I'd ever go.
My actual word-count is on average about 225 per page as well, in the same format. But short dialogue lines take up a line, and end of chapters take up a page and a bit regardless, so I think the general printer count is probably more reliable for printing/typesetting than Word word counts.