Is there a "standard size" for page layouts?

[EquinoxRising]

Hi. I wasn't sure if Author's Hangout (since ya'll are authors and write) or "How To" (because that's a general Q&A) was the best place for my question, so Mod feel free to move this if I was wrong. On to the question...

Is there a certain "page size" (formatting the page layout in a Word document) for print paperback books? Will Ebooks typically look like Lit pages or will they also appear "smaller" like a print book? Thank you in advance for any help.

 

[sr71plt]

Paperback pages can be widely varied to get more fewer words on the page, as desired (margins, gutter size, font, line spacing). I don't know the CreatSpace specs, sorry, because I don't do the conversion. My publisher does the setup.

Ebook formatting doesn't look the same as Lit. pages. It's usually full justified, has no extra line spaces between paragraphs, is in a larger font (usually Arial), and, more often than not, it has space and a half line spacing to make the on-screen read easier.

When I convert what would be set for Literotica submission to ebook submission, the paging goes up by nearly a third. And then the paperback paging goes up about a fourth again from the ebook. My erotica paperbacks tend to be set in Arial and my mainstream books in Garamond, with Garamond taking less space than Arial. If the paperback is less than about 50,000 words, mine get set a space and a half. Above that, they get set single space.

 

[EquinoxRising]

Thank you, Pilot.