How InkMagnet's five pricing tiers work, and how to pick the right page count for your book

InkMagnet has five pricing tiers, and exactly one thing changes between them: page count. Research, writing, review, optional illustrations, a designed cover, and both PDF and EPUB files ship at every tier, from the $9.99 Compact book up to the $34.99 Complete edition. Nothing sits behind an upsell at the top of the range. That makes the actual decision simpler than most pricing pages, but it also means the only lever you’re pulling is length, so picking the wrong one either pads a thin topic with filler or crams a broad one into too few chapters.

The five tiers, in full

• Compact: 30–45 pages, $9.99
• Standard: 46–75 pages, $14.99
• Extended: 76–115 pages, $19.99
• Comprehensive: 116–160 pages, $27.99
• Complete: 161–200 pages, $34.99

Every tier includes the same pipeline: the research pass, the writing, the LaTeX-based typesetting, the cover, both export formats and full commercial rights. A Compact book isn’t a stripped-down Complete one; it’s the same process run on a smaller topic budget.

What a page actually holds

InkMagnet’s default layout runs about 120 words per page: the A5 trim, an 11-point body face and the generous space a real typeset chapter needs for a drop cap, subheads and the occasional table or callout box. That’s noticeably lighter than a plain word-processor page. A survey of over 900 authors by Kindlepreneur puts the average nonfiction page in a standard 6×9 trim at roughly 233 words. The gap isn’t missing content. It’s typesetting doing its job, and breathing room is part of what makes a page read like a book instead of a wall of text.

Run that 120-word figure across the five tiers and the ranges look like this:

• Compact: roughly 3,600–5,400 words
• Standard: roughly 5,500–9,000 words
• Extended: roughly 9,100–13,800 words
• Comprehensive: roughly 13,900–19,200 words
• Complete: roughly 19,300–24,000 words

For context, publishing guides generally put a standalone lead magnet at 3,000–5,000 words and a full nonfiction ebook at 30,000–50,000 words, with the broader average nonfiction book landing around 50,000–75,000 words once it’s meant for retail shelves rather than a download form. InkMagnet’s whole range sits at or below that retail average, since every tier is built to be read start to finish in one or two sittings, not to compete with a 300-page trade paperback.

Matching the tier to the actual project

• A lead magnet or single-module course handout lands close to the industry’s own 3,000–5,000 word norm, which is exactly the Compact range. A campaign built around a real book rather than a thin checklist still fits comfortably here: one clear problem, one path through it, no padding to hit a bigger number.
• A focused how-to guide: diagnose a problem, walk through the fix, show how to check it worked. That shape tends to need four chapters and lands naturally in Standard.
• A broader manuscript that covers a topic properly without artificial padding is the range most nonfiction projects land in once the research is done: Extended.
• A compendium, a full curriculum, or a reference book meant to cover six or more distinct subtopics without flattening any of them into a single paragraph belongs in Comprehensive or Complete.

If a topic is genuinely thin, sizing up doesn’t create more substance. It stretches the same material over more chapters, and that’s the one way an otherwise solid book starts to read like it’s circling back on itself.

The one cost that scales after purchase

The InkMagnet price is flat and one-time regardless of what you do with the file next. But if the plan is to also sell a physical copy through Amazon KDP, page count keeps mattering after checkout: KDP’s black-and-white paperback printing runs on a fixed $1.00 plus roughly $0.012 per page, with a flat $2.30 minimum that covers anything up to 108 pages in the US market. A Compact or Standard book prints at that $2.30 floor either way. A 200-page Complete title, by contrast, prints for about $3.40 a copy, a little over a dollar more per unit. That’s a rounding error for a single author copy and a real line item for an agency printing client editions by the dozen.

None of that touches the ebook side, where file size rather than page count drives KDP’s delivery fee. It’s only relevant the moment “page count” turns into “physical unit cost,” which is worth knowing before defaulting to the biggest tier just because it covers more ground. A book sold only as a PDF download or an EPUB, the common case for a lead magnet or a client deliverable, never runs into this math at all, since nothing ever gets printed on paper InkMagnet doesn’t already typeset digitally.

Why the price step isn’t linear

The jump from Compact to Standard is $5, Standard to Extended is another $5, but Extended to Comprehensive is $8 and Comprehensive to Complete is $7. Page count scales evenly across the five tiers; the price doesn’t, because a longer book isn’t just more of the same chapter repeated. More pages generally means more distinct chapters, which means more research passes, more consistency checking across a longer manuscript, and, when a topic calls for it, more chapter illustrations generated to match. The per-page cost gets a little cheaper at the top of the range, but the work behind a 180-page Complete book is genuinely more than four Compact books’ worth of chapters stitched together.

If you’re not sure, size down

Every book you buy stays editable, with unlimited recompiles of the PDF and EPUB after a change, so a chapter that needs another pass later doesn’t cost anything extra. The page tier itself is set at generation time, though, so it’s worth being honest about scope before you start: a topic that fits Standard doesn’t get better by force-fitting it into Extended, and a genuinely broad one shouldn’t be trimmed down to save a few dollars.

See the full tier table with live pricing, or start from your own topic and see which page range the research actually fills.