If the book is very short, you may opt for charging just 99 cents, the lowest permissible price currently on Kindle. Simply reformat your pages to Kindle’s A5 format, and you’ll discover that your 2000- word essay has become a lot longer! 2. Kindle pages are smaller than regular pages Not only does your Kindle book not have to contain very many pages, but the pages themselves don’t hold as much text as your regular page.