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How many pages is Wordpower?

Wordpower by Edward de Bono has a median of 270 pages across 7 English-language print editions with a recorded page count; most editions have exactly 270 pages.

Median pages
270
7 editions counted
Range
269–272
shortest to longest edition
Reading time
5.2h
at 238 wpm (non-fiction average)
Words (est.)
74k
at 275 words per page

How long will Wordpower take you?

Starts at the non-fiction average of 238 words per minute and 275 words per page. Move the slider to your own speed.

Reading time
5 h 12 min
At 30 min a day
11 days
At 1 hour a day
6 days

Page count of every edition, by year

Each dot is one English-language print edition. Shaded: middle half of editions. Line: median.

2652702752801980198519901977: 269 pages1977: 270 pages1977: 270 pages1979: 270 pages1990: 272 pages1990: 270 pagesmedian 270
2652702752801980198519901977: 269 pages1977: 270 pages1977: 270 pages1979: 270 pages1990: 272 pages1990: 270 pagesmedian 270
Open Library edition records (2026-09-30 dump). 1 edition without a publication year not plotted.

Editions counted

The 7 editions behind the figures above, newest first. Open Library lists 11 editions of this work in all languages and formats.

YearPublisherFormatPagesOpen Library
1990Intl Center for Creative ThinkingPaperback272OL9303193M
1990Penguin Books–270OL22338863M
1979Penguin Books–270OL14457364M
1977Pierrot Publishing Ltd–269OL4476761M
1977Harper & Row–270OL4444696M
1977Harper Colophon Books–270OL13548311M
–Penguin–270OL20870838M

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Questions

How many pages is Wordpower?
About 270 pages: that is the median of 7 English-language print editions on Open Library. Editions range from 269 to 272 pages.
How long does it take to read Wordpower?
About 5 h 12 min at 238 words per minute, assuming 275 words per page. At 30 minutes a day that is 11 days.
How many words is Wordpower?
Roughly 74,000 words, estimated from the median page count at 275 words per page. Open Library does not record word counts, so this is an estimate.

Data: Open Library monthly data dumps (works, editions, authors, reading log, ratings) (Open Library / Internet Archive); How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate (Marc Brysbaert, Journal of Memory and Language 109 (2019)).