LmgxQ: Quick question about fiction books and word limits
I’m really interested in your product! I know fiction books aren’t on the roadmap yet, but I’ve seen that they’ve been mentioned as something possibly planned for the future. I just wanted to ask — is that more of a “someday down the line” idea, or something that might realistically happen within the next year?
I don’t mind buying the product now and waiting if fiction support is something that’s truly in the works. I just want to know where it stands so I can decide whether to invest now or hold off a bit.
Also, I was testing out the book creator and noticed that the minimum length was 10,000 words. I wanted to try a 6,000-word story just to see how many credits it would use, but it seems that’s not an option yet. Will there ever be flexibility for shorter stories or lower word counts, especially once fiction options are added. Thanks.
Ioannis_Youbooks
Oct 31, 2025A: Hi! Thank you for asking this. Fiction is definitely not in the planned features right now. Youbooks would have to grow a lot, and cement itself in the non-ficiton market as the go-to tool before we would consider expanding to fiction. This is not an easy task.
On the word count, you should really not use Youbooks for anything shorter than 15K words (maybe even 20K). For such small lengths, you are better of using either the chat interfaces themselves and agentic tools like Manus and Perplexity. They will offer more flexibility and control and faster results.