Proper way to count up pages?

[[deleted user]]

I have a children's book that isn't numbered. I don't know the rules for counting up the pages. I imagine you ignore the endpapers. Do you start counting when the story starts or do you start at the title page? Also, the last page is when the story ends, you don't include the "About the author" page?

Perhaps sticky the rules to this folder.

[Scott]

If it's unnumbered, I'd only count the content pages.

[[deleted user]]

Scott wrote: "If it's unnumbered, I'd only count the content pages."

Content means what exactly? What if the book says "Chapter 1" on one side of a page and the story starts 2 pages later. Do I count when the story starts or on the page that says Chapter 1?

[Plethora]

Here is the help topic on page count

[Scott]

I think either would be acceptable.

[Deon]

"The number of pages in a book is meant to include all content except for advertisements and preview chapters for other books"

[[deleted user]]

Thanks all, I feel confident in my counting now.