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Originally Posted by dwig
The "page" count in an ePUB (e.g. those compatible with the Sony & Kobo readers) is a poorly chosen term. There are no pages in an ebook. The ePUB "page" is a file chunk of a particular size and has no relation to a printed page in a paper book or to the amount of text displayed on a typical screen. Some ebook readers calculate these "pages" and display the number.
The Kindle "page" is a real page. The newer Kindles can, when the data is provided with the ebook, cross reference a particular "location" in the file ("location" = chunck of file data, smaller than the "page" chunk referred to by some ePUB readers) to the printed page in a particular edition of the book. The Kindle will identify the printed book by its ISBN. When such data is available for a book Amazon will list the book's size in pages, hence the match between the Kindle ebook and the hard cover version.
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Thanks for the explanation.