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Originally Posted by Hellmark
Word often can double or triple the size of an ebook. It adds a TON of stuff to the HTML that isn't needed.
I'd recommend LibreOffice (like I said, that's the new name for OpenOffice), or Sigil. Both are free, so go give them both a whirl and see which you prefer.
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Assuming it is already written in Word, would there be any advantage to copy and pasting it into Libre at that stage? Would Dreamweaver's "clean up" tool get rid of the extra stuff Word puts in? Then there would also be all the extra styles that Calibre creates but aren't used in the actual document.
For self-hosting all this probably wouldn't matter, but Amazon charges the publisher a transfer fee per kilobyte. So doing all that, plus making a special black and white cover (or removing the cover completely) would be worthwhile.