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Originally Posted by Muckraker
And that triples the "delivery cost" on the 70% royalty plan. How convenient that yet another value-add for Amazon comes at the expense of the self-publishers.
So to make sure that a 10mb e-comic works on new and old Kindles Amazon thoughtfully increases the file size to 30mb--then charges us $.15/mb for every sale if we want to maintain the illusion we are receiving a 70% royalty instead of the paltry 65% offered by BN. Guess it's a good thing Amazon let's us take the 35% royalty when we find ourselves paying a $4.50 delivery fee on a $2.99 comic.
The fee is completely counter-intuitive. They want high quality content and here we are decreasing the quality of our images. They want to show off the color of the Fire so they make it financially crippling to publish a color book. They want cross-compatibility but here we are using Kindlestrip to cut our file sizes in half by nuking the EPUB. And we do all this to stomach fees that I guarantee nobody but the micro-publishers are paying.
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No, that's not how it works. You upload the combined file to Amazon and they split it out. The Mobi-only part gets downloaded to older kindle devices, and the kf8 part to newer kindle devices. Goodness knows what they do with the source archive.
I don't know how they calculate the delivery fee if the KF8 and Mobi sections are very different in size. I suspect that it's unlikely that they will be significantly different.