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Originally Posted by anamardoll
I'm running into similar problems. And -- incidentally -- this is why most ebooks don't come with a "built-in" cover, which absolutely infuriated me when I was only a reader.
I built in my cover, a back cover, character portraits, and images for chapter breaks. That's... costing me. Ah well.
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I found a couple helpful things. Kovid Goyal is
awesome and updated Calibre so that you can opt for it to not convert all images to JPG. If you already have optimized images and check that box on MOBI conversion then your file size will not increase. Prior to him patching Calibre I was experiencing at least 2x the file size on conversion.
The other thing I found that's helpful is to use Kindlestrip if you create your MOBI with Kindlegen. That strips out the included EPUB, which is what was doubling our file sizes whenever we used Kindlegen.
Both of these have brought my insane delivery charges back down to earth somewhat. I won't be happy until Amazon ditches the delivery charge though. It's sneaky and underhanded and not something a major corporation needs to be doing. If they really depend on that income then they should just knock the 70% option down to 65%, eliminate the delivery charge, and quit it with the false advertising and fine print.