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Old 07-09-2013, 08:56 AM   #36
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Originally Posted by Notjohn View Post
Further to this distinction, the Mobi 7 files (htm, opf, and ncx) totaled about one-fourth the size of the Mobi 8 files (basically just the epub). Yet the latter is what Amazon uses to calculate the "download fee" of 15 cents per MB. The difference, on that particular book, is about 35 cents per download, that I am being overcharged for buyers with one of the older e-ink Kindles, sigh.
I've never experienced that sort of size discrepancy between the individual MOBI and the KF8 components myself. Often times, I've found the KF8 portion of the kindlebook to be slightly smaller than the MOBI (because MOBI uses a lot more markup where KF8 utilizes CSS that effectively eliminates a lot of repeat code).

You're not comparing the sizes of the folders/files created by KindleUnpack are you? If so, that wouldn't be very relevant to download fees.
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