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Originally Posted by GeoffR
It depends a lot on publisher, and whether I have replaced the crappy low resolution images in the original with higher quality ones.
Publishers like Baen are often less than 0.5MB, as are books that were published as ebooks a long time ago, but most recently published ones (including republished backlist) are 2-3MB, often 5-10MB. It depends mainly on the quality of the cover and other images, and on how many embedded fonts.
A publisher like Subterranean Press uses very high quality images in many of their books, so even their short stories can be 5MB+
Non-fiction can be 100MB+
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Well, that would do it.
I believe Amazon aggressively cuts down bloated images in direct contradiction to your habits. To which I say "OHMYGOD THANK YOU JEFF!!!
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If Amazon didn't do it, I'd have to do it
myself. And you do the exact opposite???
I don't bother to remove embedded fonts, and I don't think Amazon has a particular vendetta against them, so that probably isn't it.
Most novels don't have a lot of images, so that basically leaves the cover. How big can one cover be?
Why do you feel the bizarre need for an HD cover image on an ereader?
As for non-fiction and illustrated works, I suspect all those images makes them a losing proposition for reading on E-Ink anyway.
So sure. Not just readers of manga/comics, but anyone else who reads
image-heavy books. Valuable lesson, that.