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Many ebook retailers won’t even allow you to upload a file larger than 20MB. And even with those that do, such as Apple, you need to consider how many of your readers will be accessing your masterpiece: on a wireless device, where download speeds are slow, and empty space is taken up by cat videos and audio recordings of a niece’s singing recital. Nothing frustrates a reader more than buying your book — but not being able to download it.
On top of that, our favorite elephant in the room, Amazon, deducts fifteen cents per megabyte from every royalty payment as a “transport fee.” [4] (I always imagine a group of burly truckers carrying floppy disks with your ebook on them from a storage locker to the download bay on the other side of Jeff Bezos’s kingdom.)
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Ah. The ebook concept is dead for DIY instruction, where embedded video is what you really want. I've heard Apple won't support links to externally supported video.
So..........what's really needed, for image sound and video intensive DIY (how to do it) instruction (how to build a house, how to fix your car, build a boat, play the guitar, learn how to use Photoshop etc) is epub file storage, file organization and visual display--------provided by a web server rather than a phone app.
The phone app genre is crippled! I see that now.