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Originally Posted by handycrowd
Hello,
Quick ponder. I just uploaded (to KDP) my latest book as a straight, simply formatted MS WORD .docx file.
Out of interest I compared the file size to the same file pushed through Kindle Create.
The WORD .docx was 31% larger than KCreate's offering, predictably.
(file is about 55k words and 180 images over 260 pages)
My thought is, will formatting this book with Sigil give me enough file size savings over the KC version to justify the hours to do the work?
Cheers
p.s. I like using Sigil but am less enamored with KC... so I can't be objective ;-)
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No idea. But I DO know the size of the epub source file isn't likely to be very relevant to the size of the Kindlebook that gets created from it after uploading to KDP. To my understanding, the size of the file being delivered to devices is really the only size that's relevant when talking about Amazon delivery fees.
I'd be tempted to say that whether docx, epub, or Kindle Creator file, the size of the Kindlebook that gets created/delivered to any particular device/app isn't going to have much variance at all.