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Originally Posted by Hitch
What's your question? Are you saying you're using D2D to make a MOBI, or are you comparing apples and oranges, an ePUB from D2D to a MOBI from the KDP?
You already know that a MOBI has 3 full sets of files inside it. What's the question here? A MOBI will typically contain an ePUB inside it, in addition to the KF8 mobi and the KF7 mobi/prc file, so OF COURSE, the bloody thing is larger. Is that what you're asking about?
Hitch
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Of course notl! What are you thinking?
I was merely intrigued by the apparent statement that an epub uploaded to D2D will be smaller than the declared size of the Kindle version, as shown on the third (pricing) tab in the publishing process.
I refer to KDP's portmanteau file as "the so-called mobi," because it's a package of files, of which the old mobi (KF7) is hardly the most important. All I am concerned about is the delivery fee!
The Word 2000 files I uploaded to the DTP in 2007 and 2008 were two or three times larger than the epubs I upload to the KDP today. As viewed in a text editor, each paragraph tag took up more than one line, often three lines. My all-text books of say 80,000 words are generally 500 KB or less, for a delivery fee of about seven cents. By January 2012 I was selling about a thousand books a month (not nearly so many today). An additional ten or fifteen cents a copy was a big deal to me.
Thus my interest in whether books turned out by Kindle Create are bloated or not.