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Originally Posted by Peter Ahlstrom
Thanks for the breakdown. Our other KDP titles have only a handful of images, so I can't quite make an apples-to-apples comparison. But here is an example:
ePub: 1.6 MB
KDP says: Your book file size after conversion is 0.93 MB.
Listed delivery charge: $0.14
Amazon product page reported size: 5203 KB
KDP December report: Avg. Delivery Costs: $0.14
That's evidence that the amount the KDP author gets charged is related to what it says for the filesize in KDP, not what it says on the product page.
Still, this thread has me seriously reconsidering how I want to approach making the ePub for uploading to KDP.
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Peter:
Around image resolution issues, or around the delivery fees, or both?
(We've found the delivery fee size expressed in section 3, on the bookshelf, to be a pretty reliable indicator of the "final" delivery fee, if that helps. When my bookmakers complete an ebook, they are required to test-upload it at their own testing accounts, [QA] and they note the delivery fee size, too, which we share with the customer.
ENTIRELY too many hysterical customers, who see the size of a file and ask "OMG, is that my delivery fee?!"
especially when we were still delivering mobis. It's less frequent now, but now, giving them the number is simply habit.)
Y'know, in some eBooks, we already
have included lower-resolution and higher-resolution images, with media-queries, (for different devices) but I freely admit,
I can't be sure what's being used for what.
AND, let's not forget, now we have the KQN-GOK (Kindle Quality Notice--Great on Kindle) "standards" of
not less than 1200px wide for images--if this is happening, if images are being reduced/compressed/shrunken,
what's the bloody point?
Hitch