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Originally Posted by Peter Ahlstrom
Oh, the ePub we release through all other channels won't change due to this.
But I'm considering reducing the resolution for the images bound for KDP. If they want 1200, maybe I'll do that instead of 1600 as in the standard ePub.
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1200 is their new HG (Holy Grail). OMG, you mean you haven't been whacked by the GOK team yet? (Great on Kindle?).
it's sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo infuriating. The team, somehow, someway, finds some book that they wish to make
Great on Kindle, right? And then they send the customer love notes, telling them that the book has
"quality issues." Now, these are only Quality Issues for GOK, not generally, which has (to my eyes) somewhat arbitrary standards. They don't make it clear that there is actually NOTHING WRONG WITH THE BOOK. Naturally, the customer is not happy, thinking that we screwed up, but hell, some of these books are from 5, 7 years ago!
What's really frustrating is that they insist that images--all images!!!-must be certain standardized sizes. A half-page-wide image, thus, MUST BE 600px wide. A quarter, 300. If you have a fleuron or decorative doodad, that should be 200px wide, tough crap, it needs to be 300. (Yes, really).
When you get one of their lovely little GOK notices (which the customer forwards you, natch), you get their specifications. It's not complicated, really--300dpi, 1200px wide, thence 600px for half-width, 300px for quarter width, and oh, yes, 900 for 3/4 width.
That's about it. There's no give in the interpretation, no allowance (thus far) for aesthetics, etc. We've had to fix...IDK, under 10? But they're all infuriating. Every bloody one.
Hitch