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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Amazon is once again playing fast and loose with hi-res graphics. In the eBook The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England by Brandon Sanderson, the ePub has hi-res graphics and the Kindle version does not. I downloaded the sample and it does not have the hi-res graphics.
Is this the same as the last time (see earlier in this thread)?
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No, this is something different.
I have that e-book direct from the author's secret projects Kickstarter. That includes the book in various formats including generic EPUB and also EPUBs targeted to Kindle and Kobo. The generic and Kobo EPUBs are about 28MB, however the EPUB intended for Kindle is only 9MB.
Comparing the contents shows that the images are significantly reduced in the Kindle EPUB. For example the full-page image named personstencil.jpg is 1220x1793 pixels at 141KB in the generic EPUB and only 669x1000 pixels at 49KB in the Kindle EPUB.
I took a look at the free sample of the Kindle edition of this book available from Amazon. As far as I can tell the image quality matches the Kindle EPUB that was provided to me from the Kickstarter. Based on that I believe that the lower image quality of the Kindle edition of this book when compared with other e-book sellers is due to an intentional decision by the publisher and is not Amazon's fault.
Amazon is certainly to blame for many image quality problems in Kindle books but apparently not for this one.