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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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Oh hey, I just got the email saying this thread had been updated. There is nothing mysterious going on here—this book just has a ton of images and they did not compress as well as the ones in Tress of the Emerald Sea because of the types of images they are. Tress had a bunch of images with flat color areas that compressed really easily as gifs, but in Frugal Wizard nothing except the front cover and title page has easily compressible flat color areas.
End result was, we put much lower resolution images in the Kindle version to keep the delivery fee down. And we put a QR code on the illustrations table of contents that leads to higher quality images online. The ePub version just has the higher quality images in it.
EDIT: and now I’ve read the other posts after that one. jhowell and Hitch are right.
I would love to be able to offer Kindle readers the full experience, but when we’re looking at delivery fees of $4.50 per book, on a $10 book, it’s just not happening. Adding the QR code was the best we could do, but a lot of people probably missed it because they didn’t look at the contents page.
I know the Big Five aren’t paying delivery fees. I asked our Amazon guy if there was any chance of us being able to get a non-KDP deal, and there just isn’t. Amazon is not making any new deals with publishers like those ones. It’s KDP or the highway.
At least our Amazon guy was able to swing us changing the book titles before release, after preorders had started, since we’re keeping the titles a surprise for those who want to not know. KDP’s automated review was having none of that.