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Originally Posted by Peter Ahlstrom
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.
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Why does Amazon charge delivery fees based on the size of the eBook? If the delivery is on WiFi, there's no extra charge. The only way I can see Amazon maybe incurring a charge is if the eBook is delivered to a Kindle via cell data. And if that's the case, Amazon should just turn off the cell service for Kindles and srtop selling any Kindle with a cell modem.