In fact it mainly depends on the picture size (pictures cannot be compressed as text).
I assume this 1.7 GB file contains pictures, or it will be compressed efficiently with the new compression algorithm (29.4 MB for the
Electronic Pocket Oxford English Dictionary gives a 4 MB eBook).
We already published a 240 MB (XHTML size) eBook. The result was 22 MB (including few icons/pictures).
Therefore, such an eBook could be sold on a card like the Griffith's, the Oxford Handbook of Clinical Medicine, or the Britannica Concise Encyclopedia.
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Originally posted by verndude
Hi all,
With the Oxford English Dictionary weighing in at 1.7 GB I don’t think we will see it in eBook format anytime soon.
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