It was mostly the cover image, which I resized to about half – there’s also the logo, the dividers and the author photo I could have shaved down a bit. They see it in the book shelf, click on it and it goes to about half screen size… to see it bigger they have to open the book and then scroll back to the very beginning of the book. people aren’t going to spend much time looking at your cover on your Kindle anyway, and it usually won’t be displayed full screen – ever. Instead of “maximum” you can probably save them at “High” or about 60% quality…. Kindle Fire HD will display 1200width… so you need images that big, but they don’t need to be perfect quality. That got it down to about 7mb, which still wasn’t good enough – $1.05. (I’m using Sigil to edit the epub before converting to mobi). Step One: Clean up the Codeįirst I went through and got rid of any extra code I code remove, and made sure it passed the epub checker here: I’ve never paid much attention to file size, but she pointed out that, if you are participating in Amazon’s 70% royalty option, they charge a fee per MB every time your book is downloaded – right now in the US it’s $0.15 per MB.Ĭheck the Amazon pricing page for the most up-to-date prices and costs.Īt 15mb she would be paying $2.25 per sale!

I made ebooks for a client recently – the ebooks came out at 15mb. OctoDerek Murphy make money on Kindle 444

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