I think, given a background as an editorial photographer, that I would avoid saving to JPG or PNG in the initial stages of image preparation. However it is only deducted if you are using KDP’s 70% royalty plan, which requires that you price the ebook between US$2.99 and $9.99. Although I kind of knew some of this it is really handy having it in one place as a checklist. What Amazon is doing is a nasty, greedy racket. For the past year I’ve been on and off trying to figure out how to get the tables and graphics from a print book to work with Kindle. I’m going to assume that you’ve spent a lot of time finding the perfect pictures to illustrate what you’re saying — and that you’ve made absolutely sure that you have the right to include them in your book. Well, you’ll need to trust me on this: it isn’t your words. 2×3 ratio image full color at 1600 px on short edge at 5% of quality is 150 kb. On a different computer. Robby, have you tried taking an enlarged screenshot of the table? Required fields are marked *, Notify me of followup comments via e-mail, ×  You’re a gem. They range from under a kilobyte, to 21KB — the total, including the front and back matter, is 104KB, or just over a tenth of a megabyte. Yeuch! And save my pages ( they all include an image with little text) as pdf? Make sure that you don’t see any “jaggies” (ragged, pixelated lines instead of smooth, flowing ones), and that the important detail is all still visible. How many times should I have heeded that advice in the past! Wait — you aren’t going to work with the original image, are you? In Photoshop, it’s under the Image menu: Image Size… In Preview, it’s under the Tools menu. If, on the other hand, your picture is more decorative or illustrative than central, you might consider setting that short-side size to something closer to a standard smart phone or ereader width — between 600 and 800 pixels. is the 35% rate best then? Now I’m off to find more of your fabulous, helpful articles. Is it still important to withdraw the metadata from .jpg images of the artwork when creating a .pdf from the .jpg images? However, Apple is the only retailer that will accept them. It is a good exercise to think in terms of multiple versions — there are different needs. Excellent article, thanks. You’re very welcome, Sarah! You’re very welcome! [2]Okay. What if I want to price the book under $2,99? Novak will turn any reader into a comedian.You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. I create my artwork in Adobe Illustrator, then export as a .jpg, then create a multi page .pdf from the .jpg images. I do a lot of formatting for authors, but rarely books with images. That’s a tougher question than you’d think, because the phones and tablets most ebooks are read on vary so much. Appreciate it. I’m currently working on the Kindle and CreateSpace versions of a book for an author who has included just over 150 images in his historical book. They mention size limits, though they don’t mention the 15 cents per mg rate, and I wonder how efficiently they put your files into kindle-ready (or iTunes ready format)? Are the pictures primary, or are they secondary to the text? […], […] it comes to the other elements of fiction, C. C. Hunter suggests adding depth to your story by putting your setting to work, and Linda Clare offers tricks for writing descriptions in first person POV. Except . 11 Total Resources 1 Awards View Text Complexity In striving to enrich the lives of all readers, TeachingBooks supports the First Amendment and celebrates the right to read.  =  Reduce the photos in every way possible to meet that goal. I have an ebook scheduled to go live May 27. I use Lightroom (which is cheap and far superior to Photoshop for photographers), and outputting an image at a 2×3 ratio (for a 6″ by 9″ size) with all metadata stripped out yields the following sizes for 1600 on the shortest edge, which I believe to be incorrect advice: No, you don’t need to compress the images you embed in PDFs, especially if you’re opting for the 35% royalty. If you don’t believe me, look at this picture of the innards of an ebook: These are the files that make up the text portion of an average-sized book (Joseph Campbell’s Myths to Live By; my paperback copy is 288 pages). Check out our video contest and see how YOU read the book! So I wonder if you could confirm that you size your images to 1600 px on the short edge of your images? Great article. The question is, what are the dimensions of the image in pixels? However I find myself completely at a loss with what I thought would be something quite simple, and nothing here seems to enlighten me fully, and I can’t find your article on Word’s image handling. When I put out the same image at 1600 px on the longest edge of the image, which I believe to be the correct advice, the following size are recorded: One should re-save the file into JPG format once the cropping and color correction is done. See those numbers in the third column, the column headed size? So in they stayed. I am completing a biography of my more than 50 years roaming the earth as an exploration geologist. Save your Word doc as HTML. Many dedicated ereaders and all ereader apps used on computers, tablets, or smart phones display in three colors (red, green, and blue — RGB). display: none !important; What is the cause of all of this bloat? I created a title page so I could use a special font and an image that would be rejected by Amazon. These devices’ screens use much less energy, and many people find them easier to read, so there will be folks who will be viewing your beautiful, fully saturated snapshot as if it were being displayed on a 1984 Macintosh. Novak will turn any reader into a comedian.You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. I started out being very conservative in compressing images — close to the right-hand, “Best” side of the slider. Thanks also for the heads-up about Amazon’s download fee.

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