Amazon makes authors pay for the download of each one of their digital books (.15 per megabyte). To put it another way, the publisher of this book could have chosen to make this file awesome for the reader but pay more $ from their commission more to deliver it. I wish that had to be plastered in large font on every kindle sold. 01 to $9.99) to deliver that book to your kindle. Children’s book with lots of images? You might pay $9.99 to Amazon to have that book downloaded, then they get a 30-70% commission. Well, Amazon makes publishers compress their books and charges them wildly different prices (from. I looked into just why do kindle images look so bad it and what I found is pretty sickening. Toolboothhootrote Band? Toolboohoolrote Band? Horrible compression in the image there, but why? Why would an author put an image of a map in their book so corrupted their readers can’t read it? Zooming in, I couldn’t figure out the name of something: I was reading a book the other day on my iphone ( The Last Indian War, a highly recommended story of the Nez Perce Indians) and noticed a really interesting map.
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