![]() That fee may not be much for a html file of text (which most Kindle books are formatted to be) which can be over 500 pages and not crack 1 MB, but a file of images can easily grow to be many many megabytes. Yes, the 4.8″ x 3.6″ screen dimensions are restricting (standard page size for mainstream monthly comics is 10.25″ x 6″) and the 72 dpi display is less than desirable for images (print quality is 600 dpi), but the real reason there are no comics on Kindle has to do with a $.15 per megabyte fee Amazon currently charges for transferring data from the Amazon server to the individual Kindles. I don’t own a Kindle (I use a Kindle app on my smartphone, instead) so I had some assumptions: Kindle buyers must not be comics buyers, graphic novels must not look good on those little black-and-white screens.īut after looking into it, I realized why: money. Why? Why aren’t book publishers selling graphic novels on Kindle? Why aren’t comicmakers taking part in the self-publishing revolution that has begun through ebooks? In between manga porn you’ll find a few Star Trek movie-tie-in comics, Owly and American Born Chinese. As of this writing, the bestselling title in the Comics and Graphic Novels subcategory is KINDLE TEXT TO SPEECH: How to use Read-to-Me (Text-to-Speech) Function of Amazon Kindle, and 80 out of the first 100 bestselling titles are manga porn and mis-categoried erotica ebooks. If you browse the Kindle selection of comics, it’s pretty sad. If you choose the 35% royalty option, there is NO FEE! Start self-publishing your comics, NOW. ![]() The MB fee described below currently applies to the 70% royalty option, only. ![]() UPDATE 09/28/11: Thank you for reading! The information in the following post, as of today, has changed because of the new KINDLE FIRE.
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