File Size

[CreatePetProj]

Hi

I received a message this morning that I hadn't completed my application for review.
So I popped over to the link, and found they required me to upload the book to review.
So I tried the ePub, I tried the PDF, and they both came back with an errors. Too Large. Max size 10MBs

So, the question is.
If you'd like a non-fiction art book that is fixed format an 77MBs at it's smallest size, what can you do?

Thanks in advance.

Rob

[gali]

You can pm Scott about it and ask for his advice. Another option is to offer an "Amazon Kindle Book Gift"

[Scott]

For a book that large I would also suggest using the Instant Kindle Gift. 77MB is a pretty large file. That's like downloading a whole music album.

[CreatePetProj]

How do you set up a Amazon Kindle Book Gift?

Ah, Scott I see we have the same favourite book!!

[Scott]

Is your book available as a Kindle book on Amazon?

[CreatePetProj]

Yep it is!

-- 04 May 2014, 02:13 --

I was looking at the Book Gift, and it doesn't seem to be a free way to deliver a gift token for a review.
I asked their support, as I am the author how can I give free copies and they said they couldn't do that yet, but sent it as a suggestion.

Now, I have this book available as a PDF download with a coupon code at PayHip, and also on DropBox.
Is there no way to have it linked like this if you don't support files bigger than 10MBs?
Thanks

[Scott]

Where are you located? I can see the "Give as Gift" option on the book's Amazon page.

[CreatePetProj]

Hi

There is a give as gift option, but when I select it it charges me.
Is that really fair for the person who uploaded it to pay for it?
If I uploaded it here I wouldn't pay for the review under the free option would I?

[Scott]

You don't have to offer your book by purchasing a copy on Amazon (or B&N)... you can select that option if that is what you prefer to do. Some author's prefer to only let Amazon/B&N distribute their book. I designed my software to also allow you to upload your book directly to our server. Needless to say, we can't go buy your book from Amazon for you to fulfill your request to have us review your book for free. We'd quickly go bankrupt if we did that.

[CreatePetProj]

The only issue is that the limit on the size that can be uploaded narrows my options.
I either pay for people to download, and lets say I did the Gift option.
My budget wouldn't even cover the download of 3 copies at the price it's offered.
I have the book on PayHip (can't add the URL yet)
I have the book as a PDF download and I can give tokens to get it for free.
That seems a good way to deal with things. Or does it need the tie to Amazon for the review to take hold?

[Scott]

For one thing, we should only need 1 copy to do a review.

What do you mean by tokens?

I could manually put the file through but at 77MB it's going to present the opportunity for trouble through the process when the software simply isn't designed for that. 77MB could easily take several minutes to download on a relatively fast connection. We would need to make sure whoever is getting it would be aware. For instance, that's over 3 times the quota I set on my phone for daily mobile data, even though normally I wouldn't have a concern downloading an ebook over mobile since they are usually a small fraction of that.

[CreatePetProj]

I have a PDF version that is 44MBs

There is no way to do an art book at 10mbs! The images would loose their quality and punch. I feel.

-- 11 May 2014, 06:26 --

Managed to get a PDF down to 13Mbs, even though the images are not that great.

[Scott]

I believe we resolved by having the item delivered directly through Amazon rather than going through our site. This seems like the best solution: to sort of cutout the middleman when attempting to deliver such a large file getting it from A to B as directly as possible.

[CreatePetProj]

My request still asks for PDF, mobi and ePub to be uploaded.

Is there a new link"?

[Scott]

Did you upload the kindle gift? I don't see that. However, I have removed the selection for the other file formats so you can proceed with only the kindle gift.