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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
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Ah, Scott I see we have the same favourite book!!
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-- 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?
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Is there a new link"?
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