WinRT with sqlite support

I am trying to make a Windows 8 application with SQLite for a database. The problem is that I have a table with 26k rows of existing data, which is about a 13MB file. I need to package this so that it can be read / written. All solutions I see say to copy the file from the install location to the application data folder. The only solution I could think of would be to check if the file exists in the app data and if it doesn't copy it, which would mean that only the first launch of the app would take 10 seconds or so. But should there be a better way to do this than by rewriting the file?