As you probably know, Kindle cover images for the Amazon product catalog can be much larger in both dimensions and file-size than the cover that appears inside the book. The latest Kindle Publishing Guidelines spell it out. Interestingly, verbiage about the “shortest side” (formerly a minimum of 500px) has been dropped in favor of simplified […]
Revised Kindle Publishing Guidelines
Amazon revised its publishing guidelines for Kindle books in August 2010, and has released several minor updates since then. The most significant change is the doubled maximum file size for images, which is now “under 127KB” instead of “under 63KB”. Images that exceed these limits will be reprocessed by KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing). There are […]