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 […]
Book Covers with Kindlegen 2.4
Important! Cover image production has changed since this post was written. Amazon now uses the large product image for the inside cover. The parts about how Kindlegen crunches large and/or high quality interior images still apply, but meticulous production of an inside cover is no longer unnecessary. Kindlegen 1.1 (released June 30, 2010) doubled the Kindle […]
Kindle book cover size
A Kindle book has two cover images that serve different purposes and cause a lot of confusion: The cover image that displays on your Kindle or Kindle reading app The cover image in the amazon.com product catalog Numerous questions posted on the Amazon Digital Text Platform (DTP) Support Forums are about the dimensions and file […]