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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
But the image within the epub itself doesn't need to be the full 1440x1050 pixels. It can be 800x600 and the code in the book tells it to display the cover at 100% of your reader's screen and it looks just as good as if it was 1440x1050 pixels. For the few minutes you actually see the cover, it's silly to include huge images thinking it will "look" better on an e-ink display. Even on a color display, the same coding can be applied and no one would see the difference if done correctly. You can use the cover as your screen saver while the reader is asleep and it will still look perfect.
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The image needs to be a minimum width of 1,400 pixels for Apple and Smashwords IIRC and Amazon and B&N were supposed to be upping their minimums too. And while I agree it's less an issue for covers than for interior images to say no one will see the difference is wrong. I've seen it many times in current books.
The real crazy ones are when you get books like when they issued the old Start Wars books again and not only included a multi meg cover image, but 5 or six more multi meg covers at the end of the book to preface each of the excerpts there.
