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Originally Posted by JSWolf
A lot of eBooks don't have a proper cover. But we are expected to pay the same or similar to a pBook that has a proper cover. If you can't give me a proper cover, then lower the price as I don't want to pay for something I am not getting.
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To be clear, by "built-in" cover, I mean a cover that is part of the file.
Many authors make lovely covers, and then do not have the cover included
in the file. It comes onto the device as store metadata and can be lost entirely if you sideload without affixing it in Calibre first.
B&N actually actively strips covers OUT (based on my own upload). This irks me as an author and surprised me as a reader -- I'd noticed that none of my B&N books came with covers, and I'd assumed the publishers were jerks. Nope, it's B&N, and I assume to cut down delivery costs.
I purposely chose to include my cover both as store metadata AND embedded within the file itself. But that costs me on every Amazon purchase, and it was stripped out of the B&N upload.
There are a lot of little hidden things at these stores that you don't really see or know until you have to deal with them. What can you do? Makes me wish there were more indie stores though, that didn't fiddle with format or charge for file size.
