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Originally Posted by missjane
I am fairly new at this myself, but this is what I currently understand.
To categorically affix a new cover, you need to convert the ebook. (Even if it is already in the correct format, eg, you might convert epub to epub.) Sometimes even without the conversion the new cover appears, (it must depend on how the internal workings of the epub or whatever are set) but not everytime. The problem is that DRM books cannot be converted, so essentially if you are working with a DRM text, you are stuck with the cover as it came.
The 'sticky' second cover can be overcome on non DRM texts with a bit of fiddling in sigil (free, open source epub editing software.)
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In an ePub, the way to change the cover is once you find the cover image you want to use, replace the image that's already in the ePub with the new image. Of course, you have to use the same name as the old image. Then go into the XML file for the cover and fix it if it needs fixing. Sometimes it will. Then once all that is done, you'll have the new cover. No need to convert ePub>ePub (which is a rather bad idea).