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Originally Posted by Hitch
n.b.-Apple now requires a 1400px WIDE cover for ePUBs (no--seriously. I didn't make that up).
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And because of that, Smashwords is requiring 1400px-wide covers for anything in the premium catalog--even if you don't care to distribute to Apple.
I almost think this is Apple's way of thinning out self-pubbed books, or pushing them toward very simple or ugly covers (it's easy to make a 1400px-wide cover that's just text on a colored background), because there is NO REASON WHATSOEVER to have an ebook with a 1400-pixel wide cover. Never. Ever ever. Even if the next generation of ipad is 1500 pixels wide x 3000 long (or whatever), at no point does anyone need to look at a book cover with that level of detail. And even if they want to... they'll look at it for, what, twenty seconds before they open the book and
never see the cover at full size again?
Bah. Stupid. Huge filesize jump with no practical benefit.