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Originally Posted by Nick_1964
Oh I am not against it and in some story's you need it,like a map.
But last week I had one where the actual book was 200 KB.
The front was a .JPG file, 2416x4288, more then 2 megabytes in size, 300 DPI, 24 bits of color.
That is overkill.
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I've run into covers that were over 7 MB in size on an ebook that was really only 400 KB. And I fully agree with you, it's ridiculous overkill that does nothing but bloat the size of the book for no reason. I mean how much time do you spend staring at the cover to justify the wasted space.
Even maps included can be compressed correctly to still appear at great quality without getting into the overkill sizes that bloat the book. But it seems whoever does the images for ebooks knows nothing about image compression.