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Originally Posted by kfachuh
Do you mean that after publishing the Amazon will swap whatever the cover file is to their processed version of that file?
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Well, not exactly. It's done in the conversion of your uploaded book file, whatever it might be, at Step 6 in the workflow as you set out to publish your book on Kindle Direct Publishing. So when you preview the book, as made available to you in Step 7, you are seeing the degraded (lower-resolution) version of the Product Image you uploaded earlier. (Step 5, I think it is.)
If you include a cover in your uploaded book (Step 6), it will be suppressed. There was a time or two when if you uploaded an epub file, the book wound up with two covers, but this was soon fixed. It hasn't happened to me in 2015.
Not only will the software suppress an included cover, it will also suppress a frontispiece if that's the first thing in the book. (Where else would a frontispiece be placed?) That happened to me, so I had to move the "frontispiece" to just ahead of Chapter One.
(I hasten to add that the "degraded" version of the cover is perfectly acceptable even in a high-rez Fire tablet. Indeed, I sometimes wonder why Amazon specifies just a huge cover image, given that their Product Image on the Amazon store page is only 500x500 pixels.)