Thread: Suggested extra option for Add Cover
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Old 01-13-2017, 12:39 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by slowsmile View Post
@DiapDealer...The link for the Nook image requirements is here - in the Ebook Cover Size and File Formats section:

B&N eBook Cover Requirements

You can see that all the ebook vendors in the list -- including Kobo, Kindle, iBooks, Nook, Smashwords, Google Books, Lulu, Draft2Digital and BookBaby do not use SVG for their ebook covers. These vendors either recommend JPEG + Tiff or JPG + PNG. But none of them use or recommend SVG format.
There is a pretty major difference between using a SVG image and using a SVG wrapper around a .jpg/.png/.tiff/whatever image.

I will admit to have gotten a real chuckle out of the recommended image sizes. The last 30+ books I purchased from Kobo/Amazon/Google or borrowed from the public library have had much smaller cover images -- the average size would be 650 x 917 with a surprising 5 of them with a 510x680 cover image.
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