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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
That very-well could be the case in non-KDP situations. But to my knowledge, there is no separately uploaded marketing material with the KDP process.
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Diap:
Some years back, at least 3-4, Amazon changed things so that any cover uploaded that is baked into the MOBI/ePUB/Whatever will *not* display as the marketing image on the Zon website. Instead, the image that is uploaded separately, in the "Content" section of the Bookshelf, is used for the website marketing image. More importantly, vis-a-vis this discussion, it is placed into the uploaded book, replacing any cover that is already in the MOBI/EPUB/whatever, or creating the cover placement, if one is not there.
Amazon said that they had such issues with DIY authors and Word files that they changed the entire process so that the uploaded Marketing image would be inserted into the uploaded ebook, overriding or supplanting any cover already there.
This brilliant decision, on their parts, resulted in the dreaded "double cover" issue, that affected Word files uploaded with cover images embedded therein, and MOBI and ePUB files that were uploaded with a cover.xhtml page therein.
The newer method of mobi-building, using the cover IMAGE, not the cover FILE, so marked in the metadata and the Guide, works to create a MOBI that only has a single cover, despite Amazon's best efforts to "help."
HTH,
Hitch