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Originally Posted by PhyrePhox
I guess we all have our things that bug us; stretching the image would bug me! LOL
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I'm usually really picky about things staying in proper aspect ratio. But when it comes down to covers for ebooks, it gets down to how much time spent fixing every cover for 5k books that I could spend reading instead. The covers aren't distorted by much, I'd be hard pressed to tell if it's original AR or not (unless it has a recognizable actor's face for instance, that you probably could tell easily, but I have zero book covers like that). And how much time do you spend looking at the cover anyway?
There's also the fact that to get it in perfect AR for your reader without any stretch at all, you will have to cut some of the cover image away, from either the top and bottom or from the sides. There's no getting around that. So is chopped off images and text better than a slight stretch of the image to you? If it is and you don't mind spending the time, go for it.
For me, the slight stretch is better than cutting off any part of the cover image, and definitely better than the blank sidebars on any cover image.