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It's not just comics; at least one major US publisher of trade fiction isn't bothering to optimize their book covers for legibility at Amazon thumbnail size (12
by cstross 14y ago
It's not just comics; at least one major US publisher of trade fiction isn't bothering to optimize their book covers for legibility at Amazon thumbnail size (120x80 pixels). Even with authors biting their ankles on the subject and ebook sales heading towards 60% of the total.
- edj 14y agoSo true. The dilemma is similar in the iBookstore, but over there iBooks Author is at least partly to blame. What appears to be a book cover (called a "title page" in iBA) actually appears full-size on an iPad only for a few seconds when a book is opened. The title page mostly appears as a thumbnail either in the store or in a reader's library. However, it's not actually a different image; the same image is scaled down to thumbnail-size. And yet there's no indication that the title page will ever appear thumbnail-size during the design process. You have to preview the book on an iPad to see it that way.