The Best eBook Cover Size & Best Practices
The Best eBook Cover Size & Best Practices:
Kindlepreneur’s Dave Chesson provides an excellent chart of eBook cover requirements sorted by platform. Here’s a quick breakdown:
Apple Books: 1400 px x 1873 px or 1600 px x 2400 px with a minimum width of 1400 px (JPG/PNG).
Barnes and Noble: Rectangular image with a recommended width of 1400 px. No one side of the image can be smaller than 750 px (JPG/PNG).
Draft2Digital: Tall, rectangular image at 1600 px x 2400 px (JPEG).
Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP): 2560 px x 1600 px (1:6:1 ratio) with minimum dimensions of 625 px x 1000 px and a maximum limit of 10,000 px x 10,000 px (JPEG/TIFF).
Kobo: 1600 px x 2400 px with a minimum width of 1400 px (JPG/PNG).
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