Book Cover Needed!

  • Status: Closed
  • Prize: kr200
  • Entries Received: 25
  • Winner: gdjuliana

Contest Brief

I am writng a book about my past, and I need a bookcover.

File Types

Kindle Direct Publishing currently accepts two types of files for cover images:

JPEG (JPEG / JPG)
TIFF (TIF / TIFF)

We apply additional compression to images when displaying them on the website. For best results, please upload your images with minimal compression.

Dimensions
Requirements for the size of your cover art must have an ideal height/width ratio of at least 8:5 (1.6), meaning:

• A minimum of 625 pixels on the shortest side and 1000 pixels on the longest side
• For best quality, your image should be 2500 pixels on the longest side

Important: We cannot accept any images larger than 10,000 pixels on the longest side.

Size
Your cover image must be less than 50MB. If the file type you are using supports compression, make sure to enable as little compression as possible, e.g. none for TIFF. Be sure to save your file with 72 dots per inch (DPI).

Color
Product images display on the Amazon website using the RGB (red, green, blue) color mode or profile. RGB is the color mode native to the web and many color screen displays, as these three colors displayed at varying levels of intensity create over 16 million colors. When saving and uploading your cover image file, save your file ONLY as RGB - not CMYK or sRGB- for the color profile. You can usually find this option in the File saving dialog of image manipulation programs such as Photoshop.

Some programs may also refer to RGB color as 'True Color' in some programs. If in doubt, try opening a JPG inside Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Safari. If a JPG opens fine inside a web browser, it's most likely okay to use as a cover image.

Make sure to save your image without color separation. This is usually a pre-press or color palette option. Use your image manipulation program or image analysis tool (some are available free online) to verify that your image file doesn't have color separation.

Use color images whenever possible and relevant. In addition to the Kindle black and white E Ink reading devices, customers can read your books on full color Fire devices and free Kindle reading apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, PC or Mac.



INFORMATION:

Name of the book: Faded Childhood
The SUBTITLE to the book: The memories of my past
Name of Author: Nicolle Melody Rachel Glein-Killingberg

This is a EBOOK.
The main picture is provided.
If you use any other pictures etc, make sure it is NOT stolen and copyrighted.

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