Amazon Ebook Cover Guidelines

Kindle ebooks must have an internal cover image provided for use within the book content.

Amazon ebook cover guidelines. Illegal or infringing content we take violations of laws and proprietary rights very seriously. Do not add an html cover page to the content in addition to the cover image. Write locally connect globally.

Page 3 of 72 outline getting started paths to get your content on kindle formatting guidelines kindle best practices getting started there are many options for making your books available for the amazon kindle platform. This means that for every 1 000 pixels in width the image should be 1 600 pixels in height. Provide a large high resolution cover because amazon quality assurance will fail the book if the cover is too small.

These guidelines apply to book content including title cover art and product description. It was mainly for paperback so for the ebook cover i just converted it to rgb and cropped it according to the standard ebook ratio. Sign in just once to manage your amazon author central page and books around the world.

At 2400 for the long side this calculates to 5 inches by 8 inches at 300 dpi. Joining amazon author central lets you take control of your author profile on amazon audible and in kindle books. Claim your author page to get started.

Guidelines for publishers version 1 1. These guidelines do not apply to content included within products or services sold on amazon which are subject to separate policies. Updated 4 1 marketing cover image is mandatory.

Amazon updated their recommendation 4 2012 for a book s cover file to be 1500 to 2400 pixels with a 1 6 ratio to the short side. The ebook cover is 6x9 inches in dimension and of 300 ppi resolution. Now the printed cover is fine but the amazon thumbnail is blurry.