In addition to all the usual email features, you can click on the Amazon logo to insert
a thumbnail image of your book cover and a direct link to the product page.
Not exact matches
Most online booksellers feature a
thumbnail image of your
book, which is a scaled - down version
of your
cover that is usually only one inch tall.
In fact, some suggest that e-book
covers are just as important than those on physical
books, because online buyers are presented with a myriad
of thumbnail images when browsing on the most popular sites.
In Twitter, the service automatically adds the hashtag #Kindle to the message, and in Facebook it pulls up a
thumbnail image of the
book's
cover.
Remember that people are only going to see a tiny
thumbnail - size
image of your
cover when they're searching through the thousands
of other
books in your category, and if they're browsing on their mobile phones they'll see a really small
cover.
For the
cover, you can use
thumbnail images of the
books on the box set, a new
image, or an
image from one
of the
books.
A full, one piece low resolution JPEG
image of your
book cover that you may display as a
thumbnail where required.
Cover images of the last five
books or documents you have read appear in
thumbnail form in the centre, while the menu shortcuts are relegated to the top and bottom
of the screen.
Or a writer with a name that's impossible to spell or pronounce may publish under a shorter name — one that pops from an online
thumbnail image of the
book's
cover.
A good
cover should make your
book stand out, use genre - appropriate fonts, be risqué while pushing the limits
of the vendor's censorship policy (depending on your genre), and it must be readable as a
thumbnail and full - page
image.