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 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.
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.
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.
When I pull up Amazon's home page, I see a customized list of
thumbnail images of books.
It was pricey ($ 1,000 a month) but in a special sale I bought 3 months for the price of 2 and ended up being paired one month with John Grisham's new novel, which put
the thumbnail image of my book in front of a lot of people.
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.
Also, the ability to browse through color
thumbnail images of books with a flick of your finger is appealing.
Not exact matches
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.
The second row
of thumbnail images shows
book recommendations.
Finally, open each remaining document in your
Book file, go to the Pages panel, click on the
thumbnail image of the first page
of the document to highlight it, then click Numbering & Section Options in the Pages fly - out menu.
The second row
of thumbnail images shows best - selling
book recommendations.
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.
I don't like using the
thumbnail of your
book too aggressively, but you should plug the
book itself with an
image here and there.
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.
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.