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Amazon Kindle eBook cover specifications (height and width size requirements)

I'm in the process of publishing my second eBook for the Amazon Kindle, and one thing that's currently hard to find on the Amazon website is what the eBook cover height and width size specifications are. You can currently only find this information when you get ready to publish your book.

So, as a brief public service, as of May, 2012, here are the Amazon Kindle eBook cover height and width specifications, courtesy of the Amazon KDP book publication website:

By Alvin Alexander on May 4, 2012

JFrame size example - how to set the initial JFrame size

I've been getting back into the Java/Swing world during the last few days, and I thought I'd share some example code here. In my current application, one of the things I just worked on was setting the initial JFrame size to a value I liked.

By Alvin Alexander on October 17, 2012

How to tell a JFrame to fill the entire screen

In an earlier tutorial, I shared some code on how to maximize a JFrame, but every once in a while you'll run into a situation where you want to fill an entire screen with a JFrame, but not call a method to actually maximize it. This is rare, but I just ran into this situation, so I thought I'd share the source code here.

By Alvin Alexander on August 8, 2011

Java screen size - How to determine the screen/display size

Java screen size FAQ - "How do I determine the size of the screen (or display) in pixels? (i.e., the screen size, or screen resolution)

The following Java code demonstrates how to get the screen size, using the Java Toolkit class:

By Alvin Alexander on October 17, 2012
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