Format and settings when scanning for album cover artwork?

When scanning pictures for use as album cover artwork, which format works best?  Also, what settings are best: number of colors (millions or billions), and resolution in dpi?

Thanks for responding, Limnos.  I get the the file-size trade-off.
I guess what i need to know now is which file formats are permitted, and more to the point, do any of them work better or worse than the others in iTunes?  In particular, i see that the JPEG 2000 format is extremely efficient, but is there anything about it that makes it, or any of the other image formats, a poor choice for iTunes?

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