My Cover Art on Self Published Book Appears Small on Library Shelf

I self published using Producer. Everything went well except I do not have the right dimensions for the cover art. It downloads to the bookshelf from Itunes and the book appears miniature next to the other books in my library. How do I remedy this? What are the proper dimensions? I made my cover using Keynote and then exported to Iphoto as a JPEG and then made it the cover. The dimensions as a jpeg were something like 720 x 1200 - more than the recommended minimum.

My experience is that for automatic artwork look up, the two pieces of info that must match exactly are Artist name and Album name. If you changed any of those two, that might be the issue.
And it can be somewhat subtle. For example, I couldn't figure out why a "Mighty Mighty Bosstones" album wouldn't get the artwork when I could see the album in the store. Turns out that I was missing the leading "The" from the group name. Adding that in to create "The Mighty Mighty Bosstones" solved that one.
Other times I have found very slight differences in album titles especially with punctuation and articles (the, and, etc.). For example, AND vs. &, or titles like (just making up a title off the top of my head) "Joe Blow Greatest Hits" vs. "Joe Blow - Greatest Hits" (Note the added DASH in there).
I have found that if I go to the store, highlight the line of one of the songs on the album, do a COPY then open Text Edit, Notepad, etc. and paste it will paste in the entire line of info (it doesn't seem to allow you to just highlight and copy the artist or title), then highlight the artist name or album title, again do a COPY, then go back to iTunes, select the album, Get Info and paste in the version you just copied which WILL match iTunes version.
Best of luck,
Patrick

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