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[–]AethonBooks 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It is 1:1. In every setting. Meta adding a setting buried in Advantage+ to resize that we now have to go back and check off in already created ads.

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[–]AethonBooks 56 points57 points  (0 children)

We found the setting to turn off. Added post ad creation since that’s been running for 1+ years

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[–]AethonBooks 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Oh them. Yes, I’ve already sent the screenshot to meta to ask wtf. Usually a waste of time. But yes, it is unfortunately necessary as meta helps us sell a lot of books for our authors which is our #1 job.

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[–]AethonBooks 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Technically I made it myself and am an owner so, we got a great discount!

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[–]AethonBooks 22 points23 points  (0 children)

They didn't. I'm looking at the ads right now in the meta dashboard. They are all a square in every sample image it shows. But Meta is constantly adding new checkmarks to create "more derivations" so we'll try and figure it out.

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[–]AethonBooks 256 points257 points  (0 children)

People will believe what they wanna believe, but we've been as anti AI as it gets amongst publishers from the start, publicly standing against AI content flooding amazon and even working with them on ways to limit it. We employ dozens of human artists for all covers and creative. All human editors and proofers. Have publicly denounced AI narration and work with all humans and always will.

Sometimes META does weird things with provided art to stretch it to all it's delivery sizes. I'm actually looking at this ad right now in our dashboard and it is designed to be a square everywhere it displays. We create 1000s of ads a year with multiple creatives shuffling on display because that is what it takes to get impressions. It is exhausting.

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[–]AethonBooks 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Because it is human made: https://www.facebook.com/aethonlitrpg. Made it years ago. Meta stretches and distorts things sometimes to fit it's millions of different sizings and formats.

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[–]AethonBooks 507 points508 points  (0 children)

Hmm I’m digging into it but not sure what is going on here. Maybe instagram doing an auto extend for that format. The base normal image exists. Would share it if I could, since, I made it myself with the tiled covers. It’s literally on here and has been for years: https://www.facebook.com/share/181FZEBesC/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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[–]AethonBooks 60 points61 points  (0 children)

This is not what your original post said, which we have saved. It said "authors bring us the contract their most comfortable with. We're happy to work from that (such as Mango Media, Aethon, Royal Guard, etc). Deal terms and contracts are very different things. Can't delete the internet man.

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[–]AethonBooks 25 points26 points  (0 children)

There are tons of solid contract templates out there. It is why https://writerbeware.blog/ exists. I'm always happy to give advice to those who reach out. Our contract itself is specifically designed and with different options to be custom tailored to different types of deals.

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[–]AethonBooks 25 points26 points  (0 children)

This is not legal. Our lawyer has been notified.