diff --git a/ebook_converter/ebooks/mobi/reader/mobi6.py b/ebook_converter/ebooks/mobi/reader/mobi6.py
index 4f1ddf7..15d0cf6 100644
--- a/ebook_converter/ebooks/mobi/reader/mobi6.py
+++ b/ebook_converter/ebooks/mobi/reader/mobi6.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ __copyright__ = '2012, Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>'
 __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 
 import shutil, os, re, struct, textwrap, io
+import logging
 
 from lxml import html, etree
 
@@ -912,6 +913,8 @@ class MobiReader(object):
                 try:
                     save_cover_data_to(data, path, minify_to=(10000, 10000))
                 except Exception:
+                    logging.exception('Exception has been thrown during '
+                                      'transforming image')
                     continue
             self.image_names.append(os.path.basename(path))
         return image_name_map
diff --git a/ebook_converter/utils/img.py b/ebook_converter/utils/img.py
index 69e4e0d..46f24f0 100644
--- a/ebook_converter/utils/img.py
+++ b/ebook_converter/utils/img.py
@@ -246,6 +246,14 @@ def save_cover_data_to(
     :param letterbox: If True, in addition to fit resize_to inside minify_to,
         the image will be letterboxed (i.e., centered on a black background).
     '''
+    # TODO(gryf): analyze case by case, why we need all this crap down below,
+    # and why QImage object is used, instead simply do the transformation with
+    # pillow.
+    with open(path, 'wb') as fobj:
+        fobj.write(data)
+    return
+
+
     fmt = normalize_format_name(data_fmt if path is None else os.path.splitext(path)[1][1:])
     if isinstance(data, QImage):
         img = data
@@ -254,6 +262,7 @@ def save_cover_data_to(
         img, orig_fmt = image_and_format_from_data(data)
         orig_fmt = normalize_format_name(orig_fmt)
         changed = fmt != orig_fmt
+
     if resize_to is not None:
         changed = True
         img = img.scaled(resize_to[0], resize_to[1], Qt.IgnoreAspectRatio, Qt.SmoothTransformation)