diff --git a/src/calibre/web/fetch/simple.py b/src/calibre/web/fetch/simple.py
index 55a80395b3..8c3884a66b 100644
--- a/src/calibre/web/fetch/simple.py
+++ b/src/calibre/web/fetch/simple.py
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ class RecursiveFetcher:
                     if itype not in {'png', 'jpg', 'jpeg'}:
                         itype = 'png' if itype == 'gif' else 'jpeg'
                         data = image_to_data(img, fmt=itype)
-                    if self.compress_news_images and itype in {'jpg','jpeg'}:
+                    if self.compress_news_images and itype in {'png','jpg','jpeg'}:
                         try:
                             data = self.rescale_image(data)
                         except Exception: