The "rights issues" may just be a red herring to camouflage good old-fashioned incompetence. I've bought three ebooks from (different) mainstream publishers in the last 12 months that were all missing the illustrations. I have the suspicion that the illustrations were overlooked in the process of creating the ebooks. (grumbles under breath about 'publishers treating ebooks as an afterthought, not an integral part of production process...')
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