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But just because two books have similar covers even doesn't mean there is copyright infringement. Many covers are designed from stock art images - and both books buy the rights to the same image and end up looking similar.
It happens in Print Advertising also. A couple of years ago Dell and HP (I think) used the same Stock Model shot for their back to school ads and the same girl was happily going to college using two different brands of computers depending on which page of the magazine you were looking at. Since both companies properly licensed the use of the image - no foul.
In this case however the copyright holder of the design (the artist) clearly refused to give the rights to HC for their use.
It does make me wonder how many other times HC has just stolen some artists work though, and nobody ever noticed. Blech.
I see that Haper Collins has pulled the cover art image from Goodreads/Amazon. I wonder if they're going to be doing a redesign?
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