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Originally Posted by HarryT
It's nothing to do with "amazan" (sic). It's the publisher who provides the cover image.
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and they , the publisher, will always provide a very nice cover image for amazon to display on the amazon web site, to encourage a purchase ( which is where calibre will download it from ) .
So claiming that they don't have the "right" to push that same image to K reader / Kindle for... whatever... app , with the kindle book is a pathetically weak excuse
It's almost deliberate deception. trade descriptions, what you see is NOT what you get, but I am sure the publishers' smarmy lawyers have said they can get away with it. and its not like it saves them any money. it seems like deliberate mean-ness. They would not dare ship a hardback book with a generic " this is your dustcover" cover , would they ?
PS Amazon are not the only culprit. it happens sometimes with Overdrive epub library loans also: - nice picture on library web page - generic cover on the download.
maybe if we collectively all used Amazon's generous 7 day returns policy to send back every book that lacked a proper cover image, they'd get the message.
anyway, that's one very good reason to de-DRM.
Another is that it is a rare book indeed that does not contain at least one typo or formatting error, ( same is true of my posts
)and I like to compulsively fix those so that if I re-read the book then I don't get annoyed all over again.