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Old 09-12-2018, 09:56 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by gmw View Post
I'm pretty sure it is the publisher, and not Kobo, who have the plain covers on their epub, but it is Kobo (and presumably most other resellers too, I just usually shop at Kobo) who sell these books using a different image to represent the book.
You can always use calibre to download the cover as part of the metadata and then update the cover in the epub. Adds perhaps 5 seconds to my fixup before moving the book from the intake library.

Otherwise, I have to agree with issybird. Quite a few library books I borrow also have a cover that is different from the cover on the library website and, for that matter, the cover shown on the publisher's website. The one occasion when I asked about this, one of the reasons given was reducing the size of the ebook making it take less space on the server and faster to download.
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