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Originally Posted by sempiter
Thank you for your replies. It’s interesting that Amazon has come up. It was seeing some particularly dubious looking books there that got me thinking about this.
Subsequently, I bought some Random House eBooks, which didn’t seem to have the expected cover images (just some basic grey and white affairs) - and so the doubts grew.
As it happens, the book previews at Google Books and Amazon also have these same basic (auto-generated?) covers, so it may just be a case of the publishers being a bit sloppy or, say, distributing the nicer covers separately rather than within the EPUB packages. Whatever the truth of the matter is, it would be nice to be able to check the authenticity of copies rather than have to rely on guesswork and sleuthing.
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The lack of proper covers is pretty usual. It doesn't mean the book is not legitimate. Many publishers these days try to save money on ebooks by ditching proper cover images.