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Originally Posted by Quoth
And the cover rights are often the original publisher, so original covers unavailable on ebooks or even a reprint by a new publisher.
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It's a matter of what was the original contract for the cover art for the book, which is between the artist and the publisher. I'm pretty sure the copyright stays with the artist, which is why some of the more famous cover artists have stand alone books with various cover art they have done.
Roger Zelazny's Amber books are going through the second version as ebooks, each with different book covers, none of which were the original covers. The new covers are much nicer, IMPO. Both versions are available on Amazon, both by the same publisher (amber, inc). I made the mistake of buying the first book of the new version because it was advertised as the omnibus version.