Now, now, let's stop all the bad feelings towards the houses and try and be a little more understanding.

Did it never occur to all the complainers that they may have only gotten 1 file for the cover art? Yes, just a single file to use for all the books sold of that title that go out over the wires. Just imagine how ratty and worn that file would look if you put that cover on every digital book you sold? After a few thousand it would look horrible and entirely unprofessional. Who then would buy them? No one! And then they would have to quit putting that cover on later issues.

Imagine the riots, the chaos that would erupt as people started dividing themselves between 'covered' and 'coverless'. The toll on an already weakened global economy would be devastating. A possible world collapse and new dark age of society could occur.

Personally, I think we should THANK those forward thinking and altruistic publishers for helping to stave off global calamity and I would appreciate it if you would please keep that in mind before assuming that their actions are all based on incompetence, sloth and selfishness.

I said Good Day, Sir.