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Originally Posted by Wrong Writer
Meanwhile, many, many, many best-sellers have had a dozen different covers.
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I think you tend to see that more with traditional publishers rather than with ebooks. I mean if two different publishers have a given book in their catalog and publisher A has a cover made for it (say a public domain book like Dracula) then they have a copyright on the cover or the artist that they hired to do their cover does and publisher B can't use the same cover. Or a given author's books (say a Stephen King) is either being re-issued or the author has changed publishers and his book (whose rights have reverted back to him) is being re-issued by the new publisher then you need a new cover since while Mr. King may own the book itself he doesn't necessarily own the cover art that the 1st publisher used. Or sometimes a publisher will change the cover due to their market like in the case of the Harry Potter books for example. The same publisher was selling the books but the UK cover and the US cover are different due to which country the copy of the book is being sold in. It gets more confusing if the title is changed as is often the case with Agatha Christie's books. An example is her book "Murder on the Orient Express." Over in England it's called, "Murder in the Calais Coach."