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From Amazon.com

How embarassing. Such a renowned publishing house. They are so concious of their reputation that it is (or at least used to be) their policy not to give away or sell with a discount faulty copies to their employees (as most other book publishers do), because they don't want members of the public to see faulty copies of their books. It can only be a mistake. Can you use a comp file at that size? Don't suppose so. I've seen istock watermarks in magazines before, but then a few pages later the same image without a watermark. That's why I'm wondering.

esp'ly funny consider the title!

but i can imagine at least one innocent but sloppy way this could happen - they probably used a comp for early versions while the book was in production, then no one noticed when it wasnt replaced in final version.  i doubt amazon spends much time, if any, looking at publishers' images

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OMG, that is too incredible. I am going to have to say that this is definitely a case to pursue. Not only should you have gotten paid for the high rez image, but depending on the print run, you might have been entitled to an EL.

I'm thinking the actual book doesn't have the watermark on it.
The publisher probably forwarded an older pdf for the image and "look inside" feature on Amazon.
It's definitely worth checking out, but if this (or similar) is the case then no crime has been committed as the extended license would have been purchased for the actual book. I can't believe a major publishing house would have missed such an obvious error on their proofs.

Well, good if the actual book was published correctly. Hope you got the proper EL for it. But I still cannot fathom anyone allowing something to be published anywhere with a comp image. To me, that is a major faux pas and someone's a-- should be in a sling. Mistake or not, by allowing that image to be published online is a copyright infringement and the owner should file complaints immediately. And Amazon, of all people, should know better than to let that go on their site. IMHbadassO.   

I don't think an EL is required, unless the print run is very high (>500k?).

omg, to laugh or to cry?

Wow, are they blind?   

This has gotta be a draft version. I doubt this is on the actual book.