Template:Non-free book cover

This image is of book cover(s), and the copyright for it is most likely owned either by the artist who created the cover(s) or the publisher of the book(s). It is believed that the use of low-resolution images of book covers

to illustrate an article discussing the book in question
on the English-language Wikipedia, hosted on servers in the United States by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation,

qualifies as fair use under the Copyright law of the United States. Other use of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.
Fair use

To the uploader:

This tag should only be used for book covers.
Please add a detailed fair use rationale for each use, as described on Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline, as well as the source of the work and copyright information. Please include in your fair use rationale details of the particular edition (publisher, market & year of publication) of the edition you have used, and also acknowledge any cover artist if such artist is acknowledged in that edition's frontmatter. If the book cover is in the public domain (see Wikipedia:Public domain), then use the appropriate public domain tag rather than this one.
For an example fair use rationale, see here.
Any of the following may be helpful for stating the rationale: Template:Book rationale, Template:Non-free use rationale book cover, or Template:Manga rationale.

To patrollers and administrators: If this image has an 'appropriate' rationale please append |image has rationale=yes as a parameter to the license template.

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By default, this template adds images to Category:Fair use images of book covers, unless |category= is used to assign the image to a more specific image category: {{Non-free book cover | category=Stephen King book covers}}

Sorting defaults to {{PAGENAME}}, but |title= may be used if sorting by the filename is not preferred: {{Non-free book cover | title=Game of Thrones, A }}

As with the other non-free image templates, sorting by words other than the title is possible as well by using: {{Non-free book cover | sort key }}

Template:Non-free book cover

See also