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Fair use in A Million Dots, taken from the requisite listing at Amazon.com, which was provided to them by the requisite holder of the distribution license:

The image is being used for the article about A Million Dots.
The image is the most logical representation of the book, A Million Dots.
It is of a lower resolution than the original, and will not affect the ability to market or profit off of the book.
No free images of or representative of the book can be found, and does not infringe on the rights of the holders of the copyright, who either produced the image or owns the rights to the item this image illustrates, and is the source for the original said copyrighted image.
The image is used on a variety of websites, thus not making it significantly more accessible or visible than it already is. The book image is being used for informational purposes only, and its use is not believed to detract from the original in any way.

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Book cover for "A Million Dots"

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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 United States copyright law. Other use of this image, on Wikipedia or elsewhere, might be copyright infringement. See Wikipedia:Non-free content for more information.

To the uploader: 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.