'Amazon Content Services LLC'

 So, recently I saw a new one-volume LotR with a beautiful golden cover illustrating some scene that I didn't recognize —some ceremony involving an elf, probably in some great underground cavern, was all that I cd make out.

 

When I turned to the credits page to see whose work this is, I was surprised and  distressed to find there's no artist credited. Instead this striking piece is credited (on the outside of the book, in the bottom left corner, half-buried in the art) to 'Amazon Content Services LLC'. Is this a well-known entity I shd have heard about before now? Or some corporate department within Amazon? For my part, I feel strongly, after all my years as an editor, freelancer, and independent scholar, that it's important that credits accurately reflect who was responsible for what: writing or painting or composing or whatever. Otherwise it's hard to track who actually did what. But the example given here doesn't give me enough information.

 

Here's the cover:

 

https://www.amazon.com/Lord-Rings-One-J-R-R-Tolkien-ebook/dp/B007978OY6/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=WhXuq&content-id=amzn1.sym.e4bd6ac6-9035-4a04-92a6-fc4ad60e09ad&pf_rd_p=e4bd6ac6-9035-4a04-92a6-fc4ad60e09ad&pf_rd_r=KZ3BZNS9PYSYJP3WGCC8&pd_rd_wg=hYYEH&pd_rd_r=c0819d64-a92a-435d-a4a7-36857d61801f&ref_=pd_gw_ci_mcx_mr_hp_atf_m

 

And here's a close-up of the actual credit (courtesy of Janice).

 

--John R.

--current reading: THE GREAT TALES NEVER END (John Garth's essay)