Add back cover text to bookinfo.xml and svg.

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       url="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/"/>.
     </para>
   </legalnotice>
+
+  <abstract>
+    <para>
+      Our devices and services gather most of the data that the NSA
+      mines for its surveillance project. We pay for these devices and
+      the services they connect to, and then we painstakingly perform
+      the data-entry tasks associated with logging facts about our
+      lives, opinions, and preferences.
+    </para>
+    <para>
+      Thanks to Big Tech, Surveillance capitalism is everywhere.  This
+      is not because it is really good at manipulating our behaviour,
+      or the rogue abuse of corporate power.  It is the result of
+      unchecked monopolism and the abusive behavior it abets.  It is
+      the system working as intended and expected.  Cory Doctorow has
+      written an extended critique of Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of
+      Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New
+      Frontier of Power, with a non-magical analysis of the problem
+      leading to a different proposal for a solution.
+    </para>
+  </abstract>
+
 </articleinfo>