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Penguin tends to be expensive for ebooks. However, they also generally produce well formatted ebooks (although they seem to have more that one "house" style, and they may have several independent ebook production lines).
All the publishers have a problem with covers because they typically did not buy the rights to use the cover in an ebook. This is made worse by on-line ebook sellers using the images anyway. I suppose this is legal some how, but in any case it means that the publisher has zero reason to include the cover in the actual ebook. Don't forget the only reason for the paper cover was to make it more likely you buy the book. So some publishers have gone for generic covers in all their ebooks, and with others it depends on the rights situation.
As usual, Calibre comes to your rescue. Strip the DRM and download a cover for your ebook. I have no tolerance for DRM, but I am slightly conflicted on the cover. I would like the artist to get paid, but I don't see how this is possible as a book buyer.
I assume for recent works artists do get paid for the ebook version. Also, the new technology for embedding a sample of an ebook in a web page will make the ebook cover more visible. This may push publishers into using covers again.
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