Well, the book was "Dauntless" by Jack Campbell. The publisher appears to be "Ace", which I don't know if it's part of Penguin or what....
As far as the person that says "just check it out in epub"......... IF IT HAD BEEN AVAILABLE IN EPUB I WOULD HAVE. Kindle format is way down the list of my choice.
And although I probably explained it oddly, the REASON not being able to get the book means I don't buy the books is that the way I usually try new series I'm not familiar with is to get one (hopefully the FIRST one) and read it. If I like it, I usually buy the rest of the series so I have them when I'm in the mood to read 'em. Since I wasn't able to get the first one downloaded, I'm less likely to buy the rest - in this case not only because I couldn't try the first one but ALSO 'cause the publisher is a large, malodorous pile of excrement in my opinion and isn't going to get any money. I'm not too happy with Amazon either...
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