Fun with ebook prices!
Captains Courageous is a public domain book by Rudyard Kipling. It was recommended to me recently, so I went looking for a copy. We don't seem to have it here at Mobileread (and I'm not asking anyone to fix that, although of course I think all of Kipling's PD works should be here), so I went to Fictionwise:
Here's the Fictionwise edition; Multiformat (so no DRM, several formats), for free. (Interestingly, its copyright info says it's copyrighted, but doesn't give a year or person/company name. I've sent them an email to ask about that; I don't really expect an answer.)
This one's by EBooksLib, secure eReader, for $1.99.
And here's Random House's edition, secure Ereader/Mobi/Lit, for $3.95.
The Fictionwise edition uses the same description text as the Random House edition; the EBooksLib version uses the first sentence as the "description."
BooksOnBoard has 3 ebook versions, ranging from $1.49 to $4.99, and two audiobooks, $13.95 and $24.95. (And some enhanced version for ESL students with foreign language thesari included.)
ebookprice.info doesn't have any of the Fictionwise versions, and has 11 different listings for the book. I understand that some publishers list it as "Captains Courageous," one as "Captain Courageous," and some as "Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling," and "Captains Courageous - A Story of the Grand Banks" and so on. But whatever the reasons, I've found ebookprice.info to be useless for finding the books I want to read, which aren't generally current bestsellers. (Also, I can't search there for "1984;" it doesn't have enough characters.)