Adventures in Copyfight: Copyright notice on PD works

[elf]

I recently picked up a copy of Captains Courageous, by Kipling, from Fictionwise. (Because joanwilder posted a fic at the snarry_games which quoted heavily from it--Sex, Lies and Audiotape.) Decided I should read the whole book, not just the quoted snippets; knowing it was a public domain book, I checked Fictionwise before the other sites, 'cos FW has books in a bunch of formats. (They have CC for free in multiformat... and in two secure formats for different prices. How weird.)

Got the free version. Decided to look at the copyright info. Hmm. Had some questions about that, and decided to ask FW about them.

Fictionwise works damned hard to keep you from directly speaking to them. ( Attempt to find contact info inside the cut. )

( The question(s) I want to ask )