In reply to wildspaces:
"This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery."
Looks like it'll be free for a while. It's not in copyright any more, so guess this is from something like project Gutenberg.
http://www.gutenberg.org/
Where there are 42,000 free ebooks to read!
