Amazon.com Makes EXCLUSIVE Deal DIRECTLY With Leading Literary Agency To Publish e-Books of 20 Classic Titles
One Amazon post deserves another. (-:
This is big news.
The Wylie Agency, a major literary agency (some might call them a powerhouse) representing many well-known authors and in some cases their estates, has signed a deal with Amazon.com to provide 20 "modern classics" (you've heard of all of them) in e-book format that will be EXCLUSIVE to Amazon/Kindle for two years.
The Wylie Agency is publishing 20 books from some of literature's most influential authors through its new Odyssey Editions imprint and making them available for sale exclusively in the Kindle Store. This is the first time any of the titles--which include Norman Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead," Philip Roth's "Portnoy's Complaint" and Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man"--have been available electronically, and all of the books are exclusive to the Kindle Store for two years. Starting today, customers can download these books for $9.99 from the Kindle Store and read them everywhere--on their Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, BlackBerry, PC, Mac, iPad and Android devices.
"As the market for e-books grows, it will be important for readers to have access in e-book format to the best contemporary literature the world has to offer," said Andrew Wylie, President of Odyssey Editions. "This publishing program is designed to address that need, and to help e-book readers build a digital library of classic contemporary literature."
What authors and books (if any) might be next in line for exclusive e-book publication? Only Amazon, Wylie, and perhaps a few selected others know.
However, this client list posted on the Wylie Agency web site Unfortunately, the list is not dated as to its currency but it still should be helpful in giving us at least an idea of who the agency represents. It might even make for a good discussion starter as to which authors and titles you might select.
The Complete List of 20 Titles
The 20 e-books published by Odyssey Editions carry an elegant and unified new look designed in collaboration with Enhanced Editions that include newly-designed jackets, interior typography adhering to best conventions of book design and reading on Kindle, colophon, book covers and series design optimized for the Kindle screen.
+ "London Fields" by Martin Amis
+ "The Adventures of Augie March" by Saul Bellow
+ "Ficciones" (Spanish Edition) by Jorge Luis Borges
+ "Junky" by William Burroughs
+ "The Stories of John Cheever" by John Cheever
+ "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
+ "Love Medicine" by Louise Erdrich
+ "The Naked and the Dead" by Norman Mailer
+ "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov
+ "The Enigma of Arrival" by V.S. Naipaul
+ "The White Castle" by Orhan Pamuk
+ "Portnoy's Complaint" by Philip Roth
+ "Midnight's Children" by Salman Rushdie
+ "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" by Oliver Sacks
+ "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" by Hunter S. Thompson
+ "Rabbit Run" by John Updike
+ "Rabbit Redux" by John Updike
+ "Rabbit is Rich" by John Updike
+ "Rabbit at Rest" by John Updike
+ "Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh
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