Amazon Snags Exclusive Deal For E-Editions | via NPR
Interesting news in the publishing world today as The Wylie Agency have determined to take some of their backlist and publish them as e-books on their own, meaning that they’re bypassing the book publishers. In response, Random House, who own the publishing rights to many of Wylie’s authors have determined that they will not enter into any new english language publishing agreements with Wylie authors.
?The standoff is the most dramatic yet in the dispute over what agents and authors want to receive and what publishers are willing to pay for e-books, an increasingly vital market. Updike’s four “Rabbit” novels and Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children” are among the 20 famous works coming out for the first time in electronic form, not through a traditional publisher, but through Odyssey Editions, founded by the Wylie agency, where clients include the estates of Updike and Saul Bellow and such living authors as Rushdie and Philip Roth.
Curious to me is the fact that Wylie have decided to publish exclusively through Amazon/Kindle. Meanwhile, iBooks has a pretty thin list of titles in their ebook store…