Exclusive Kindle eBook Deal
The folks over at Amazon must be feeling rather smug at the bit, as it turns out the on line retailing giant managed to score a rather interesting book lot to fend off the more and more tight contest with Apple and Barnes & Nobleman on the eBook scene. According to the good deal, Virago has bypassed publishers entirely and checked a great deal with agent Andrew Wylie to solely print books online by the renowned authors that he has represented.
The understanding gives the Kindle store sole eBook rights to writers such as the late Norman Mailer, Updike, Roth, and 17 other writers.
This deal might turn out to be rather controversial in the end, though, as Random House, which normally issues some of the writers, is already thought provoking Amazon’s rights to publish the books online in that special raft without its consent.
The publisher has already decided not to grease one’s palms any further rights to English renderings of Wylie-represented books until something is worked out. Sounds like a rather cunning place, and we’ll have to see how everything works out in the long run.