I received emails from the Author’s Guild today telling how the Wylie literary agency has set up its own publishing branch called Odyssey Editions and cut a deal with Amazon for twenty in-print, famous books like Lolita, Invisible Man, and Portnoy’s Complaint. Random house is up in arms (I assume they have print rights to these books). It turns out that these are books for which the authors kept electronic rights, which the publishing houses are trying to get. Read the whole story here and here.
Interesting stuff– I’m on the writers’ side of course, except that I want all information to be free, live long, and prosper.
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