*Amazon’s Kindle Store now exclusively offering 20 books from The Wylie Agency’s new Odyssey Editions imprint*
SEATTLE, Jul 22, 2010 – Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that The Wylie Agency is publishing 20 books from some of literature’s most influential authors through its new Odyssey Editions imprint (www.odysseyeditions.com) and making them available for sale exclusively in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore).
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.
“Our goal with Kindle is to make every book, ever published, in print or out of print, available in less than 60 seconds,” said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President of Kindle Content. “Having these prominent and important books available through The Wylie Agency’s Odyssey Editions is another great step toward this goal. We’re excited to let our customers read books like ‘Rabbit Run’ for the first time ever electronically.”
“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.”
The Wylie Agency operates internationally from offices in New York and London. In business for more than 30 years, it has built a reputation for consistently high standards. The writers and estates it represents include many of the greatest names in 20th and 21st century literature. Odyssey Editions is the first digitally native literary imprint launch of its kind.
Books available in the Kindle Store through Odyssey Editions include modern classics such as Hunter S. Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,” Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children,” Oliver Sacks’ “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita,” John Cheever’s “The Stories of John Cheever” and four novels from John Updike’s Rabbit series.
The 20 e-books published by Odyssey Editions carry an elegant and unified new look designed in collaboration with Enhanced Editions (www.enhanced-editions.com). Features 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
The 20 books being published by Odyssey Editions and made available exclusively on Kindle are:
- “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
The U.S. Kindle Store now has more than 630,000 books, including New Releases and 106 of 110 New York TimesBestsellers. Over 510,000 of these books are $9.99 or less, including 75 New York Times Bestsellers. Over 1.8 million free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books are also available to read on Kindle.
For more information about these books, visit www.amazon.com/odyssey or www.odysseyeditions.com. Eleven of these books will be available globally. Kindle is in stock and available for immediate shipment today at www.amazon.com/kindle.