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Sunday, 1 August 2010

A DEATH KNELL FOR PUBLISHERS?

Literary agent Andrew Wylie has drawn criticism from US publishing houses for his decision to launch Odyssey Editions, which will sell ebook editions of modern classics, including Lolita, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Updike’s Rabbit trilogy – exclusively through Amazon’s Kindle store. This has prompted Random House, which publishes in-print versions of several of the authors involved in Odyssey Editions, to challenge Amazon as to their right to sell these titles. Does this mean a world without big publishers ?

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