Updike, Nabokov, Borges and other literary giants finally hit the Kindle Store
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Update, 24 Aug 2010:Wylie's agency has made-up with Random House and is canceling this deal with Amazon, so never mind.
Original post below:
Up until now, some of the biggest names in Western literature--Philip Roth, V. S. Naipaul, Hunter S. Thompson and Salman Rushdie for example--have been poorly represented in the ebook space. Thanks to an ongoing feud between publishers and authors, that changed dramatically last week.
That's because just a few days ago, literary agent Andrew Wylie announced a new publishing venture named Odyssey Editions, which will issue ebook versions of some of the agent's most famous clients. At the same time, ...