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Originally Posted by HarryT
Yes, this is one of those cases where the books have different US and UK publishers. The US publisher does eBooks; the UK publisher currently doesn't.
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I believe Penguin UK
does do ebooks - just not these. The Fleming Estate controls the electronic rights. Penguin UK wanted to do the ebooks, but the estate decided they could do better doing them themselves.
And they are probably right. James Bond is an icon and a global franchise. Most folks probably have at least a basic idea of who/what he is. He doesn't need to be sold - the movies take care of that, and I suspect a surge of backlist activity when a new Bond film comes out, and people get curious about the book it was based on.
Why have Penguin UK in the chain and taking a cut for the ebooks? Their presence doesn't offer anything of sufficient value to justify them getting a cut of the take.
The question is how good a job the estate will do on the electronic editions, which will come down to who they contract with to do the conversion.
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Dennis