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Originally Posted by TimW
It may be unclear who, if anyone, has the right to produce the book in a digital format. Sad.
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Here are examples of newer Pulitzer Prize winning novels for which there is no Kindle edition:
2002 Empire Falls by Richard Russo (Alfred A. Knopf)
2001 The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (Random House)
They do have the 2000 and 2003 winners available for Kindle.
I'm not complaining, since I am two blocks from the public library and have no big preference as to the form factor of the books I read. However, just as an observation, I would say that the criteria used to decide what becomes a Kindle edition can't wholly be explained by situations where the copyright holder is unknown or unavailable.
Probably they will get to the titles I list above before long, but what about the best novels of the 1940's, 1950's and 1960's? And what about winners in other categories, like General Nonfiction and History? I don't think Amazon (or B&N) will get to most of them for a long time, if ever. This is why we need a shorter copyright period. Award winning books out of copyright are consistently digitized.