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The NESFA Press Zelazny collection was published in 2009/2010, over a decade after his death, so it must have been approved by his literary executor. I have no idea why that one was approved, but ebooks of his novels are not forthcoming (as far as I know, NESFA has never published any digital content, alas).
Still, there are other authors who died before the advent of digital publishing in the same predicament, like Gordon Dickson, Clifford Simak, Edgar Pangborn, James Blish. Do they just have lousy literary executors? In the case of Edgar Pangborn, his literary executor is Peter S. Beagle, who has not been noted for getting his backlist into ebook either. I note that Orbit/Gollancz's SF Gateway series seems to be picking up some of these authors, but sadly are not for sale in the US.
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