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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
That's more the Fleming estates fault than Amazons though . . .
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See:
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix....cle&ID=1684161
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SEATTLE, Apr 17, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) --Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Ian Fleming Publications Ltd today announced that Amazon Publishing has acquired a ten-year license for North American rights to the entire list of James Bond books by Ian Fleming in print and ebook. . . .
This agreement comes on the heels of the announcement last month by The Random House Group that the Bond backlist was returning to its publishing roots in the UK, with Vintage Books (sister imprint of Jonathan Cape, the original publisher of Casino Royale) acquiring a ten-year license for exclusive rights to the Bond novels in the English language with the exception of North America.
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The best deal the estate could get, in the UK, is through a publisher, Random House, that sells their eBooks through many outlets. The best deal they could get in the US was through a publisher, Amazon, that sells their eBooks directly. How is that the estate or family's fault? I can't see why the estate has any more responsibility towards Nook owners than does Amazon.
I just did a search to compare the library borrowing situation for Bond/Ian Fleming titles in the US vs. the UK.
In the UK, titles being reissued by Random House are available, as eBooks, from a small number of public libraries. Examples:
http://peterboroughe-book.lib.overdr...e-18ed74b7a7ca
http://newcastle.lib.overdrive.com/1...5-d6832af018a0
http://rbwm.lib.overdrive.com/DC2592...2-c2557a3c3b8a
Given how few British libraries have Ian Fleming/Bond eBooks, I surmise that Random House is charging them, through Overdrive, a high price. That's bad.
In the US, as far as I can tell, no public libraries lend Ian Fleming/Bond eBooks. Please, fellow posters, search on your own to double-check my finding, which is based on a check of search.overdrive.com, and, thanks to J. Howell's Calibre plugin, a few 3M and Axis360 collections. If my finding is true, this means Thomas & Mercer, the Amazon imprint, refuses to let our public libraries lend their Ian Fleming/Bond books at any price. That's worse.