In the UK, Ian Fleming Publications is launching 14 backlist James Bond novels as ebooks, which they are publishing directly rather than with their print partners at Penguin UK. In this case, there was no dispute about the rights: the books were signed before electronic rights were contemplated. While it’s getting a lot of coverage in the UK media, IFP did the same thing in the US in 2008. here their ebooks are sold through Amazon and the Sony estore only. Managing director of Ian Fleming Publiciations Corinne Turner says, “We are not taking on the publishers, we are just […]