When Curtis Brown UK managing director Jonny Geller announced that Jonathan Cape had acquired a ten-year license to republish Ian Fleming’s James Bond backlist in the UK, he intimated there would be a new North American publisher in the works as well. As was announced Tuesday afternoon, that publisher is Amazon, through its Thomas & Mercer imprint, which will reissue the 14 Bond novels, as well as two non-fiction titles by Fleming, The Diamond Smugglers (1957) and Thrilling Cities (1963), in ebook and print formats starting this summer. (Penguin previously held world English rights to the Bond novels, but their […]
