Amazon Inks Exclusivity Deal for Odyssey Editions Kindle Books

Amazon has hammered out a deal with The Wylie Agency to offer 20 of its Odyssey Editions books exclusively on the Kindle e-book platform for two years.

The deal also marks the first time the books– from authors such as Saul Bellow, Ralph Ellison, John Updike, Hunter S. Thompson, and more–have been available electronically.

The complete list of books is as follows:

  • “London Fields” by Martin Amis
  • “The Adventures of Augie March” by Saul Bellow
  • “Ficciones” (Spanish Edition) by Jorge Luis Borges
  • “Junky” by William Burroughs
  • “The Stories of John Cheever” by John Cheever
  • “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison
  • “Love Medicine” by Louise Erdrich
  • “The Naked and the Dead” by Norman Mailer
  • “Lolita” by Vladimir Nabokov
  • “The Enigma of Arrival” by V.S. Naipaul
  • “The White Castle” by Orhan Pamuk
  • “Portnoy’s Complaint” by Philip Roth
  • “Midnight’s Children” by Salman Rushdie
  • “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” by Oliver Sacks
  • “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas” by Hunter S. Thompson
  • “Rabbit Run” by John Updike
  • “Rabbit Redux” by John Updike
  • “Rabbit is Rich” by John Updike
  • “Rabbit at Rest” by John Updike
  • “Brideshead Revisited” by Evelyn Waugh

Each title costs $9.99, and all are available now.

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