From Reuters. However, the deal includes worldwide rights but does not include rights for the United States and Canada.
Ian Fleming’s estate has signed a 10-year deal with the Random House Group to publish the James Bond backlist both in print and e-book format, the publishing company said on Friday.
Random imprint Vintage Books acquired the rights to Fleming’s 14 Bond books as well as two non-fiction titles.
The deal, the terms of which were not disclosed, represents a homecoming of sorts for the author whose first 007 novel “Casino Royale” was published in 1953 by Jonathan Cape, a sister imprint of Vintage.
I wonder why the story didn’t mention the fact that, in 2010, the Fleming estate chose to self-publish the Bond e-books through Amazon. (Is that why the rights don’t include the US or Canada, they’re still with Amazon for that?)