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NEW YORK (AP) - Alice Walker "The Color Purple," a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1983 and still widely used and talked about the novel, has finally come as an eBook.
But not by a traditional publishing.
Open Road Integrated Media, the company co-founded digital two years ago by former HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman, has signed an agreement with Walker to release the electronic version of "The Color Purple" and most of his other work .
New editions of "The Color Purple" and the novels "of the Temple of my family" and "possession Secret of Joy" was published on Tuesday. On 22 November, eight more books published. E-books are author interviews, photos and personal documents.
But not by a traditional publishing.
Open Road Integrated Media, the company co-founded digital two years ago by former HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman, has signed an agreement with Walker to release the electronic version of "The Color Purple" and most of his other work .
New editions of "The Color Purple" and the novels "of the Temple of my family" and "possession Secret of Joy" was published on Tuesday. On 22 November, eight more books published. E-books are author interviews, photos and personal documents.
Walker is best known for "The Color Purple", with rural Georgia in 1930. It 'was adapted in 1985 Steven Spielberg film of the same name and is now part of the Broadway musical.
"I read a good book while flying in the air," Walker said in a statement. "I've traveled all my life and I have visited many remote places I dreamed as a child. India Australia, Bali, South Africa, Iceland, etc. Each trip I made to the books that taught me a lot, while the participation of my sense of wonder, but it became more and heavier! open road promises to be a way for my books to accompany travelers on their journey of exploration and learning. "
Open Road has already acquired the rights to these e-best-sellers such as Pat Conroy's "Prince of Tides" and William Styron's "Darkness Visible" by offering compensation for 50 percent, double what traditional publishers usually offer and the promise of an aggressive promotion.
"The open road is the best technical expertise and the best way to proceed in moving the energy I love all the people who worked to express and realize themselves: .. The confidence and enthusiasm, but also the emotional experience have a track record, "Walker said.
"If this were not enough, there is a sense, often lack the publication referred to the author, all of us to be in this adventure together, hoping to be the best."
Walker agent, Wendy Weil wrote in an e-mail that "broke the publishing of electronic books in popularity over the last two years, it seemed the perfect time and e-publisher instead of his back catalog with success."
As the digital market is growing rapidly, agents and editors agree on the older books, with officials saying that the contracts do not cover e-books, because the format and publishers not saying that these rights were involved.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which originally published the works "The Color Purple" and others to electronically open road, did not immediately return phone and e-mail queries for comment on Monday.
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