With all the focus in the past week on the new $9.99 Kindle exclusives of 20 contemporary classics from Andrew Wylie’s new Odyssey Editions imprint, some of the voracious readers of Kindle Nation may not have noticed that another innovative publisher, Rosetta Books, has been quietly building an equally impressive and highly attractive catalog of Kindle Books, most of them priced at $7.19 and lower.
Click here for a great list of inexpensive contemporary classics from Rosetta Books.
Here’s a list of some of the authors represented, which includes some of our favorite authors:
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- Pat Conroy
- Ian McEwan
- Donald Westlake
- Ed McBain
- Ron Paul
- E.M. Forster
- Ray Bradbury
- W.P. Kinsella
- Aldous Huxley
- Susan Sontag
- Ben Bova
- Harry Harrison
- Mark Harris
- Poul Anderson
- James Leo Herlihy
- M.C. Beaton and Marion Chesney
- Harry Kemelman
- Ruth Rendell
Now that’s backlist. and that’s just a taste! Kudos to Rosetta Books, which has been trailblazing in this area of connecting backlist authors with readers for several years.
And finally, a snarky footnote: I checked iBooks to see if some of these titles might also be listed there. A few, perhaps, but just a few. When I typed “Pat Conroy” into the iBooks search field, iBooks gave me back a rather telling response, I thought:
