Open Letter Press has made a number of its books available digitally, in multiple formats, for the first time. On Tuesday the non-profit press, which publishes literarture in translation, unveiled nine titles that are now available as e-books. To promote the digital books, the press is offereing discounts through the end of the month, selling each title for $4.99 until June 30.
Chad Post, publisher of Open Letter, said the press has now digitized all its backlist titles for which it controls e-rights. Moving forward the press plans to release e-book editions for all its frontlist titles, beginning with the August 16 publication of Sergio Chejec's My Two Worlds. Open Letter's e-book catalog, which includes titles like Mercè Rodoreda's Death in Spring and Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov's The Golden Calf, can be accessed at: http://catalog.openletterbooks.org/ebooks/.
