Odyssey Editions

Enhanced Editions is delighted to announce the launch of Odyssey Editions, a project produced for The Wylie Agency . Odyssey is a new, digital-only imprint set up to publish beautiful and digitally native eBook editions of some of the modern literary classics that TWA represent. As a first step, Odyssey has today published the first digital editions of 20 literary classics on Amazon’s Kindle platform.

Here’s the launch list in full:

• London Fields by Martin Amis
• The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow
• Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
• Junky by William S. 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

See all covers we designed here

Initially available only for Kindle, these are not “Enhanced” eBooks, but eBooks purposefully produced for a digital-only audience. All are available to order from Amazon today.

We will expand on the work we have done in future blog posts, but for now we wanted to flag up some features we’re really excited about:

• The design. We are absolutely thrilled with the identity, from the covers to the website.
• The covers. We used the opening lines of each of the books, made the type big, and beautiful.

• The eBooks. The aim was to make “invisible” eBooks, allowing the writing to speak for itself and making sure the reader wasn’t interrupted with the annoyances common to many eBooks.
• The website. In twelve years of producing publishing websites, it is very clear that content remains king. The Odyssey Editions website features some staggering pieces of archival material , generous excerpts from every book, and each of the authors talking about their work. Plus a great photo of Hunter Thompson and many other authors.

So, that’s the launch of Odyssey Editions. Please take a look at the website, read the press release, and check out the eBooks on Amazon.com.