NEW YORK An exclusive e-book deal between Amazon.com and the agent for such Random House classics as Invisible Man and Lolita is no longer exclusive, and no longer a deal.
Random House Inc. and the Wylie Agency announced Tuesday that Invisible Man, Rabbit Is Rich and several other works were being removed from a program brokered between Wylie and Amazon that offered them as e-books available only through the online retailer.
Instead, Random House, which had claimed electronic rights, will publish the books on a non-exclusive basis. The original deal had enraged publishers and rival booksellers and led to Random House suspending business with Wylie.
E-editions of works represented by Wylie and first released by publishers other than Random House, including Norman Mailers The Naked and the Dead and William Burroughs Junky, are still being sold exclusively through Amazon.
An Amazon spokesman, Drew Herdener, declined comment.
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