A press release from Emer Flounders of Simon & Schuster:
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is now available as an ebook for the first time, it was announced today by Simon & Schuster, which has been the hardcover publisher of Bradbury’s classic work of science fiction since it was first published in 1953. The publication in digital form comes as part of a new publishing agreement that includes all English language print and digital formats of Fahrenheit 451 in North America, and also includes English language mass market rights in North America to Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man. The agreement was negotiated by Simon & Schuster Publisher Jonathan Karp and Bradbury’s agent, Michael Congdon of Don Congdon Associates.
Following today’s release of the ebook edition of Fahrenheit 451, Simon & Schuster will also publish a trade paperback edition on January 10, 2012. The mass market editions of The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man will go on sale in March 2012.
“It’s a rare and wonderful opportunity to continue our relationship with this beloved and canonical author and to bring his works to a new generation of readers in new formats,” said Jonathan Karp. “We are honored to be the champion of these classic works.”
Having sold over 10 million copies since its original publication, Fahrenheit 451 is one of the most famous and widely read novels in American history, and has never been out of print. It has been translated into 33 languages and published in 38 countries.
Ray Bradbury is the author of more than 500 short stories, novels and plays. Among his most popular adult books are Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, and Something Wicked This Way Comes. Bradbury was awarded the National Book Foundation’s 2000 Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the National Medal of Arts in 2004, and a Pulitzer Prize in 2007 for his distinguished career. He lives in Los Angeles.