007 to Go Digital

These days, the discussions are not so much is if electronic books are going to take root and take hold. On a book-by-book basis, it’s really just a matter of when. Case in point, even good old 007, who some might expect to be moldering away somewhere by now, is getting a digital makeover:

Amid all the talk about e-book publishing taking over from paper, and with some authors having turned evangelical on this topic, I was interested to see that Ian Fleming Publications has finally decided to publish the James Bond catalogue in electronic form, even bypassing the Penguin Group, the novels’ longtime English-language publisher.

Ali Karim has the whole story today on The Rap Sheet.