To date, since 1953, more than one hundred million Bond books have been sold worldwide. Fleming’s original Bond novels and short story collections will be available from 13 April, exactly 70 years to the day after Ian Fleming first introduced special agent 007 to the world with the publication of Casino Royale. The imprint – Ian Fleming Publications – will launch fresh editions in the UK and Commonwealth markets in spring 2023. Ian Fleming Publications Ltd, the family company that owns the literary copyright in his books, will be honouring the legacy of James Bond’s creator by producing its own editions of the 007 novels as well as non-fiction and the children’s classic Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. Today, Wednesday 5 October, ‘James Bond Day’: Ian Fleming Publications Ltd (IFPL) announces plans to publish Ian Fleming’s books under its own imprint – a move that marks an exciting future for 007. Welcome home, 007: Ian Fleming Publications to publish James Bond books under its own imprint in spring 2023 Perhaps even sign up for Miss Moneypenny’s dispatches (aka our newsletter), the first of which will be dispatched shortly.

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The 70th anniversary will give us lots of opportunities to celebrate Ian Fleming’s legacy, and we will be talking more about that in the new year. We’re very excited about what is on the horizon. There are of course also new projects in development, which we will be sharing with you as soon as we can. We will be announcing our Fleming backlist partnership in the States very soon, but rest assured that there will be lovely new editions (featuring wonderfully striking covers) in US shops in 2023. Other editions are in the pipeline, all of which will offer something new and different, and which we can’t wait to start working on. The covers for these are a closely guarded secret for now, but we can say that we are delighted to be working with our old friends, the immensely talented Webb & Webb team, on the designs. We hope that these new editions will not only be must-haves for our dedicated fans but also become the entry point for new fans and the paperbacks that become the first, cherished copies on their burgeoning bookshelves.

The original Bond adventures, plus Ian’s non-fiction titles, will be published as paperbacks for the first time under our own imprint in April 2023, celebrating the 70th anniversary of Casino Royale.

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