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Agassi Memoir's E-edition Put on Hold

If you're eager to read Andre Agassi's memoir, don't expect to download it any time soon.

Agassi's "Open" will not be available as an e-book when the hardcover comes out Nov. 9, and no date has been set for a digital release.

Andre Agassi Admits Using Crystal Meth

Publishers worry that the growing e-market will take business from the more expensive hardcovers.

E-editions also have been withheld for the late Sen. Edward Kennedy's "True Compass" and Stephen King's "Under the Dome."

Agassi's book is No. 9 on the best-seller list of Amazon.com as of Thursday afternoon. In it, the tennis great acknowledges using crystal meth in the 1990s.

By Hillel Italie

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