Six months after his death at 87, Gabriel García Márquez is finally getting a digital makeover.

Vintage Books will release nine of García Márquez’s works as e-books on October 15th, marking the first time his books will be available digitally in the United States. The upcoming e-books include “Love in the Time of Cholera,” “Chronicle of a Death Foretold,” “The General in His Labyrinth” and “Of Love and Other Demons.”

The deal with Vintage won’t bring all of García Márquez’s translated works onto e-readers. It doesn’t include English e-book rights for some of his best-selling and most beloved works, such as “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and “No One Writes to the Colonel,” which are published by Harper Perennial. (Vintage Español will release those works digitally in Spanish). A HarperCollins spokeswoman said the company would not comment “at this time” on whether it had acquired the digital rights to García Márquez’s books.

García Márquez, a towering figure in 20th-century literature and the master of magical realism, was often cited as one of the last holdouts in the shift to digital that has swept the publishing industry. Earlier this year, the reclusive novelist Harper Lee finally agreed to release a digital version of “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

J.D. Salinger’s books are still available only in print. But García Márquez, whose books are published in 37 languages and are estimated to have sold more than 50 million copies globally, is arguably the most prominent author whose work was still missing from e-book stores.

The e-book deal was negotiated by García Márquez’s longtime agent Carmen Balcells, who recently joined forces with the literary agent Andrew Wylie to create a new agency devoted to Spanish language authors, the Balcells-Wylie agency.