The intent of the text is that the company will (only) publish the works: it does not make it explicit that the co. itself is going to sell them. May be it may sell through some third party arrangement or give the rights to some Amazon.com. But meaning-wise, all choices, B through E mean to say that the company itself intends to sell the works, a factor that distorts the original meaning.
But this topic also tests correlative conjunctional //ism.
A) works to be sold online as either electronic books or …..
either electronic books or downloadable copies; correct correlative conjnl. //ism.
B) works to sell them online, either as electronic books or …
either as x or y; //ism missing C) works and it will sell them online as either electronic books or as;
as either x or as y; // distorted. D) works, and selling them online as either electronic books or as ;
as either x or as y - //ism distorted. E) works, and it will sell them online as either electronic books or ;
as either x or y. //ism ok but intent distorted. _________________
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