Comments on: Guardian essay: ‘Don’t reject agents’—even in the Web era http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/uk-guardian-essay-dont-reject-agents-even-in-the-web-era/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:33:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Steve Jordan http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/uk-guardian-essay-dont-reject-agents-even-in-the-web-era/comment-page-1/#comment-1034063 Steve Jordan Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:50:19 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/08/uk-guardian-essay-dont-reject-agents-even-in-the-web-era/#comment-1034063 Well, reading the article didn't make me feel like going right out and securing an agent. Agents may do a useful job in the traditional publishing world, but in the digital world, much of their job (as much of the traditional publisher's job) can be done by the author, and often is. If agents want to be part of the digital publishing world, therefore, they will just have to show authors that they can still serve them. Well, reading the article didn’t make me feel like going right out and securing an agent. Agents may do a useful job in the traditional publishing world, but in the digital world, much of their job (as much of the traditional publisher’s job) can be done by the author, and often is.

If agents want to be part of the digital publishing world, therefore, they will just have to show authors that they can still serve them.

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