Though we're catching up, ebooks and POD are so much more commonplace in the US than the UK. There, where the multi-million dollar deal for a self-published author has now become a reality, the smart literary agents are swiftly adapting their working methods to chime in with digital.
"As the big six take fewer chances on new writers and drop more midlist authors, and as it becomes easier to distribute titles with the rise in POD software and the growing popularity of digital books, some agents offer publishing programs and different types of representation," says a new report in Publishers Weekly. "At a panel at Digital Book World in January called "New Models for Agents," Jim Levine of the Levine Greenberg Agency, said he and his colleagues now consider themselves "multimedia producers" more than agents. Levine explained that he looks at manuscripts that potential clients bring in with an eye for how the content can live in various forms. Should this potential book be an app? An e-book? An enhanced e-book?"
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