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News stories from the book world in January 2010

January 2010

Agents feeling the pain

25 January 2010

So are agents really feeling the pinch now? Long regarded as the fats cats of the industry, there are signs that the London agency constituency is really beginning to join in the pain. You cannot escape the conclusion that there will be redundancies, closures and mergers of agencies. Independent agents have few enough overheads in any case and will cut back on the new authors they take on.  Read more

Better news from the UK

18 January 2010

Last week's News Review was headlined 2009's troubled times continue in the US and it's good to be able to report a somewhat better picture in the UK, although there is undoubtedly more pain to come in 2010.

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2009's troubled times continue in the US

11 January 2010

So how does the world look as we venture forth into the new decade? This week we'll look at the US and next week at the UK publishing worlds in an attempt to assess how the turmoil in the book trade is affecting writers.

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