Once a complex market, India is now opening up to the idea of well-connected literary agents - Firstpost

In the West, literary agencies are as old as publishers. The concept of unsolicited or direct submissions is severely discouraged and all publishers recommend that authors come to them through an agent. This agent-inclusive or agent-only publishing ecosystem has turned some agencies into business empires and the agents at their helm, into the stuff of legends. Many old established agencies don't just make money from new rights sales, but also from the estates of literary giants they have been handling.