But when the definition of what is a book or an e-book expands to include all manner of enrichment, that also opens the door for an assortment of headaches about rights and contracts — making a complex situation even more fraught. And the prospect of navigating the rights issues of these enhanced e-books is confounding literary agents in New York and London.
via Why Literary Agents Are Wary of Coming Enhanced E-Books – DailyFinance.









Lit Agent, Jim Donovan: Get Published Before You’re Published- GalleyCat
Worthwhile observations from agent Jim Donovan in GalleyCat:
…Every nonfiction book is marketed and acquired on the basis of a proposal. The chances of selling it, and the size of the advance, are directly proportional to the quality of the proposal, and I'm amazed at the mediocre and/or sloppy proposals I see out there–some of them potentially saleable book projects hijacked by sloppy editing or writing and unfocused arguments.
via Lit Agent, Jim Donovan: Get Published Before You’re Published – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat.