And per our focus this week at Publishing Perspectives, we also are looking at
literary agencies and their company practices; at experiments in new
models; and at observations and reactions to those experiments.
The truth is that the big publishers and their chosen intermediaries (traditional -
model literary agents, brick - and - mortar distribution channels, etc.) had one collective dinosaur foot in the coffin before they launched the
agency model strategy, and most of the moves that they have made since the launch of the Kindle will only hasten their coming descent into total irrelevance.