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UK agents Curtis Brown and Blake Friedman are planning to go into publishing, says The Bookseller.

Curtis Brown m.d. Jonathan Lloyd said: “Where Ed Victor leads, others follow—and we are right behind him, but with a rather larger list.” He added that making out-of-print works available would not only add value for clients, but allow agents to prove if a market exists for the titles.

Blake Friedman joint m.d. and agent Carole Blake added: “It seems very sensible to me—I’m sure we will follow soon. I agree with Ed that it doesn’t have to been seen as an aggressive move towards publishers.”

Meanwhile, agent Sonia Land, who last month made available 100 of Catherine Cookson’s titles as e-books, reacted to the news by warning publishers to “rethink their legacy operation”, adding that it may be “too late for the publishing industry to claw back this e-migration of books to those other than established publishing houses”.

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